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That's because in surfing, you're bypassing the normal discursive mind and you are so in the moment that you're experiencing awareness directly. Here is how the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche describes it: "To be precise about this distinction between [discursive] mind [Tibetan: sem] and awareness [Tibetan: rigpa], mindfulness can be of two types. There is a kind of conceptual or intentional heavy-handed mindfulness that is a function of mind, and then there is a kind of subtle mindfulness that is characteristic of awareness. The distinction is that the mindfulness that you are using ... is incapable of recognizing the mind’s nature and tends to objectify. In other words, the faculty you are employing ... objectifies what it experiences [subject-object duality]. When it seems to be experiencing something other than itself and has, therefore, that sediment of conceptualization, that is [discursive] mind. When the faculty you are experiencing ... has no object other than itself, experiences its own nature as luminosity, and has the characteristic of light, brilliant clarity, like a lamp flame, like a bright light, then that is awareness [rigpa]. The key point is that it has no object. Mind always has an object. Awareness does not have an object. The experience of awareness is like being frightened or being terrified. It is that kind of intense nonconceptual experience. When you have recognized this, when awareness arises in your experience and you recognize awareness as awareness, then you will have certainty about what all of this means. This is very different from a theoretical presentation. This is practical advice."
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