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Newest Reality

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Sun May 5, 2013, 08:07 PM May 2013

Basic Space

The great perfection of true nature. Some will habitually pass by it with little notice or mention, others will find it disturbing and reject the expression, others will find a gradual or sudden meaning in its psychotropic depths which are this moment as it is.

Relaxing into it as such, this is the easy and simple way that is difficult only because it is so definitively simple and it contains all means and ways as it shines like a victory banner at the pinnacle.

Let it be. Leave it alone. Doing nothing when action is habitual is key. Relax and relax again and then let relaxation be without effort or intent. Consider that it is already accomplished and stay right there with one thing and one thing only.

Most of all pay attention to the reactions of the intellect to this language of nature. That, in itself reveals a skillful insertion that reveals what already is. Consider, if you will, the relationship and contrast of this mode of transmission in contrast to the shell of concepts and cage of beliefs prevalent in these times where conditioning and naivety are rife.

An excerpt from The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena:

Awakened mind is the actual state of everything.
It exhibits an unceasing quality.
Whatever arises in all its variety is naturally and clearly apparent,
evident within the pure basic space, the true nature of phenomena.
There is no division or exclusion - the mode of awareness is without restriction.

Unobstructed timeless awareness, a naturally occurring spacious expanse,
is utterly lucid - unobscured, with no division into outer and inner -
and so self-knowing awareness is the great radiant mirror of mind.
The precious gem that provides for all wants is the basic space of phenomena.
Since everything occurs naturally without having to be sought,
naturally occurring timeless awareness is the splendid source of all one
could wish for.

However many great qualities can be enumerated,
they come from basic space and are of basic space, arising continuously
as sublime skillful means.
Since everything is spontaneously perfect in unborn basic space,
the substance of things is outshone by their emptiness as the expanse
of enlightenment,


For the benefit of all! Good fortune.
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Basic Space (Original Post) Newest Reality May 2013 OP
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