Our own Direct Experience

Awareness is self-maintained amidst the flow of points of view. Then, if the recognition of awareness slips away, it is simply repeated again. Short moments, repeated many times, acknowledge instinctive recognition of awareness. It is simply found to be true in our experience.

Complete Stability

By the power of short moments of awareness, many times, it becomes continuous. There is relief from belief in points of view. When short moments of awareness are repeated many times, awareness is recognized to be continuous and uninterrupted. It is found to be stable in itself.

The Beneficial Power of Awareness

There is a powerful opening of skillful means and profound insight in the balanced view of awareness. This greatly beneficial power has a naturally occurring morality and ethics that are of benefit to all. The power of insight and skillful means in all situations comes about by relying on potent awareness, rather than getting involved in points of view.

Instinctive Recognition

Relying on awareness leads to clarity and emphasizing points of view leads to confusion and tension. Instinctive recognition of awareness elicits inherent stability, peace, love, happiness and natural warmth.

Complete Well-Being

Well-being comes from short moments of awareness rather than from trying to regulate points of view. Simple, straightforward awareness is clarifying and empowering. It exhausts harmful psychological and behavioral patterns and simultaneously perfects beneficial qualities and actions.

A Balanced View

Awareness is not a way of avoiding everyday life. It is a way to fully embrace all of life from the vantage of a balanced view and clarity.

Compassion

Compassion and the ability to act skillfully in all situations occur easily due to the power of awareness.

Mental And Emotional Stability

In realizing the inseparability of awareness and points of view, confidence is gained. Being unafraid of points of view is a sign of confidence in awareness. It is caring deeply about life and about our effect on the world. Moreover, it means mental and emotional stability and relief of confusion, with no ups and downs.

Just Relax

There is no need to look for awareness. There is no need to ask, “Where is it?” “Is it there or not?” There is no need to look around for awareness, which is naturally present at all times. Simply enjoy awareness and its natural process of becoming continuous through short moments. There is no need to find awareness. Relax. Just relax; that’s all. Awareness will naturally become increasingly obvious.

Natural Clarity

Awareness has natural clarity at all times, like the brilliant light that fills a clear sky at high noon. It has this clarity naturally. We don’t need anything for that clarity to be; it is just naturally arising, naturally present. It doesn’t depend on anything. In awareness, the obviousness of clarity and the joy of certainty become evident as our natural state. This is the joy of knowing that awareness is the indestructible clarity of all experience.

As it is

Awareness is in harmony with points of view. There is no fighting with viewpoints anymore. This is the best well-being. Open, spacious awareness naturally allows point of view to be as it is. There is no need to save or delete viewpoints. Everything happens very simply. Since there is no need to change the flow of experience in a short moment of clarity, antidotes and remedies come to a complete stop.

Clarity is Your Vantage

By the power of a short moment of awareness, repeated many times, it becomes impossible to be derailed by disturbing emotions. Instead, you remain as you are—stable, clear and at ease. It is the easy way to live. Unchanging awareness and clarity is your vantage.

Natural Perfection

This is similar to spontaneously allowing a heavy load to fall to the ground. By the power of awareness, the burden of changing the flow of points of view is relieved and natural perfection is instinctively recognized. Awareness is free in its natural perfection.

Openhearted Clarity

True confidence is instinctive realization of openhearted clarity—knowing how to rely on awareness in any point of view. By the power of awareness, we are no longer afraid of ourselves.

Ease

In any context in which points of view appear, do not try to alter the experience in any way. With this, there is ease without indulging, rejecting or replacing any thought, emotion, sensation or other experience.

A Short Moment of Awareness

A short moment of awareness is complete. It is free from involvement in hope and fear, ups and downs and other extremes of points of view.

A Very Practical Approach

Awareness is self-affirming. In short moments of awareness, we reinforce the clarity of awareness in all our experience. We begin to gain confidence in awareness for self-benefit, and eventually that inspires us to be of benefit to all. Short moments of awareness: this is a very practical approach.

Clarity of Awareness

As we recognize our natural state just as it is, all effort to “find awareness” or “become aware” gradually ceases and awareness is permanent and obvious at all times. The clarity of awareness is predominant in the natural flow of all points of view, day and night. Clarity is realized to be the natural, uninterrupted flow of all points of view that appear.

Gaining Confidence In Awareness

We need to simply allow a moment of the uncontrived naturalness of awareness. Instead of focusing upon it, it is simply allowed to naturally be as it is. It is a matter of gaining confidence in our natural state. The more we have confidence in the natural presence of awareness, the less we need to deliberately rely on short moments and the easier it becomes to recognize that it is self-sustained.

Everything Rests In Natural Perfection

If we have positive points of view, that’s fine. If we have negative points of view, that’s fine. There is no need to control the natural flow of points of view. Place the emphasis on awareness—that’s all. Thoughts, emotions and sensations just flow along doing whatever they do. This is the key point. Awareness is naturally at rest. Everything rests in natural perfection. Leave it as it is.

Unending Clarity

Short moments repeated again and again, do become automatic. Unending clarity becomes increasingly obvious until it is evident at all times. By putting this into practice, we attain deep confidence in the power of short moments to bring benefit to our lives. We keep it simple: Short moments, many times.

Effortlessness

We don’t need all kinds of ways to find awareness. Nothing is needed. Allow short moments of awareness, repeatedly, leaving everything just as it is. Short moments of awareness increasingly open up the balanced view, clarity and insight of awareness.

Growing Familiarization and Confidence

Due to the potent benefit we find in short moments, we naturally commit to awareness. The natural presence of awareness is automatically enlivened in all our daily activity due to our growing familiarization and confidence. By getting accustomed to this, our recognition of awareness becomes stable and automatic.

Relaxed Awareness

Relaxed awareness can be recognized in any circumstance—walking, running, working, thinking, parenting, studying, eating, making love, and all daily activities.

With Nothing More To Do

Enjoying short moments of awareness is like finishing a hard day’s work or relaxing after a warm and soothing bath. We are completely relaxed with nothing more to do.

Crystal Clear Awareness

Everyone already possesses awareness. It is not that we don't have it and hope to get it at some point in the future. We already are aware. Briefly acknowledge awareness, again and again, and it becomes obvious all of the time. We can enjoy crystal clear awareness because awareness is always already present. We don’t have to find it. That is why we can always rely on awareness.

Powerful Intelligence and Clarity

Short moments, many times, become continuous. This exceptionally potent method grants access to a powerful intelligence and clarity that is not noticed when there is emphasis on descriptions or points of view. So continue to take short moments of empowering awareness, leaving everything as it is, whenever you remember to do so, until awareness is continuous at all times.

Result of Short Moments, Many Times

The very first moment of awareness already has within it the result of complete relief, mental and emotional stability, clarity, insight, compassion, self-benefit and the benefit of all. By repeatedly relying on awareness, it becomes automatic.

The Great Power of Complete Relief

The first time the choice is made to rely on awareness rather than emphasizing points of view, there is a sense of the great power of complete relief to be found in awareness. By persisting in this one simple choice, benefits are seen from the outset. The flow of points of view is not altered. Everything is left simply as it is. By the power of awareness, clarity becomes increasingly obvious.

The Most Important Choice

We choose for awareness to be obvious to us or not. Moment-to-moment awareness is the most important choice we will ever make.

Short Moments, Many Times, Until Automatic

Because of the habit of emphasizing points of view, the initial brief moments of awareness may not last long at first. In other words, there may be no real stability. It may almost immediately slip away. This is perfectly fine. That is why short moments are relied on, many times, until awareness becomes automatic. This is the key point in gaining confidence in awareness.

Awareness

Awareness, in the immediacy of the flow of thoughts, emotions and sensations, is the source of profound insight, perfect clarity, complete mental and emotional stability, compassion and skillfulness in all situations. The innate ability to be at ease, wise, balanced and compassionate, is discovered in awareness.

That is what awareness is

Just rest the mind and body naturally, without pushing away thoughts, without seeking anything. This is all that is required, whether activity is strenuous, relaxed or in-between. What remains is clarity and alertness that is open like a clear sky. This is what awareness is! When the next thought comes, it appears due to the clarity and alertness of awareness.

The Source of Mental and Emotional Stability

It makes no difference what points of view arise. In awareness, they vanish naturally, leaving no trace, like a line drawn in the sky. Awareness, relaxed and enormously potent, is the source of mental and emotional stability, insight and skillful qualities and activities. By the power of instinctive recognition of awareness, these become increasingly evident.

Like a Breeze Blowing Through Air

Thoughts, emotions, sensations or other experiences within awareness can be likened to a breeze blowing through the air. The breeze and the air are inseparable. Both are air.

Look at Your Own Experience

At the very moment points of view—thoughts, emotions, sensations or other experiences—form, recognize spacious awareness, shining from within each viewpoint. Right now, look at your own experience to see if it is like that or not.

Spacious Like the Sky

Awareness is the basis of all perceptions. Without awareness, there wouldn’t be knowledge of anything. It has no center or boundary. It has no beginning and is open and spacious like the sky. The openness of awareness is not made out of anything and is alert and clear.

The Results of Short Moments

So, when we look at the results of short moments of unending clarity, we find that they are very powerful indeed. We as a global human culture have finally tapped into a form of knowledge that can give us complete mental and emotional stability, insight, compassion, natural ethics and beneficial skillfulness in all situations. This is truly amazing! With ease of transportation, the internet and telecommunications available today, this is the first time in history that everyone can know this, and we are demonstrating its power, together.

Profound Intelligence

In clarity, there is profound intelligence and we are introduced to it right on the spot wherever we are. It’s this simple: If we do not rely on clarity, we never find this special intelligence. However, by the power of clarity, we find that this unique intelligence includes complete mental and emotional stability, insight, compassion, natural ethics and beneficial skillfulness in all circumstances.

Like The Light Of The Sun

Like the light of the sun outshines all planets and stars during the day, the power of clarity outshines thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences.

Like a Line Drawn in Water

By the power of short moments of clarity, all points of view flow on by like a line drawn in water. The here-and-now immediately clears itself, without any effort or anything needing to be done.

Disturbing States Rest in Clarity

Practically, this is how it works: When disturbing states arise, rely on a short moment of unending clarity. Over time, by the power of the short moment growing longer, there is instinctive clarity regardless of what type of thought, emotion, sensation or experience arises. Much to our surprise, we find that all of these disturbing states rest in clarity!

Moment-to-Moment Clarity

We choose for clarity to be obvious to us or not. Moment-to-moment clarity is the most important choice we will ever make.

How to Choose Clarity in Every Moment

For many of us, it is most challenging to rely on clarity when there are disturbing thoughts, emotions, sensations, or other experiences. It is important to see that even very disturbing states arise within ever-present clarity. Please acknowledge that the basis of all points of view is clarity.

World Peace

We see that just as we are empowered by clarity, this very same potential for empowerment lies within everyone. At some point, based on our own experience, we come to the conclusion that by everyone empowering themselves with short moments of clarity, we, the people of the world, unify as the force that brings about world peace.

We Empower Ourselves

The openness of space can be likened to our very own clarity. We become certain of clarity’s power to be unaffected by points of view and to provide a very special kind of intelligence that shows us what to do and how to act in all situations. This means we have greater clarity and the know-how to use that clarity to be of benefit. Initially, we know how to use clarity to benefit ourselves. We empower ourselves with short moments. As we do so, unending clarity becomes obvious. Clarity is the instruction, demonstration and result.

The Power of Clarity

The power of clarity shows us that thoughts, emotions, sensations and experiences are simply points of view within its balanced view. This can be illustrated by the way planets and stars appear within the expanse of space. Similarly, points of view—thoughts, emotions, sensations and experiences—appear within clarity. And just like space is unaffected by any event within it, clarity is unaffected by its points of view—thoughts, emotions, sensations and experiences.

Short Moments: Keep It Simple

Short moments repeated again and again do become automatic, as was stated when we first heard this simple instruction. Unending clarity becomes increasingly obvious until it is evident at all times. By putting this into practice, we attain deep confidence in the power of short moments to bring benefit to our lives. We keep it simple: Short moments, many times.

Tremendous Certainty

The stability and caring of the balanced view actually empower tremendous certainty of its capacity to enliven harmony and cooperation throughout global human culture.

A Balanced View

We rely on clarity to provide a balanced view. We find the balanced view of clarity within the flow of viewpoints. The unending clarity of each moment provides complete mental and emotional stability, insight, natural ethics, empathy and skillfulness in all situations.

Clarity is Available all the Time

What begins to happen is that the initial short moments grow longer. Along the way it dawns on us that these moments of clarity are actually revealing permanent, unending clarity. We discover that clarity is available all the time. This dawning is similar to the way the sunrise illuminates the entire landscape and sky. Once the sun rises everything is seen clearly.

Simple Practice

Never underestimate the power of this simple practice. Short moments of awareness, repeated many times, become continuous. It is the most powerful force on Earth.

Soothing, Powerful Energy

By the power of short moments, we begin to discover more and more a sense of clarity that fills us with soothing, powerful energy. By carrying on with short moments, whenever we remember to do so, the moments naturally begin to last longer. As the moments of clarity grow longer, we find that our mind and body are functioning more easily. We begin to notice a soothing quality in our daily life and increasing beneficial energy.

Continuous Clarity

We can count on short moments of clarity, repeated again and again. It spontaneously becomes continuous clarity in all situations. We find irreversible clarity at all times.

Already-Present Clarity

An excellent illustration for clarity existing within all of our thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences is one of butter existing in cream. When cream is churned, the butter becomes obvious. So too, short moments are related to unending clarity in the same way that churning cream is related to the result of butter. Just as churning cream cannot fail to produce butter, short moments of clarity always highlight the unending clarity that is evident in the here-and-now.

Short Moments: The Balanced View

“Well, yes,” you might say, “but isn’t clarity really separate from thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences?” Only from the point of view of incomplete knowledge is there an apparent separateness; from the vantage of clarity, there is no separateness at all.

Great Storehouse of Clarity

Each short moment of clarity, acknowledged by each person in the world, creates a great storehouse of clarity that gets more and more powerful, spreading throughout the world.

Simple and Powerful

The simple approach of short moments provides unending clarity. And when throughout global human culture, we gather together in the commitment to short moments of clarity, we, the people of planet earth, create a world that is based on the innate leadership and problem-solving capacity of clarity rather than on confusion. It is as simple and powerful as that.

Unending Clarity

Short moments of awareness are acknowledged as unending clarity. At first, we may remember to rely on clarity only once in a while. This is perfectly okay and is the way it is for most everyone. Initially, we remember a short moment of clarity and then we forget. This is normal. However, we must not give up—ever!

Short Moments, Repeated Many Times, Become Automatic

By relying on short moments of awareness, clarity becomes increasingly automatic. This may happen slowly or quickly. To see how you are progressing in short moments, simply rely on immediate awareness. This gentle approach is guaranteed to make awareness obvious at all times.

The Peaceful Clarity

The peaceful clarity and alertness that is identified when we stop thinking is the basis of all thoughts. It saturates all thoughts without exception. This is truly amazing! This is similar to the vastness of space being present regardless of what appears within it.

Like the flight path of a bird in the sky

When we stop thinking for a moment, we introduce ourselves to the clarity of awareness, and before long we begin to notice that the clarity that is present when we are not thinking is also present when we are thinking. All thoughts appear and vanish naturally like the flight path of a bird in the sky.

Inseparable from Clarity

Just as a rainbow appears within space, thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences appear within the clarity and alertness of awareness. Just as space and a rainbow are inseparable, thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences are inseparable from clarity.

Short Moment of Awareness

What is a short moment of awareness? To know the answer to that question, stop thinking—just for a moment. What remains? A sense of alertness and clarity remains. This is what awareness is: clarity and alertness that is open
sunlight filling space. The clarity and alertness of awareness are equally present in thinking and in not thinking!

Deep Connection and Intimacy

Compassion is deep connection and intimacy with everyone and everything, and a responsiveness to that in our actions. When we go out into the world and look at people, no one anywhere is a stranger. It’s so natural, simple and easy. Full-blown compassion is the evidence of awareness.

Warmth and Soothing Energy

The warmth and soothing energy of short moments of awareness again and again allows for complete freedom in the midst of disturbing states. Their power diminishes, and their power to alter our well-being will completely subside.

Awareness is for Everybody

Awareness is for everybody. Simply relax, rely on awareness, and in that is all your power. Allowing yourself to let everything be as it is might be a little scary at first, but it quickly loses its power to scare you due to the equalizing power of awareness.

Pure Like Sky

Thought processes, naturally resolving, are pure like the sky, unstructured and crystal clear. All phenomena whatsoever are a display of the lucid basic state. One dancing thought after another is the dynamic energy of the basic state. No matter what these thoughts have to say, no matter what they describe, they're pure thoughts, they're crystal clear thoughts—the dynamic energy of the basic state.

Short Moments of Awareness

The way to end disturbing states is to not do anything about them. Short moments of awareness are repeated many times until automatic.

The Very First Short Moment of Awareness

In the very first short moment of awareness is complete mental and emotional stability, profound insight into the nature of existence, compassion and skillfulness. The more awareness is noticed, the more continuity there is in mental and emotional stability, clarity, compassion and skillfulness.

Profound Simplicity

In the basic state, all phenomena cannot be found to have an independent nature, and are like a fleeting rainbow. The simpler things are, the more profound they are. The more simply you look at yourself, the more profound you become. This is just the way it is.

Real Freedom

When we take short moments of awareness, we no longer see afflictive states as something that can alter our well-being. That’s real freedom.

Compassion

When we ease into the naturally settled reality of our own being, we rest with all these appearances as they arise. Through resting with all the appearances, complete compassion for others and ourselves comes about.

Awareness rests in itself

Awareness rests in itself. How marvellous! Awareness plays at resting in itself. This is the direct introduction of awareness: self-arising wisdom, love and tremendous power.
The nature of phenomena is unified within natural perfection. Each phenomenon has no independent nature. Like endless sky, it is equal to the vast expanse of awareness.

Complete Mastery

Short moments many times is all that is needed for complete mastery over all phenomena—not a single other thing is needed. Know that to be the case.

Our Natural Disposition

We all want to be of benefit, because it’s our natural state; it’s completely our natural disposition. In the power of instinctive recognition is the power to accomplish anything that will be of benefit to all. Released into the great flow of tremendously beneficial energy, you suddenly have the power to accomplish all you set out to do in a constant stream of benefit.

Awareness Simply Is

In all thoughts, emotions, sensations and experiences, it is awareness that is unavoidably present. Awareness is simply as it is. It is never distracted nor affected by appearances, including birth, life and death or waking, dreaming and sleeping. Upon the appearance of human birth, life and death, there is simply the basic space of natural perfection— the glorious and spontaneous self-release of the here and now. There is no change in natural perfection. It is as it has always been—light in light, natural perfection in natural perfection.

Power is in the Here-and-Now

We’re very, very powerful, and that power is in the here-and-now, nakedly seeing from within. That’s where the power is. It’s the power of complete mental and emotional stability. It’s the power of perfect insight into everything, the power of compassion and skilful means, and the power of complete clarity in every situation.

Great Fortune! Great Benefit!

Natural perfection binds everything together in luminous awareness. Luminosity arises spontaneously and is inseparable from awareness like the sky is inseparable from its luster.
Great fortune! Great fortune! Great fortune!

Great benefit! Great benefit! Great benefit!

Complete Relief and Complete Power

In that first short moment, there is complete relief and complete power of wisdom, so it is count-on-able! You can really count on it, whereas you can’t count on points of view to bring you relief.

Absolutely Equal

By the power of awareness, you come to see that everything is equal. No matter what the appearance is, it’s absolutely equal. No matter what the label or word is, it’s equal. All of these symbols, no matter what they are, pose no promise or threat to the radiant clarity of awareness.

Utter Peace and Comfort

Everything is allowed to be as it is. The utter peace, comfort, calm, soothing energy, joyfulness and downright bliss in being become more and more pronounced. This is what we’ve always been seeking. Even in seeking to describe the world fictitiously, we’ve been seeking this, but we didn’t know where to look.

Awareness Simply Is

Anyone who becomes totally familiar with awareness as it is being described here says exactly the same thing, namely, that awareness simply is. It’s not generated by anything. It is non-produced; it is unborn; it is indescribable; yet, it is naturally present. That recognition brings with it the true humility that is the obedience to the unenforceable, which is obedience to the awareness dwelling in every heart.

Serene And Spacious

Here is a very practical suggestion: at the very moment points of view form, let your awareness remain open, and allow your perception to be serene and spacious. That is relying on awareness. That is awareness—that is awareness which has no point from which to view. By the power of simply short moments of awareness, the experience becomes increasingly obvious, and points of view vanish naturally.

Relax the Mind

When we relax the mind for a brief moment—rather than following after or blocking points of view—we experience the soothing energy and clarity of awareness. From the first time we choose to rely on awareness rather than following the story line of points of view, we experience a relief from our usual thought processes.

Completely Equal

All these thoughts could be flashing through your awareness, but to the extent that you’re established in rest, you’ll be laughing, because you realize that all of them are completely equal

Intimate With Others

When we see who we are, then we see who everyone is, and we feel close to everyone in a natural way. We find that we’re willing to be emotionally intimate with others, not out of some kind of contrived effort, but in a very natural way. When there’s no need to try to change oneself anymore, then there’s no need to try to change anyone else, even though we may have been trying our whole lives to change other people to make the world all right. Some of us have really been trying to do that, haven’t we? However, when we don’t need to change people anymore, then we can enjoy them thoroughly, no matter who they are.

The Most Powerful Force on Earth

By the power of short moments, we begin to discover more and more a sense of clarity that fills us with soothing, powerful energy.
Never underestimate the power of this simple practice. It is the most powerful force on Earth.

Clarity

By relying on short moments of awareness, clarity becomes increasingly automatic. This may happen slowly or quickly. To see how you are progressing in short moments, simply rely on immediate awareness. This gentle approach is guaranteed to make awareness obvious at all times.

Just This

Just this is awareness seeing, completely filling the total presence of the here and now from within. Just this. Not experience-driven, just this, whatever it is.

Real Compassion

Compassion is ever present, shining within all appearances, always compassion shining from within all appearances. Compassion – not something to be cultivated or developed – always shining, forever bright within everything no matter what it is. This is truly real compassion, synonymous with love, synonymous with awareness, synonymous with the vast expanse stretching infinitely in all directions.

Awareness rests in itself

Awareness rests in itself. How marvellous! Awareness plays at resting in itself. This is the direct introduction of awareness: self-arising wisdom, love and tremendous power.
The nature of phenomena is unified within natural perfection. Each phenomenon has no independent nature. Like endless sky, it is equal to the vast expanse of awareness.

Spontaneously Perfect

Maintain ongoing awareness of point of view as if it were mist in the air, diminishing in and of itself; experience all points of view as the naturally occurring wisdom of awareness that knows its nature to be spontaneously perfect.

Naturally Perfect Awareness

In this treasury of awareness, the source of everything, natural perfection is spontaneously present, without having to be sought. So, within awareness, all points of view are naturally perfect. Since there is no point of view that is not perfect, everything arises as an inherently harmonious and unified display. Moreover, without exception, wisdom, and compassion naturally arise from the same source—naturally perfect awareness.

Infinitely Pervasive

The essence of all viewpoints is awareness, which is synonymous with natural perfection and its beneficial qualities and activities. Naturally present, it has not come from anywhere, nor does it go anywhere at all. The expanse of awareness, with no linear time frame, does not come or go, and is infinitely pervasive.

Naturally Perfect Qualities and Activities

In the unity of points of view and awareness, natural perfection is experienced as an unwavering, ongoing flow. Within always present awareness, naturally perfect qualities and activities that are very beneficial become evident.

Naturally Perfect

Within this basic space of awareness, everything is the scope of awareness. Within that single perfection, all is perfect—without being made so, everything is perfect. Naturally occurring timeless awareness is by nature naturally perfect.

Like Pure Space

One moment flowing into another like pure space. No separation anywhere into distinct moments that are made into something concrete, that substantiate any kind of identity, that substantiate any kind of occurrence. Right here, everything, flowing along, unceasingly, easily, effortlessly. Nakedly seeing itself exactly as it is.

The Instant of Instinctive Recognition

A short moment of instinctive recognition forever does away with a lifetime of confusion. That's how powerful it is—exceedingly powerful—without any doubt, in the instant of instinctive recognition.

Self-Perfect and Luminously Clear

Every here and now, regardless of the description imposed upon it, is self-perfect and luminously clear. There is no obstruction or interruption in sight anywhere. Just like in the flawless sky, there is no obstruction or interruption anywhere. Know your condition to be just like that. Never be fooled. Something so simple is exceedingly powerful.

True Relationship

True relationship comes when we can be with others without being ruled by our points of view. It means living in the oneness we all share, the pure awareness that includes and transcends all differences and sees everyone as its own self. Unconditional love and infinite respect for everyone naturally arise when we rest as awareness. That is real relationship.

An Expanse of Equalness

Awareness has mastery over all viewpoints. An expanse of equalness, all points of view are within the balanced view of awareness. With no wavering from this single, naturally occurring awareness, there is certainty that does not require effort or achievement. Given awareness is inclusive, everything, just as it is, is encompassed within the balanced view in which there is no differentiation or exclusion.

Look into your own awareness

Look into your own awareness! It has no shape. It has no color. It has no center or boundary. It has no beginning and is open and spacious like the sky. It has no place where it is located right now. It has no destination that it is going to. This openness and spaciousness is not made out of anything and is clear and alert.

Soothing Energy

Soothing energy will be increasingly obvious from the moment of recognition. This soothing energy is something we all desire, something that we all seek in all kinds of antidotes. When we instinctively recognize that soothing energy within ourselves, then we know that there is nowhere else to go and nothing to do. It’s already present. That’s it! Just relax! Acknowledge its presence. Nothing could be more natural. It is up to us.

Everything rests in Natural Perfection

Well-being doesn’t come about by changing anything. It’s recognized by leaving everything exactly as it is. Unflinchingly unafraid in the direct encounter with all experience, there is freedom in immediate perception of every thought, emotion, sensation or experience. There is complete perceptual openness in all experience, no matter what its description may be: anxiety, pleasure, pain, joy, panic attack, sheer bliss, comatose, wide awake, asleep, jumping for joy. Everything rests in natural perfection, so what would need to change?

Innate Treasury

This innate treasury holds infinite wealth of profound insight and benefit that are ready for you to enjoy. There is nothing to learn, nothing to do, no effort to make, nothing to change. The wealth of this treasury is in your own experience of the here-and-now. Whatever you may be thinking, whatever emotion you might have, whatever sensation you may have, whatever other experience you may have, there is nothing to change.

The Flow of Tremendous Benefit of All

Each individual has their own labels to describe phenomena. Thus, things are perceived in various different ways and are described in various different ways. Because you have examined these various descriptions and have failed to find anything, you continue on nakedly seeing everything from within, just as it is.

Yet with respect to all of these phenomena, in allowing them to be as they actually are, then that is the great power of natural perfection, subsuming everything whatsoever in the flow of tremendous benefit of all.

Great Benefit

Within awareness itself, natural perfection is inherently present. The natural perfection of the inseparability of awareness and points of view is a superb expanse that is timelessly perfect, timelessly arising. Timelessly and naturally present, awareness is without transition or change. By the power of awareness, great benefit arises unceasingly. Not created or developed, it exists timelessly. Like the sun in the sky, it is brilliant and ever-present.

Everyday Awareness

Everyday awareness is just everyday life itself. Since nothing needs to change, there is no need to behave in any special way or attempt to attain anything above and beyond what you actually are. There should be no feeling of striving to reach some "amazing goal" or "advanced state." The timeless wisdom of awareness naturally reveals its perfection and qualities in all experience. There is no effort to make.

Powerful and Ordinary Awareness

When we engage in the discovery of awareness, we cultivate the feeling of the openness of the entire universe. We open ourselves with absolute simplicity and spaciousness of mind. This is our own powerful and ordinary awareness that has nothing to guard or defend.

No Turning Back

Once the basic state has become an instinctive realization, then essentially there’s no turning back, because the nature of all phenomena has become perfectly clear.
No matter what kind of phenomenal appearance may arise and no matter how unexpected it is, there’s never a way for it to overcome us again. We’ve come to a basic understanding of the way things are, and this is the real, instinctive realization.

Wisdom

It is by allowing everything to be as it is that we open up to a profound wisdom that has been unknown to us. This wisdom is powerfully responsive in all situations. It is the wisdom of a balanced view that is not dependent on descriptive frameworks.

Openness

The openness of awareness gradually brings the discovery of innate warmth towards others and desire to be of benefit to them. We discover all of this by the power of relying on awareness—the one simple change that makes life easy. There is nothing else that need be done about points of view. All points of view are already unified in awareness. We rely on the power of awareness.

Relying on Awareness

By relying on awareness and making a one hundred percent commitment to that, you’re giving yourself the greatest self-love, the greatest self-respect and the greatest self-compassion. By gaining confidence in awareness, your relationship with yourself improves, and your relationship with others improves along with it. As your relationship with yourself improves, your relationship with others improves. You see that the way you tick is the same way other people tick.

Instinctive Recognition

Your own basic state of natural perfection is always with you wherever you are. It’s with you at the moment of your birth, it’s with you throughout you entire life, and it’s with you at the moment of death. It endures always, ceaselessly. In instinctive recognition of the basic state of natural perfection, you become aware that it is unending. That one moment of instinctive recognition introduces you and completely confirms the unending nature of the basic state of natural perfection throughout all descriptions and throughout all moments of the here-and-now.

Stay With What Works

Remember, short moments, repeated many times, become automatic.

Short moments, many times may seem too simple, too easy and like it couldn’t possibly work, but it is elegant and it is robust and it is right on and it will take you all the way to confidence in awareness. You can really count on that. Just by focusing on those short moments, you don’t have to worry about the other stuff. It will completely subside. Just stay with what works.

Your Own Power

Your own immediate self-awareness—that by which you know you are—exceedingly powerful, pure, clear, containing all knowledge and its systems and terms, everything directly accessible without any effort. Without any learning, beyond learning, but including all learning. Just like that, this is your own power, your own natural state, your own condition exactly as you are

Pure and Clear

The nature of awareness, which has the capacity to know everything and be aware of everything, is pure and clear. Like the sky, its purity and its clarity are inseparable and uninterrupted. Such is naked awareness seeing. So simply continue on systematically established as the luminous clarity of awareness; just this is the nature of reality, the basic state of natural perfection.

Perfect Health

The instant cure in every moment of the here-and-now—its own natural perfection! It lives in a state of perfect health. Every single moment abides unavoidably in a state of perfect health. Every moment—perfect mental and emotional stability no matter what's appearing.

Natural Perfection

The great unity of phenomena is innate rather than conceptually attained. Natural perfection manifests in all phenomena and is not affected by their appearance. Natural perfection outshines the need to create perfectibility through emphasizing the rearrangement of appearances. All remains spontaneously in natural perfection. This instinctive understanding or knowingness is equal to awareness.

Connect Intimately

It’s only when we come into allowing everything within us to be as it is and allowing everything external to be as it is that we’re really able to be free of everything. Then we’re able to connect intimately with everyone and everything.

Resting as Awareness

It makes no difference what points of view arise. In the moment of resting as awareness, it is impossible for there not to be a soothing openness in which they vanish naturally, leaving no trace, like a line drawn in water. At that point, in the wake of their vanishing, identify awareness, relaxed and enormously potent. In letting point of view be by resting as awareness, mental and emotional stability, insightfulness, and skillful qualities and activities become increasingly evident.

Instinctive Recognition

When there is instinctive recognition of the fundamental nature of natural perfection, there's nothing to do. All intelligence, all understanding is super-complete in instinctive recognition. Easygoing, carefree naturalness, vividly awake in every moment of the here-and-now. Completely secure and confident, impossible for it to be any other way. This is the complete confirmation of your condition just as it is.

The Creative Vigor

We rest as the actuating potency—the creative vigor—of everything. That is our ultimate nature. The temporary appearances of our points of view about who we are, are fleeting. They are like a mirage or a hologram. There isn’t really anything there.

Happy Life

Our clarified perceptions allow us to have a happy life. That is what it really boils down to. Wisdom is an entirely happy life. The power of maintaining awareness is immense. It clarifies all perceptions and this is very, very important in a practical way.
When we gain confidence in awareness, it has practical results on all levels of living. When we see the power of awareness, we are simultaneously seeing our own power to benefit ourselves as it unleashes well-being within us that we never knew was possible.

Gaining Confidence

Confidence is gained through instinctive realization. It is not gained through thinking about awareness or through reasoning. It is gained by the direct perception that all points of view are equally pure, that everything appearing within the pure view of awareness is equally pure, and that all points of view whatsoever are inseparable and appearing as the uniform single expanse.

Wisdom and Clarity

The practice of short moments of awareness is swift and sure. If a one hundred percent commitment is made to that, then a one hundred percent commitment is made to wisdom and clarity. By the power of short moments, awareness becomes automatic.

Timeless Awareness

Timeless awareness is naturally occurring. Its spontaneous presence is entirely open and indivisible, and within it there has never been anything that has appeared that is anything other than timeless awareness. The basic space of utter lucidity and timeless awareness is super-complete in itself. There has never been anything in it that spins out of it and somehow forms its own identity or which has power to do anything. Everything that appears within it is only forever timeless awareness. It can never be anything other than that; it is absolutely impossible.

The Breeze and the Air

Points of view and awareness can be likened to a breeze blowing through the air. The breeze and the air are inseparable. Both are air. When a breeze blows, it is the dynamic energy of air. When points of view stir, they are the dynamic energy of awareness.

As it is

Negative states are a very rich laboratory of natural perfection. It's a great relief to find that these negative states mean nothing at all. Their power and influence is completely over the moment they're thought. Continue on enjoying yourself; allow everything to be as it is. It's never going to be any other way! Relax completely and know that everything is okay exactly as it is.

The Ease of Being

There’s nothing whatsoever that needs to be done about anything in order to be aware and wise. Enjoy the ease of your own being as it is, in which nothing need be done and nothing needs to change. All is known clearly and directly in the awareness that is the basis of everything.

Without Anything Needing to Be Done

Since the basic state of awareness is self-originated and spontaneously self-perfected, there are no causes or conditions necessary to bring it about. It is accomplished effortlessly in everything that is said, felt, sensed or done. The arising of thoughts and their being liberated occur simultaneously. Their only cure is their own spontaneous natural perfection. Since your own immediate awareness is just this and nothing else, you always already know everything with regard to it, so spontaneously continue on just like this without any effort, without anything needing to be done.

The Zenith of All Views

Immediate basic awareness is insubstantial and lucidly clear: Just this is the zenith of all views. It is all-encompassing, free of everything, and without any conceptions whatsoever: It is pure, clear and ungraspable. Just this is the highest conduct. Without being sought after, it is spontaneously self-perfected from the very beginning: Its lucid clarity is without error or mistake.

A Ceaseless Flow of Beneficial Activity

Everything whatsoever, no matter what its name, rests in a basic state of natural perfection that is of consummate benefit to all. There is no other way it can be. This is the way things actually are. Thus, our natural disposition is the benefit of all—without any effort, without anything needing to be done. A ceaseless flow of beneficial activity—effortless and complete with everyone we meet in every moment without needing to try. Without contrivance, without cultivation. We rest just like that, without effort—no achievement of anything necessary.

Like Sunlight Filling the Vast Sky

The stainless sky of natural perfection pervades everything with immeasurable, unconditioned, effortless compassion, love and exalted benefit. Wisdom, compassion, love and tremendous energy saturate all moments like sunlight filling the vast sky. Everything-all-at-once is pure, inconceivable perfection from the beginningless beginning.

Peace Zone

Wherever you are, by the power of gaining confidence in awareness, you are automatically being beneficial. First of all you are beneficial to yourself, and then by your own power of awareness, you’re automatically beneficial to others. You start to really care. You care about yourself, and then you care about everyone in a very natural way.
When many of us commit to short moments of peace, peace zones spring up all over the world like precious gems lighting the earth. Short moment by short moment, the whole world becomes a peace zone.

Perceptual Openness

Awareness is complete perceptual openness in all experience. It is freedom in immediate perception rather than being focused on stories. The whole field of perception opens up in timeless awareness to include all perceptions. We may find ourselves having a lot of thoughts and a lot of emotions—even very strong emotions that we could have never tolerated before we began gaining confidence in awareness. This is the source of compassion: to allow everything about ourselves to be as it is.

Everything Rests in a Basic State of Natural Perfection

Every thought, no matter what it is, rests in a basic state of natural perfection. You know this to be the case about yourself, so there's never any way to veer from it. Don't ever take anything that appears as evidence that natural perfection is not being present. Everything that appears is evidence of natural perfection, naturally present. Know your experience to be just like this and no other way.

Without Effort or Thinking

Awareness is as it is without any effort and without any thinking. By the power of one simple change: short moments of awareness, repeated many times, until it becomes automatic, you recognize your spacious nature. Awareness is not anything that requires effort or thinking. It is what is authentic and genuine about you, and by recognizing what is genuine and authentic about you, you have clarity and a balanced view. Clarity is synonymous with awareness, and with the increasing obviousness of awareness comes increasing clarity as regards to knowing what to do and how to act in all situations.

Your own Condition, just as it is!

Right here completely confirm your own condition, just as it is, through the exceedingly powerful means of instinctively recognizing the basic state of natural perfection. Confirm directly that your own immediate self-awareness is just this and nothing else. It is pure and clear no matter what appears. Right now look at the thought you call yourself to see if it is like that or not. It is now impossible to speak of not understanding your nature. Moreover, as your very own basic state of natural perfection is completely confirmed, there is no doubt about it. Since your own manifest intrinsic awareness is only the clarity of the here-and-now, spontaneously continue on just like this.

Complete Confirmation

When there is instinctive recognition of the fundamental nature of natural perfection, there's nothing to do. All intelligence, all understanding is super-complete in instinctive recognition. Easygoing, carefree naturalness, vividly awake in every moment of the here-and-now. Completely secure and confident, impossible for it to be any other way. This is the complete confirmation of your condition just as it is.

Like the Color Blue and the Sky

The points of view that appear within the pure view of awareness are inseparable from it, like the color blue is inseparable from the sky. There is no way to separate out the dynamic energy of awareness called points of view. The points of view are all equally self-presentations of awareness, and no matter their description, they pose no promise and they pose no threat. They are not threatening, nor are they something that is going to provide us comfort and well-being. The only place we’ll ever find comfort and well-being is in awareness.

The Pure View of Awareness

Awareness is equally present in all perceptions; it is open, spacious and entirely expansive. It can’t be limited in any way. There is the pure view of awareness, and within awareness all points of view appear. The term “points of view” includes everything: thoughts, emotions, sensations and all other experiences. No matter what name we might give to thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences, they are points of view appearing within the pure view of awareness.

Although there are a great many different points of view that do not agree among themselves, ordinary present awareness is directly pervading every moment of the here-and-now, a continuous stream of unending naked seeing. Naked seeing and the one who is seeing are inseparable. Hey, you here, now you have called off the search, thus this is the beginning with respect to yourself exactly as you are, just like this.

The Profound Indication of Natural Perfection

The profound indication of natural perfection is your own experience, just as it is. You are aware of your own experience due to awareness nakedly seeing it from within it. Since the here-and-now is aware, pure and clear, it is likened to the sky. The basic state of natural perfection, as well as being pure, is also intrinsically aware; everywhere it is clear. So continue on, simply remaining in the state of everything being just as it is.

Basic State of Natural Perfection

In the present moment, as you remain in your own basic state of natural perfection without constructing anything, awareness, at that moment, in itself is quite ordinary. And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly, without describing anything, since there is only this pure observing, there is found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer; there is only naked awareness seeing.

Short Moments of Awareness, Repeated Many Times, Become Automatic

Awareness is the key point of our existence. It is the key functionality through which we know that we exist. We wouldn’t know anything at all about ourselves without awareness. Awareness is essential to every single perception we have. In order to understand our own existence—our own nature—we have to become completely familiar with awareness.

As awareness is the basis of every perception, it is already naturally present. It isn’t something that needs to be obtained sometime in the future. That’s why the single instruction that is needed is “short moments, repeated many times, become automatic.” By taking a short moment of awareness, its uncontrived naturalness is guaranteed.

Natural Perfection

Know that natural perfection is the basis of everything, of all that is labeled positive, neutral or negative. It remains in its own space, it is quite ordinary and in no way exceptional, this awareness that is present and lucidly clear is ordinary awareness right here. With regard to its real meaning, it is just this immediate present awareness and nothing else. You continue on now, instinctively recognizing that everything is pure and perfect, just as it is.