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The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
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That Unique ONE Awareness is not built on anything and has no roots in anything.
Nothing else needs to be realized.
The Non-Created is the Non-Visible.
By knowing the invisible Broadness and the Clear Light and seeing them as ONE (since plurality does not exist in the Unmanifested), one's own Clear Awareness is perceived. Yet exactly because no plurality exists in the Unmanifested, the Great, Exalted Awareness (in its entirety) cannot be known. (This would require duality - i.e. an external, separate observer different from the Great Awareness.)
Awareness is beyond nature, yet is experienced in bodily forms.
Realization (unrestricted perception) of the ONE Awareness constitutes Ultimate Deliverance.
Without mastery (without deliberate steering) of our mental processes realization cannot be achieved.
Similarly, sesame seed is the source of oil, and milk the source of butter, - yet not until the seed is pressed and the milk churned do oil and butter appear.
So also sentient beings ARE the Great Awareness in its very essence, yet not until they realize this can they attain Enlightenment.
By realizing this even a simple, untrained person attains Liberation.
