Establishing an
Understanding of Reality
BEING
AND NON-BEING, appearance and emptiness, the moving and the abiding,
the substantial and insubstantial embracing the whole of time
and space, never departs from the sky-like original nature.
In referring to Ultimate Reality as the sky-like original nature,
understand that to be sky-like is to have no intrinsic nature at
all. It is completely beyond objectification and beyond all
concepts such as "is" or "is not;" both "is" or "is not" or
something other that "is" or "is not." Between "sky," "mind" and
"Ultimate Reality" no distinction should be made. All these
terms should be taken as mere designations and concepts.
Everything is one's own mind. Not so much as an atom exists
outside of mind. Whoever realizes that from the very beginning
there has been nothing other than mind, has acquired the
realization of all the Buddhas of the three times.
What is shown as the Source of Phenomena is not a worldly
phenomena itself—rather, from the very beginning it is the
original Innate. That original nature cannot be pointed out. It
is inexpressible and it cannot be comprehended in a dualistic
manner
If there is an "owner" then there is something that can be
"owned." But if from the beginning there never has been a
"self," then what owned can there be? If mind has something
objective that one could own, then it would be an actual
objective thing. But since mind is not an objective thing, who
is it that can claim ownership of it?
Mind and mental-content are not external objects of perception,
nor can one suppose there to be a person [separate from mind]
who is capable of "seeing" or "owning" mind.
Non-existent throughout the three times, neither arising nor
ceasing to be, the natural state of Great Bliss never undergoes
any changes, ever. Thus know that the whole of Appearance is the
Dharmakaya/Absolute Being. All sentient beings are the Buddha.
All cosmic arisings and events are from the beginning not other
than the Absolute Source. For this reason, everything that one
can identify conceptually is as unreal as horns on a rabbit!
~
Writing: from the
Mahamudra Dohakosa of
Saraha -8th Century Yogi
Art by:
Denise Brand
Egoic
Interactions and Confrontations
Q: What effect does realizing one's true nature have on
one’s relationships? Isn’t it difficult to relate to someone who
is caught up in the ego when you are free of that?
A: It’s much more difficult for two egos to relate. The
egoic experience is one of insecurity, lack, and fear. Believing
yourself to be an individual ego, your relationships are
fundamentally insecure, lacking and fearful. Knowing yourself as
pure awareness and not a separate ego, your relationship with
everyone and everything changes.
Q: But isn’t it frustrating to interact with others who
are completely caught up in their ego? Don’t you feel like
you’re being pulled into egoic interactions and confrontations?
A: This realization reveals the fact that everything is
happening, and that there is no one who is doing anything. Even
the ego, which is the personal sense of doer-ship, is just
happening. Does the ego create the ego? Seeing that there is no
one in control here in me, it is also seen that there is no one
in control in the other. Who is confronting whom? All
interactions and confrontations are the Source interacting with
and confronting itself. Along with this is a sense of acceptance
of whatever is happening. There is no one here accepting things,
but there is a sense of acceptance. Confrontational interactions
arise and fall: awareness remains pure, peaceful, and
unaffected.
