https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YvwkLNfw501fODqdmdq5O?si=5c0eaf14148f42ee
Listen, oh virtuous one! I will show you the truth of your being. You are and always have been Vajrasattva - the infinite consciousness, living presence, and creative power of the divine. The vast spaciousness of being - always good - the way of liberation for all beings, beyond appearance and disappearance. And beyond the grasp of the intellect.
Love, being our essence, attainment is already complete. And there is no need to strive at practicing great compassion. Love, being the supreme good, there is no need either to extoll the many-splendored qualities of compassion. Phenomena are not other than the true condition. Without input on our part, they appear and disappear. Naturally arising wisdom need not be actively sought. Self-liberating by nature, it reveals the way. Earth, air, fire and water are the indwelling divine. Despite our mistaken notions, liberation dawns from within our own being, and is not dependent on others.
Supreme wisdom is difficult to realize, except by way of wisdom itself. Dependence on others is merely notional, since bliss actually arises naturally from within. And yet, the miraculous is not beyond our recognition. Due to intuitive insight into the natural state, our innate capacities and spiritual powers come to the fore naturally, from within our own inner depths.
Real meditation is effortless letting go in the true condition. This true condition never appears to us as something which can be seen. Striving to grasp it, we prevent the recognition of its true nature.
Nor can the supreme secrecy of the primal continuum be revealed by hearing about it. Nor can words reveal its nature, even in the barest measure. The suffering of sentient beings is only consciousness. Intrinsically perfect energy, in varied forms, beyond movement, unshaken, it abides equally in all.
People talk of Karma, in truth, there is only consciousness — beyond all our notions. For those imprisoned in the ups and downs of thought and emotion, the pristine continuum of thought and emotion remains hidden. The mind of awakening gives rise to all appearances, beyond unborn, it is indestructible.
This timeless space of pure being is beyond the reach of thought. The deepest meditative tranquility does not think of itself as this or that. There is no need to conceptualize, or to purify the mind of concepts. Although wisdom may, as it comes to the fore, take the form of concepts.
Some meditators strive to put their minds into a thought-free state. Thinking this gives them access to something subtle. They isolate themselves in lonely places. Examined closely, this is seen to be a form of conceptual meditation. Thinking in terms of causes and results, such seekers strive to transcend this world. They reject the bad, and accept the good — although nondual wisdom already transcends realities like bad and good.
Clinging and indifference are concepts. So too, echolike, is anything in between. Joy and sorrow arise from the same source: so declares Vajrasattava, refuge of all. Where else could aversion, attachment and anger arise, except from the luminous energy of mind? Objects of pleasure are also just this: formation of the energy of the light of wisdom. Concepts are like space. But neither space nor concepts ever come into true existence.
Abiding in spacious consciousness, beyond desire and directed intent, one’s condition widens to infinity. Concept free equanimity is the ground of being. But like the moon reflected on water, it cannot be grasped.
Through the divine creative energy, the vibratory sounds of speech are manifested. The mantric sounds of “Ah,” and “Ta,” and “Pa” — and their many elaborations — express the creative power of infinite consciousness, and figure-forth the mind of light.
How amazing. The enlightened realm is never found by seeking. And can never be perceived by the six senses. Those who seek it in this way are like blind ones, grasping for the sky.
A graduated spiritual path of purification is at odds with the effortlessness of the true condition. Realization does not come from following such a path. That is like searching for the end of space.
The true condition, being what it is, revealed as it is, cannot be seen as a path to travel. The state of effortless enlightenment is the source of all. Its manifestations are all marvelous wonders.
Past and present abide within the true condition. The eternal now of consciousness is the path for all. This is suchness, the light of wisdom. The realization of enlightened beings, both past and yet to come. This living presence is the universal way.
The moon and its reflection on water are nondual. The mind of awakening is not to be found by those engrossed in fabricated features and stages of the way. Focusing attention on present pleasures and their future consequences, is a limiting way to follow any path. It is something to avoid.
Past, present and future are one. Not three. Only the present has endured throughout time. The nature of reality pervades the whole of creation. Its wonderful qualities everywhere to be found. Everything that appears in all the worlds derives from Karma, is rooted in concepts, and is phantasmal in nature. Even the situation of a universal emperor is merely a training-ground for dealing with illusion.
Those who meditate using the time-bound intellect, will never be liberated within the time-frame of their imagining. For those whose practice is rooted in prayers and striving, everything said about emptiness fully applies. The essence is one, unstructured, unborn. And the way of the yogi is like the path of a bird in the sky.