“Since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer, only a naked manifest awareness is present.”

“It always was and always will be. It is unchanging, whereas mind and consciousness are changing and evolving all the time. They exist in time and are conditioned, but the Natural State is like space; it does not change.

Discursive thoughts pass through it like birds passing across the sky leaving no trace behind. Whether these thoughts are good or bad, beautiful or ugly, they do not change the Nature of the Mind and, when they dissolve, they leave no trace behind.”

~ Karma Lingpa

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Karma Lingpa (1326–1386) was the tertön (revealer) of the Bardo Thodol, the so-called "Tibetan Book of the Dead". Tradition holds that he was a reincarnation of Chokro Lü Gyeltsen, a disciple of Padmasambhava