No Birth, No Base and Union - A Vajra Song of Milarepa

• An Eternal Now

  3 Oct 12, 14:55

  No Birth, No Base and Union - A Vajra Song of Milarepa

  
  

  This article appeared in Bodhi 5-2

  The true nature of appearances is that they've never been born
  If birth seems to happen, it's just clinging, nothing more
  The spinning wheel of existence has neither a base nor a root
  If there is a base or root, that's only a thought

  The true nature of the mind is union, inseparability
  If you separate its aspects, you're hooked on some view
  The sign of the true lamas is that they hold a lineage
  The ones who make stuff up are just being dumb

  The mind's basic reality is like the clear and open sky
  But the dark clouds of thoughts just cover it all up
  So let the lama's pith advice
  Be the wind that blows those clouds away

  Even confused thoughts themselves are clear light that shines so brilliantly
  Experiences so bright like sun and moonlight
  Without any direction, clarity shines timelessly
  You cannot find it, so you can't say what it is

  So many kinds of certainty shine like the stars in the sky
  Whatever arises is the greatest bliss
  Its nature is simplicity, the dharmakaya expanse
  The six dependent appearances are empty naturally

  This natural flow is effortless, there's not a klesha in sight
  Within this basic state, completely relaxed
  Wisdom without fixation abides continuously
  The three kayas inseparable - the greatest miracle!

• An Eternal Now

  3 Oct 12, 19:46

  Just a sharing... of something Thusness wrote some time ago.

   

  An insightful post by Jax.
  
  Therefore the so called "Clear Aware Space" is no more special than this moment of arising sound or passing scent. The failure to recognize that all apparent arising and passing transience is non other than the Dharmakaya is the problem of all problems.
  
  When a pith instruction like “Relax and fully open to whatever is” is taught to a mind that is still under strong influence of dualistic tendencies, it is easy for such a mind to read and practice in the form of clinging to the “Aware Space” and shunting away from the transience, thereby setting itself infinitely apart unknowingly.
  
  If however there is maturity of insight that whatever arises share the same taste -- luminous yet empty (via twofold emptiness), then practice is naturally and simply unreserved opening to whatever is, it cannot be otherwise. There can be no movement, duality and preference from this to that for there is no ‘this’ that is more ‘this’ than that.
  
  With clear recognition and unperturbed practice of complete unreserved opening to whatever is, all transience will reveal to posses the same taste of non-dual samadhi and self-liberation that we once thought to be the monopoly of the so called “Clear Aware Space”.
  
  It is therefore advisable that after the direct experience and realization of the pure sense of existence, a practitioner further penetrates anatta and the empty nature of phenomena. These insights are necessary and should not be considered “long cut”. It will help a practitioner better appreciate the art of great ease in time to come.
  
  My 2 cents.
  
  The degree of “un-contrivance”,
  Is the degree of how unreserved and fearless we open to whatever is.
  For whatever arises is mind, always seen, heard, tasted and experienced.
  What that is not seen, not heard and not experienced,
  Is our conceptual idea of what mind is.
  
  Whenever we objectify the “brilliance, the pristine-ness” into an entity that is formless,
  It becomes an object of grasp that prevents the seeing of the “forms”,
  the texture and the fabric of awareness.
  The tendency to objectify is subtle,
  we let go of 'selfness' yet unknowingly grasped ‘nowness’ and ‘hereness’.
  Whatever arises merely dependently originates, needless of who, where and when.
  
  All experiences are equal, luminous yet empty of self-nature.
  Though empty it has not in anyway denied its vivid luminosity.
  
  Liberation is experiencing mind as it is.
  Self-Liberation is the thorough insight that this liberation is always and already is;
  Spontaneously present, naturally perfected!
  

• Dharmadhatu

  4 Oct 12, 18:20

  Thanks!!