Thu, 01 May 2008
Non-Attainment
The ground is buddha nature. Its recognition is enlightenment. Clearing away the false concepts that obscure it is the path. And meditation practice is an important part of the path. The reason for emphasizing buddha nature, co-emergent wisdom, or whatever you want to call it, is to emphasize that enlightenment is not a product of causes and conditions, for if it were, it would be subject to decay. It's the recognition of what we always have been , but forever have been unable to see. Unable to see because we look for it in the wrong way, dividing reality with such dualisms as perceiver and perceived. To quote from my ngondro liturgy:
By the blessings of this prayer, may I realize the reality of samsara and nirvana, which is beyond dispersing and accumulating, accepting and abandoning, existence and non-existence, free from all, the fundamental ground of all, mahamudra -- things as they are.
Not dwelling upon the act of realizing, the one who realizes, or the realization itself, without abandoning that which is obscured, the one who obscures, or the obscuration itself, completely transcending the traveling, the traveler, and the path traveled; may the path of mahamudra manifest.
Without dwelling on the act of attainment, the one who attains, or what is attained, may the no-duality of abandoning and obtaining, and the inseparability of ground and fruition, the nature of everything manifest and unmanifest, the result of mahamudra, become apparent.
