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. 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.
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.
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 the single factor that ensures freedom, without relying on anything at all.
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.
The metaphor is that of reflections arising in a limpid ocean. Your body is unmoving. Your legs crossed in vadra posture. Your gaze does not waver, but is clear, and rests 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.
The metaphor for abiding continuously and unobstructedly in the essence of awareness is that of the reflection of planets and stars in a limpid ocean. One abides in the supremely unobstructed state of things in all their variety. Without this ever being just a latent potential.
Freedom from restrictions is extolled as an infinitely even state of spaciousness, given the enlightened intent of naturally reoccuring timeless awareness, in which everything is equal. Expansive and elevated mind, free of the proliferation and resolution of thoughts. The experience of blending with space, without any division, into outer and inner, or in between. Arises as meditative absorption, that is blissful, clear, and free of elaboration.
Meditative experiences arise of your physical body blending with space. Of states of bliss, clarity, and non-conceptual awareness. Awe of a supreme unobstructed state of naked awareness.
You may feel that all sensory experiences become transparent. Or that your consciousness becomes unobstructed, or completely open. With no trace of thoughts remaining, or that anything can, and does arise, within a state that is nothing whatsoever in itself.
Since 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. That they never did occur. And that no one has them at present. 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.
The natural abiding of enlightened intent is meditative absorption as a state of resting imperturbably.
Awareness’ own manifestations have no actual substance, but are the foremost of all mandalas.
The unchanging, inherently pristine nature of phenomena, is the universal environment.
Awareness’ own manifestations abide, vividly present, in non-conceptual oneness.