"Aro Yeshe Jungne says look directly into your mind, identify its nature , and abide there. The nature of the mind is open, clear, bright, peaceful, compassionate, complete, and free from thought and emotion. Know this and be this— this is the heart of his message...
For a person of best capability, mind itself is mind when it is still and it is mind when it moves. Once you are convinced that mind is empty, there is no difference at all between stillness and movement. Whatever thoughts arise , whatever appears, is all the play of pristine wisdom. This is the emptiness that is the profound perspective of all victorious ones. Rest within that itself without adulterating it in any way. Although occasionally there are regular thoughts, since they are liberated automatically or within that state, it is only meditative absorption. It is dharmakaya. It is innately occurring pristine wisdom. It is the Great Seal (Mahamudra ). It is the perfection of transcendent intelligence (Prajnaparamita). It is like a burned rope: it cannot tie you up because it is empty of essence. The thought-like occurrence is actually the shining radiance of emptiness. There is no difference between thought and emptiness. The Great Orgyen said:
Since the essence of thought is empty, know it as dharmakaya. If you were to meditate it would be conceptual, so be without anything on which to meditate. Rest in regular thought. If you meddle with it then it is the deluded chain of ordinary thought, so don’t contrive in any way. When you wander from resting in that immediacy it is real delusion, so there must be no wandering. Just that is enough: a nondistractedness without focus on any reference point...
Not experiencing meditation, not experiencing departure from it: Do not depart from the meaning of no meditation. That is to say, since whatever arises is meditation, there is no mind-made thing to meditate on, hence “not experiencing meditation.”Since there was never any way to deviate into meaninglessness, resting in that immediacy is “not experiencing departure.”“Do not depart”ever from that kind of “meaning of no meditation...
It is like “the minding of innate clarity” in the Great Seal. When you cultivate its continuity without interruption, there won’t be a speck of difference between the manifestation of ordinary mind and the regular thoughts of a worldly person. However, the clarity and transparency of not grasping at an essence there relieves the sitting meditation of an object, and the postmeditation will be empty of basis. Mind polished of habitual conditioning, even without recognition , still experiences thought-like occurrence. That is the actual dharmakaya. In the Mind Class teachings of the Great Completion, the phrase “without having thoughts, anything is clearly knowable” refers to this. The accomplished Mitrayogin said:
When one rests directly in whatever occurs, it is spontaneous presence free of activity.
In this way, if thoughts are naturally freed by themselves, then the objective, external objects, such as form , sound, and so on, will also be liberated as a natural consequence of this innate freedom. Thus, the visual objects of good and bad forms, the pleasant and unpleasant sounds in the ears, and similarly good and bad smells, tastes, objects of touch, mental attachment to happiness and aversion to suffering, enemies, friends, earth, water, fire, wind, and so on— in short, whatever arises, whatever appears— the point is to rest without fabrication in that very thing. As is said in the Great Completion: When the clinging thoughts of mind do not enter The clarity of the five sense consciousnesses— That is exactly the perspective of the victorious ones...
Therefore, the perspective of the Great Completion is not to reject whatever arises, but also not to follow after it. Resting in that itself without meddling is exactly it. That being so, there is no thing to reject, no remedy, no dos and don’ts, no keeping and discarding, etc . Since there are no mind-made phenomena whatsoever, “nonconceptual dharmakaya suchness” is also this."
-- The Nature of Mind The Dzogchen Instructions of Aro Yeshe Jungne
by Patrul Rinpoche
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