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When there is complete rest and no mental movement, awareness senses what cannot move and has never moved, the absolute reality from which all relative reality arises. One teacher calls this “the Dazzling Dark.” The Buddha speaks about this in the following passage: “There is a state where form ceases to exist. It is a state without ordinary perception and without disordered perception and without the lack of perception and without any annihilation of perception. It is perception, consciousness, that is the source of all the basic obstacles.” Because the Dazzling Dark is the essence of all things, it can never be known through the mind; it can be sensed, but not through the senses. If we are completely still, the body/ mind intimates something beyond itself, hints at something dark and mysterious that gives rise to everything.