Introduction to Clarity

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 like a cloudless sky.

Like Living on an Island of Gold

This is the pivotal instruction that needs no study: short moments, many times, become automatic. A gift as simple as this belongs to everyone. It is like living on an island of gold where everything is gold. Just so, all moments contain the opportunity of the riches of awareness.

Short Moments of Awareness

In each short moment, warm-hearted beneficial intent, compassion, luminous clarity, wisdom, mental and emotional stability and skillfulness are already present and shining like a great sun. Do not be fooled by believing in anything more complicated than this. By the power of short moments, ensure a peaceful life and shower kindness everywhere.

The Powers of Natural Perfection

In order to release the powers of the natural perfection of awareness, it is important to gain confidence in awareness. Simply allow point of view to be as it is—the dynamic energy of awareness that is free in its own place. The key to the release of the tremendous energy of wisdom and natural perfection is short moments of awareness, repeatedly, until obvious at all times.

Naturally Perfect Awareness

All points of view are outshone in the pure space of natural perfection. Everything disappears into unified basic space. All sounds disappear upon their arising, like an echo. Appearances disappear like a rainbow vanishing into the sky, and all other points of view disappear like a line drawn in water. This is the powerful benefit of naturally perfect awareness.

As It Is

Given that awareness is free of the need to alter the natural flow of appearances, it is important to relax and let everything be as it is. We are at our most powerful in all daily activities through letting things be as they are. Let all our points of view flow along naturally without trying to alter their course in any way.

Natural Perfection

The indivisibility of awareness and points of view bears tremendous energy, deep insight into the nature of everything, and more. Awareness and the uniflow of points of view, like the sun and its rays, is expressed in the natural perfection and benefit of its magnificent qualities and activities that appear in everyday life.

Like the Color Blue and the Sky

Points of view are a single stream of evenness and equalness that are inseparable from awareness like the color blue is inseparable from the sky. There is complete equalness in the single flow of points of view.

The Best Well-Being

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, antidotes and remedies to experience come to a complete stop in the pure space of luminous clarity.

The Dynamic Energy of Awareness

Points of view do not need to be controlled in order to gain confidence in awareness. Negative and positive points of view are the dynamic energy of awareness and cannot be found to have an independent nature. Each moment is supported by the powerful current of awareness.

Carefree Well-Being

With an easygoing attitude, like a person who has nothing more to do, rest in whatever way is comfortable, neither tense nor loose. Rest naturally in the carefree well-being of awareness.

Powers of Natural Perfection

This is the key to release the tremendous energy and the powers of natural perfection: short moments of awareness, many times, become automatic. In instinctive recognition of awareness, point of view is simply allowed to be as it is—the dynamic energy of awareness that is free in its own place. Awareness is emphasized rather than points of view. Unchanging awareness and clarity are your vantage. It is the easy way to live.

Natural Awareness

Let the present point of view be as it is. There is no need to modify it. There is no need to correct it. Leave awareness wide-open and natural. “Natural” means as it is—pure like space. This basic space of awareness has never forsaken us for even an instant. It is our birthright.

Relaxed and Potent

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, insightfulness and skillful qualities and activities. By the power of relying on awareness, these become increasingly evident.

Power to be of Benefit

The basic space of awareness is wide-open and is the source of wisdom and the power to be of benefit to ourselves and others. We rely on the powerful current of awareness rather than points of view. The stability of awareness naturally becomes obvious at all times.

Confidence in Awareness

When short moments of awareness are repeated many times, recognition becomes automatic and uninterrupted. It is found to be stable in itself. Awareness is self-maintained amidst the flow of points of view. Then, if the recognition of awareness slips away, we simply repeat it again. Short moments, repeated many times, lead to confidence in awareness.

Natural State of Perfection

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

A Satisfying Life

Through the power of short moments, repeated many times, distraction by point of view is replaced with the ease, warmth and clarity of awareness. We begin to live a more fulfilling and satisfying life.

As It Is

Instead of focusing on the awareness in every moment, it is simply allowed to naturally be as it is. It is a matter of gaining confidence in the natural presence of awareness.

The Benefit in Short Moments

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

Relax in Daily Life

We rely on awareness and begin to relax with all the points of view of daily life. This is done by relying on short moments of awareness, repeated many times, until it becomes continuous. By the power of this simple practice we begin to recognize that awareness and points of view are inseparable, like the sky and the color blue.

Like a line drawn in water

Thoughts, emotions, sensations and all other points of view are simply appearing in awareness. Each viewpoint follows another, appearing and resolving in awareness. There is no need to try to alter their flow. Like a line drawn in water, they leave no trace.

One Simple Choice

By persisting in this one simple choice, we see benefits from the outset. The first time we make the choice to rely on awareness rather than emphasizing points of view, we sense the power of the complete relief to be found in awareness.

Inherent Clarity, Love and Happiness

We find that emphasizing points of view provides only temporary relief; it is never a permanent solution. We learn that it is possible to gain confidence in awareness and to live life based on its inherent clarity, love and happiness.

Unending Clarity

One short moment of awareness is the instinctive recognition of unending clarity. By the power of many short moments, awareness becomes continuous and then short moments are no longer necessary. ‘Short moments’ takes us all the way to instinctive clarity without thinking about it.

Unending Clarity

One short moment of awareness is the instinctive recognition of unending clarity. By the power of many short moments, awareness becomes continuous and then short moments are no longer necessary. ‘Short moments’ takes us all the way to instinctive clarity without thinking about it.

Short Moments, Many Times

Because of the habit of emphasizing points of view, the initial brief moments of awareness may not last long at first, they may almost immediately slip away. In other words, there may be no real stability. “Many times” means that we need to grow more and more confident in it by repeating the short moment. This is a key point in gaining confidence in awareness. The heart of the matter can be captured in the phrase: “short moments, many times, become automatic.”

Short Moments of Awareness

At the very moment points of view form, rely on awareness—serene and spacious. By the power of relying on awareness, its recognition becomes increasingly obvious, and points of view vanish naturally, like a line drawn in water. By repeatedly relying on short moments of awareness, many times, it becomes continuous. There is no need to alter the flow of points of view.

Complete Relief

The first time we make the choice to rely on awareness rather than emphasizing points of view, we sense the power of the complete relief to be found in awareness.

The Results of Short Moments

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 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.

Natural Ease

The natural ease of awareness is wide open in all points of view. It is absolute simplicity and spaciousness of mind. By the power of awareness, we become natural and spontaneous. We relate with warmth and directness, and reveal our true potential to be of incredible benefit to ourselves and others without any contrivance.