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The two truths meet everywhere.
- Dependent origination refutes
Both extreme views of is and is-not.
- Appearance and emptiness are united
As the scent that is experience.
- Clarity and limitlessness are inseparable
As the nature of mind.
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Mind as clarity is nothing
But experience as appearingness.
Experience as emptiness is nothing
But limitlessness as mind.
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Clarity-appearance is nothing but origination.
Empty-limitlessness is nothing but dependency.
The diving into the nature of mind is nothing
But the embracing of dependent origination.
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A feather slowly floats its way towards the ground;
The breeze makes the trees sway;
A sound suddenly pierces the silence;
That itself is the nature of mind.
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The very pulsing of dependent origination
Is the primordial face of the Tathāgata.
Like blood and veins and heart
- The two truths meet everywhere.
Soh, I think u should do a summary of ur understanding on the recent post by Andre. The poem of expressing the meeting of two truth by realising dependent arising is beautiful. Like a sudden flash of insight that pierce through a koan, it clears the fog of dependent origination by directly leaping over all artificial definitions right into the heart, blood and veins of Tathāgata. So what exactly is realized but was not recognized in the past? Put some effort into articulating this point clearly.
Appearance and emptiness are united
As the scent that is experience.
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A feather slowly floats its way towards the ground;
The breeze makes the trees sway;
A sound suddenly pierces the silence;
That itself is the nature of mind.
Imo that concisely expressed the heart to heart authentication of dependent origination as clarity natural radiance (arising).
That said, despite the non-conceptual heart to heart authentication, still the “in-between” de-construction process are extremely invaluable activities that cannot be bypassed and overlooked. In fact, the missing key in sharpening and maturing one’s prajna lies precisely in these in-between process of connecting dots. For mature and smooth integration of view, insights and experiences post anatta, we should not be simply skewed towards dwelling and deepening into non-conceptual taste of suchness. So don’t end up like Héshang Móhēyǎn (和尚摩訶衍) in his debate with Kamalasila in Lhasa although in the Chinese sources, many claimed otherwise but that is beside the point.
Andre posted another good article today about how the 8 worldly concerns in daily engagements relate to agentless-action, dependent origination and emptiness and all these play their inevitable bits in wearing off our obscurations. Habitual obscurations are exceedingly subtle like scent left behind a container hence there is no short-cut to liberation -- it’s all step by step and bit by bit erosion of the nuances and subtleness of “inherentness” in one’s ignorance.
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