CHAPTER 3: Concentration Section 2: Cultivation of the Beautiful 22) Emptiness Now there will come a time in our meditative life when we will understand boundless consciousness as a limitation. Here we see consciousness, or ‘that which is perceiving’, as a limitation or hindrance. We abandon clinging to consciousness because, however subtle, there is still a clinging to a self. This consciousness is seen as gross in comparison to the experience of nothingness or emptiness. We abstain from the perception of boundless consciousness in order to be free of all clinging. In this way we exercise our effort and break down the barriers to higher realization. We use patient mindfulness to restrain the mind so that we give up the perception of boundless consciousness and in doing so we enter upon the experience of emptiness. Because we have abandoned the perception of boundless consciousness the wisdom of non-transgression leads to the experience which liberates us from all subject-object referencing and we come to experience the true nature of the mind as luminous emptiness. You can read more of the teachings here: wangapeka.org/treasury-of-wisdom/sonam-senge/
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