of Being..

[Guest guest]

Thank you Gloria for that beautiful, clear, and magical prose from the "The

Life of Shabkar." It reminded me of the following I wrote some time back.

 

The experiencer never was and the Experiencer Is the Inexhaustible. When the

Seer and the Seen Merge, Unity or Wholeness Recognizes Itself. It Recognizes

ItSelf as the Eternal and Complete Principle which the ancients called One

without a second. That which Stands Alone and Free without any support what

so ever is truly the Self. It is never absent. It Is.

 

Once some time back, I asked Sandeep, What is it that you imagine is absent

after "enlightenment" that is present now. The "disconnect" between our

state now and the state of "Realization" exists in imagination only. That is

the strength of imagination. That is called Maya. No one denies the

limitations of words. Still words are used to indicate Reality.

 

It is God pointing to It Self.

 

Where else to point?

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

 

 

 

 

Gloria Lee [glee]

Saturday, April 15, 2000 9:26 PM

HS; NDS

Cc: Acowpal

[ACOWPAL] of Being..

"When you are preserving the natural state of mind

This is sheer, unobstructed emptiness,

Free from such limiting concepts as

 

Existence and nonexistence,

Eternity and nothingness

Going and coming,

Sameness and difference,

 

Although there is no object of analysis

And no subject who is analyzing,

Do not, like some thoughtless child,

Just indulge yourself in unconsidered actions.

 

If the wish fulfilling jewel of the view

Is polished over and over again with meditation

And set at the top of the victory banner of action,

It will grant you the fruition you desire, the dharmakaya.~

 

Regarding the view in terms of relative truth:

With the help of your intelligence and the scriptures

You should examine in many ways, carefully and repeatedly,

How all phenomena of samsara and nirvana

Appear freely, like images in a mirror,

Through the play of various combinations of causes and conditions.

 

Appearing in such conditions,

Phenomena do not possess even the tiniest shred of true existence.

Just like a rainbow in the sky,

They are apparent yet empty,

Empty yet apparent.

 

Simply regard the spectacle of empty appearances

Without taking this to have any solid, independent, true existence.

 

See how the causes and conditions of virtue

Lead to its fruit: happiness.

See how the causes and conditions of nonvirtue,

Lead to its fruit: suffering.

 

Cultivate love and compassion

For those who do not recognize this.

 

Like a magician transforming one thing into another,

You must exchange nonvirtue for virtue,

And for the sake of all beings

Release the great waves of Bodhisattva activity.

If you accomplish this perfectly,

The fruit of the rupakaya* will ripen."

 

_________

~body in its essential nature

*physical body

quoted from : "The Life of Shabkar," translated by Mathieu

Ricard, pp. 424-425.