Those who go beyond illusion

A universal reality or medium is Mind. This is what Mind-only means in the Lankavatara Sutra. What we see as the phenomenal world with all its differences from quarks to galaxies is Mind oscillating, moving itself creating, as a result, a contrast. This contrast, as we mortal humans face it, which includes our psychophysical bodies, seems altogether impenetrable and bewitching.

As we might expect, the prithagjana (worldling) stops at illusions edge. He lacks the ability to penetrate through Minds oscillationscertainly his own vexing imagination including desires for the illusory.

Those who find the Buddhas teaching alluring; who seem to sense that the great voyage across the sea of samsara consists in penetrating the veil of phenomena, are not content to stay in the home of illusion. They understand the voyage to be internal: internal in the sense that what is most primordial in them, which is pure Mind or tathata, must be able to recognize itself, in its phenomenalizations. It is not enough just to be. Mind can only recognize itself by penetrating through its oscillations. Only then does it re-member and awaken to its absoluteness which contains all.

This is no course in philosophy, either, which is thought based. Far from it. One must, as implicit Mind, completely pass though all of its oscillations and disturbances, this includes thought. Not a single oscillation can remain. Only then does it recognize and remember itself. One then becomes a Bodhisattva; who then embarks upon the mystery of becoming a Buddha.

It is not too difficult to see from the aforesaid that Buddhism is not Buddhism which bends down to the will of the prithagjana allowing itself to be turned into some religious cult the purpose of which is to serve those drowning in their desire for the phenomenal. Buddhism is foremost an aryan path. The aryan is one who stands having arrived at the door of the immortal.


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