Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Taking self-existing wakefulness as something to meditate on and one's conceptual mind as the meditator.

One may have gained the intellectual understanding that there is an empty and cognizant state and holds it in the mind.

Ah, the Lama said there was something empty and cognizant.

Oh yes, this must be it.

Now I must not lose it through distraction.

Words, it is said, are like rice husks.

When one has finally attained a fair bit of stability in one's practice, one can acknowledge

I have been so entangled, so involved in these words.

Compared to this naked self-existing awareness, words are misleading.

Like rice husks, one will gradually cast away words as one's view deepens.

If we train in this steadily and gradually, it becomes the fully awakened state, Buddhahood.

This does not involve intellectualizing as one's awareness is cognizant from the beginning.

Cognizant self-awareness is beyond conceptual mind.

In thought-free awareness, fixation on both subject and object have collapsed.

Intellectual understanding is the idea that all phenomena are empty and devoid of a self entity.

A true practitioner simply stays in solitude

and after reflecting on this directly, experiences the awakened state.

The main part of meditation practice is to remain without distraction.

Contrived non-distraction is to merely sit and hold the idea of being undistracted

A certain Tibetan medicine against stomach disorder, if not digested, can turn poisonous in the stomach.