Resting in Whatever Occurs

I received an email asking for clarification of the meaning of “Liberation is resting in whatever occurs”.

I’ll have to admit, sometimes terminology goes right over my head 😉 and I have to go back and take the thing apart. A teaching may have a literal meaning and an expedient meaning.

Language can be misleading and confusing. Words are symbolic, to convey an experience. “Resting in whatever occurs” could be said to be “Resting with whatever occurs”, or better still, “Resting within whatever occurs”.

Resting without judgement in whatever occurs, there is a sense of relief and liberation from being caught and held: this is the “Clear Light of Bliss”. “The Clear Light of Bliss” sounds high faluting, but is the same as “Resting within whatever occurs”, which is the same as pure awareness.

We are the “Clear Light of Bliss” – pure sacred space. That is the nature of mind. Within mind – pure sacred space – anything is allowed to occur. There are two potentials here; one where anything is allowed to occur, to come and go, as any occurrence is impermanent and empty of true existence, and the other, where the Clear Light of Bliss forgets itself and nitpicks at occurrences, believing them to have a permanent existence (which is our usual way of life).

So, when there is an occurrence, for a milli moment the Clear Light of Bliss is together with that occurrence. Then, because the Clear Light of Bliss knows the true nature of that occurrence (empty of any real, inherent existence) we merely rest in the emptiness of the Clear Light of Bliss. If the Clear Light of Bliss doesn’t understand the true nature of occurrences, it remains in confusion: there is a constant oscillation between confusion and wisdom which creates an illusory ‘me’.

Resting in is resting in the very nature of the occurrences – emptiness – as they have no fundamental true existence of their own, arising from causes and conditions.

I’m sure I could have said that more simply….! 🙂
True Happiness cannot be disturbed by any outer force

…or…

one pointedness/one taste is bliss!

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