Category:Surmang Kagyu

First, please understand this: I'm addressing each of you...but this is for all of you. Please KNOW you're not living in denial. O.K.? :-) How do I know this with no concerns regarding the confidence which backs it? ...because you wouldn't be concerned about the way these various interpretations (yours, mine, and other's as well) come to appear to you, if you were in denial.

Your statements of facts as you see them is honest and to the point, and always to the best of any abilities - in whatever presence these may come to appear...not ambiguous and 'flighty'. You're not one who is easy to 'shrug your shoulders' and say, "Oh well, it's beyond me...so I'll just leave it this way." ...and then go on about your "mundane day-to-day existence".

Rather, seeing anything as being beyond you AS this self of 'yours' slowly dissolves it's illusory attachments, you make great efforts to 'be here' which is beyond you, me,...all of us!. This IS absolute, despite the view-in-self which has come to develop some predisposition to hold on to something, anything, which may prove it's substantiality once and for all.

And...did I mention the courage it takes to face this which again -the self interprets as- certain annihilation? You don't judge (which the 'self' loves to do!) so much as you attempt to understand. This is in a great part why you're here reading this. This shows an ineffible aspiration (one which 'takes place' beyond any words which we might use to explain it) to allow things to be 'as these are' and to simply and silently understand this: 'as it is'...in and as this very nature which is revealing itself to us all through our 'practiceless practice'.

"The cushion fades while this light in our infinite 'room' is always on. We return to the cushion only for it's comfort, not because it's the "only place" from which to realize this which we need to allow to do just this: reveal itself to us, reveal itself AS us...as we actually are - and not in any way we think."

To be sure, thinking is only a part of this all, and necessary...but as we come to see...we are ever so much more than the mere sum total of these 'parts' by which we can only partially define this which we are. (That's what 'parts' are...partial! :-) )

This absolute truth, AS this nature, is too close to us to be 'seen' as some object, and yet at this same instant it too beyond us to be counted as some subject. You ask questions which show precision in your search. This shows you're gaining ground with your own interpretations and this nature as it inevitably reveals itself to you...even as we speak! (always remember...it's beyond any thoughts or words which we may use to define it...this is neither subjective nor objective.)

You see...and I watch. (This means we both see...if you look at it from this ("my") perspective). If you turn this around so to speak, from "your" perspective...perhaps then, I see...while you watch. This reveals equanimity of view...the same yet different...see?

[RWB]
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