Bodhi☯️ on Nostr: Awareness is its appearances and appearances are awareness. Or knowing is being and ...

Awareness is its appearances and appearances are awareness. Or knowing is being and being is knowing.

“In order to be introduced to the dependent origination of the confluence of causes and conditions, consider this: Lucid, luminous absolute space, as the ground, having the potential to manifest any kind of appearance, serves as the cause; and consciousness that grasps at the ‘I’ serves as the contributing condition. In dependence upon the confluence of these two, all appearances manifest like illusions.

All appearances are not other than the ground, and they are of one taste with the ground itself, just as all the planets and stars reflected in the ocean are not other than the ocean, and are of one taste with the water itself.

Due to grasping at the ‘I,’ ‘self’ and ‘other’ appear as if truly existent in the panoramic sweep of the expansive, all-pervasive absolute space of the ground. These appearances are like bubbles emerging from water. The lucid luminosity of the empty absolute space of the ground is crystallized into self-appearances to mental consciousness.

Due to this becoming reinforced, various delusive appearances manifest, which are like hallucinations caused by pressure on the nerves of the eyes or by disturbances in the channels due to the vital energies. Although various appearances from the ground manifest to a consciousness that grasps at the ‘I,’ they do not waver from or occur outside of that ground."

~ Düdjom Lingpa