‘The approach offered in Dzogchen is helpful in its depth…
it is helpful in its radiance…
and it helps to make us more aware of our intrinsic connectivity…’
James Low
These words are from the closing paragraph of this section of the book…which is published as an audio recording, this new-moon day in May.
At this time it is as if the sun and moon come quietly together…
and from this darkness, through the lunar month, brightness increases to a peak, …followed by diminution to darkness with just a little light…
The life of the body… and many systems both within and without it… parallel this cyclical display, over a shorter or longer time frame…
and so it is for all compounded phenomena…for all constructs, as the Buddha noted…
His final exhortation… to keep going until the truth of the uncompounded was realised… was given to the monks around him at the time …
That which does not wax or wane, that which does not change, is the basis for the expressions of both wisdom and confusion.
Through time teachers with that same realisation have arisen, who show, indicate, and invite us to look in such a way that we also might find freedom from the constrictions and suffering which flows from taking the unreal to be strongly real…and with that release, the realisation of our full potential
There is a big difference between how it actually is, and what I think it is … but this is medicine that our egoic attachment makes difficult to swallow.
However, if trust in ‘my certainties’ diminishes as trust in the teachings of openness or emptiness increases…and I keep looking with a gentle eye… then the invitations in this text to ‘relax and open’… and ‘doing non-doing’ may help us see more clearly how it is before… my ‘doing’ casts a shadow …
…perhaps so that, in the dusty and deserted mid-west town…… moved by the wind that’s passing through… the one remaining door of the ego-saloon bar creaks a little as it swings listlessly… back and forth… hanging from it’s bent hinge
doing no harm, no-one inside…no-one outside, blocking no-thing…
Sounds like crap to your dualising consciousness? That’s ok …just relax back into spaciousness…it’s gone… : )
But we can enjoy /appreciate the flavour of ‘crappy prose’ without judgment …and however emptiness arises as the mind’s display, as our experiential field…trust that will vanish by itself…then there’s this…
….so how is ‘this’ before I appropriate it into consciousness, into my labelling value systems, and put my stamp on it?
Photo credit : I’m not recommending, nor have I looked at the content of the site but appreciating the sense of numinous radiance evoked by this photo – thanks to Lifereader.co.nz.
