blablebudindepapayalkchofasvalorosobloblueblurDogzen practices all have a single focus: to continually deepenawareness of awareness. The consciousness that evolves from thisbecomes a touchstone or base from which you experience yourdaily life. "From being in touch with the base, you can begin toperceive the events and meanings of daily life from pure, nakedawareness".We are aware when we are awake, aware when we aredaydreaming, and also aware when we are asleep and dreaming.When we are awake, we are aware of the information from oursenses. We are also aware internally of our thoughts and feelings.When we are daydreaming, we are aware of pictures in our minds(and aren't very aware of the world around us). When we areasleep, we are often aware of dreams, as if we are in a differentworld.The common denominator of all your experience is awareness. Itis that basic faculty that illuminates sensory information and innerstates.A PracticeConsider the question, How do you know you are aware? Seeif you can dig into that. It is not so important that you get ananswer, but that you observe the process of becoming moreaware of your awareness.Sit in meditation and see what comes up for you as you inquireinto this question: What happens at the instant that I becomeaware that I am aware?Practice being aware of your awareness and see for yourself thenature ofWith Dogzen, awareness is not defined by what you are aware of.That is to say, no matter what you are aware of, awareness itself isthe same. The ability is the same, but the content may be different.This is an important distinction. We are still aware when we aren'tin a special state. Dogzen points out that awareness is the thingthat supports all experiencesA PracticeGo where you go to meditate. Put your attention on something,like a small physical object. Keep your attention steadily on theobject for a minute or two, then detach your attention from theobject and see if you can put it on the awareness itself.Dont analyze the object, or try to notice its attributes. Go forbeing directly aware of awareness itself.Awareness that is just aware of itself is "pure awareness" since itisn't about anything or of anything. It is empty of content. At theinstant awareness is aware only of itself, there is no awareness ofthe world, or of mental thoughts or pictures, or anything else.It is clear. It is luminous.It is free. It is filled with presence and a primordial knowing.It is "space-like." It is the space in which experiences occur.Sometimes the Bnpo (practitioners of Bn Dzogchen) go up on ahillside or out in the open to stare into the clear blue sky. This is ameditation that gives them an impression of the nature of mindclear and empty space. Sometimes awareness is called "the field ofawareness" to emphasize its space-like nature.It is "luminous." Awareness is a space with inner light. This is thesame light that illuminates the objects in your dreams. When youare asleep, your body is lying there in the dark with its eyesclosed, but you see a lit-up stage on which your dream unfolds. Itcan be fully convincing light, even though you are in a pitch-blackroom. After some reflection, you can realize that you only seeinner light, whether in the waking state or asleep. The"luminousness" of physical light (from the sun, lamps, and soforth) is created only within the field of awareness, though fewpeople realize this. Any light you see right now is inner light. Thelight "out there" doesnt shine except by virtue of your awareness.A PracticeVisualize something in your mind, a simple object like a chairor a cup. When you can see it in your minds eye, study thelight that illuminates the object. Realize that this is the light thatis created within your own mind, within the field of awareness.This is the inner light were talking about.Spend some time doing this meditation until you realize that allbrightness or luminosity, inner and outer, occurs by virtue ofyour own awarenessAnother attribute of awareness is "knowing presence." You couldthink of "knowing" and "presence" as separate attributes, but,actually, they are always together, like two sides of the same coin.This knowing isn't intellectual knowing. It's not about knowingthe names of the state capitals or the amount of wheat grown inKansas. It is direct knowing. Its the basic knowing that you havewhen you are having any experience within the subjective field.You just know it when you are aware of something.A PracticeJust gaze at an object for a while and see if you can sense yourknowing that object. You might not know anything about it,but you know it. Dont mentally take it apart, analyze it, orcompare it to anything, and dont engage in having anyparticular thought, idea, or story about it. Just cleanly know it.Notice that you are present with the object. You are right thereknowing it. Sense your own presence. Some people characterizethis as being in union with the object.Presence is usually associated with an individual (for example, "Iam present!"), but this is not always the case. Awareness can bepresent without the mind forming a separated individuality,though this is pretty rare for most of us. The mind normallyformulates a sense of self, the ego, and associates it withexperiences, thinking, feeling, the body, relationships, and soforth.hd of dharmakaya hasta pag 61Awareness:It is always without a trace, inpast, present or future. But even though the natural statedoes not appear it is always there. This awareness is of a sortthat you can never catch by thought, and you cannot nameit or show it by letters. If you try to show it by sounds orsigns you never go exactly to the nature of this awareness.Whatever you do to study or check in this way, you will belike a dumb man who tastes sugarhe can taste but hecannot explain to others how the flavour tastes. In the sameway this nature cannot be thought and cannot be capturedby words. When you understand this then you realise thenatural state without speaking or thought.The Natural State Does Not Exist Because It Is Not Material,the seventh method: The natural state does not existeither, because there is no method to remove it. It cannotboth exist and not exist; neither is the natural state beyondexistence and non-existence. There is no place for it torest; therefore the nature of mind is completely beyond limits.When you directly show the great bliss to the unificationyou realise the naked nature of emptiness and awarenesswithout being born, stopping or resting in anyplaceif you grasp (comprendes)after the emptiness, itis not right, if you grasp after awareness that is not rightand even if you grasp after unification it is not right. Thereal Dzogchen nature is unification, but unification is astate of being, not an object of knowledgeboskeduplicadocargarpuntaje