"Go back to that state of pure being where the 'I am' is still in its purity before it got contaminated by 'this I am' and 'that I am'. Your burden is of false identifications - abandon them all....I used to sit for hours together with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind, and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared - myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
When we diligently follow the instructions of these sages, we ripen, we dawn, we blossom in recognition of our own Buddha-nature: "impersonal, devoid of mass, unfixed and capable of endless transformation..." (Yasutani-roshi). In it all the fetters of our conditioned lives snap and we are free. We realize the Absolute and witness everything as a dynamic flow between emptiness and form. Form is just illusion and emptiness just a name we slap onto what we cannot define, what we can only feel. In the end manifestation and the unmanifest, realization and potential, rise and fall like swells on the surface of an ocean and all is just as it is, unnamed, unstained, complete and perfect.
When we diligently follow the instructions of these sages, we ripen, we dawn, we blossom in recognition of our own Buddha-nature: "impersonal, devoid of mass, unfixed and capable of endless transformation..." (Yasutani-roshi). In it all the fetters of our conditioned lives snap and we are free. We realize the Absolute and witness everything as a dynamic flow between emptiness and form. Form is just illusion and emptiness just a name we slap onto what we cannot define, what we can only feel. In the end manifestation and the unmanifest, realization and potential, rise and fall like swells on the surface of an ocean and all is just as it is, unnamed, unstained, complete and perfect.
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