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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Then, nothing more is there to be sought; nor is there need to seek anything.
This beginningless, vacuous, unconfused Clear Wisdom of cognizing one's own Self is the essence - is the core - of total freedom from the restrictions of material existence.
Though there are no two separate things as knowing and not knowing, there do exist innumerable profound types of meditation, - whose end is the supreme triumph of knowing the Great Awareness - the majesty of one's own mind.
Though no two separate things as the object of meditation and the meditator exist, - yet if the meditator of meditation is sought and not found, thereupon the goal of meditation is reached and also the end of meditation itself.
And even if meditator and the object of his meditation are no two separate things, we nevertheless should not forego meditation (and thus fall under the sway of veiling ignorance); - for when we meditatively experience the Great Awareness's quiescence unmodified in our mind, the clarity of non-created Wisdom instantly shines forth as the result.
And even if there are innumerable profound practices, they all do not exist for Awareness in its True State, - because there are no two separate things as existence and non-existence.
There being no two separate things as practice and practitioner, - yet if the practitioner of practice is