Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
Part III
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Conclusion
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[ General Instructions ]
In this text the author (Padma-Sambhava) faithfully recorded his own experiences according to his abilities.
To one who tasted honey, it is superfluous for those who have not tasted it to offer an explanation of its taste.
If scholars or pundits talk about the ONE Awareness without ever having experienced it, they talk nonsense, despite all their cleverness in expounding the many different doctrinal systems.
To lend ear - even for a moment - to the reports of one who never approached nor perceived the Great Awareness, is like listening to flying rumours concerning a distant place that never was visited.
Simultaneous with the first experience of the Exalted Awareness comes release from good and evil.
As long as the Great Awareness is not known, all practice of good and evil results in nothing more than renewed incarnation in higher or nether regions, or the material world.
As soon as we become aware of the Wisdom of the Unmanifested, concepts like good and evil karma cease to exist.
Even as the empty sky seems to contain a source of water (rain), but does not, so also in the Exalted Awareness is neither good nor evil.