Co-emergent
By Michael Erlewine
The Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche said”
“We begin this meditation on co-emergent mind when our mind is free from sinking and wildness. We rest in a very relaxed way. Simply by looking at itself, thought is pacified.
“This brings forth the experience of Shamata in the context of Mahamudra. From within Shamatha, we investigate the qualities of luminosity and emptiness. If our mind appears to be luminous and vivid, we look into that. Just what is that vividness? If our mind seems to be empty, we investigate that emptiness. What is that emptiness? How is it empty?
“We do not need to put these questions to anyone else; we need to answer them from our own experience.
“Within that experience, the stability is called Shamata and the intelligence that realizes that nature of things is called Vipassana. Their names are separate but at this point, Shamata and Vipassana are not separate, rather they are different aspects of the same thing. They are united and integrated. When our experience of this settles, that is co-emergent mind.”
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Of course, since Mahamudra is non-dual, meaning of one whole, Shamata and Vipassana by definition are united and integrated, thus co-emergent or connate.
They arrive simultaneously as one.
[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
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