Discovering Our Natural State
Our natural state is divine splendour.
Pure consciousness is clarity.
(It’s a welcome surprise to read in the dictionary that clarity means divine splendour 🙂 )
If we spend our life looking for the truth, we’ve lost the path, and remain in confusion. The path is immediate individual clarity that eliminates that confusion.
Do you see? It is the ‘looking’ that obscures clear seeing which is our natural state of pure consciousness. Everything else is speculation and belief. By scouring books and teachings, looking for the truth of origin, we miss that we are what we seek.
Clarity is divine splendour.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
“we are what we seek”…no wonder why we always end up at this one only reliable knowing, which is knowing our own being. Everything else can be doubted (including what we are: Self/No self…personal/ universal etc. ). But there is ‘something’ rather than nothing (even if we call it emptiness). And our experience of knowing this, is identical with our experience of knowing that we ‘are’. So what we ‘are’ must be this something that ‘is’. Irrespective of what it is. Regardless of anything else:
There ‘is’ something + our experience is we ‘are’ = That something is who we are = “We are what we seek”
Thank you!
Couldn’t agree more! 🙂 Tony