unborn radiance

[Guest guest]

So - would you say that "Self" could be said to refer to this vivid

experience of "totality of one's phenomenal world arising as the sheer

lucency of Being"???? It does seem if one stays with the question "Who Am

I?" this cuts through the model-building and proliferation of thought and

one discovers or recognizes, conceptualization-freeness attending to

brilliance, or just ever present, unchanging, unstained, unborn radiance.

 

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Dear Friends,

Some wonderful questions Joyce :-)(in themselves answers)

This question of Self (Being) and Emptiness (Self not existing)

is resolved in the Buddhist adage:

 

Emptiness is Form

Form is Emptiness

 

or in the idea of the transcendence

of the conditions of

Nirvana (extinction of egoic self)

and Samsara (illusion of continuous self)

into Dzogchen

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In Dzogchen, one recognizes any appearance (phenomena) as the "expression of

"Self", intrinsic nature, made of the same "stuff" - not other than,

non-dual, empty of permanent selfness, ever changing and suffering if one

deluded as to what one is essentially (a resplendent radiance). The

(Trekcho) practice is of this continual recognition. Seems as though the

experience is the same, just many different words for it. Both Advaita and

Dzogchen use the term "self-effulgence"...both say.."As waves, foam and

bubbles are not different from water, so the universe emanating from the

"Self" (primordial awareness) is not different from It." AS

 

("effulgence" - a resplendent radiance.)

 

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This clear light (radiant being)

or Buddha Nature (being without radiance)

is primarily identical.

The self that is perceived in all

is both Empty of non being

and Full of emptiness.

This paradox of Self

both empty (of the need to be)

and full of being (empty of need)

is just an expression of word limitation.

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"from Medard Boss re this Dzogchen view, "Another emotional mode is

composed, joyous serenity. It can give human existence the kind of

receptivity that allows it to see in the 'brightest light' the

meaningfulness and connections of every penomena that reveals itself. Such

a serenity is a clearness and openness in which a human being is emotionally

connected to everything he meets wanting not to have things in his own

power but content to let them be and develop on their own. Because this

composed, joyous serenity opens a human being to the broadest possible

responsiveness, it constitutes happiness, as well."

 

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Receptive serenity

or ever opening existence

or non-discriminative awareness

or [insert preferred description]

will offer us insight.

The practice of such a state

is an approximation of its eventual

supercedence.

For even Dzogchen is experiential.

Never Mind :-(

Or as we Lobsters say :-)

 

"What do you want a mind for

- back into the cauldron with you"

 

Lobster

Om HA! Hung (so to speak)