Trekcho and Togyal

These are two Tibetan words: Trekcho = cutting through concepts, and Togyal = leaping over concepts. There are many long and elaborate commentaries on these words, but we have to come to understand them through our own practice and experience.

Trekcho is arresting thoughts as they arise; it’s something we do.
Togyal … hmm … it’s described as visions, but is it?

Trekcho is exoteric – a commonplace understanding – while Togyal is esoteric – what we are. Therefore Togyal is emptiness, pure emptiness, where all appearances and thoughts (visions) can arise in the mind.

Rest in what you understand, rather than that which is mysterious and exotic (from a foreign land). Anything translated comes through another’s mind; direct experience is testing it for ourselves.

Appearances are simultaneous in empty cognisance.

Know your mind, rather than someone else’s.
You will be happier that way.

Don’t guess, know … but be willing to change.