We need to practise

 Practice is re-minding. Once we remember, we no longer have to practise! We have arrived.

 We spend most of our time either occupied, or in a state of vacancy. We get caught up in the sense consciousnesses or mental consciousness of fabricated thoughts.

 At the time of death, these faculties are of no use. Because we have no body to relate to, we lose these faculties and panic, falling into unconsciousness, just as we do when we fall asleep and forget. When we awaken, we find ourselves reincarnated into a new body (not necessarily human!) and a supply of karmic debt, created by our previous life of unconscious tendencies driven by desires, aversions and ignorance. This is our vicious cycle of existence…after existence…

 When, as ordinary human beings, we say the word “We”, we are referring to the persona we have acquired. This persona is actually pure awareness distracted.

 Even though we may think,
“I have no need for practice”,
we are in fact practising something…
…our beliefs.

 We need constant reminders. We need to catch thoughts before they take hold and create an emotion to which we react. That is practice. We have to practise being free, until we are free. Once we have the clear view – the clarity of empty essence – meditation is merely the continuity. Conduct is mingling this with daily life = View, Meditation and Conduct.

 Gradually the period of recognition expands – or rather, the confusion contracts! Spending our life in this practice, enlightenment is possible.

 Knowing is wisdom
Not knowing is ignorance.
Knowing is our ultimate nature.
Not knowing is our temporary relative nature.
When knowing is present, not knowing dissolves.

Our ultimate nature knows, and therefore has no need to practise.
But, at this moment, this ultimate nature is forgotten in clouds of unknowing.