Stripping off images, conceptual perceptions and all arbitrary
thoughts, leaving bare, naked awareness, we taste what's primordial
- the shapes, colours, forms, sounds, details of an instantaneous
arising in its original purity as total presence and intimacy in
its primordial suchness. Right from the beginning, never has there
been a separation as consciousness has always been just and only
the stream of manifestation. A moment of solidifying an arising in
terms of 'I' and 'it' and we have strayed from its primordial
state, from its true suchness.
Right from the beginning, suchness as each unique manifestation
has always been the same taste of empty-presence shining in intense
vividness, aliveness. Before birth, this birth and a million years
later, still the same taste of vivid empty-cognizance - completely
alive and undeniably vivid such that it cannot be said "It is Not",
yet empty so one cannot pin it down as "It is This", as it is not
some truly existing and unchanging entity but is only the
transient, flickering breath, sights, sounds, with absolutely no
continuity of a substantial ground or substratum - the groundless
ground is the primordial suchness of the entire display, completely
disjoint and manifesting according to each unique condition.