Being is continually poised on the brink of effortlessness – but continually creates distractions in order to sustain the sense of divorced individuation. These delirious, distressing, and dreary deviations from effortlessness are the mechanisms employed to maintain the illusion of duality. Nonduality, on the other hand, is completely relaxed in the flow of whatever is.p39-40, Shock Amazement: The four naljors and four ting-ngé’dzin from the Dzogchen series of the nature of Mind. Khandro Déchen and Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books Worldwide, 2018, ISBN 978-1-898185-45-1