If We Do Not Practise

If we do not sit in solitary stillness with an open mind, we will never realise the ultimate answer to all our questions. In practice, all questioning drops away, because we realise that that which is asking the questions is the ultimate answer.

Where it came from and where it’s going becomes irrelevant, as there is only here and now. That here and now was in the past and will be in the future. 🙂

We hear this time and time again, and give it no value as we want a short cut. It’s not going to happen. Ultimate truth isn’t understood through intellectualisations. We mustn’t confuse relative truth (everyday thinking) with ultimate truth (emptiness).

There are systems such as Madyamaka where everything is negated until we come to emptiness, and that works for some people. There are other systems where discipline is performed to realise emptiness. This blog is the Dzogchen approach which is direct. It is actually the short cut for those who have dropped both religiousness and intellectualisation, but use understanding of emptiness and discipline to support and maintain the clear view .

The practice is just letting go, and there are many levels of understanding this.

It’s a confusing world, and intellectualisation only makes it more confusing. Pure awareness, pure consciousness is beyond all concepts, and that is the reason why non-practitioners misunderstand.

Practice is merely being awareness.