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EHMAHO! Nobel beloved sons and daughters, listen without
distraction! All the
Victorious Buddhas if the past, present and future have taught eighty-four
thousand books of scripture, teaching as boundless as space itself, but all to
one end: how to realize the nature of mind. The Buddhas taught nothing more
than this.
If the principal root of a tall tree is severed, its ten thousand branches and
leaves will wither and die all together; likewise, when the single root of mind
is cut, the leaves of samsara, such as dualistic clinging, perish.
The empty house that has stood in darkness for millennia is illuminated
instantly by a single lamp; likewise, an instant's realization of the mind's
clear light eradicates negative propensities and mental obscurations inculcated
over countless aeons.
The brilliance and clarity of sunlight cannot be dimmed by aeons of darkness;
likewise, the radiance of the mind's essential nature cannot be obscured by
aeons of delusion.
Indeterminate is the color and shape of the sky, and it's nature is unaffected
by black or white clouds; likewise, the color and shape of mind's nature is
indeterminate, and it cannot be tainted by black or white conduct, by virtue or
vice.
Milk is the basis of butter, but the butter will not separate until the milk is
churned; likewise, human nature is the ground of Buddhahood, but without
existential realization sentient beings cannot awaken.
Through gnostic [a pure nature of mind, or basic cognizance independent of
intellectual constructs] experience of the nature of reality, through practice
of these precepts, all beings can gain freedom; regardless of the acuity of
his [one's] faculties even a cowherd attains liberation IF his [one's]
existential experience is nondual realization. [caps. mine]
When you realize the clear light of mind's nature, the pundit's words of wisdom
are redundant. How relevant is another's description of the taste of treacle
when your mouth is full of it?
Even the pundit is deluded if he [one] has no existential realization. He
[One] may be skilled in comprehensive exposition of the nine approaches to
Buddhahood, but he [one] is as far distant from Buddhahood as the earth is from
the sky if he [one] knows of it only from second-hand accounts.
You may keep your strict moral discipline for an aeon and patiently practice
meditation for an eternity, but if you have yet to realize the clear light of
the mind's immaculate nature you will not extricate yourself from the three
realms of samsara. Diligently examine the nature of your mind!
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