One Medicine Cures Everything!

Once we comprehend pure awareness
– essence –
anything that then rises within this pure awareness
is clearly seen and liberated.

If we wish to understand the creation of an “I”, we must first understand pure awareness because without this, we will not be aware of the concepts imposed upon that pure awareness.

When was this “I” first created? As we have had infinite incarnations, it’s not possible to say.

But we can be sure that whatever we did, we are repeating now – creating something in space for our entertainment. And so we entertain ourselves to death.

This “I” is merely a collection of ideas we acquire and then cling to, forgetting our true nature of pure awareness. This forgetting is ignorance. It’s because of this ignorance that we seek pleasure (impermanent happiness) and fear losing what we think we have (impermanent status).

• The human realm is governed by desire.
• This desire fills empty space (pure awareness).
• Having filled this space with concepts about ourselves and the world in which we live, we then make judgements: this gives rise to fear, as well as hope – and reinforces our clinging and frustration.
• This clinging to hopes and fears results in a lack compassion and love because of a created me-and-mine identity.

The cure is recognition of wisdom.
Pure awareness infected itself with a “I” and therefore became ‘me’ (of course, in order to function in this present form we need a little ‘i’, but this need not be too dominant). This “I” that is ignorant of its true nature created fear and desire in the belief that these are required in order to survive. These three are known as the three poisons: fear, desire and ignorance.

So where is the medicine? It lies precisely within those same three poisons!

The cure is present at every moment.
It is because of emptiness
that desires are clearly seen as a movement within clarity,
which serves as a spontaneous reminder.

It is because of awareness
that we become cognisant of judgement and fear.

It is because of compassion
that we recognise a mistaken view in ourself and others.

The medicine is the pure awareness of rigpa!
Empty essence.
Cognisant nature
Unconfined compassion.
These are the three kayas.

Because suffocating desire arises, we remember emptiness.
Because of fear, we remember the equanimity of awareness.
Because of ignorance, we remember compassion.

All this happens when we first comprehend pure awareness –
the medicine that cures everything!