In the yoga of enchanting illosion, the play of rigpa,
empty experience arises as evanescent, uncrystalizing display,
and convinced of absence in the moment of its inception,
without the least urge to control, to cultivate or reject,
we remain open, at ease, carefree, and detached.
~ Longchenpa
“Like and dislike are the mind’s disease,
Certain to drown you in samsara’s sea.
Know that there is nothing here at all,
And then, my child, everything is gold.
Experience arises like magic.
If you practice like magic
You will awaken like magic
Through the power of faith.
Don’t think about your teacher or your practice.
Don’t think about what is real or not real.
Don’t think about anything at all.
Don’t control what you experience.
Just rest in how things are.”
~ Niguma
The appropriating consciousness, profound and subtle,
Like a violent current, flows with all the seeds;
I have not taught it to the ignorant,
Lest they should imagine it as a self.24
(Saddhinirmocana Sjtra, V. 7)
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Dogen wrote:
In ancient times Old One Sakyamuni under the
bodhi tree, on seeing the bright star, at once realized the truth. The
principle here is the principle that not a single thing is fetched.
Previously the Buddha had experienced the bright star, but from this
time on the bright star was experiencing the Buddha. What is the basis
[for saying that] he was experienced by the bright star and that he
experienced the bright star? Namely, “Practice and experience is not
nonexistent [but] it cannot be tainted.”
Himitsu-shobogenzo, Butsu-kojo-no-ji, Gudo Nishijima and Mike Cross
In order to illuminate and study that boat, we need to know what the
Buddha-Dharma is. “The Buddha-Dharma,” namely, is the myriad dharmas,
the hundred weeds, all real dharmas, the triple world. No buddha has
failed to perfectly realize this, and so there is nothing that is not
perfectly realized as this by
buddhas. That being so, when we inquire
into life, there is none beyond real dharmas, and when we look for
death, it is never separate from the myriad dharmas.
Himitsu-shobogenzo, Butsu-kojo-no-ji, Gudo Nishijima and Mike Cross
There are four kinds of people who study. The highest are those with
practice, with understanding, and with realization. Next are those with
understanding, and with realization but without practice. Next are
those with practice and understanding but without realization. Lowest
are those with practice, but without understanding or realization.
Zen Dawn, J.C. Cleary
"The wonder of it! This marvelous, astounding event/reality (Dharma):
From that which involves no origination, everything originates;
and in that very origination, there is no origination!
The wonder of it!
In it's very enduring, there is no enduring!
The wonder of it!
In it's very cessation, there is no cessation!"
- Guhyagarbha Tantra
I believe that all problems are Illusions of the mind. So to spare from strife. I always carry my kechara protection chakras with me.
The experience comes when the 'self' subsides and awareness is experienced as a vibrantly luminous bright clarity. The radiance of pure awareness creates a powerful sense of Presence that is experienced in the form of aliveness and clarity in all parts of the body. If you were to visualize it, it is like a very power inner light radiating out from nowhere to everywhere making everything that comes into contact alive.
It is clear that the basic is sufficient. Only right experience and insight are necessary. ~ Thusness (2007)
The key is in "Empty" so that there is complete non abiding and staying and "luminosity" so that there is aliveness and clarity without falling into nihilism. ~ Thusness (2008)
[At Saavatthii the Blessed One said:] "Monks, there are these five groups of clinging. What five? The body-group of clinging, the feeling-group, the perception-group, the mental-formation-group, the consciousness-group of clinging.
"And when, monks, the Ariyan disciple understands as they really are the arising and the passing away, the attractiveness and the danger, and the deliverance from the five groups of clinging, he is called an Ariyan disciple who is a Stream-winner, not liable to states of woe,[1] assured of final enlightenment."
Allow the muddy waters of mental activity to clear;
Refrain from both positive and negative projection -
leave appearances alone:
The phenomenal world, without addition or subtraction, is Mahamudra/liberation.
-Tilopa
Scott Kiloby: If you see that awareness is none other than everything, and that none of those things are separate "things"
at all, why even use the word awareness anymore? All you are left with is the world, your life, the diversity of experience itself.
Ted Biringer:
Dogen’s emphasis on the phenomenal nature of dharmas serves to underscore their real, spatial-temporal, manifest existence. According to Dogen the true nature (essential reality, emptiness) of each and all particular dharmas is “as it is” (thusness). The significance of this becomes clearer as our study and practice increasingly expands our realization of the Buddhist principles of nonduality.
Let us try to bring all this together by considering Dogen’s treatment of a saying by Daie Soko (Dogen’s archetypal symbol for unreliable Zen masters):
A certain monk called Meditation Master Daie S�k�, once said:
Folks today are fond of talking about mind and talking about nature, and because they are fond of talking about profundities and talking about wonders, they are slow to realize the Way. Since mind and nature form a duality, once these folks have discarded this duality, and have forgotten all about the profound and the wondrous as well, then dualities will no longer arise, and they will experience the Truth that the Buddha promised them.
Shobogenzo, Sesshin Sessh�, Hubert Nearman