Direct your mind inward and allow it to
contemplate its primary quality, which is simply knowing, being aware. This
faculty of awareness-which is mindfulness in its pure state-illuminates all
thoughts and all perceptions. It is a constant and fundamental quality of the
flow of consciousness. You can experience it even in the absence of thoughts
and mental images. Try to identify this primordial aspect of all experience,
and then let your mind rest a few moments in this nondual awareness that is
clear, lucid, and devoid of concepts and discursive thoughts.
Matthieu Ricard
