“There is no need of training.
Awareness is always with you. The same attention that you give to the
outer, you turn to the inner. No new, or special kind of awareness is
needed. What you need is to be aware of being aware. Don’t be misled by
the simplicity of the advice. Very few are those who have the courage to
trust the innocent and the simple.”
“To be aware is to be awake. Unaware means asleep. You are aware
anyhow, you need not try to be. What you need is to be aware of being
aware. Be aware deliberately and consciously, broaden and deepen the
field of awareness. You are always conscious of the mind, but you are
not aware of yourself as being conscious.
The mind produces thoughts ceaselessly, even when you do not look
at them. When you know what is going on in your mind, you call it
consciousness. This is your waking state — your consciousness shifts
from sensation to sensation, from perception to perception, from idea to
idea, in endless succession. Then comes awareness, the direct insight
into the whole of consciousness, the totality of the mind. The mind is
like a river, flowing ceaselessly in the bed of the body; you identify
yourself for a moment with some particular ripple and call it: ‘my
thought’. All you are conscious of is your mind; awareness is the
cognisance of consciousness as a whole.”
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
“It is easy to recognize it. You just have to drop thinking and
it is right there. There is not a lot to be done. You do not have to do
this and that and the other. It is like the example of trying to touch
space with your finger. To touch space, you do not have to move your
finger at all, do you—it is already touching space, isn’t it?”
“It is as though your eyes are looking backwards instead of
forwards as they usually do. You are looking out with your eyes but are
looking back at the same time. Do not try too hard with this though,
otherwise you will really make a big mistake. You just sort of look back
at your mind and say, ‘Who am I? Where am I? What is this?’ When you do
that, do you see the thing that is thinking? That is enough!”
Dzogchen teacher Mingyur Rinpoche
“What is this non-meditation? How do we meditate without
meditating? Whatever situation mind is in, whether there are discursive
thoughts of good, bad, clean, unclean, and so on, if you drop all of
these so that you are without even a whisker of the conceptual activity
of mind, the nature of mind will shine forth as non-stopped clarity and
that is called self-arising rigpa. This does not need to be created or
produced or purchased; when you let mind itself, just as it is, shine
forth and stay in that, that is called self-arising rigpa. Someone who
meditates using logical processes could never meditate on this, could
never realize it.
To do this, you need to reverse your outwardly-directed attention
inward and look hither towards the mind. This way of looking hither
towards the mind means to rest self-settled in unhindered clarity.
Having released all the bindings of passion, aggression, pride, and so
on, abide in the state of this self-arising rigpa of non-stopped
clarity, crystal clarity, like the sun shining in the sky. Not being
caught by this and that but resting in the non-stopped clarity of
whatever there is occurring in mind is called self-arising rigpa.”
“In fact, rigpa is coming all the time. It is always there so
there is nothing to do. There is no meditation to do because it is there
all the time. There is no need of mantra, no need to do anything in
particular, no need to visualize something; it is just there.”
Contemporary Dzogchen master Tsoknyi Rinpoche
“Do not contrive or elaborate the awareness of this very moment.
Allow it to be just as it is. This is not established as existing, not
existing, or having a direction. It does not discern between emptiness
and appearances and does not have the characteristics of nihilism and
eternalism. Within this state where nothing exists, it is unnecessary to
exert effort through view or mediation. The great primordial liberation
is not like being released from bondage. It is natural radiance
uncontrived by the intellect, wisdom unsullied by concepts.
The nature of phenomena, not tainted by the view and meditation,
is evenness without placement …without premeditation. It is clarity
without characteristics and vastness not lost to uniformity. Although
all sentient beings have never been separate from their own indwelling
wisdom even for an instant, by failing to recognize this, it becomes
like a natural flow of water solidifying into ice. With the inner
grasping mind as the root cause and outer objective clinging as the
contributing circumstance, beings wander in samsara indefinitely. Now,
with the guru’s oral instructions, at the moment of encountering
awareness–without any mental constructions– rest in the way things truly
are, without wavering from or meditating on anything. This fully
reveals the core wisdom intent of the primordial Buddha.”
Rigpa from the Yeshe Lama by Jigmed Lingpa
“Buddhahood — the discovery of the
Dharmakaya — is nothing other than the uncontrived and unadulterated
essence of Awareness becoming evident. And because awareness is present
in everyone without transition or change, I advise you to rest in the
spontaneous presence of your uncontrived Awareness.”
~Longchenpa
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