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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The Great Awareness though - though it exists - cannot be found (this way) within the manifested regions.
Yet since it is the source of highest bliss, of happiness, of all enlightenment, as also of all burdens of the perishable world, it pays to know and value It, - as it pays to value all paths that lead to enlightenment.
[ Names given to the Great Awareness ]
Innumerable are the names given to the Great Awareness.
Some call it 'The Mental Self '.
Buddhists (of the Hinayana path) call it 'The True Essence of Doctrines'
Followers of yoga call it 'Wisdom' or 'Self'.
Those taking re-incarnation for non-existent, or thinking the lives of man are ruled by outside influences, call it 'The Ego', 'The I', or 'The Cumulative Experiences of Man'.
Some call it 'The Means of Attaining the Other Shore of Wisdom' or 'The Vessel to Liberation'.
Some call it 'The Buddha Essence'. Some call it 'The Great Symbol'. Some call it 'The Sole Seed'. Some call it 'The Potentiality of Truth'. Some call it 'The Foundation of All'.
And common usage assigns a multitude of further names to the Great Awareness.