The only true and full awareness is awareness of awareness.

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The mind obscures the innate awareness

(or intrinsic awareness)

 

The Path of Sri Ramana Part One,

Sri Sadhu Om describes an approach to Self-inquiry that is more like

Self-attention or awareness watching awareness being awareness.

"The only true and full awareness

is awareness of awareness.

 

Till awareness is awareness of itself,

it knows no peace at all."

"Is it not because you

are yourself awareness that you now

perceive this universe? If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness

itself as Guru (or in Dzogchen,

primordial nature of mind, intrinsic intelligence) will reveal Truth."

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Ramana Maharshi.

"If one were to distinguish between Self-inquiry and Self-abidance, then

it might be more accurate to call the awareness watching awareness approach

Self-abidance. If the instructions

given by Ramana Maharshi to be

the Self or to abide as the Self

have not been clear as to how?

This instruction of awareness

watching a wareness while

ignoring thought provides easy

instructions as to how.

 

Just your present awareness watching

itself. There are other ways that

this can be described:

"Know the knowerwatch the watcher"

etc. However, the clearest

instruction to follow is:

Your awareness watching your

awareness while ignoring thought.

Automatically the "your"

(and me and mine) will drop off and

it will be obvious that awareness

watching awareness is really awareness abiding in or being awareness.

 

The reason to start with the

instruction "Your present awareness

watching your present awareness"

is so that it is clear that one is

not referring to some far off awareness called the Self

(or God, Buddha, external Guru etc.).

It is just your awareness now

looking through your eyes turned

around to watch itslf.Awareness

watching awareness, consciousness

watching consciousness.

 

Initially awareness recognizes itself.

And then this is the "View" that is cultivated and maintained

-all ya gotta do is maintain the View-.

When there is a lapse in awareness

from mind contact with any object

then mind is in a "Bardo".

This is temporary and after

awhile easily recognized.

 

When awareness becomes very

strong and continuous, then attachment

to objects or mind is less...awareness,

the actual nature of mind is just more interesting as an "object"

and peaceful.

 

That which is totally open to these

markings on computer screen, reading

"words", is it. Anything read, seen,

touched, heard, felt etc.

"self-liberates"

in recognition of this as

expression of awareness.

Thus there is nothing dual,

separate or other than awareness.

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Now from: Longchenpa:

"Look nakedly at whatever

appears at the moment it appears.

 

By relaxing in that state,

awareness- in which there is

no grasping at appearances as

something arises nondualistically, intrinsically freed."

Jewel Ship (Dzogchen)

 

"Know the state of pure and total

presence (awareness) to be a vast

expanse without center or border.

It is everywhere the same, without

acceptance and rejection.

 

Blend the nature of mind and it's

habit patterns into nonduality.

Because entities, whether subjectively conceived or directly experienced,

Are present as ornaments as one's

own state of being,(magical display)

Do not accept or reject them.

Because they are not divided into

self and other, The apparitional, spontaneously present objects are a

play of pure experience."

 

Regarding the passions (the world,

phenomena etc.) Longchenpa says:

 

"So then not eliminating passions,

as do those who are content with

preaching, or being independent,

or refining away passions, as do bodhisattvas, nor transforming them

as tantrics do; these judgmentally-conditioned passions are

pure and transparent in their own place.

 

This is called the spontaneously

perfect, universally creative, self-generating, majestic

state of pure presence.

 

In here lies the distinguishing

superiority of this approach over

all others.

 

By means of this sheer presence,

whatever passions arise are freed

as facets of pristine awareness."

 

Surya Das: Dzogchen basically deals

with the innate intelligence or

intrinsic awareness which all

beings possess.

 

It means seeing non-dualistically

rather than in the usual dualistic

object-subject dichotomy.

By definition, delusion is dualistic,

while non-duality

is ultimate wisdom.

 

Q: It is said that in Dzogchen

"the view" is of ultimate importance.

Surya Das: .. the view comes first,

and is crucial. The view is the

outlook that everything is

primordially pure and perfect

just as it is...

 

--- you've recognized it yourself.

You've seen the sun break through

the clouds, for a moment at least.

The clouds might obscure the

sun again, just as the mind obscures

the innate awareness, but the

important point is that we

have recognized the ultimate nature

with certainty; we have actually

come to see how things are.

 

Q: And this practice of Dzogchen

is for Buddhas, not for ordinary

beings?

 

Das: Remember we are all Buddhas.

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"You are all Buddhas

There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes."

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

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Quotes from bits from Ramana Maharshi were downloaded from:

http://home.talkcity.com/GaiaWay/infinite_freedom/OM7.htm The Dzogchen bits

lifted from:

"You Are The Eyes of the World"

 

~with love Karta~