Knowing What’s Within Teaches Us What’s Without

A teacher is something or someone whose advice can dispel anxiety, alleviate worry and enlighten darkness, so giving confidence. A mind-wound or trauma from early life may still be present, but now it doesn’t take over our life. Healing starts from within when we realise causes and effects – things don’t just happen. Living with karma is living with the effects of our previous decisions and learning from them.

Teaching isn’t about being obliged to obey a set of rules or conform to the mould; it’s about personal experience and how life is for us now. We are not all the same at the same time. People are imprisoned by opinions that they’ve adopted from others’ opinions. In other words, we live our life guessing. 🙂

‘Dispel’ is an interesting word. We dispel darkness when we are no longer under the spell of the illusory mental fabrications which causes confusion; the outcome of that confusion is the blankness of not knowing. The Dharma (the teaching) dispels darkness through the light of wisdom that is already within. We all know but haven’t learnt to express it, and that’s why we feel uncomfortable.

Expressing what we know is challenging. This isn’t about repeating what others – even a teacher – say. It is realising the essence that connects it all, which results in originality.

Understanding the Dharma – and everything – is the same as understanding the escapement mechanism of a clock, which is the essence of all clocks; this is what connects and drives all the parts.

The essence of pure consciousness is clarity that expresses itself in compassionate effulgence. 🙂