Insight

All appearances are not different from your own mind

• Take any object of experience, a sight, a sound, a thought, a feeling
• Over and over again, let go of any label or description of it until you can rest in the experience of the object
• Ask, "What is experiencing this?" For a moment, you will see.
• As soon as you start thinking, stop, and repeat the process, until you can rest in the seeing.

Mind is empty

• Rest attention on the breath. Then ask, "What rests on the breath?" As soon as thoughts arise, stop, and return attention to the breath and ask again.
• Let a thought arise in your mind and ask, "What thinks?" Look directly.
• What knows when the mind is resting? What knows when the mind is thinking? Again, you will experience a shift.
• As soon as you start thinking, stop, and repeat the process, until you can rest in the shift.

Emptiness is not different from presence

• Mind is clear and empty. Is the clarity different from the emptiness? Is the emptiness different from the clarity? Look and see.
• Look at what knows mind is empty and clear. Whenever a thought such as "Mind is empty" arises, look at the thought.
• Rest in the looking.

Presence is freedom

• Don't be distracted.
• Don't try to make anything happen.
• Don't work at anything.
• Whenever disturbances arise, look directly at what experiences the disturbance.
• Just recognize whatever arises for what it is, a movement in mind.

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