Padmasambhava

To be flawless within does not mean to become an inert stone.

It means that your awareness remains free of the flaws of thinking.

Like the example of having gone to an island of precious gold

On this golden island not even the name stone exists.

Likewise, once your thinking dissolves into original wakefulness, there is not even the name thought.

as the lucid wakefulness between is delightful.

Here is the instruction in recognizing your own nature.

While practicing, free from unknowing, your own consciousness is clear, pure,

and awake.

When practicing, you have the experience that your innate, self-existing wakefulness is neither spoiled by a conceptual attitude nor by clinging to bliss, clarity or non-thought.

As that itself is the Buddha mind, you have recognized your own nature.

It is like the example of not needing to imagine your mother to be your mother, as you have no fear due to thinking that she is not your mother.

Similarly, when your awareness recognizes that it is the innate nature of Dhammata,

You will no longer mistakenly imagine that the phenomena of Samsara are the innate nature.

Even without knowing it, you were never apart from this innate nature of Dhammata.

As this is known as the Unfabricated Training, the Dhammata Mother is the fact that all phenomena are devoid of self-nature.

The Dhammata Abode is the recognition that they are devoid of self-nature.

And knowing your own nature by yourself is so called since you recognize that your own awareness is the innate space of Dharmadhatu.

When you have recognized this, there is neither superior nor inferior birth, neither higher nor lower activities, neither sharper nor weaker intellect, neither greater nor lesser intelligence.

Neither vast nor narrow learning.