Wisdom dawns in accordance with its own time

The amazing thing about this teaching on the nature of the mind is that you have to experience it to understand it. This teaching just doesn’t fit into your thoughts. As a matter of fact, to your thinking process, these verses make no sense at all. That’s because you can’t know your mind like you know an object. Rather, although it has no form of its own, mind is the substance that all forms are contained in.

Look again with fresh eyes
However when you search for the nature of your mind, you do have one advantage. You already experience your mind as it is, and just overlook it. But if you are willing to look again with fresh eyes, you will be amazed to find that here lies the substance of the whole universe. In fact mind is the thing that gives substance and meaning to all of your experiences.

So as this verse draws to an end, Padma is asking you to look afresh without any preconceived nations of what your mind is supposed to be. Mind will reveal itself by itself if you just get out of the way.

The three voids
Here the three voids deal with past, present, and future. But in reality the void contains no time at all. That’s why the three voids are called undifferentiated. So now let’s see how Padma describes the nature of your mind in The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation:
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Mind is non-created
The self-born, qualityless mind, being like the Three Voids undifferentiated, unmodified, how can one assert that mind is created?

Mind being without objectivity and causation, self-originated, self-born, how can one, without having endeavored to know mind, assert that mind is created?

Inasmuch as Divine Wisdom dawns in accordance with its own time, and one is emancipated, how can opponents of these teachings assert that it is created?

Mind being, as it is, of this nature, and thus unknowable, how can one assert that it is created?

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
By Padma-Sambhava
translated by Karma Sumdhon Paul, and Lobzang Mingyur Dorje
Edited by Evans-Wentz
Oxford University Press

Dawns in accordance with its own time
Without time or objects, you find that mind always has the same taste. This means that it is the reference point from which we see change, but in itself has a profound stillness that never changes. Another way of saying this is that mind has its own time without a beginning and without an end. If there is no start or end to your mind, it was not created.

Mind is unknowable
Also you cannot stand apart and know mind as a separate thing. But you can know mind as it is because this is your real home. You know mind because that’s what you really are. If this is still a little hazy, in the next verse, The Yoga of Introspection, appearing in the next blog, Padma will make this crystal clear.

Feel free to ask questions
Now I want you to experience your mind in its full glory. So please feel free to continue asking questions. I’m always glad to hear your reactions and clarify my answers. Unlike the path of faith, on the path of Self-Knowledge it is curiosity that destroys limitation and allows you to abide in your natural freedom.

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