In chapter 12 of his
Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission Longchen Rabjam deals with the immediate results of the decisive experience (chapter 9) in the context of having been directly introduced to timeless awareness.
Chapter 10 is about stabilization of this experience and is titled
Natural Meditative Stability.
Although chapter 12 deals with the immediate results it also cautions the reader against falling back into habits of ordinary mind:
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Originally Posted by Longchen Rabjam, A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission, Padma Publishing 2001
In brief, all phenomena that are appearances or possibilities,
as well as what is neither an appearance nor a possibility and is beyond
ordinary phenomena--
all these are already timelessly free in basic space,
so there is no need now for anyone to make an effort to free them anew.
Even though you might make an effort to do this, it would be pointless,
so don't! Don't! Do not strive or try to achieve!
Don't look! Don't look! Do not look at the concepts in your mind!
Don't meditate! Don't meditate! Do not meditate on the phenomena of your
ordinary consciousness.
Don't analyze! Don't analyze! Do not analyze sense objects and
ordinary mind!
Don't try to achieve! Don't try to achieve! Do not try to achieve results
out of hope and fear!
Don't reject! Don't reject! Do not reject afflictive emotions and karma!
Don't accept! Don't accept! Do not accept anything as true!
Don't bind! Don't bind! Do not bind your mindstream!
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So what is striking here is the caution against meditation considering the fact that chapter 10 is titled
Natural Meditative Stability and one may ask oneself "What is the difference between 'meditation' that one should avoid and 'natural meditative stability' that is the mode of stabilizing the decisive experience in the context of direct introduction?"
To stress the difference between 'meditation' and 'natural meditative stability' the latter often is called 'non-meditation' but actually from a linguistic perspective the term 'non-meditation' also covers every imaginable weird activity that is not rightly called 'meditation'. So the term 'non-meditation' is of no help here and to find out what 'natural meditative stability' is and why it is different from 'meditation' one has to consult the commentary in chapter 10.
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to be continued)