22 October 2020

The only reality - Battlecry of Freedom

 

Fundamental unborn awareness is like natural riding. It is available to discover, but is obscured by intellect and concept.

Meditation enables its discovery by cutting through intellect and concept. Meditation places the mind in the reality of the present moment. [...]

To discover unborn awareness—rigpa—the present moment must be embraced exactly as it is. It cannot be embraced as how it might be or how it was.
When the moment has been exactly as it is, then the moment dies. It dissolves into emptiness and the next moment arises. That is also embraced exactly as it is. Continuing in this way is awakening. Recognising that exactly as it is, is the only reality, is the experience of rigpa

Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8, Part II - the slogans, p42, 43

 


 

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