BigSkyDiamond Posted August 2 (edited) On 6/5/2025 at 11:01 AM, steve said: I have a suggestion about Awakening the Luminous Mind. The first half of the book describes a core meditation practice, a lifetime practice if it speaks to you. It is very simple but not necessarily easy. My own experience was that after years of practicing other methods, the techniques described in the first part of this book generated tangible, practical results very rapidly. I recommend you spend some real, quality time with this before getting too immersed in the second half of the book  i ordered the book after reading the above post. And this practice is exactly what I needed. Results indeed. Thank you so much for this recommendation.  On 6/5/2025 at 11:01 AM, steve said:  ...easy for the mind to be activated and become an obstacle to deeper, non-conceptual understanding. ...pointing to discoveries made through the core practices with stillness, silence, and spaciousness. ... teachers who emphasize practice over theory. It is the best approach for me as I tend to be too much in my head.  Bingo, yes, me too  i especially like about this practice also that it includes inner refuge, which offers the elements of comfort safety protection and nurturing. That is my experience with it thus far, soothing and warm. It is a respite from spinning thoughts, and feels restorative.  Edited August 2 by BigSkyDiamond 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
forestofclarity Posted 7 hours ago According to Dzogchen instructions, there are three points to remember. First, track down the dualistic mind or normal attention. Second, discover the mind’s secret identity, what dualistic mind has hidden away. Third, reveal its vanishing point.  To track down means to investigate how the attentive quality of dualistic mind behaves, where it comes from, where it is right now, and where it goes. The second point, discovering mind’s secret identity, is actually finding out what mind is, namely, a seeming presence—there is no thing there. It is just some behavior that is mistaken for being a real thing while actually there is no thing there whatsoever. It is only when we investigate that we discover that this attentive quality is not a thing, that it has fooled us. It is called a nonexistent or seeming presence. The last point—revealing the vanishing point of dualistic mind—refers to the fact that the moment you look for this attentive quality and what it is made of, you discover that there is no actual thing. It simply vanishes every time you look. This is the Dzogchen approach: finding out what dualistic mind really is.  --- Adeu Rinpoche, from Freedom in Bondage 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
