Lady Tsogyal asked the Lotus-Born master: What is the dividing line between shamatha and vipashyana?
The master replied: Shamatha is when thought activity totally subsides and your attention remains unmoving; vipashyana is when you vividly see the nature of dharmata all at once. When applying this experientially in your stream-ofbeing, after you have settled into dharmata’s nature of equality, you vividly experience emptiness, the nature of things, in whatever you see and whatever you think—this is called the vital point of realizing nondual shamatha and vipashyana. Tsogyal, this advice of utmost importance I give to you.
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Treasures from Juniper Ridge: The Profound Instructions of Padmasambhava to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
Book by Padmasambhava
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