"There is this (mental) dwelling discovered by the Tathāgata where, not attending to any themes, he enters & remains in internal emptiness." Mahāsuññata Sutta
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Replying to @NoaidiX
In your own words do you know this state? Fluidity of movement, with intent, within the inner world, is such an interesting subject. So many profitable questions, so little commentary so little in the way of description.
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Replying to @memeristor
In my experience, this contemplative abode is the spaciousness in which all else arises & subsides. Given its themeless, often contentless quality, it can be challenging to convey in words. Still, I'd describe it as luminous awareness, boundless & transparent, buoyantly free.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @memeristor
Space itself is unmoving but contains all movement within it. The practice entails looking directly at spacious awareness even in the midst of movement, namely by looking through transparent thoughts, allowing them to arise & subside without mindlessly sticking them together.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @memeristor
The conglomerations we otherwise make out of thoughts, the narrative stories that sweep us away, then have no basis. Each movement of mind arises for a moment like a wave, then naturally subsides into oceanic space. Eventually, all grows still. At least that's my experience.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Slept on this Is it that the thoughts subside or that, that aspect which observes disconnects from the machinery responsible for thought? The mind is not a whole but the sum of the parts. The seeds "bija" are an energetic phenomena and in large part what we experience as thought
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Replying to @memeristor
In my experience, thoughts subside through no longer identifying with them. They are insubstantial, so how can they be grasped? It's like watching a dream melt before my eyes—not an absolute negation or obliteration of the dream, but a process of cultivating lucidity toward it.
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In melting, the dream becomes malleable. It's not that it utterly ceases to exist or never existed in the first place—it just doesn't exist in the way it was once assumed to exist. In a lucid dream, the dreamer is under no illusion of fixed substantiality. All becomes malleable.
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