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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about by ignorance, but by us never having sought to really experience our Great Self.
Seek within thine own self-illuminating, self-originating Exalted Awareness - firstly - from where all such flawed concepts rise, - secondly - which (small) region of your being they really affect, and - lastly - whither they vanish.
This process of realization is similar to that of a crow which, although already in possession of a pond, flies off elsewhere to quench its thirst, and finding no other drinking-place returns to the original (known) pond.
Similarly the radiance the ONE Awareness emanates, by emanating from our own consciousness, emancipates our awareness.
The ONE Awareness, omniscient, all-comprehensive, immaculate, eternal, unobscured as the empty sky, shining clearly, imperishable in self-originated Wisdom - is Itself the Only Great Reality.
The entirety of the visible universe also is (merely) an expression (just one of many signs) of the ONE Awareness.
By knowing the ONE All-Encompassing Awareness in our mind, we know it to be free of every limitation as the clear sky.
Equating the cloudless sky with the Great Reality is meant merely as an analogy.
It links the unreality of visible things to the sky's apparent emptiness, - yet experiencing the Great Awareness does not depend on whether or not we understand this special simile.