' The Open Secret '...

Namkhai Norbu has described this Natural Awareness as the "open secret:"

This is the open secret, which all can discover
for themselves.

We live our lives, as it were
"inside out," projecting the existence of an "I"
as separate from an external world which we try
to manipulate to gain satisfaction.

But as long
as one remains in the dualistic state, one's
experience has always underlying it a sense of
loss, of fear, of anxiety, and dissatisfaction.

When, on the other hand, one goes beyond the
dualistic level, anything is possible.



- Namkai Norbu, p. 68: The Crystal and the Way of Light