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Then, as for the instruction for exhausting the six extremes and overthrowing them:
Even though there exist a great many different views that do not agree among themselves,
This "mind" which is your own intrinsic awareness is in fact self-originated primal awareness.
And with regard to this, the observer and the process of observing are not two different things.
When you look and observe, seeking the one who is looking and observing,
since you search for this observer and do not find him,
At that time your view is exhausted and overthrown.
Thus, even though it is the end of your view, this is the beginning with respect to yourself.
The view and the one who is viewing are not found to exist anywhere.
Without it¡¯s falling excessively into emptiness and non-existence even at the beginning,
At this very moment your own present awareness becomes lucidly clear.
Just this is the view (or the way of seeing) of the Great Perfection.
Therefore understanding and not understanding are not two different things.
19.
Although there exist a great many different meditations that do not agree among themselves,
your own ordinary present awareness is directly penetrating.
The process of meditation and the one who meditates are not two different things.
When you look for the meditator who is meditating or not meditating,
since you have searched for this meditator and have not found him anywhere,
at that time your meditation is exhausted and overthrown.
Thus, even though it is the end of your meditation, this is the beginning with respect to yourself.
The meditation and the meditator are not found to exist anywhere.
Without it¡¯s falling under the power of delusion, drowsiness, or agitation,
your immediate un-fabricated awareness becomes lucidly clear;
and this unmodified state of even contemplation is concentration.
Therefore remaining in a calm state or not remaining in it are not two different things.
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Although there exist a great many different kinds of behavior, which do not agree among themselves,
your own self-originated primal awareness is the Unique Sphere.
Behavior and the one who behaves are not two (different things).
When you look for the one it is who behaves with action or without action,
Since you have searched for the one who acts and have not found him anywhere,
At that time your behavior is exhausted and overthrown.
Thus, even though it is the end of your conduct and behavior, this is the beginning with respect to yourself.
From the very beginning neither behavior nor the one who behaves have existed (as separate realities).
Without its falling under the power of errors and inherited predispositions,
your immediate awareness is an un-fabricated inherent clarity.
Without accepting or rejecting anything, just letting things be as they are without trying to modify them,
such conduct or behavior alone is pure.
(Therefore) pure and impure action are not two (different things).
21.
Although there exist great many different fruits that do not agree among themselves,
the nature of the mind that is inherent awareness is (none other than) the spontaneously perfected Trikaya.
What is realized and the one who realizes it are not two (different things).
When you look for the fruit and for the one who has realized it,
since you have searched for the realizer (of the fruit) and have not found him anywhere,
at that time your fruit is exhausted and overthrown.
Thus, even though it is an end to your fruition, still this is the beginning with respect to yourself.
Both the fruition and the one who has attained the realization are found to not exist anywhere.
Without its falling under the power of attachments or aversions or of hopes and fears,
your immediate present awareness becomes spontaneously perfected inherent clarity.
Understand that within yourself the Trikaya is fully manifest.
(Therefore) this itself is the fruition of primordial Buddhahood.
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