Longchenpa

and so like patterns drawn on water. Ordinary consciousness perceives these two phases as well as that of abiding to be aspects of awareness.

When even occasionally you experience thoughts simultaneously arising and being freed, you realize that it is impossible for any causal process to exist. With your naked realization of this, the cause of samsara is exhausted.

Since its result, remaining within the three realms and the six states of samsara is impossible. Your mind is at ease.

This key point leaves no room for any obscuration or potential for error. Due to the purity that lies in the simultaneous arising and freeing of thoughts, error and obscuration are cut through

in the context of their true nature. This is what is meant by crossing over the abyss of hope and fear.

The way to discern the implication of this key point and put it into practice is as follows. It makes no difference what arises where. Whether ordinary consciousness manifesting in response to sense objects

or sense objects manifesting to ordinary consciousness. For the moment you rest in the immediate perception of the context in which thoughts arise it is impossible for there not to be a pristine state in which they vanish naturally.

leaving no trace.

At that point, by resting in the wake of their vanishing, you identify the presence of a bare state of lucid, pure awareness, its limpid quality intense

and enormously potent.

While everyone else cultivates a non-conceptual state of meditation, a pristine state in which everything fades away, I hold this to become abiding, that is, the abiding quality of awareness, which will not help you understand the key point here.

I must emphasize the need to identify bare unobstructed awareness in all its nakedness under any circumstances. A tenant that is unique to the great perfection approach.

The implication of freedom in immediate perception is discerned by identifying awareness in the interval between sense objects manifesting outwardly and consciousness, aware yet empty, arising inwardly.

The great Garuda states, Freedom in immediate perception is naturally pure, boundless, completely perfect and free of limitations.

Any dualism is naturally dispelled. The implication that the vast expanse is a supreme state that need not be sought and is free of anything needing to be done can be discerned within the interval

between sensory appearances and emptiness, in which nothing need be said or done.

Another implication to be discerned is that there is freedom from limitation.

beyond imagination or expression. Since nothing has ever existed within the essence of awareness, that essence is Samantabhadra, wholly positive.

Since it is the unobstructed unity of emptiness and lucidity, it is the spacious expanse of Vajrasattva, a mutable being.

To identify this is called finding Buddhahood within yourself. For even if you were to search elsewhere, you would not find it.