While the presentations of coemergent wisdom in the tantras and the treatises are very clear, they are not joined with the quintessential instructions. Coemergent mind refers to the point of realization when shamata and vipashyana have been integrated and we realize the mind as it is⎯empty, luminous, and free from complexity. We then rest in this true essence of mind. The mind, however, has resourcefulness, or power, that does not cease. That resourcefulness dawns as various appearances. Because these appearances have not passed beyond the nature of mind, they are called coemergent appearances.

Thrangu Rinpoche

from the book Essentials of Mahamudra: Looking Directly at the Mind

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