Understanding, Recognising and Resting.

Understanding is knowing.
Recognising is awareness.
Resting is Shunyata (emptiness).

 No doing is involved.
Merely understand, recognise and rest.
In other words, look, see, drop!
The pointing out instruction.

 Understanding is knowing the nature of whatever appears – all appearances.

Recognising is re-cognising this nature of all appearances – and that which is aware of all appearances.

Resting is without altering, without modifying, dropping any involvement in appearances, and resting in what is left. Emptiness. Essence. Pure and simple.

So, what we are dealing with is appearances. People are appearances, and, as appearances, all people are our symbolic teachers. Having understood and recognised that their true nature is empty cognisance, devotion arises towards these “teachers”. Compassion also arises for their appearances of mis-understanding, unawareness and restlessness!

I once said to my teacher, “I have compassion for those who say they are happy, and empathy for those who say that they are unhappy.” He agreed, as saying that you are happy is not the same as being happy…

Our re-action toward others is so important. They – and everything else – are the symbolic teacher, the teacher of all phenomena (see the four types of teacher). Every time we react to phenomena, we make it appear real, and so we appear to suffer. This suffering takes us through the six neurotic realms (see the six realms http://www.youtube.com/edit?ns=1&video_id=ZmwQRe5xrvM ).

When we have a proper understanding of appearances, recognition and coming to rest, we remain in our natural state of Shunyata (emptiness). From here, we can help others. Believe me, our reactions to others show us exactly what we are holding on to!

The nature of pure mind:
Emptiness – Dharmakaya
Cognisance – Sambhogakaya
unconfined Compassion- Nirmanakaya

 The nature of neurotic mind.
Dharmakaya – Desire
Sambhogakaya – Aversion
Nirmanakaya – Ignorance

Now we can start to understand and recognise the true nature of the emotions!

 (I didn’t intend to write this…it just came out. One needs an authentic teacher to receive the pointing out instruction. The teacher also needs an authentic student!)