[Tibet is a way of life, a living culture dedicated to upholding the teachings of reality. The Buddha (which means awakened to the indivisibility of the two-truths, the true nature of reality), cut through the suffering of repeated birth and death of consciousness in mistaken perception].
Once the mind learns to follow the View of TwoTruths Reality, it is developing the habituation to free itself from the sufferings of the six realms of cyclic existence; mistaken self-adherence to these states of mind believing they are real, due to self-adherence, (in the mindstream), and continuing to perpetuate such actions of body, speech and mind without awareness, due to this stickiness of self-cherishing. This is in unawareness, that all phenomena is in the nature of the emptiness of dependent origination; of indivisible empty awareness.
The mistaken apprehension is believing in the true nature of the appearances to the mind, (this arises fixation to mere concepts in the mind). The duality perception is distracted from recognising non-duality nature of mind.
With study of the two truths of reality, all perception is brought onto the path of the non-dual inner awareness mirror. Relative reality functions like the appearance of a rainbow in the sky, but without an inherent independent self entity basis. A body and mind (consciousness) are a collection of parts. The “I”, “me” and “mine” merely labels projected onto these collections.
Through inner awareness habituation, (antidote to delusion), the so-called solid “actor”, the “action” and that “acted upon” can all be recognised to be in the same nature. This is what is meant by all phenomena have the same taste. They arise as appearances to the mind and function but lack a true inherently existing “self” basis.
The death of the physical body occurs when the life-force leaves and the elements dissolve.
What happens next is affected by what action the sentient being is doing now. The three times of present, past and future are not actually separate.
Encouraged not to gamble with our precious human life. Human life is an opportunity for awareness to be aware of consciousness itself. Reality is perceived and coloured through consciousness. This is why the sentient beings practice the dharma, so as not to be plant their own self-adherence imposed traps. Instead mind can be guided on a path of awareness recognition of its realisation (awakening), realisation of the perfect completion of all phenomena on arising. Non-dual or direct yogic perception of indivisible awareness of Two-Truths reality: relative conventional functioning experience of appearances to mind and its ultimate-empty true nature (inseparable/indivisible).
Utilise the altruistic act of observing the functional reality of dharma practice (in action, this trains the mind in correct conduct). A means (method) to counter attachment to the moi (doing it) – the pride of the god-realms, (the… you know who to call stuff… oh boy 👹).
Understanding of functional reality is however necessary… help one another; (it is the attachment to the moi that requires investigating 👺).
It is not that the ego-self is bad, it is because it is attached to all mistaken perceptions of mind, until awakening.
(to be continued…)
Next exploration of recognising the point of refutation, so as not to wander off the path of inner awareness 🥺. Instead planting and cultivating the necessary inner awareness, (utilising the good farmers guidance from the realised teachings).
Continue to guide mind out of attachment to mud etc. The before 😩 and after… with continued mindful aware conduct of practice. 😌
Excellent or excellent? Excellent!
There’s no need for the elephant in the house to don the tutu and the ballerina shoes to toe-point. (I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know).
Instead shift allegiance from self-mange-ing; to… inner awareness recognition, (freeing of mind habituation), to directly realising the indivisibility of awareness of mind.
At such point the appearances to the mind become self-liberated in directly seeing the true nature of mind, as mind awareness recognises its awareness unmistakenly.
(Mistaken or wrong view perception is liberated in its own place, in direct indivisible awareness).