Nonconceptuality

[Karma Dondrup Tashi]

This is to supplement the thread going on in the Dzogchen forum.

During stillness, nonconceptuality is prolonged. If you prolong nonconceptuality as the essence [of mind], you do not understand the key point of the dharma.

Core of Mahāmudrā: The Instructions on the Ultimate Essence (mDo sngags kyi sgom don bsdus pa). Collected Works of Gampopa, text 23/’a, 8a. Moonbeams, p. 291.

Some regard blocking every thought as it arises and resting with the mind wrapped up in nonconceptuality as a positive thing. That cannot serve as the path. It will cripple wisdom.

Uncommon Amṛta of Speech. Collected Works of Gampopa, text 19/dza, 7b. Moonbeams, p. 291.

[Konchog Thogme Jampa]

There's the teaching in Dzogchen that thoughts 'are like a thief in an empty house no benefit or harm'

Which is from the Three Modes of Liberation

http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?titl ... beration

Then in Mahamudra there is the Six Words of Advice