Daily Dharma: Luminosity and Knowing

Today's Daily Dharma from Tricycle:

Luminosity and Knowing

With persistent practice, consciousness may eventually be perceived or felt as an entity of mere luminosity and knowing, to which anything is capable of appearing and which, when appropriate conditions arise, can be generated in the image of whatsoever object. As long as the mind does not encounter the external circumstance of conceptuality, it will abide empty without anything appearing in it, like clear water. Its very entity is that of mere experience. Let the mind flow of its own accord without conceptual overlay. Let the mind rest in its natural state, and observe it. In the beginning, when you are not used to this practice, it is quite difficult, but in time the mind appears like clear water.

~ The Dalai Lama, in The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness, edited by Sidney Piburn; From Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book

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