The Wondrous Experience of Your Own Being

After a few weeks hiatuses where we considered other questions, it is time to get back to The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation by Padma Sambhava. Since this book was written for the future, it is straightforward without a lot of jargon.

The key to understanding these teachings is to stand in the place that Padma points. This is like visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris as opposed to reading about it. When just reading about it, you will never get a full sense of the experience of the Eiffel Tower, the bright lights, the smells, the tastes and the people. That’s because your actual experience is much richer than what you can capture with the linear process that we call thinking.

The limitations that you see are not your limitations
The same is true of the experience of your own Self-Nature. It is much closer and much clearer than you could ever capture with your thinking. At best, with your thinking you will just get a one sided impression of what your being is really about. But if you can stand here, even for a few seconds, you will see that there is something very amazing going on in life that you just overlooked.

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Making Your Wisdom Come Alive is like a novel where you are the main character. It takes many surprising twist and turns, and in the end you find yourself standing in the place of wisdom and joy, where you always are,and always will be.

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Ultimately, when you realize that the limitations that you see are not your limitations, you will remain here forever. Your real identity is the light that shines on the mind. You do not take a trip to this state called Consciousness and Bliss. It is not a vacation spot; it is your real home. Thinking that you were limited by a body and mind, you felt limited. But now it is time to return to your real home and to find the place that you never left. To get here just stand in the place that Padma points to in the next verse:

The Wondrousness of These Teachings

This self-originated Clear Light, eternally unborn, is a parentless babe of Wisdom. Wondrous is this.

Being non-created, it is Natural Wisdom, Wondrous is this.
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Not having known birth, it knows not death. Wondrous is this.

Although it is Total Reality, there is no perceiver of it. Wondrous is this.

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

So what is this Natural Wisdom that is unborn and non-created? In fact it feels so natural that we just look right past it and we take ourselves to be the limited objects that we see. But there is evidence to support your unborn and undying Self Nature. It is the place inside were despite all evidence to the contrary, you feel like you won’t die. It is the place inside where you feel like you do not change, despite the fact that both your body and mind are changing.

There is no one separate to look at you
You do not know about your home by reading about it. You know about your home because that’s where you reside. Similarly, you do not know your identity by reading about it. There is no one separate who can step back and look at it. The secret of identity is that you know yourself because you are yourself, not as a separate thing. This is the place from where you really view life, your body and mind. It is the thing that makes them seem so real. You shine by your own light without the need for a separate light. We call this light Consciousness.

If you can abide in your original place, be ready for some surprises. Things will seem the same and different, both at the same time. Although you will see changes, you will abide in the place that never changes. Although you will see separate things, you will also see how they are really connected by your real nature. And most important you will die to a sense of a limited self, so you will never die again. No matter how the states of your body and mind change, you will be right at home.

It is here that life fulfills itself by itself
Abiding here is the real purpose of life. It is here that life fulfills itself by itself. It is here that you find all of the happiness and peace that you’ve been looking for in a million different places. And you never dreamed that the thing you were wishing for is found in the place where you actually stand.

So best wishes in your exploration so that you can stand in the brightness that Padma points to. In this freedom everything becomes more beautiful and you find that which is free from every limitation, including death. This is the self-originated Clear Light, eternally unborn, that Padma talks about.

Feel free to ask questions
Now I want you to experience your The Clear Light of Consciousness 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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