Intrinsic Awareness
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With regards to this innate clarity that is non-dual in nature, is there anything required for you to improve anything? Isn't trying to improve like adding dirt to improve a jewel? Therefore, just relax into clarity... there is truly nothing that needs to be done, and that division is gone.
So simply fully relax without holding anything, everything is in clearest expression. When there is no self clinging, there is just the happening/clarity which is self-so, and the intensity of clarity reveals itself due to the absence of obscuration (clinging). What you call clarity is really just "the everything in clearest expression" so forget about the clarity, it is the trick of language. And what is the everything? The six streams of experience - in the seen just the seen, in the heard just the heard, in the smelled just the smelled, in the tasted just the tasted, in the touched just the touched, in the cognized/thought just the cognized/thought, and there is no you in terms of that... but there is also no more looking at no-self or clarity but only this so called "everything".
- based on something Thusness wrote, I edited and added a little.
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༄༅� �གནད་ཀྱི་གཟེར་དྲུག�
Six Points.
མི་མནོ་
Don't anticipate.
མི་བསམ་
Don't plan.
མི་སེམས་
Don't think.
མི་དཔྱོད་
mi dpyod
Don't analyze.
མི་སྒོམ་
mi sgom
Don't cultivate.
རང་སར་བཞག་
Stay where you are.
~ translation by Loppon Namdrol (Malcolm Smith) -
Thanks!!
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You can examine the continually changing emotions within yourself, as they arise and cease. Even if you don't go astray by chasing after these moods, perceptions and notions, you should still carefully stabilize the mind so that it doesn't grasp after anything — including any memory or thought which may arise. Just concentrate on doing this and you will sweep clean the mind, wiping out whatever suffering is present. Every condition arises and then ceases, comes and disappears. Don't go and grasp hold of anything, thinking it's good or bad, or taking it as oneself. Stop all such thinking and conceptualizing. When you understand this, the mind will calm down of itself; it will naturally become free. Whatever thoughts arise, see that they just come and will go, so don't grasp at them. Then there's not much else to do. Just carefully scrutinize and detach yourself from any entanglements within. There are then no fantasies and thought fabrications about the past or future. They've all stopped. Things arise and cease — just that.
Upasika Kee"Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha."
Ajahn Chah
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