Oh, Child of Buddha Nature, listen! Pure inner
radiance – reality itself – is now arising before you! Recognise
it! This radiant essence that is now your conscious awareness is a
brilliant emptiness. It is beyond substance, beyond
characteristics and beyond colour, completely empty of inherent
existence in any respect whatsoever. The essence of your own
conscious awareness is emptiness. Yet, this is not a vacuous or
nihilistic emptiness.
This, your very own conscious awareness is
unimpededly radiant, brilliant and vibrant. The utterly indivisible
presence of these two; the essence of your own awareness which is
empty, without inherent existence with respect to any substance
whatsoever and your own conscious awareness, which is vibrant and
radiantly present, is the Buddha Body of
Reality.
This intrinsic awareness, manifest in a great
mass of light, in which radiance and emptiness are indivisible, is
the buddha nature of unchanging light, beyond birth or
death. Just to recognise this is
enough!
~ Padmasambhava