Gazing

We can consider the possibility of gazing at the glittering surface of the ocean of Mind – at sun-light and star-light glinting.  Gazing is an openness which sees—with transparence— the nature of our relationship with reference points.

p43-44, 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 

With regard to ‘thought’ and ‘emotion’

   There is no difference between thought and emotion – in the same way as there is no difference between a breeze and a gale.  With the first there is simply the movement of mind – and with the second there is simply the movement of air.  In that respect, emotions are gusts of wind – or waves on the sea.  

Both the gusting of the wind and the billowing of the sea begin with a simple shift in time and space.  There is a single thought to which self-referential consequence is attributed – and this leads to more of the same.  This tends to generate squalls, storms, gales, and hurricanes.  

Emotional embroilment is the result of ocean of Mind failing to self-recognise – and understand its waves to be its fundamental nature.  There is no relaxation in this – and neither is there the opportunity to make creative use of the energy that prevents relaxation.

Posted by Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen to sangha on Telegram, 18th April 2020

Direct experience of who we are

   
By letting go of thought we can discover the space of mind without thought.  Through Letting Go the arising and dissolving of conceptual mind can be revealed as a wave that surges and breaks on the surface of the deep, still ocean of fundamental mind.  Through discovering the quietness of fundamental mind we can gain direct experience of who we are, what we are and where we are, rather than trying to discover this through the ebb and flow of concept.

p134, Relaxing into Meditation, Ngakma Nor'dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2010, ISBN 978-1-898185-17-8