Knowledge of Vajrayana is intrinsic to human beings, in the sense that Vajrayana is our condition. It is the thread of continuity which runs through every aspect of what we are. In this sense Vajrayana may be invisible – but it is also sharply and poignantly perceptible. The Lama shows us the reality that Vajrayana is already there as the basic energy of our existence.
In the non-dual state we are present with the free movement of whatever arises. Thought is simply an ornament of perception. ‘Thinking’ and ‘the thinker’ are not isolated events which solicit each other for reassurance. Thinking and concept can simply exist as ornaments of the non-dual state – free of the artificial function in which they are goaded into providing proofs that we are solid, permanent, separate, continuous, and defined. Freedom is the absence of self-consciousness. The absence of self-consciousness allows generosity, transparence, decentralised desire, uninhibited action, and spaciousness. Trusting yourself – in the sense of meditation, is a question of expanding—of slowly expanding the expression of sitting. Through sitting, self-existent communication is discovered as the nature of the world. It becomes a completely real world, rather than a world of bewilderment and pain. You begin to trust yourself because you begin to trust the nature of the elements; the nature of your perception; the nature of your emotions; the nature of your physicality; and, the nature of your psychology. It is all there to see and it is an open space.