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 (dharmata) 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.
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Writing: from the Mahamudra Dohakosa of Saraha -8th Century Yogi
Art by Elizabeth Fraser
One to One
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.
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Writing from: The Outrageous Myths of Enlightenment -Stephen Wingate
Art by Diane Whitehead
Beautiful Words
I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
MyselfA Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With meThat I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.Love has Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed MeOf every concept and image
my mind has ever known.—Hafiz
Sights & Sounds
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Self Knowledge
2:40 min
Funny One
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