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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This knowledge liberates from searching 'The Foundation Of Everything'.
Since the Great Awareness continuously expands dynamically, there simply is no (static) 'Foundation Of Everything'.
- 'Common Sense' only occurs within the framework of material existence. Striving for such rationality will keep a person locked within these bounds.
Yet regardless what elegant and splendid names be given to fleeting aims, - what other Wisdom than that of the Great Awareness do we really long for deep inside?
To desire more than this Wisdom is to be like one who seeks an elephant by following its footprints, when the elephant itself has long been found.
[Connecting to the Great Reality ]
And even if we seek throughout all the material worlds, - the Exalted, Pure Awareness cannot be found except in our mind.
Who does not know this and seeks the Self outside his mind won't find it there.
Who thus seeks to know himself is like a fool giving a performance in midst a crowd, forgets who he really is and then seeks everywhere to find himself.
This simile also applies to erring in other ways.
Release from the constriction of material existence stays unattainable as long as the true natural state of