' A Radical Distinction '...

Pure Awareness is seen to be radically distinct from mind and perceptions. It’s like the space which hosts all experiences without any involvement in mental activities, imagination or perceptions.

Our actual consciousness, as Pure Awareness, has no personal identity, no memories, no thoughts, no material body and no connection to our world. It just “is”, like empty space just “is”.

This is why there is nothing to do in the Tibetan Dzogchen teachings, because your quality of awareness, already “is”.

Consider and observe “your” body, thoughts, personal identity, all people, world and universe as an infinitely large, self-existing, perfect hologram floating in the vast and empty space of changeless Pure Awareness, your transparent and space-like consciousness that is “aware” right now.

The reflections in a mirror are clearly not “detached” and apart from the mirror, yet the reflections never alter the crystal clarity of the unchanging mirror.


- Jackson Peterson