num_pages: 160
description: A Tibetan Buddhist teacher offers guidance on maintaining a state of awarenessdemonstrating how enlightenment can be found at any time in our everyday lives The paradox of awareness is very profound and yet very simple. It can't be described because it has no objective qualities and no limitation. Sometimes it comes naturally to the surface when we are fully in the present moment and no longer lost in thought or mental projections. Pure consciousness is neither high nor low neither pleasant nor unpleasant neither good nor bad. No matter where we are no matter what we are doing we always have an immediate access to that inner stillness. It can be experienced in an instant in all circumstances once we know how to pay attention to it. It is utterly peaceful and it is also insightful so it sees through all illusions. Whenever there is a moment of being deluded we can use that moment to practice settling in the very perfect sphere of the Buddha mind without trying to change anything. When we reside in that liberated mind we find the very thing we have been seeking all along.
language: English
title: The Magic of Awareness
publisher: Shambhala