Awareness is not an observer, is not localized and
is inseparable from the
diversity of conditions, hence empty -quoted
Care to elaborate more on this
?
Here's some explanations:
http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2007/03/mistaken-reality-of-amness.html
...Since appearance is all there is and appearance is really the
source, what gives rise to the diversities of appearances?
“Sweetness” of sugar isn’t the “blueness” color of the sky. Same
applies to “AMness”… all are equally pure, no one state is purer
than the other, only condition differs. Conditions are factors that
give appearances their ‘forms’. In Buddhism, pristine awareness and
conditions are inseparable...
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An elaboration on Emptiness/Dependent Origination:
...Like a red flower that is so
vivid, clear and right in front of an observer, the “redness” only
appears to “belong” to the flower, it is in actuality not so.
Vision of red does not arise in all animal species (dogs cannot
perceive colours) nor is the “redness” an attribute of the mind. If
given a “quantum eyesight” to look into the atomic structure, there
is similarly no attribute “redness” anywhere found, only almost
complete space/void with no perceivable shapes and forms. Whatever
appearances are dependently arisen, and hence is empty of any
inherent existence or fixed attributes, shapes, form, or “redness”
-- merely luminous yet empty, mere Appearances without
inherent/objective existence. What gives rise to the differences of
colours and experiences in each of us? Dependent arising... hence
empty of inherent existence. This is the nature of all
phenomena.
As you've seen, there is no
‘'The Flowerness'’ seen by
a dog, an insect or us, or beings from other realms (which really
may have a completely different mode of perception). ‘'The Flowerness' is an illusion that
does not stay even for a moment, merely an aggregate of causes and
conditions. Analogous to the example of ‘flowerness’, there is no
‘selfness’ serving as a background witnessing either -- pristine
awareness is not the witnessing background. Rather, the entire
whole of the moment of manifestation is our pristine awareness;
lucidly clear, yet empty of inherent existence. This the way of
‘seeing’ the one as many, the observer and the observed are one and
the same. This is also the meaning of formlessness and
attribute-less of our nature....
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Thusness's Six Stages of Experience:
http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2007/03/thusnesss-six-stages-of-experience.html
6. The
nature of Presence is Empty
Not only is there no ‘who’ in pristine awareness,
there is no ‘where’ and ‘when’.
Pristine Awareness cannot be contained within a 6-foot body --
neither within nor without. The ‘bond’ makes it so.
All is Presence! But “TONGSss…” is radically different from “the
blue sky”….When conditions are, there is. There is no need for a
'who', ‘when’ or ‘where’, only causes and conditions are necessary.
This is its nature.
When there is this, that is.
With the arising of this, that arises.
When this is not, neither is that.
With the cessation of this, that ceases.
-- the principle of conditionality
The self-luminous awareness from beginning-less time has never been
separated and cannot be separated from its conditions. They are not
two -- This is, That is. Along with the conditions, Luminosity
shines without a center and arises without a place. No where to be
found. This is the emptiness nature of Presence
Updated comments: With the willingness to let go of
the ‘I’ and ‘Mine’, the ‘emptiness nature’ is clearly understood.
Practice is neither going after the mirror nor escaping from the
maya reflection; it is to clearly 'see' the 'nature' of
reflection.
To see that there is really no mirror other than the
ongoing reflection due to our emptiness nature. Neither is there a
mirror to cling to as the background reality nor a maya to escape
from. Beyond these two extreme lies the middle path -- the prajna
wisdom of seeing that the maya is our Buddha
nature.
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Longchen's recent article on his realisation of Emptiness:
http://www.dreamdatum.com/non-solidity.html
This article describes a spiritual insight. It may be
quite hard to understand.
The things that we experience are registered by all the
sense organs. The eye sight registers vision, the ears register
sound, the body registers sensations. These perception, sensations
and experiences are not happening in some places. They are the
experience of the arising of certain conditions. There is no
solidity and physicality in the actual experience.
What we experienced is not universal and common to all.
Here's an example to illustrate that: We know that as human beings,
we see in term of colours. Some animals are however colour-blind,
thus they see differently from us. But none of us, is really seeing
the truth nature directly. The senses of different species of
sentient beings experience things differently. So who is seeing the
real image of an object? None.
Likewise, the various
planes of existence are due to different conditions arising. In
certain types of meditation, one is said to be able to access these
planes of existence. This is because they are not specific
locations. They are mental states and are thus non-localised. In
these meditations, our consciousness changes and 'aligned' more
with these other states or planes of existence.
All the planes of existence
are simultaneously manifesting, but because our senses are
human-based conditioned arisings, we only see the human world and
other beings that shared 'similar' resonating arising conditions.
But nevertheless, the other planes of existences are not elsewhere
in some other places.
What we think of as places
are really just consciousness and there is no solidity whatsoever.
Even our touch sense is just that. The touch sense gives an
impression of feeling something that is physical and
three-dimensional. But there is really no solid self-existing
object there. Instead, it is simply the sensation that gives the
impression of physical solidity and form.
OK, that all I can think of
and write about this topic. I will revise and improve this article
where the need arises.
For your necessary ponderance. Thank you for
reading.