When it is said that ‘Meditation isn’t’ – it means that meditation is not a method of doing. It is a method of not-doing. There is no involvement in doing anything – there is simply the maintenance of presence in motiveless observation. When it is said that ‘Getting used to is’ – it means simply getting used to – being. This requires acclimatisation to the undefined dimension of existence – getting used to being referenceless.
p28, 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
We need to observe the way in which we do actually seek emptiness when form becomes too oppressive. We need to observe the way in which we solidify emptiness and crush our own freedom by attempting to make form come into being too quickly.
Maybe, it would be interesting to allow things to remain undefined just a little bit longer than we usually do. Maybe we could attempt to settle into the sense of uncertainty and feel the texture of that. Some understanding needs to evolve, in which we come to regard experiences of both emptiness and form as beads on the thread of energy that comprises the nature of what we are.
p34, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
