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WHAT ARE SELF-REALIZATION, AWAKENING, LIBERATION, AND ENLIGHTENMENT?

 

Child of the Majestic Creativity

SEEK FOR THE BUDDHA NOWHERE ELSE than in primordial freedom itself which is rootless and groundlessthe 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.

Writing: You Are the Eyes of the World
by Longchenpa

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