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As the Heart Sutra says, "gate gate paragate, parasamgate bodhi, svaha." [Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond, enlightenment, wonder!]
Nirvana or liberation is just opening to the reality that is here in this moment, resting without ideas, in our nature. The face of samsara dissolves.
Samsara is abiding in concepts. Samsara is interpretation, the layer of conceptual elaboration superimposed on reality. Samsara exists in the dimension of time: things that have happened, things that have to happen.
Every moment, samsara is destroyed by resting in the ground of our being. Every moment, freedom is our nature.
But every moment, we overlook that and we jump into the activity of thinking and believing. So we miss reality and we are deluded again into samsara, projecting the future, remembering the past, clinging to those activities.
These activities by themselves are harmless, just waves in the ocean of reality, expressions of our nature, features of our consciousness. But it is our attachment, clinging deludedly, which misses reality and recreates samsara, moment after moment.
So let's not talk about "the other shore, this shore." Forget the metaphors. We are talking about consciousness-awareness.
How do we implement this awareness? There's no how. Because awareness is what we need to implement awareness - so how can there be a how?
It's just knowing that you are aware - which is something you happen to know right now. Dwell on that knowledge. There is not a how - there is just directly, directly dwelling on your awareness.
But first you have to notice that this awareness is a fact.
This is not the result of some mathematical calculation, reading the sutras, the tantras, the Bible, the Gita, the Upanishads. You don't need to be a scholar or a scientist to check out the fact that you are aware, to notice the fact that you are, that beingness is ongoing.
Awareness, beingness, is a fact. That's what we are talking about when we say, "Abide in yourself, rest in your Buddha nature."
What is the Buddha-nature? It is your awareness. That's the golden Buddha. That's the Buddha-nature.
Namaste.
-- Adapted from a transcription of the Satsang of 12/28/2009. For more please see here: http://www.clarallum.org/te...
