Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
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(Overcoming duality does not mean giving up perception of plurality, but only to clearly see the unity behind all plural appearances.
The Unmanifested - the highest reality, - is no negation of existence, it is an unmanifested state from which all beings, properties, dualities, characteristics etc. emerge when they assume [material] appearance.
Perceiving the ONE Unity is less far away from us as we might think. Almost always we see the world surrounding us through tinted glasses of our current feelings. When enthusiastic, we deem the world and our position in it positive; when feelings are negative, the world seems gloomy. Similar emotions even determine what sense-impressions get through to our conscious attention [i.e. which things and situations we focus on), and what we simply discard or ignore.
Thus, that what surrounds us - that what we actually perceive, - always reflects our interior, - our motivations, preconceptions, preferences, dislikes, our ideas and fears.
Yet when we forego our desire for duality, - when we begin to see the world before us as 'silver screen', - as total reflection of our interior, of all our emotions, - when we cease to see us as separate from what we perceive, we get nearer to experiencing The AllEncompassing Awareness - of which we presently perceive only a minute part.
And if we don't like some of what we see on this 'screen', it's exactly these 'unloved' parts that provide exquisite insight what we still carry within [with a