Release your Potential

When we forget our true nature, we become lazy. Lazy, lazy, lazy 😉

When we become lazy, the emotions creep back in to our system. Devotion turns to pride, and compassion to jealousy. Devotion becomes mechanical and routine… “Done that, feel good, what to I do now?” Compassion gets tired of listening to others… “Why doesn’t anyone listen to me?” This is easily done. Of course, this is how we get caught up in samsara…again and again! Lazy, lazy, lazy 😉

So, we are a work in progress.

But. Are we a work in progress? Or do we consider ourselves a finished product?

From a relative point of view, we feel we are the finished product – enlightened – “I know”. In spite of this, we are easily upset, feeling vulnerable because, in actuality, we are not enlightened. We forget knowing: Knowing is rigpa. Not knowing is ma-rigpa. They exist in the same space. These two seem different, but the only difference is that rigpa is the light, whereas ma-rigpa turns the light off. When the light is switched on, the darkness disappears. Rigpa dispels* ma-rigpa.

Rigpa’s magic is that it can dispel the spell of darkness.

We are, in fact, the finished product, but we just don’t know it. We are rigpa in ma-rigpa – knowingness in forgetfulness.

When we realise that we are the finished product, there is still work in progress…and that’s love!

We release our potential.
Rigpa is essence.

Releasing that
is essence love.

* “dispel”: from Latin dispellere, from dis- ‘apart’ + pellere ‘to drive’.