{"id":6124,"date":"2014-08-24T04:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2014-09-15T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:44:58","slug":"a-unifying-clarity-tsk-ex-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6124","title":{"rendered":"A Unifying Clarity: TSK Ex 32"},"content":{"rendered":"

To penetrate and eliminate subtle and persistent afflictions, it is necessary to take clarity beyond the level of possession so that it becomes indestructible.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Revelations of Mind, Tarthang Tulku<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If any exercise could be said to be a gateway to a universe of possibilities, this would be my nomination. What a journey I have travelled with this in the last fortnight!<\/p>\n

First I struggled to construct intricate inner networks of light. The little five-light mandalas would move; some refusing to budge from a few inches away from the body, others much more flexible, others insisting on dropping down into my crown and continuing to build within the body.<\/p>\n

Proceeding sequentially and in a linear fashion, trying to hold the current point in balance with seeing the whole surrounding, expanding structure, until the inner tension built to such a level and my patience and capacity began to crack at the edges.<\/p>\n

I noticed that this was somewhat comparable to building a multi-headed, 12-armed \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdeity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122; holding a different implement in each hand \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but perhaps even more challenging!<\/p>\n

The more I practised, the more it seemed to throw into relief darkness, conflict, ambivalence, inner preoccupations.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the lights were diamond sharp and sometimes more like milk or a muffled lighthouse beam in fog.<\/p>\n

Moving to Ex 32B, I found the instruction to allow the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclights\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmore subtle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, and to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcemerging naturally from the openness of space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to be key.<\/p>\n

The combined effect of the hint: This light is not an imagined physical brightness, but rather the dynamism of ‘time’ and the incisive clarity of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknowingness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, <\/em><\/strong>with the suggestion that the best way to proceed is by \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcappreciatively apprehending\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong> switched the exercise to an entirely new level. The very words \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdynamism of time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcincisive clarity of knowingness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 allowed what they were describing to be revealed.<\/p>\n

O son of noble family…listen. Now the pure luminosity of the dharmat\u00c4\u0081 is shining before you; recognise it.<\/em><\/strong>O son of noble family, at this moment your state of mind is by nature pure emptiness, it does not possess any nature whatever, neither substance nor quality such as colour, but it is pure emptiness; …But this state of mind is not just blank emptiness, it is unobstructed, sparkling, pure and vibrant…your mind whose nature is emptiness without any substance whatever, and your mind which is vibrant and luminous are inseparable…This mind of yours is inseparable luminosity and emptiness in a form of a great mass of light, it has no birth or death, therefore it is the Buddha of Immortal Light…\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated by Francesca Fremantle and Ch\u00c3\u00b6gyam Trungpa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Light seems to be a quality of space; seems to be enfolded in<\/em> Space. When I allow these instructions (not \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdoing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcimposing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122), then light \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpops out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of space spontaneously.<\/p>\n

It is as though this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclighting up time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is already happening (hence the encouragement to appreciatively apprehend<\/em> that); knowledge manifesting in a time which is not normally observed. When we engage Ex 32, we show up to witness, participate in and embody this.<\/p>\n

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