The great bliss of non-attachment is continuous.
Sheer clarity without fixations is free of distortions.
Passing beyond intellect, non-thought is naturally present.
May these experiences continually arise without effort.
Commentary
The essence of mahamudra practice can be expressed in different ways. My teacher’s favorite instruction was “Rest in just recognizing.” Implicit in this instruction is the union of calm abiding and insight, or, to put it another way, of looking and resting, resting and looking
This way of practice continuously transforms energy. When you experience the mind moving and do not react to it, two things happen. Because you do not fall into reaction, you are not further conditioned by the movement. It forms and dissolves like a cloud in the sky, or like morning mist in the hills. Because you are resting in awareness through the movement, the energy in the movement is transformed, and that energy becomes available to power attention.
As your ability to experience movement in awareness grows, deeper and deeper patterns of movement arise and release. Energy shifts are quite common.
As Ju Mipam Jampal Dorje wrote:
As you keep doing this, waves of conditioned energy and patterns of thinking habituated from time without beginning arise with no particular rhyme or reason. Sometimes you experience unthinking thickness and sometimes, in the brilliance of insight, unthinking transparency. Sometimes bliss experiences arise with desire and sometimes without desire. Sometimes clarity experiences are accompanied by clinging and sometimes brilliant pristine clarity arises with no clinging. Sometimes unpleasant and disturbing experiences arise and sometimes pleasant and peaceful experiences arise. Sometimes meditation disintegrates because you are lost in the turmoil of out-of-control thinking, and sometimes you are troubled because you are thick and dull, with no sense of clarity. Whatever arises, set no goal and keep to your path, like a person on a long journey who sees both delightful and dangerous places along the way.
In this paragraph, he describes the three types of experiences that arise from energy surges as patterns break up and let go: bliss, clarity, and non-thought. When, however, the recognition of mind nature arises, the same three kinds of experiences arise, not from energy surges, but from energy shifts. Because the blocks are gone, energy can move freely and naturally. These shifts, then, arise as aspects of mind-nature, or awareness, or whatever term you favor. When bliss arises, there is no clinging, no stickiness to it. It clear, clean, and empty. When clarity arises, there is no tendency to fixate on this or that aspect and you experience life free from any conditioned distortions. It is open, free, and empty. When non-thought arises, there is nothing whatsoever there. You are aware, very aware, but the intellect is not engaged.