“Pure Consciousness”
“‘Mahamudra,” Gyatso replied, ‘is the realization of the natural state as awareness-emptiness, absolutely clear and transparent, without root. It is unified and beyond the mind, is clear yet thoughtless, pervasive, and vast like space. Its aspect of great compassion is apparent, yet devoid of any nature. Manifesting clearly like the moon in water, it is beyond all terms, boundaries, or center. Polluted by nothing, it is stainless and beyond hope and fear. It cannot be described, like the dream of a mute.’”