In Zen Buddhism, the question “What was your original face before your parents were born?” or “What am I before thought?” is a famous koan:
Pure Awareness: This refers to a state of non-conceptual presence or “don’t-know mind”.
The Gap: Meditators are often taught to look for the “gap” or open space between the end of one thought and the beginning of the next, which is seen as a glimpse of the mind’s natural, liberated state.
