By writing this it shows that you do not understand Non-Duality,
the important Mind-Only teachings, and what is Emptiness.
I wonder if you have read my explanation on the Flower?
If you see a colourful flower and
a dog and an insect too sees it, you and the dog and the ant are
not going to see the same things. The dog is only going to see
black and white. Why? Because the nature of the flower is Empty --
there is no graspable 'Essence of Flower' or the 'Flowerness of the
Flower' -- Flower is empty of any inherent existence, being only
conditioned arising, merely the aggregation of causes and
conditions, and having no reality apart from it!
All is merely dependent arising, they are mere APPEARANCE that is
Mind-Only having NO objective reality or inherent existence, no
fixed shapes, attributes, form, anythings that can be
grasped.
BUT it does not mean that they do not exist -- emptiness is empty
of the four extremes of 'existence, non existence, both existence
and non existence, neither existence nor non existenece'. The
middle way is that there is merely APPEARANCES -- Emptiness cannot
be separated from appearances. Mountain is not an objective
reality, it is dependent arising apperances, it is Conditions, and
that is Mind-Only.
And I also quoted Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche's writings which I have so
conincidentally found during the time I was writing my post:
Advice
On Presence And Awareness
...A practitioner of Dzogchen
must have precise presence and awareness. Until one really and
truly knows one's own mind and can govern it with awareness, even
if very many explanations of reality are given, they remain nothing
more than ink on paper or matters for debate among intellectuals,
without the possibility of the birth of any understanding of the
real meaning. In the Kun-byed rgyal-po, a tantra of Dzogchen, it is
said that: 'The Mind is that which creates both Samsara and
Nirvana, so one needs to know this King which creates everything!'
We say we transmigrate in the impure and illusory vision of
Samsara, but in reality, it's just our mind that is transmigrating.
And then again, as far as pure Enlightenment is concerned, it's
only our own mind, purified, that realizes it. Our mind is
the basis of everything, and from our mind everything arises,
Samsara and Nirvana, ordinary sentient beings and Enlightened
Ones. Consider the way beings transmigrate in the impure
vision of Samsara: even though the Essence of the Mind, the true
nature of our mind, is totally pure right from the beginning,
nevertheless, because pure mind is temporarily obscured by the
impurity of ignorance, there is no self-recognition of our own
State. Through this lack of self-recognition arise illusory
thoughts and actions created by the passions. Thus various negative
karmic causes are accumulated and since their maturation as effects
is inevitable, one suffers bitterly, transmigrating in the six
states of existence. Thus, not recognizing one's own State is the
cause of transmigration, and through this cause one becomes the
slave of illusions and distractions.
Conditioned by the mind, one becomes strongly habituated to
illusory actions. And then it's the same as far as pure
Enlightenment is concerned; beyond one's own mind there is no
dazzling light to come shining in from outside to wake one up. If
one recognizes one's own intrinsic State as pure from the beginning
and only temporarily obscured by impurities, and if one maintains
the presence of this recognition without becoming distracted, then
all the impurities dissolve. This is the essence of the Path. Then
the inherent quality of the great original purity of the Primordial
State manifests, and one recognizes it and becomes the master of it
as a lived experience. This experience of the real knowledge of the
authentic original condition, or the true awareness of the State,
is what is called Nirvana. So Enlightenment is nothing other than
one's own mind in its purified condition. For this reason
Padma Sambhava said: 'the mind is the creator of Samsara and of
Nirvana. Outside the mind there exists neither Samsara nor Nirvana.
'Having thus established that the basis of Samsara and Nirvana is
the mind, it follows that all that seems concrete in the world, and
all the seeming solidity of beings themselves, is nothing but an
illusory vision of one's own mind.
Just as a person who has a 'bile' disease sees a shell as being
yellow even if one can see objectively that that is not its true
color, so in just the same way, as a result of the particular
karmic causes of sentient beings, the various illusory visions
manifest. Thus, if one were to meet a being of each of the six
states of existence on the bank of the same river, they would not
see that river in the same way, since they each would have
different karmic causes. The beings of the hot hells would see the
river as fire; those of the cold hells would see it as ice; beings
of the hungry ghost realm would see the river as blood and pus;
aquatic animals would see it as an environment to live in; human
beings would see the river as water to drink; while the demi-gods
would see it as weapons, and the gods as nectar. This shows that in
reality nothing exists as concrete and objective. Therefore,
understanding that the root of Samsara is truly the mind, one
should set out to pull up the root. Recognizing that the mind
itself is the essence of Enlightenment one attains liberation.
Thus, being aware that the basis of Samsara and Nirvana is only the
mind, one takes the decision to practice...
