it is unnecessary to continually press the light switch in a lit room, likewise,you do not have to keep striking the bell to make the sound last. Whenrecognizing mind essence, you simply let it be. Simply leave it as it is and it willlast for a short time. This is called 'sustaining the continuity'. Nonfabricationmeans not to stray from this continuity.When recognizing, simply leave it, without tampering with or modifying it in anyway; this is called nonfabrication.Losing the continuity is the same as being distracted, which actually meansforgetting.A trained practitioner will notice that the view has been lost. The very moment ofperceiving 'I lost the view; I was carried away', recognize again, and you willimmediately see emptiness. At that point leave it as it is.Awareness is emptiness; its expression is thought. In the recognition =0 D ofmind nature, thought has no power to stand on its own. It simply vanishes. Justas our nature is emptiness, so is the nature of thought.The moment of recognizing the thinking as empty cognizance is like a snowflakemeeting water. This is certainly different from the thought process of an ordinaryperson. Thought activity in a yogi's mind is like writing on the surface of water.The thought arises, the essence is recognized, the thought dissolves.Do not focus you attention on the expression. Rather, recognize the essence,then the expression has no power to remain anywhere. At this point theexpression simply collapses or folds back into the essence.As we become more stable in recognizing the essence free from conceptualthinking, its expression as conceptual thinking becomes increasingly baseless orunfounded.In the face of directly seeing emptiness, the thought cannot remain, just as noobject can remain in mid-air. When we do not recognize emptiness, we arecontinually carried away by thoughts. This is how the mind of sentient beingsworks, day and night.Repeatedly you hear, 'Recognize mind essence, attain stability in that'. What thismeans is that we should repeatedly look into what thinks. We should recognizethe absence or emptiness of this thinker over and over again, until finally thepower of deluded thinking weakens, until it is totally gone without a trace.The very moment you look,0it is immediately seen that there is no 'thing' to see. It is seen in the moment oflooking. In the moment of seeing, it is free from thought. This is also calledprajnaparamita, transcendent knowledge, because it is beyond or on the 'otherside' of a conceptual frame of mind. The first point is deliberate mindfulness. The next moment is seeing your nature. At that time you should allow for an ongoing state of naturalness. All the different speculations should be dropped completely. In the moment of seeing, allow for a continuity free from thought. Simply rest freely in that. Because we have been carried away from this state by conceptual thinking sincebeginningless lifetimes, we will again be swept away by the strength of habit.When this happens, you must notice, 'I am distracted'. Then look into 'Who isbeing carried away'. That immediately brings about the meeting with buddhanature. At that moment, leave it as it is. Here is how the nature of mind isintroduced