MUDDY WATERS
The mud is obscurations.
The water, our essence.
Muddy water clears
with meditation.
Addiction to looking
stirs the mud again.
By looking, recognising and dropping,
essence is revealed.
Realising there never was any mud,
there is nothing to dissolve!
The water was always clear.
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BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
After a heavy rain the pond water in cove looks muddy for days….but it’s actually tiny minute particles of silt all mixed up with clear water, after days of gravity doing it’s natural thing..the silt is re-grounded to the bottom…and assumed to be mud. till the next rain when the perceived mud gets even deeper and the old silt covered with new silt layer……..The catch basin needs to be cleaned out every now and then to remove the built up sediment from over time…..
Mud, mud, glorious mud…nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
That’s according to Hippos!