If you can teach yourself to sit in a lotus position absolutely still, without any interruption for 45min – 1 hour, you reach a state of being that allows you to exist only in your mind.
The next step is stopping your internal dialogue.. If you can teach yourself to stop your stream of thoughts and your inner dialogue, you reach a state of pure bliss, clarity and higher states of consciousness which opens the door to expanded perception this entire existence.
Mastering absolute stillness in the lotus position forces the body into a state of complete surrender, where physical discomfort and distractions dissolve, leaving only the mind’s domain. This is the foundation of deep meditative absorption.
Stopping the stream of thoughts and inner dialogue is the next level – pure awareness beyond concepts, where consciousness exists without identification (Samadhi).
In Dzogchen, this aligns with rigpa, the direct, unfiltered knowing beyond the habitual mind.
The two together – absolute stillness and cessation of thought – can lead to the dissolution of the egoic self, where what remains is pure presence, untethered from body and mind. That’s where true liberation begins.