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The Cross-Roads of
Time and Space
THE
PRESENT HAS NO DURATION. Therefore it does not exist in the
linear dimension of time. It is not "horizontal." It has only a
point of contact with seriality.
The extension of the present is in another dimension to that of
time. It is therefore at right-angles to time. The direction of
measurement of this essentially timeless dimension is
within.
That is the reason of the importance instinctively given to
momentaneite, to "presence in the present," to
"spontaneity," and the reason for the creation of expressions
such as the "Eternal Present."
The so-called present is our link with the dimension that
includes the three we already know and use. It is the point at
which Time cuts across Space, and as a concept it is spatial
rather than temporal.
The present is not a fleeting moment: it is the only eternity.
In Time lies samsara; in the Present lies nirvana.
Time is the measurement of objectivity: the present is the
Presence of subjectivity, in which everything potentially is,
and from which, in Time, everything is apparently projected.
The assumed so-called present is our point of contact with
bodhi-mind. It is the invisible portal through which
intuition reaches us from the interior of ourselves, from that
universal and limitless interior (spatially thought of) which is
all we ever were or will be, and which is out of time. It is the
sole line of communication between our enveloping totality and
our apparent existence as separate individual creatures; between
our universality and our illusory particularity; between the
noumenality and the phenomenality of all sentient beings.
The present alone is our experience of what IS, and
phenomenality it is not; for it is only an imaginary division
between past and future
like the equator between the northern and southern
hemispheres. It is like a fictional line of latitude that is a
symbol rather than an existence, and yet represents a
vital transmission from one sphere to another; from north to
south; from past to future; neither of which has any reality in
itself, but each of which is a concept that artificially divides
a continuity in space or in time.
The present alone represents that which we are, in an
apparent world in which we are not, since therein we are
appearances (phenomena) only. We ourselves neither exist nor do
we not exist. Neither existing samsarically nor
not-existing nirvanically, we are nothing in any way in
which we can know ourselves but as the Present.
SEEK FOR
THE BUDDHA NOWHERE ELSE than in primordial freedom itself which
is rootless and groundlessthe pure fact of being aware right
now.
Listen: The
dimension of being is pure and total presence. From pure and
total presence comes the dimension of being. Not even a
single atom can be contrived. Therefore the buddha is not
apart from mind.
The dimension of the full richness of being is also pure and
total presence. From pure and total presence comes the dimension
of the full richness of being. The phenomena which arise from
mind have no other form apart from the dimension of the full
richness of being.
The dimension of apparitional being is pure and total presence.
Pure and total presence is the five apparitions. There is no
benefit to beings apart from the pure and total presence. All
the buddhas of the three times do not exist apart from this pure
and total presence. The buddhas of the past have seen and
recognized their own minds to be this uncontrived state. The
present buddhas, recognizing their own uncontrived minds to be
uncontrived, even now are bringing about the welfare of beings.
The buddhas who will come in the future will not teach that this
self-arising pure fact of awareness was previously contrived.
This present uncontrived state of contemplation comes from
staying on the uncontrived path.
Therefore, in the sphere of this uncontrived, unsullied reality,
the three dimensions of being and their pristine awareness are
spontaneously present in their own right, just now, and cannot
be constructed or taken apart.
There is not a single state which is not this vast state of
presence. It is the site and home of everything. So remain in
this which cannot be constructed or taken apart. Here it is not
necessary to progress gradually or to purify anything.
Listen: The
pristine awareness of the creativity of the universe is
non-judgmental and free from discursiveness. Serene and
insubstantial like the sky, we call it unborn. Without
stirring from the unity of self-refreshing pristine
awareness, the details of experience are clearly
differentiated without being contrived. Whoever fully
comprehends and actually experiences this is called a child
of the majestic creativity.
Moreover there is no goal other than the realization of natural
freedom, effortless, faultless, and without defects, the unique
fact of awareness, self-radiant and free.
FOR
THE REALIZED MIND at one with the Way, all self-centered
striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish, and the
Truth is confirmed in you. With a single stroke you are
freed from bondage; nothing clings to you and you hold to
nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no
need to exert the mind. Here, thinking, feeling,
understanding, and imagination are of no value. In this
world "as it really is" there is neither self nor
other-than-self.
To know
this Reality directly is possible only through practicing
non-duality. When you live this non-separation, all things
manifest the One, and nothing is excluded. Whoever comes to
enlightenment, no matter when or where, Realizes personally
this fundamental Source.
This
Dharma-truth has nothing to do with big or small, with time
and space. Here a single thought is as ten thousand years.
Not here, not there—but everywhere always right before your
eyes. Infinitely large and infinitely small: no difference,
for definitions are irrelevant and no boundaries can be
discerned. So likewise with "existence" and "non-existence."
Don't
waste your time in arguments and discussion attempting to
grasp the ungraspable.
Each
thing reveals the One, the One manifests as all things. To
live in this Realization is not to worry about perfection or
non-perfection. To put your trust in the Heart-Mind is to
live without separation, and in this non-duality you are one
with your Life-Source.
Words!
Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no
yesterday, no
tomorrow, no today.
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THE
PRESENT HAS NO DURATION. Therefore it does not exist in the
linear dimension of time. It is not "horizontal." It has only a
point of contact with seriality.
The extension of the present is in another dimension to that of
time. It is therefore at right-angles to time. The direction of
measurement of this essentially timeless dimension is
within.
That is the reason of the importance instinctively given to
momentaneite, to "presence in the present," to
"spontaneity," and the reason for the creation of expressions
such as the "Eternal Present."
The dimension of the full richness of being is also pure and
total presence. From pure and total presence comes the dimension
of the full richness of being. The phenomena which arise from
mind have no other form apart from the dimension of the full
richness of being.
FOR
THE REALIZED MIND at one with the Way, all self-centered
striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish, and the
Truth is confirmed in you. With a single stroke you are
freed from bondage; nothing clings to you and you hold to
nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no
need to exert the mind. Here, thinking, feeling,
understanding, and imagination are of no value. In this
world "as it really is" there is neither self nor
other-than-self. 