A Glass Of Water: The Problem Is The Glass
Realisation is the taste:
the glass is merely a vehicle.
We want the water, but we get hung up about the type of glass the water comes in 🙂 It is the water we need to satisfy our thirst. The glass is the religion, tradition, or culture.
Water is freely common, but culture makes the glass expensive and elaborate. The quenching of our thirst is in the drinking. All we need is the experience. We needn’t be concerned about the glass; if we are, we will remain dry.
The realisation of truth is in tasting, ie suck-it-and-see. If we’re hung up on the container, we become hung up on what is known, rather than acknowledging plain knowing itself.
Understanding that everything is impermanent is not a religion or a philosophy.
Nothing will give us 100% satisfaction, and desire does not lead to happiness.
Everything is a projection, an opinion, not truly there.
We do not have to join anything.
We don’t have to be stressed that we don’t know enough,
or pay to realise our true nature.
The world is mad.
We are not going to change that.
Our practice is not joining it.
Be humble.
Just see.
Once we have satisfied our thirst,
we can put down the glass.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. In this way, Dzogchen is practical - no bells and whistles required. 
A glass is useful only when empty.If it has any content it is a dogma taking the shape of the glass.We need no glass to perceive and taste the living water.We need no priests, religions, bells and pimps.Our empty hands can serve…
I think the water represents the realisation of emptiness, rather than an idea of emptiness.
Maybe realisation is recognising what we personally no longer need.
Tony