Self Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness
WHEN
YOU LOOK UPWARD into the space of the sky outside
yourself, if there are no thoughts occurring that are emanations
being projected, and when you look inward at your own mind
inside yourself, if there exists no projectionist who projects
thoughts by thinking them, then your own subtle mind will become
lucidly clear without anything being projected. Since the Clear
Light of your own intrinsic awareness is empty, it is the Dharmakaya [Embodiment of Truth]; and this is like the sun
rising in a cloudless, illuminated sky. Even though this light
cannot be said to possess a particular shape or form,
nevertheless, it can be fully known. The meaning of this,
whether or not it is understood, is especially significant.
This self-originated Clear Light, which from the very
beginning was in no way produced by something antecedent to it,
is the child of awareness, and yet it is itself without any
parents—amazing! This self-originated primordial awareness has
not been created by anything—amazing! It does not experience
birth nor does there exist a cause for its death--amazing!
Although it is evidently visible, yet there is no one there who
sees it—amazing! Although it has wandered throughout Samsara, it
has come to no harm—amazing! Even though it has seen Buddhahood
itself, it has not come to any benefit from this—amazing! Even
though it exists in everyone everywhere, yet it has gone
unrecognized—amazing! Nonetheless you hope to attain some other
fruit than this elsewhere—amazing! Even though it exists within
yourself (and nowhere else), yet you seek for it
elsewhere—amazing!
How wonderful! This immediate intrinsic awareness is
insubstantial and lucidly clear: Just this is the highest
pinnacle of all views. It is all encompassing, free of
everything, and without any conceptions whatsoever: Just this is
the highest pinnacle among all meditations. It is un-fabricated
and inexpressible in worldly terms: Just this is the highest
pinnacle among all courses of conduct. Without being sought
after, it is spontaneously self-perfected from the very
beginning: Just this is the highest pinnacle among all fruits.
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Writing:
Self Liberation through Seeing
with Naked Awareness (verses 12-14)
By
Padmasambhava – Translated by
John
Myrdhin Reynolds
Art by:
Wivica Furstner
Death
of a Shadow
Q: Did anything change in your life since the discovery
of truth?
A: The fundamental is that there is no MY or YOUR life,
nor has there ever been. That which solely is neither
lives nor lives not.
The so-called life changes continuously. The dream and its
dreamlike states are subject to constant change. So changes the
body that appears in the dream, the world and the conduct in it.
But, however it shows itself, it was, is, and will always be
that which is. In endless variations, in an eternal realization
of the "Real." Undisturbed peace of being, and I am that.
Q: Do you have a teaching, and which one?
A: Recognize everything as a lie, especially the one who
recognizes everything as a lie.
Q: How can we integrate this in our daily life?
A: That which is requires no integration. That
which is not, will never be integrated. Recognize the perfect
realization
of
Reality and be what you are. Everything is exactly the way it
is, because Being has manifested itself this way and not
otherwise.
Q: Can you say something about death? Some say, "die
before you die."
A: The only possible death is the death of the ego (the
idea of separation). And the question is, how can something die
which is not? How can that die which is appearance and only
presents itself in perception as sensation? By what can the lie
of being separate disappear? For what or for whom?
Only in the absolute Self-cognition of being that which is,
and thus nothing is but inseparable Being, Truth and
nothing but Truth, the Self and nothing but the Self. Where
Truth perceives only itself in perception, where only that is
what you are, where dream and dreamer are one in the Absolute.
For the Absolute, nothing has to go because the Absolute is the
only reality. Recognizing the ego as a fleeting shadow in the
eternal Now voids the ego's apparent reality.
