The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. In reality, know nothing as pure or impure.
- The instruction: move through life without stamping facts as pure or impure, good or bad. Observe what IS — ‘this man is a thief,’ ‘this is a rose’ — with no evaluative overlay. The labeling happens mostly below consciousness in glances, silences, gestures; this technique is arduous (unlike the sneeze one) precisely because the habit is so deep you are not even aware you are condemning. It demands vigilance at every micro-reaction.
- Why division destroys you: every outer judgment creates a corresponding inner split. Call anger bad, and when anger rises in you a war begins between the inner saint and the inner devil — both are you. You cannot win this war; energy bleeds away indefinitely. There is no peace for a house divided against itself.
- The saint-sinner trap: saints require sinners; they are one coin. Your inner saint lives in permanent insecurity knowing the inner devil can rise at any moment. This insecurity is fear, not peace. Destroy the concept of the sinner and the saint disappears too. Only ending the division ends both.
- What happens when labeling stops: as outer silence about the world deepens it penetrates within, inner polarities merge, and you become a true individual (literally un-divided) — only then is silence natural rather than imposed against an adversary. Non-judging is not a virtue, it is transformation: a non-judging mind cannot itself be judged. Be a witness, not a judge.
- From Q&A (Q3 — direct): The apparent paradox (‘if nothing is impure, how can the teachings of others be impure?’) is resolved: tantra is NOT condemning those teachings — that would be another act of the same judging mind. The sutra is discarding the mechanism that creates purity/impurity distinctions at all. The mind filled with pure/impure concepts IS the only impurity tantra recognizes. You cannot cultivate innocence by trying for it; you can only discard the root causes of cunningness — innocence then happens.
- From Q&A (Q3): Sex as entry-point for this technique: approach sex with zero notions of pure/impure, as bare energy. Be alert throughout — at the tension, the peak, the valley. At the peak the ego dissolves and two become one. Be fully awake at that exact moment; that oneness is the real goal behind all sexual seeking — what was being searched for through every lover. With tantric alertness the outer sex act dissolves and the inner ecstasy is revealed. For tantra: sleep is impure, alertness is pure; everything else is a neutral fact.
- From Q&A (Q1 and Q2): Moral or immoral character is irrelevant to this technique. Immorality is merely a symptom of non-alertness, and so is ‘moral’ behavior run by principles. Principles replace alertness with habit — like a train on iron rails, you can sleep through the journey. A principled personality is a dead personality: secure, predictable, but not alive. Life must be like a river — no pre-charted path, alertness is the only compass. Morality will arise spontaneously as a consequence of growing alertness; it is not a prerequisite.
- From Q&A (Q1 — practical pointer): you do not first change the act, you change the quality of consciousness. Bring alertness to whatever you already do; even an act called ‘immoral,’ done meditatively, eventually dissolves by itself — because it required your sleep to continue. Alertness drops the act; you don’t.