Chapter 1: What is the essence of Longchenpa's teachings on the natural state of mind?
Now, to come to a decisive experience of the naturally limpid ocean within the pristine state of utter lucidity. You hold to your own place as a supreme, unwavering state of equalness. Concerning phenomena that manifest as myriad sense objects, Without thinking in any way, this is how to rest. Rest spontaneously in the naturally settled state.
Free of the proliferation and resolution of thoughts. abide as a matter of course, within the expanse of equalness, the true nature of phenomena. This is simply a case of identification, without cultivating some reference point in meditation. Hold your upper body erect.
Chapter 2: How can one rest in the naturally settled state during meditation?
Let your gaze rest openly by focusing your eyes on the space in front or on the far distance. Or you can alternate between these. Allow your awareness to expand. Let your five senses remain naturally expansive. By meditating in this way, you pass into an openness in which there is no division into outer and inner or in between.
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When you experience the very essence of awareness in all its limpidity, the way in which things manifest is continuous and vivid. Within this context, you experience self-knowing awareness resting in its true nature, which does not involve any proliferation or resolution of thoughts.
Since all phenomena are unsullied and free of elaboration, this key point that they are not created and are free in their natural state is supreme.
Chapter 3: What does it mean to experience self-knowing awareness in meditation?
The key point concerning the cessation of causes, the fading away of conditions, and the falling away of results, is that the expanse of being itself is a single factor that ensures freedom without relying on anything at all.
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Resting in the natural state without seeking anything. Without any specific method concerning how or when to rest. That is meditation. You also hold to your own place as the unobstructed state of natural lucidity in all its nakedness. Neither focusing your senses on nor letting your gaze wander to the manifestations of sensory appearances in all their variety.
neither thinking of self nor conceiving of other rest naturally lucid in the supremely spacious state of complete openness
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The metaphor is that of reflections arising in a limpid ocean.
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Chapter 4: How do phenomena manifest in a state of unobstructed awareness?
Your body is unmoving. Your legs crossed in Vajra posture. Your gaze does not waver, but is clear. and rest straight ahead. You do not block sense objects and they manifest clearly in all their variety. you are in a non-conceptual state of mind for the proliferation and resolution of thoughts are naturally cut through You rest in unobstructed awareness.
abide continuously and unobstructedly in the essence of awareness, which is like the reflection of planets and stars in a limpid ocean.
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One abides in the supremely unobstructed state of things in all their variety.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of freedom from conceptualization in Dzogchen practice?
Without this ever being just a conceptual ideation. Freedom from restriction is extolled as an infinitely even state of spaciousness.
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meditative experiences arise of your physical body, blending with space of states of bliss, clarity, and non-conceptual awareness. or of a supreme, unobstructed state of naked awareness. you may feel that all sensory appearances become transparent or that your consciousness becomes unobstructed and completely open with no trace of thoughts remaining or that anything can and does arise
within a state that is nothing whatsoever in itself. Thus you have experienced everything decisively as empty, free of restriction and unobstructed. You may feel that no matter how you analyze and contemplate, you cannot find any thoughts by searching for them. That it is now impossible for them to occur.
Chapter 6: How can one achieve the great perfection in meditation according to Longchenpa?
That they never did occur. You may ask yourself, what is all this talk about so many thoughts? meditative experiences of unobstructed awareness arise in a way that cannot be expressed with words. Awareness's own manifestations have no actual substance. The unchanging, inherently pristine nature of phenomena, in which everything is equal, is a universal environment.
Awareness's own manifestations abide, vividly present in non-conceptual oneness. To be free of the concepts of intellectual speculation is the great perfection.
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