18 Awareness of Awareness, part 3

B. Alan Wallace, 06 Sep 2011

A discussion of substrate, substrate consciousness and pristine awareness. How klishtamanas comes out of the alayavijñana creating a sense of “I am” and subject and object. Also a discussion of the dying process.
Practice(10:53):
Awareness of awareness, oscillating between non-objectified knowing and reflecting on who is knowing (and who is knowing that person knowing)
Final comment:
Padmasambhava: awareness of awareness is a shamatha practice but you may slip into pristine awareness as well.

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