Be mindful of your thoughts, feelings and perceptions. They create the self identity that you believe yourself to be. There are no true thoughts, feelings, or perceptions that define you except those which you believe yourself to be. To be liberated is to see clearly that no thought, feeling, or perception ultimately defines who you are. They come and go, having no true existence.

Someone on Twitter asked these questions about how our world views are shaped. "A worldview typically consists of at minimum 4 components involving answers to these questions: 1) What is good? 2) Where do good and bad come from? 3) Who deserves the good? 4) How can you do good or be good?" I answered from my point of view, as it is right now: 1. a mind that doesn't fix on views and beliefs for identity, thus capable of working towards mutual wellbeing by actions of mind, speech, and body. 2. Good and bad are conceptual designations based on the interpretations of action in mind, Speech, and body. Actions deemed to be good generally create mutual wellbeing, whereas actions deemed to be bad creates suffering for self/ others. 3. All beings deserve the good, only thought coverings or mental inertia create blockages to acting with understanding/ compassion. This is generally due to ignorance to the true nature of mind/ phenomena as a continuum of all life systems being inseparable and empty of true self existent qualities. 4. You can develop the ability to do good by learning to witness the mechanations of mind and examine fixedViews and beliefs about self/ phenomena. There comes a point where the subject/object split falls away from simply witnessing. Witnessed and witness dissolve into pure witnessing and all "good" qualities arise from this basic nature. Of course I must add that it's impossible not to have a view and that's not what I'm saying. Just that our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are constantly changing from moment to moment. The ability to be able to change views with new info and see from many perspectivesIs most helpful in adapting to an ever changing life that is always discovering more and more information about itself. So if we fixate on views and beliefs, it can become a barrier to growth in one's world view.

From a friend, Getting Behind the One That's Behind We can sit in meditation watching the various mental events, feelings and sensations arise and subside, yet all the while not noticing that the one who is observing all the projections is itself a projection. You thought you were the actual aware and knowing one that was just observing the show. But it can happen that suddenly a shift occurs and the show is suddenly seen to include "you" watching the show. "You" as the witness of the show are suddenly seen to be also a projection; a projection as a complete gestalt or vignette of "me watching the show". When this insightful shift occurs, the subject/object dichotomy collapses. What remains is a non-dual state of knowingness without a "witness observing its projections". I think very few meditators are familiar with this shift. That's why meditators can practice for 50 years and never really break through the mind's looping projections. The state of mind can become very quiet and relaxed, but the one enjoying that state is not noticed to also be the mind's projection. This is much like our dreams at night. In the dream we see things and hear things along with having a body, but we have no idea that our self in the dream is being projected as a "someone seeing and experiencing the dreamscape." The subconscious aspect of mind is the projector of our self and the dream scape. Likewise in waking life and especially when meditating, it's possible to notice that our current self as the "observer", is only a mental event or a projection of being a self-existing, and observing "me"; along with all the other thoughts and images being mentally projected. The "me" that feels so real in waking life is no more real than the self experienced in dreams. Both are subconscious mind-projections. But indeed, this shift out of the karmic mind loop can and does occur. But it's not helpful when teachers and doctrines validate this false self position as being "who" you are. It's a bit like a teacher character in your dream at night simply telling you how to improve your dream self, instead of pointing out that the self you believe yourself to be is a fictional projection of mind and thereby triggering the "awake" state. The dreamed identity disappears in that moment along with all its story content. This is what "bodhi" means; awake. But in this condition of "awake", no one woke up, but rather the projection of an imaginary self as "me" just ceased. That is the moment of anatta or no fictional self. What remains is a center-less field of transparent consciousness that has no subject or object. It's a moment of inexpressible joy, insight and release. The ordinary mind is stuck tightly in this karmic, self-reenforcing loop of bewildered grasping and rejecting, propelled by the twin engines of hope and fear. Metaphorically speaking; taking the step behind the one "taking that step", is a rare dance step indeed! The first step is to simply ponder this in vipassana contemplation by observing the mind's projection of "me" in the act of contemplating this.

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When thought coverings or mental inertia is abandoned as something to be for/against or mine/not mine, boundless awareness is revealed to have always already been the case. This is the Great Perfection of bodhicitta, or unfabricated bare awareness.

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From a friend, we are all nodes on the bitcoin network sharing different types of information, each with a piece of the puzzle. The world is Awakening but few are awake. He estimates less than .01 percent of humanity has gone beyond maslow's hierarchy. EVERYONE associated with the World Economic Forum and their 'great reset' is the Enemy of Humanity. Most people have been media-ted to believe in Overpopulation ... and that it's a threat. This IS NOT TRUE ... except for the million/billionaire class. The fact is ... just as it takes about 9 billion atoms to form a complex molecule, and 9 billion molecules to form living cells, and 9 billion cells to manifest a human brain, it will take about 9 billion human brains before there's a mass birthing of Human Beingness on Earth ... which is a great threat to the World Economic Forum. "Imagine for a moment that you are a nerve cell in this growing human brain. At first there's plenty of space. Then very quickly there's a massive population explosion of nerve cells. If you were a nerve cell you'd probably think 'This is getting dangerous.' There's not enough oxygen to go round, we're going to be short of blood soon. But suddenly, at week 13, the explosion stops. From then on the development of the nervous system focuses on the growth of connectivity and complexity; the linking together of these billions of nerve cells." Peter Russell, The Global Brain "Today we are seeing a similar process happening to humanity. [We're having] a massive population explosion, but its now beginning to slow down, and many are evolving onto the next phase, the linking of the billions of human cells in this planetary brain." Peter Russell, The Global Brain "If we look at the next leap in evolution, the evolution of intelligent consciousness, we find it again takes several billion nerve cells linked together in the human brain to produce the reflective consciousness characteristic of humanity - though again the figure is not meant to be exact." Peter Russell, The Global Brain "The UN has predicted that the world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050. Overpopulation also just happens to be one of those words that immediately triggers images of the apocalypse, despite the fact that nothing in human existence seems more routine than birthing a child." Sydney Brownstone Today's humanity ... while growing out of the Absolutist (Life is a Test), Individualistic (Life is a Game), and expanding the Woke virus (Life is Community) levels of Spiral Dynamics, are still in the 'freaking out' stage of our evolution process. Propaganda about overpopulation is rampant ... negativity about everything ... children being indoctrinated to worry about their future ... war cries for population reduction. "Let’s take a step back and unpack what “overpopulation” really means. If we lived at the density that people live in Manhattan, the entire global population could fit in New Zealand." Sydney Brownstone Although based on patriarchal paradigms like the Gaia Hypothesis (Earth as Mother), the 35 minute documentary The Global Brain by Peter Russell offers valuable insights about human evolution." "The process of progressive complexification and organization is a long evolutionary journey. One of the dominant trends of evolution has been a progressive linking of smaller units into larger and larger units. This suggests that the next stage might involve human beings themselves linking together in some way. " Peter Russell If the process of 9 billion atoms to 9 billion complex molecules to 9 billion cells, to 9 billion brains, as the pathway to realize Full Spectrum Consciousness on planet Earth is correct ... and seeing that currently only .01% of humanity in 2019 have reached the Transcendence level of Maslow's hierarchy ... then we need another 2 billion ASAP.

Freedom of information and ability to cooperate is a major contributing factor to the advancement of civilization. When information is suppressed it becomes a weapon, humanity enters a dark age of oppression and lies. When free, it is a tool to discover transcendental truth Humanity enters an age of enlightenment and radical civilizational advancement.

Self Illumination When the attentiveness of our own Consciousness turns inward within its own conscious nature, it self-illuminates and self-knowing Wisdom spontaneously arises. How? Dzogchen master,Tsoknyi Rinpoche: "The way to do this is just to turn your attention slightly inward, not to look deeply inside, just to turn your focus from outward to inward in a very light way." Lopon Tenzin Namdak: "The introduction (to rigpa) is very simple: we just look back at ourselves." “There is an oral instruction about the way to look. It is said, “It is as though your eyes were looking through the back of your head instead of looking forwards.” Mingyur Rinpoche "It is as though your eyes are looking backwards instead of forwards as they usually do. You are looking out with your eyes but are looking back at the same time. Do not try too hard with this though, otherwise you will really make a big mistake. You just sort of look back ..." Mingyur Rinpoche “By directing the attention back to rigpa awareness, the arisings dissolve back into their origin and its essential nature, rigpa awareness.” Longchenpa Dzogchen perhaps learned this essential method of self-realization from the Katha Upanishad (300 b.c.) which predates historical Dzogchen (700 a.d.) by about 1000 years. This Upanishad refers to this ultimate Nature as the “Great Self” (Maha Atman) and many early Dzogchen Semde tantras refer to Samantabhadra, our True Nature, as also the “Great Self” or Dagnyid Chenpo The Katha Upanishad puts it this way: “God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.” Further, in non-dual samadhi, it’s discovered that the entire universe is Consciousness too and was only disguised by the names, concepts and labels describing it as being something other than Consciousness.

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From a friend. The Nature of the Buddha Mind and its Self-Recognition This is the single most essential instruction in Dzogchen, where all other types of meditation are considered as being just further distractions. Awareness is always aware, empty and knowing, but it’s also pervasively adorned with an extremely subtle and delicate patina of self-recognizing Wisdom. In Dzogchen this most fundamental Base Consciousness is called “kedag”, a pure emptiness, much like empty space. But this primordial Emptiness is pervaded by its own radiant, cognitive energies called “lhundrub”, meaning uncreated and spontaneously co-existent and non-dual with its Empty Base Consciousness. In other Eastern systems the Base Awareness is called Shiva and its radiant energy is called Shakti; they too are non-dual. Think of it like this: there is the empty, pure nature of primordial Awareness and its radiant energies of “attentiveness” also known as our “Presence”. That “attentiveness” can be directed outward into external perceptions or towards the mental phenomena of thought and mental images. However when that energy of “attentiveness” (lhundrub) instead of focusing upon perceptions or thoughts, but rather when that “attentiveness” releases from all focused engagements and falls back upon its own Basis of empty Awareness, it self-illuminates the Basis, and brings about an immediate flash of knowing oneself as being the pure and ever-perfect Buddha Mind. Dzogchen master Longchenpa first describes the nature of the primordial Base: “Awareness abides as the aspect which is aware under any and all circumstances, and so occurs naturally, without transition or change.” Longchenpa next shares how to apply these teachings regarding this “energy of attentiveness”: “The method is directing attention upon attention or Awareness. When any arising is experienced, especially thoughts, moods, emotions, or feelings of personal self-identity, one simply “notices” one’s present naked Awareness. By directing the attention “back” to Awareness, the arising dissolves back into its origin and its essential nature, Awareness.” (The “arisings” are merely the mind’s mental constructions as thought-forms (prana), not the actual external world itself, which becomes represented in and as the forms of those mental constructions, like mental photographs of the external world) “In doing this, the ‘arising’ releases its formative energy (prana) in its dissolution as a surge of further clarity of Clear Light, the power and potency of Awareness that energized the arising in the first place.” “Hence one’s “Presence of Awareness” is enhanced in the col­lapse of the formative arising. Hence the Dzogchen comment that “the stronger the afflictive emotion upon dissolution, the stronger the enhancement to the clar­ity of Presence. (From Longchenpa’s “A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission”, Choying Dzod (Padma Publications) One should consider this radiant energy of “attentiveness”, is also what’s called “prana or chi”. Now, “equipoise”, where the attentive energy rests within its Basis as empty Awareness, called “ Presence of Awareness”, often occurs here during moments between cognitive events or between thoughts or mental engagements, where a kind of empty gap naturally occurs. But it’s always an unexpected and spontaneous flash of self-recognition. These flashes of “rigpa” (gnosis) have never occurred either during meditation practice nor as a direct result of engaging in any kind of practice. They seem to be completely random, but always during these little gaps absent of all outwardly directed attentiveness. Also here is where our cognitive Basis as pure, empty, naked Awareness is experienced as being non-dual with its own radiant “attentiveness” (prana, chi). A metaphor could be like a pond in the forest, in early Spring, where the ice on the surface of the pond is reduced to a thin sheet, like a clear and transparent veneer of crystal glass. As the warmth of the day arises, this extremely thin sheet of transparent ice melts inseparably into the water. But there is a point where it’s neither purely formless water and nor is it really a solid formation of ice. It’s that exact state of consciousness where the formative thought energies or potentials of mind haven’t yet taken form, nor is the mind empty of all energetic attentiveness; conscious awareness rests in its crystal clarity of natural stillness while its energetic aspect vivifies its own empty cognition with self-recognizing Wisdom. This is true “samadhi”, where knower and known are known to be non-dual. Here samadhi means where shamatha and insight meditation as vipassana are non-dual. The terms “equipoise” and “samadhi” both point to the live experience of the non-dual nature of Reality. This empty cognition is a wisdom moment of self-recognizing lucidity. It’s a self-sustaining up-welling of a deeply pleasurable clarity of awareness that knows itself as this; nothing more and nothing less. It’s a perfect point of equipoise, between the transparent clarity of emptiness and its energetic thought forms not yet enformed; like very cold water where ice is about to form. As this empty and crystal clear awareness (rigpa) lies in the balance between its intrinsic aspects of emptiness and form, the mind’s formulations dissolve before taking form; instead, mind’s energies arise as an insightful non-dual Wisdom, beyond emptiness and form called prajña or yeshe. If our natural attentiveness reifies itself any further, beyond being simply the empty and clear “presence” of awareness, a secondary consciousness, a “self-consciousness” arises, a sense of identity can further develop as a personal “me” on the subjective side upon the pole of subject/object dualism. Then the daydream in which “I” appear, unfolds as samsara’s dualistic display. Sitting quietly alert, as the “knowing awareness” that’s nakedly aware, un-engaged with thought and perceptions; be vividly alert, just “rest” right there in the non-dual state. “Do not divide appearances as being there and awareness (rigpa) as being here. Let appearance and awareness be indivisible.” Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Tulku Urgyen points out how this is experienced directly: This point of perfect equipoise or samadhi is demonstrated precisely at the time 2:10 on this video.

From a friend Non-Dual Rigpa The Dzogchen teachings state that rigpa is a non-dual state. That means there is no subject knowing an object. That is saying that there is no "perceiver" as a subject perceiving experiences as "perceptions" appearing to a perceiver. There is no "knower" that experiences are occurring or happening "to". There is no "receiver" of sensory information in rigpa. Many mistake rigpa for being a state where the mind is clear and empty while it is experiencing exterior perceptions and sensations without labelling or conceptualizing them. For many rigpa is the condition of being a "perceiver" of experiences without any resistance, grasping or self-identification. This is still a dualistic witnessing state, not rigpa. The intellect assumes this detached "observer" position and thinks it's rigpa: "Nothing bothers me or touches me because I am just this pure observing". Or it tries to hold this detached "pure observer" position against all odds: "standing as awareness". This is of course just a new version of samsara. All of these views still leave the "perceiver" intact as a subjective self. In rigpa there is no one having or perceiving experiences because there is no subject and object in separation. As a crude example, imagine you are only a single eyeball. You can see objects in the distance. But if we remove the distance by reducing the distance to exactly zero distance from the center of the eyeball to the center point of the object, subject and object would be one piece. Knower and known would be occupying the exact same spot. Rigpa is this non-dual state. There is no one perceiving incoming sensory perceptions in rigpa. There is no one observing thoughts in rigpa. There is no one that emotions are occurring to. There is no one that experiences physical pain. There is no one that suffering occurs to. There is no one who loves another. There is no one that experiences bliss. There is no one that a realization occurs to. Rigpa is non-dual. All of these delusions of dualistic separation disappear in rigpa. Non-dual means the knower and the known occur as one undivided wholeness. The idea that a "knower" as rigpa exists as a pure, changeless perceiver of experiences is delusion. When experience is left "as-is", without a subject who is leaving it "as-is", there is no perceiver of the environment. There is only "environment" which is inclusive of the entire moment where the experience is not divided into a perceiver and perceived. It's as though you are everything with no "you" left over to notice, and no separate "everything" conceptualized and labeled to notice. There never was a separate "you" there to notice anything. This is why the mind realizing "twofold emptiness"; emptiness of a self as a perceiver and emptiness of appearances as separate things to be perceived, is absolutely necessary for the non-dual state of rigpa to appear.

Observer and observed dissolve into observing. This is the way. The Original Dzogchen Transmission: the Only necessary Instruction Dzogchen takes the state of “fruition” itself AS the path. That means our awareness called rigpa in Tibetan, is not only the goal to be realized but it is also our vehicle. One initially recognizes one’s own awareness as that cognitive capacity which knows and is aware. We then remain as the “observer” of mind, mental events and experiences without judgement, opinion, grasping or rejecting; in the witnessing role, but not as a thinker, daydreamer, analyzer, seeker, or manager. Just observe. No need for other practices, rituals or further transmissions from teachers or need to resolve any philosophical questions or issues. Just remain as the observing awareness, where even the observer is observed and eventually vanishes leaving only a naked and utterly impersonal observingness. Don’t “engage with” thinking, memory and thoughts; but simply observe them instead. Being the naked and impersonal “observingness” is the total practice because the ultimate nature of Reality as “rigpa awareness” replaces the practitioner in Dzogchen. We are not interested in having any special experiences, no interest in non-duality or insights or special states. Therefore there is no interest in “enlightenment” or achieving liberation, because the “observing awareness” has never been in bondage or forgotten. No corrective actions are needed. This following quote is from the famous cycle of teachings known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The text was discovered by Karma Lingpa (born in Tibet around 1329). It is part of what is called “The Direct Introduction to Awareness” teaching of Dzogchen and is meant to “awaken” those who simply read and understand the text without need for any prior or subsequent practice: "And in the present moment, when your mind remains in its own condition without constructing anything, Awareness, at that moment, in itself is quite ordinary.” “And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly, without any discursive thoughts, since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer, only a naked manifest awareness is present.” “This Awareness is empty and immaculately pure, not being created by anything whatsoever. It is authentic and unadulterated, without any duality of clarity and emptiness." Questions?