Teaching #66: Transparency
The third stage of awareness, when your mind becomes transparent to ordinary reality, represents the total realization of cessation. Your sense experiences are empty of self-reference … your mind in meditation is empty of grasping, and your mind is empty of any hindrances to your investigations. You don't wish life to be other than it is. You are free.
Chapter 17, Pg 204-205
For your reflection: Transparency is best understood as a felt sense. The mind opens to it through poetry more easily than through conceptualizing. Go to page 205 of Dancing with Life and learn the “Gate, Gate” mantra, then recite it for 10 minutes each day for the next month.