From: pjm@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Subject: Re: Metaphors and Reality
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:23:47 GMT

Responses from Longchenpa's _Natural Freedom of Mind_,
Crystal Mirror IV, Dharma Pub.

Raj writes:
>
>	- Believing that emptiness, signless, and wishless are three
>	  "gates." They are one and the same. Touch one and all are
>	  touched [just like touching the water of Ganga in Haridwar
>	  or Banares; no matter where one touches the water, one has
>	  touched the "entire Ganga."]

Without fettering with the rope of addiction to what aids renunciation,
the free and unrestrained procession of what is free in its rising,
vision, perfect as a great surge, is preserved in its wide opennes,
and the world of appearance, perfect in its great creativity,
rises as Dharmakaya.

>	
>	- Mind is like the fog which disappears when the sun arises.
>	  Why continue to explore the "disappearing fog?"
>	  Why not fix the attention on the Sun?

When Mind-as-such - unlimited, the creator of the incessant appearances
of the six kinds of objects, himself devoid of any essence -
has become free with nothing to rest on, intrinsic perception,
in which Samsara and Nirvana are not two, has reached its source
and real being. This is the 'attainment of the highest realization'.
Since one has reached the ultimate of completion as sufficient in itself
and ever ready for others, one awakens enlightened in the Akanistha realm.

>	- Until one reaches the "mountain top," there is no use
>	  saying: [this] "practice" will do this or that.

Alas! those people professing to meditate but suppressing all thought,
and conceited about a conceptless state which they call a 'presence',
and for this reason being as stupid as cattle, turn themselves into
animals by habituating themselves to this state. And if they do not,
they nevertheless have no chance of becoming free from Samsara,
even if they 'meditate' on the sphere where no forms obtain.
Therefore, the more conceited they grow, the more they are possessed
by the demon of their own systems. Running after the fictions
set up by their minds, they do not see the absolutely real because
of the pollution created by their postulates.

>	- Samadhi is very real but has nothing to do with imagination.
>	  Samadhi is where all imagination ceases spontaneously
>	  [by itself.]
>	
>	- All the above is also part of the illusion - unreal.
>	  Or as real as I, you, we, universe, gods, self-realization,
>	  and, of course, the pattern 'xXx."
>	

Since Mind-as-such - pure from the beginning and with no root
to hold to something other than itself - has nothing to do with
an agent or something to be done, one's mind may well be happy.
Since intrinsic awareness with no objective reference whatsoever,
has no intention as to this or that, one may well be full of love
toward all. Since vision and attention to the vision are not disrupted
by falling into contraries, having nothing to do with acceptance
or fear, high or low, one may be well be joyous. Since enactment and
goal, having nothing to do with acceptance and rejection, expectation
and anxiety, are not seen as something to be obtained or missed, one may
well feel an inner warmth. Since everything is but an apparition
perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad,
acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

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