The human mind is the eye of a needle through which the universe is forced to experience itself. All of sensory experience lies both upstream and downstream of this point in space——this delicate construction. The normal, waking mind tries to filter all things through its feeble frame. All things of course do not fit through——almost all things, in fact, go unobserved. And so it accounts for the leftovers by way of fabrication. It fabricates an illusory world, it takes the fleeting rivulet of sensory stimulation that passes through it, and uses concepts as a bridge to all the other things beyond. It honestly believes that as but a needle’s eye, dipped into the stream of life, it is able to speak for the stream as a whole. What we call intelligent minds are those who form the most convincing concepts to account for the rest of the raging flow. The mind of the experienced meditator, however, pulls the needle out of the stream of life. Upstream and downstream of this point converge, and the mind ceases to force anything through itself. The feeble frame dissolves: the mind and the stream of life become synonymous. This is the unfabricated world. This is the “ground” of all things that the Tibetans speak of. Knowledge of the ground is known as “Rigpa” in Tibetan. To be in a state of Rigpa is to be in a state where the universe simply flows non-conceptualized. The self too dissolves, for the separate identification of individuality is but a concept. When the self dissolves, the body of course remains. The body rests there, breathing slowly, while the world goes about its course. This, and nothing else, is nature.