RELAXED BUT VIGILANT LUCIDITY<\/h1>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 Every time we engage in a session of practice we become more and more stable in a knowing attentiveness. \u00a0 \u00a0What is it that we know? \u00a0What do we realize? \u00a0We discover the ultimate truth of nonduality. \u00a0 Subject and object are not two; they are two different names for the same one thing and its functions: consciousness. \u00a0With each practice session the impressions of physical, emotional, and mental experience are put into a better order, an order related to the clear vision of reality, and then habitual reactivity starts becoming more and more dis-integrated; ignorance, nescience, and delusion wither away bit-by-bit, slowly, slowly, so that the mechanical arisings of the mind have less and less power. \u00a0 The mind becomes more and more free to serve as a friend than as an enemy. \u00a0 The automated and habitual mechanics of passive mentation is thus brought more and more into full view and distractive hindrances progressively fade away. The power of relaxed but vigilant lucidity is all that is required for approaching the goal-less goal of sustained and stable presence in the gap between thoughts. \u00a0 \u00a0No matter what kind of thought or image arises we should just be aware of it as what it really is and just dismiss it, just let go of it. \u00a0 Continue with diligence and persistence until attentive presence is the state of awareness at all times.<\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 Attentive presence is not an escape from anything, but a quality of awareness, of re-cognition back into a spontaneous understanding of things as-they-really-are without actually thinking in conceptual terms. \u00a0 \u00a0Attentive presence is that state of awareness, of receptivity, like a calm and placid body of water able to perfectly reflect everything \u2013 without any attachment to anything and everything. \u00a0 This is sharp and steady awareness, like a mirror. \u00a0 Attention doesn\u2019t stray and doesn\u2019t get caught up in acceptance or rejection, love and hate, or in any binding bias. \u00a0 \u00a0Attention stays vigilant but relaxed and free, not focused on anything in particular. Whatever happens is allowed to happen and there is no mental comment forthcoming because there is a relaxed alertness to arising potentialities of mind. \u00a0 So, we just relax, but remaining vigilant and on guard for attention to drift, we get more and more non-distracted and our attention gets set free. \u00a0 This is the secret of lucidity.<\/h2>\n

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