Yin Ling

The dharmakaya is my own empty clarity.
We are Buddhas in nature.
When conditions are ripe, dharmakaya will manifest.
It is empty because it arises from conditions.
If something arise from conditions, it doesn’t really arise. It is non-arising. Illusory. Hence it does not exist. There is no chariot.
It only manifest as appearances.
As illusory forms.
All is like that.
Echos, mirages, city of ghandarvas,
said the masters.
There is not one thing any where.
Not a self, not a thing, not a watcher. Not a knower.
No-self.
No one knows.
Just dharmakaya.
Dharmakaya already knows.
Seamlessly ..
Flowing, morphing, dancing.
U can say impermanent but really, what is there to be impermanent in the first place ?
Just Suchness. Just dharmakaya.
All in Nirvanic bliss.
This is
The End of Dukkha.
The Buddha has taught well.
Homage to the blessed one.
May we not misinterpret his teachings !

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Geovani Geo
You are not saying that dharmakaya is dependent on causes and conditions, right? You are referring to the seeming plural manifestations of dharmakaya. Even nirmankaya as the basis of conditioning is not dependent on causes and conditions.
But, of course, I am not talking here about the verbal expression.
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Yin Ling
Geovani Geo dharmakaya is the ultimate view ,
which when understood from a relative of dependent origination can be accurate. 🙂
Geovani Geo
Dharmakaya as something dependent, as I see it, is mere concept.
Geovani Geo
I don't know... it is indeed the ultimate. But I would not call it a view. It is what we ultimately are, right?
Yin Ling
Geovani Geo yes everything in words will be concepts. Labels, words, names, language are concepts.
The truth/ ultimate / dharmakaya have to be intuited by direct experience however just bc the truth is not conceptual, we shouldn’t be afraid to talk about it with our languages.
The Buddha spoke at length about the truth. He is awakened. Yet Million of words said by the awakened one.
If we were as high caliber as mahakasyapa, he would be holding up a flower and just smile at us..
But we are still here 🙂
Geovani Geo
Of course we can speak about it. I would never suggest we shouldn't. The case here is that even using words, calling dharmakaya as dependently originated, IMmostHO, is not adequate. But we can always go back and forth and try to clear expressions, try to clear mutual comprehension regarding the meaning of expressions.
Yin Ling
Geovani Geo oh I see. How would you conceptualise dharmakaya then?
Geovani Geo
Yin Ling, may I ask one question in this regard? "Is there 'something' (any thing or no-thing or whatever name you call it), right here and now, that is NOT dependently originated? Or you prefer the line of "everything is dependently originated without exception"? Not referring to the words that one may use to express it or any wordless concept neither.
Yin Ling
Geovani Geo erm, not sure what u getting at lol.
But anyway,
All is DO.
Geovani Geo
Right. I know that you probably will disagree, but as I see it, indeed all phenomena is dependently originated. Nonetheless, again, as I see it, there is that aspect which is not a phenomenon but is the underlying meaning of the analogy of the natural unborn 'space' of all phenomena. With this I don't mean to say that anything is more important, or more relevant, or more essential than something else.
Soh Wei Yu
Nirvana is just samsara rightly seen.
The Buddha said in Kalaka Sutta, "When cognizing what is to be cognized, he doesn't construe an
[object as] cognized. He doesn't construe an uncognized. He doesn't
construe an [object] to-be-cognized. He doesn't construe a cognizer.
Thus, monks, the Tathagata — being the same with regard to all
phenomena that can be seen, heard, sensed, & cognized — is 'Such.'
And I tell you: There's no other 'Such' higher or more sublime.
"That saṁsāra is nirvāṇa is a major tenet of Mahāyāna philosophy. "Nothing of saṁsāra is different from nirvāṇa, nothing of nirvāṇa is different from saṁsāra. That which is the limit of nirvāṇa is also the limit of saṁsāra; there is not the slightest difference between the two." [1] And yet there must be some difference between them, for otherwise no distinction would have been made and there would be no need for two words to describe the same state. So Nāgārjuna also distinguishes them: "That which, taken as causal or dependent, is the process of being born and passing on, is, taken noncausally and beyond all dependence, declared to be nirvāṇa." [2] There is only one reality -- this world, right here -- but this world may be experienced in two different ways. Saṁsāra is the "relative" world as usually experienced, in which "I" dualistically perceive "it" as a collection of objects which interact causally in space and time. Nirvāṇa is the world as it is in itself, nondualistic in that it incorporates both subject and object into a whole which, Mādhyamika insists, cannot be characterized (Chandrakīrti: "Nirvāṇa or Reality is that which is absolved of all thought-construction"), but which Yogācāra nevertheless sometimes calls "Mind" or "Buddhanature," and so forth." – Zen teacher David Loy, https://web.archive.org/.../FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/david.htm
"as David Loy pointed out, "Nagarjuna never actually claims, as is sometimes thought, that “samsara is nirvana.” Instead, he says that no difference can be found between them. The koti (limit, boundary) of nirvana is the koti of samsara. They are two different ways of experiencing this world. Nirvana is not another realm or dimension but rather the clarity and peace that arise when our mental turmoil ends, because the objects with which we have been identifying are realized to be shunya. Things have no reality of their own that we can cling to, since they arise and pass away according to conditions. Nor can we cling to this truth. The most famous verse in the Karikas (25:24) sums this up magnificently: “Ultimate serenity is the coming-to-rest of all ways of ‘taking’ things, the repose of named things. No truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone anywhere.”"
It is important to understand that even so called "natural unborn 'space' of all phenomena" is not something that is established to truly exist:
Kyle Dixon:
"As the Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra states:
"Outside of the saṃskṛtas [conditioned dharmas], there are no asaṃskṛta [unconditioned dharmas], and the true nature [bhūtalakṣaṇa] of the saṃskṛta is exactly asaṃskṛta. The saṃskṛtas being empty, etc. the asaṃskṛtas themselves are also empty, for the two things are not different. Besides, some people, hearing about the defects of the saṃskṛtadharmas, become attached [abhiniveśante] to the asaṃskṛtadharmas and, as a result of this attachment, develop fetters."
Going on to say that the person who rejects the saṃskṛtas is attached to the asaṃskṛtas by attributing to them the characteristics of non-production [anutpāda], and by the very fact of this attachment those asaṃskṛtas are immediately transformed into saṃskṛtas. Which, as I have pointed out before; is equivalent to the act of turning dharmatā into a dharmin by considering it to be a separate, existent, unconditioned, free-standing nature. It should instead be understood that the very non-arising of conditioned dharmas [saṃskṛtadharmas] is the unconditioned [saṃskṛta] dharmatā. It is an epistemic realization which dispels ignorance by severing the causes and conditions for invalid cognition... not an ontological X that exists on its own (that is what Vedanta teaches).
And so in this vein Nāgārjuna states:
"Neither saṃsāra or nirvāṇa exist; instead, nirvāṇa is the thorough knowledge of saṃsāra"
-- Yuktiṣāṣṭika
Saṃsāra is the result of confusion, nothing is ultimately established in saṃsāra (conditioned phenomena or otherwise)... and if nothing is ultimately established in saṃsāra, saṃsāra is itself never truly established at anytime. If saṃsāra is not established, nirvāṇa is not established. Recognizing the true nature [satyalakṣhaṇa] of saṃsāra, as innately unproduced [anutpāda] is to realize that the allegedly conditioned [saṃskṛta] is a misconception of ignorance, and therefore the conditioned has in fact been unconditioned [asaṃskṛta] from the very beginning. That is awakening to the unconditioned, and that is the awakening which is the doorway to the cessation of suffering.
"Since arising, abiding and perishing are not established,
the conditioned is not established;
since the conditioned is never established,
how can the unconditioned be established?
-- Nāgārjuna
So it is not that there is indeed an unconditioned nirvāṇa which abides apart from conditioned phenomena. The 'unconditioned' is merely knowledge of the actual nature of 'conditioned' phenomena. Phenomena [dharmins] are themselves, in essence, unconditioned, their unconditioned nature is their dharmatā.
"Good son, the term 'unconditioned' is also a word provisionally invented by the First Teacher. Now, if the First Teacher provisionally invented this word, then it is a verbal expression apprehended by imagination. And, if it is a verbal expression apprehended by imagination, then, in the final analysis, such an imagined description does not validate a real thing. Therefore, the unconditioned does not exist."
-- Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra
This is why nirvāṇa is a cessation; it is the exhaustion of one's ignorance regarding the nature of phenomena. What ceases, is cause for the further arising and proliferation of the very delusion which lends to the misperception of arising, abiding and destruction in conditioned phenomena.
For this reason, nirvāṇa is said to be 'permanent', because due to the exhaustion of cause for the further proliferation of saṃsāra, saṃsāra no longer has any way to arise. However nirvāṇa is also a conventional designation which is only relevant in relation to the delusion of saṃsāra which has been exhausted, and so nirvāṇa is nothing real that exists in itself either, it is merely the absence of affliction, an exhaustion, an unbinding, a release, an extinguishing, a liberation, a cessation... that is nirvāṇa. There is sickness and there is health... health is simply the absence of sickness.
So the correct understanding of phenomena, reveals that phenomena (as misperceived via ignorance) have never occurred in the way one's ignorance made them appear. As a result it is seen that there has never been anything which was bound, nor anything which required liberation. That seeing reveals the unreality of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa as inherent entities, and the definitive and living freedom from saṃsāra [bondage] and nirvāṇa [liberation] is itself liberation.
Eternalism; in the vein of reifying a truly existent ultimate, is never necessary, and is a ridiculous notion.
[11:01 AM, 5/26/2021] Soh Wei Yu: - kyle wrote six years ago
[11:07 AM, 5/26/2021] John Tan: (thumbs up)"
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The Difference Between Sa^msaara and Nirvaa.na
The Difference Between Sa^msaara and Nirvaa.na
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John Tan in recent post: "In ignorance, it is understood that phenomena originate dependently upon confusion;
Upon thorough de-construction, dependent arising is recognised as the conventional expression of spontaneous presence and natural perfection!"

Journal 18/5/2022
Jet lagging so I write 😝
I now have a clearer understanding of dependent origination as relative truth and emptiness as ultimate truth
and the Union of these 2 truths- the insight of non-arising.
appearance manifests vividly yet there’s a conviction that they do not exist. Like magic!
All that dependently arise do not exist—-> these are the words of the Buddhas.
All sensations are just empty presencing,
and these empty presencing are all there is, thoroughly, entirely,
throughout all heavens,
all hells,
all past present and future,
throughout samsara and nirvana..
there is never a “thing” and
there will never be a thing!
This moment ceases as it arises,
yet I can’t find its arising and
I can’t find its cessation.
I can’t find any boundary.
It’s vivid yet I couldn’t grasp it,
couldn’t pinpoint,
couldn’t find.
This moment has been here from beginningless time and will be here till infinity,
yet it has never been!🤨
When self/selves are all seen through, could there be boundaries any where?
When there is no boundaries,
a little bird chirping is exerted by the 3 times and 10 directions,
a butterfly 🦋 flapping its wings here could cause a tsunami there,
a kiss goes back to beginning-less time and extend into infinity,
and I sit with all Buddhas and Boddhisatvas in this instant.
Yet, all these are all my own empty clarity.
not a hairline of separation.
All these understandings are only impossible to a mind that slice up reality and butcher it like a piece of meat-
you and me,
in and out,
material and physical,
large and small,
chairs and tables,
present past and future,
cause and effect,
yada yada yada.
When the nature of the mind is experienced, concepts will be burnt like sticks in a fire,
one rest in the quiescence of their own true nature,
peacefully,
happily
ease-fully 😁
And…..
Why is my boyfriend not up yet ? 😒🤨

5 Comments


Yasmin El-Hakim
the last sentence 🤣🤣🤣
Mark Scorelle
Your prose is charming, fresh, simple yet profound. You should collect them, edit and publish. If its popular, a new career with benefits! IMHO of course.

Yin Ling
Mark Scorelle you are v kind Mark! But no I really can’t write to save my life 😆
Mark Scorelle
Yin Ling This is the modern era, pick up the skills as you go along. That's the fun.
Daniel Lester
Beautifully put, & you really cannot write its true, there is no you it wrote itself.





















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