Is that not dualistic?

Apprentice  Within the non-dual state, what happens with memories of things? Do you experience them? And if so is that not dualistic?

Ngak’chang Rinpoche  That is one possibility—but whether there is memory or not is not enormously significant. If memory arose it would be display and one would simply fail to convert memory into a reference point. It is not compulsory to convert memory into a series of reference points. You see, basically . . . I would prefer to take you away from the idea that it is bad to think thoughts. There are, it is true, various teensy-weensy  problemettes which arise when we alternate between discussing ‘the practice of meditation in terms of shi-nè’ and ‘what we enact in everyday life, in which experiences pertain to the result as the path’. Thought is a problem in terms of shi-nè, but ultimately there is nothing ‘wrong’ with thought. Thought is fine—it is what we do with thought, it is how we manipulate the existence of thought that is problematic. In the practice of shi-nè we abandon concept. We let go of concept in order to experience a non-conceptual state. But if in the final analysis we conclude that concept is bad, we have an aspect of ourselves that we have to jettison.