Yes but not only that. If in that gap between two thoughts you
are not aware, then you will simply fall asleep or enter an
unconscious state.
However if in that gap between two thoughts, you remain aware
and turn the light around, you will realise Pure Awareness, your
buddha-nature.
As Dzogchen
teacher Tenzin Wangyal (1997, 29) points out:
The gap between
two thoughts is essence. But if in that gap there is a lack of
presence, it becomes ignorance and we experience only a lack of
awareness, almost an unconsciousness. If there is presence in the
gap, then we experience the dharmakaya [the
ultimate].
And 19th Century Dzogchen Master Shambkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol
writes:
Although these two states are similar,
Insofar as neither is intentional meditation,
Nonmeditation samadhi that is like a continuous stream
Is just remaining in a vivid clarity
That is like a bright, cloudless sky -
Limitless, pervasive, transparent.
The other is merely a dull state of mind
That is nothing in particular:
A constricted, fragmentary, biased state
Lacking lucid clarity,
A vague and hazy stupefaction.
just for discussion sake, in between the gap of two thoughts, if
it is really the gap, there can't be no awareness since awareness
is always present, at that point, one will not be distinguishing
whether it is a gap or not, awareness or not... anyone can
comment?
the dull state of mind as stated by Tsogdruk is actually still
not yet thought-free, there is a subtle undercurrent of
thought...please let me know if my conjectures
are wrong.