The Method for Liberating all Suffering and Afflictive States...

It's not that afflictive emotions are an impossibility to experience in the state of Awareness but rather they release upon the arising, like air bubbles that arise from deep under water and pop upon reaching the surface. Likewise many mental energy traces can arise from the subconscious depths of mind but "pop" or release when entering surface consciousness. This occurs because there is no longer a central "I" thought that would congeal and reify the arisings. The "I" thought has lost it's center place in consciousness and has been replaced by naked presence of Awareness, which relegates the "I" thought to the periphery position of being just another bubble-like thought arising amongst the all others. The shift from the centrality of the "I" thought in consciousness to Awareness being recognized as our center, is the result of the "direct introduction to Awareness" or "pointing out" being perfectly executed. Of course this could occur in one's own investigations, but is difficult because the "I" is itself the blind spot in consciousness that maintains the experience of I-ness or ego. When the "I" moves to the periphery of mental experience, who is left to be afflicted? The arisings of karmic mental energies continue to arise and release until fully exhausted. That's the final or fourth level in Dzogchen called " the exhaustion of all phenomena". At that point the physical body dissolves and disappears, revealing the Body of Light, as it's karmic causes for appearing are released or "exhausted". The method is to simply, nakedly observe the arisings without judgment, including the sense of there being an "observer", without engagement in the mental arisings. Notice how all the arisings eventually release upon their appearance in consciousness. All the arisings are themselves impermanent flashes of consciousness appearing as thoughts,emotions, feelings, identities, and perceptions that then dissolve back into consciousness. When not so intimately observed, the flashes coalesce into "stories". The rapidity and intensity of the flashes of mental events determine the degree of trance-like absorption into the stories. It is the "me" thought that gets energized and absorbed into the stories as a role play of subjectivity, not Awareness. So observe this sense of "me" with naked awareness, and it will release. Regardless of the intensity of the appearances, just nakedly observe. Non-dual Awareness or Being will naturally and organically be revealed to be the true center and nature of your consciousness as this naked, non-judgmental "observingness" practice matures. ...... by Jackson Peterson on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 6:02am