Dharma Is Straightforward

Dharma – the uncomplicated instruction on reality; easy to do and understand.

Just sit in mental silence.
Be aware that you are that awareness with no name.
You are then able to recognise when the mind wanders off.
We can all do that, can’t we?

If we don’t recognise our mind wandering off into fixations, these fixations obscure this pure vision. Enmeshed in fixations, we don’t recognise that we are fixated – other people are fixated!:-)

So why don’t we notice our predicament?
Our minds are buried under generations of historical, material facts and beliefs, the muddy residue we live in now. We think it’s normal. 😀 If we hold on to these ‘facts and beliefs’, we become infected, and so infect others.

All we have to do is rest in mental silence of pure awareness, and our life’s manual changes.

“Manual?
No one told me about an instruction book!”

Yes, it’s our very fixations, called karma in Sanskrit. This karma-confusion tells us everything we personally need to know to attain enlightenment. What else are we here for? Our path is rectifying our confusion. We will not get our instruction from a book – that is someone else’s karma.

It is our own hang-ups that obscure the realisation of our true reality of pure awareness that has no name. In our confusion, we become vague, where thought and communication are unfocused and imprecise.

The reason that the Dharma seems not to be straightforward is because we hold ideas (fixations) about it. We believe our ideas, rather than the direct experience of pure awareness which actually shows us everything clearly.

The reason we don’t know
is because we ignore that which is seeing –
pure awareness with no name.