"Turning the light around (eko) is not turning around the light of one body, but turning around the very energy of creation. It is not stopping random imagination only temporarily; it is truly emptying routine compulsion for all time. The light is neither inside or outside the self. Mountains, rivers sun, moon and the whole earth are all this light, so it is not only in the self. All the operations of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom are also this light, so it is not outside the self, The light of heaven and earth fills the universe; the light of one individual also naturally extends through the heavens and covers the earth. Therefore, once you turn the light around, everything in the world is turned around. is The turning around is "stopping" (shamatha); the light is seeing" (vipashyana). Stopping without seeing is called turning around without light. Seeing without stopping is called having light without turning it around. Remember this. If you can look back again and again into the source of mind, whatever you doing, not sticking to any image of of person or self are at all, then this is turning the light around wherever you are. This is the finest practice. 

Tilopa, 988-1069 (Pith Instructions to Naropa on Mahamudra)"


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