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“If sometimes we practice with diligence and at other times just take it easy, we will not be able to develop confidence in our meditation on the view. What must we do to develop this confidence? We must understand that day and night, throughout the entire dimension of our lives, there is no difference between the meditation experience and the post-meditation experience.
Initially we identify the fresh and naked state of uncontrived awareness through conditioned mindfulness, a natural state of awareness, will arise without our having to manipulate it trough a conditioned mindfulness. Through that innate mindfulness, the yoga of resting like a flowing river is maintained constantly, day and night, during deep sleep, in dreams – all the time. In order to recognize that, one should leave the mind uncontrived in the natural state. This unaltered stage of mind is free fro the very beginning. This is the view of primordial purity. While one is maintaining that unaltered nature, lots of thought projections will arise. These thoughts might be positive, such as faith, devotion, and renunciation; or negative, such as passion, aggression, and ignorance. However, both these types of thoughts are projected from the same basis, the intrinsic nature of sugatagarbha. It is not that there is a bad place from which negative thoughts arise and a good place from which positive thoughts arise.
Where does the root of our confusion come from? The Buddha Bhagavat said that there are two ways of relating with thought projections in meditation: that of the dog and that of the lion. If a dog in hit by a stone, it does not check to see who threw the stone, but runs after the stone. In this way, it will be hit by many stones and never find out where they are coming from. When a lion is hit by a stone, it pays no heed to the stone, but looks and finds out who threw it. Because of that, the lion is only hit once.”
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche – (Oral Instructions on 'Three Words That Strike The Vital Point' – on Meditation – Collected Works, Vol III pp 622-23 – Shambhala)
“If sometimes we practice with diligence and at other times just take it easy, we will not be able to develop confidence in our meditation on the view. What must we do to develop this confidence? We must understand that day and night, throughout the entire dimension of our lives, there is no difference between the meditation experience and the post-meditation experience.
Initially we identify the fresh and naked state of uncontrived awareness through conditioned mindfulness, a natural state of awareness, will arise without our having to manipulate it trough a conditioned mindfulness. Through that innate mindfulness, the yoga of resting like a flowing river is maintained constantly, day and night, during deep sleep, in dreams – all the time. In order to recognize that, one should leave the mind uncontrived in the natural state. This unaltered stage of mind is free fro the very beginning. This is the view of primordial purity. While one is maintaining that unaltered nature, lots of thought projections will arise. These thoughts might be positive, such as faith, devotion, and renunciation; or negative, such as passion, aggression, and ignorance. However, both these types of thoughts are projected from the same basis, the intrinsic nature of sugatagarbha. It is not that there is a bad place from which negative thoughts arise and a good place from which positive thoughts arise.
Where does the root of our confusion come from? The Buddha Bhagavat said that there are two ways of relating with thought projections in meditation: that of the dog and that of the lion. If a dog in hit by a stone, it does not check to see who threw the stone, but runs after the stone. In this way, it will be hit by many stones and never find out where they are coming from. When a lion is hit by a stone, it pays no heed to the stone, but looks and finds out who threw it. Because of that, the lion is only hit once.”
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche – (Oral Instructions on 'Three Words That Strike The Vital Point' – on Meditation – Collected Works, Vol III pp 622-23 – Shambhala)
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