IMMACULATE INTROVERSION<\/h1>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In the present moment consciousness is in its natural state without any conceptual constructions or conditionings. \u00a0 We can be totally present in the moment, in the immediacy of the now, not obscured by thoughts of the past or of the future \u2013 or even by thoughts occurring in the present moment. \u00a0 \u00a0This condition of the silent mind, nirvikalpa, is not within the linear measurements of conceptual time, but is beyond time because presence of awareness is beyond the mind, the linear succession of thoughts that create conceptual notions of time. Pure consciousness cannot be contained, confined, or limited within conceptual constructs, so its inherent clarity remains completely uncontracted and without conditioned fabrications of thought. When a thought arises, we just don\u2019t cling to it and let it go on its way; attention is released from it and that is what stops the chain of further automated conceptualization. \u00a0 \u00a0It is like a cloud slowly disappearing out of the sky. \u00a0 Our pure consciousness is like the sky with no clouds in it, but when a cloud (thought) starts to form, no attention is given to it and it dissolves away again because its life depends on the amount of attention given to it. \u00a0 \u00a0Thoughts are like breezes and moving clouds, nothing tangible at all, just insubstantial appearances like the appearances reflected on the surface of a mirror. \u00a0 \u00a0 They simply arise and appear and are nothing more than what they really are. The background of thought structures is our pure consciousness, the gap we notice between two thoughts, the space between the trains of the mechanical hubbub of thought where there is a restful silence, the space of luminous clarity. \u00a0 Although this background of pure consciousness exists in everyone everywhere, it remains unrecognized. \u00a0 When awareness recognizes itself as the object of contemplation, it is realized that this is the only object which is not really an object, since it is purely subjective. In actuality, pure subject recognizes itself, but never as an object per se. \u00a0 This is the immaculate introversion of attention and the supreme samadhi.<\/h2>\n

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