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"rDzogs chen, teaches a primordial substratum (gdod ma'i gzhi) which
while beyond all conceptuality is commonly referred to using terms which have a primary mentalistic significance.
e.g., this substratum is spoken of as 'mind-as-such' or 'the very nature of mind'.
Another important term is rang gi rig pa, 'awareness of itself or 'reflexive awareness', sometimes referred to as 'a mere gnosis which is reflexive awareness'".
A teacher is a learn sharer. A mother is born with the child. 🩷
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"This reflexivity of the primordial substratum is one of its most important characteristics,
indicated in the use of such metaphors as 'luminosity' or 'clear light', and the use sometimes of the mirror-image in understanding that which is held to be beyond all conceptuality.
Common to many of these metaphorical images is the idea of something which renders itself known in the very act of referring beyond itself to others.
a lamp lights a room and also itself.