"All substances are my own mind, and this mind is emptiness, unarisen and unobstructed." - Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Thinking this, keep your mind natural and undiluted, self-contained in its own nature like water poured into water, just as it is, loose, open and relaxed." TBLD
How to "keep your mind" like this, that is the key for me now. To help us get there, yogis of all stripes have broadcast hundreds of methods, most of them based upon some form of extended concentration: breath, mantra, parts of the body, sensory objects, chakras, mental constructs, visualizations, etc. Followed in earnest, any such method may take us to a precipice of mindfulness, of sorts, where we stand completely immersed and still, gazing into an abyss. The great teachers nudge us off the cliff with their pointers. We fall from "I am" to "am," and that false bottom drops into neither "am" or "not-am." We fall until zero-gravity brings us to a halt in a state of undiluted clarity and fullness, water poured into water.
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