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the six realms
What does everyone know about the six realms, Sometimes i don't get the graphic representations.
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There are a lot of different interpretations and connected teachings.
Say describes the realms as the beings "karmic vision". The idea being that due to causes and conditions beings live lives of experience that are like those of the six realms. So rather than excluding the realms as physical places but without requiring blind faith in them, he made them relevant to practice and make a lot of sense too.
In emptiness anything is possible
Nagarjuna.
When you see appearances ultimatly as not having any inherant existance, But instead being Dependent Phenomena perceived by the mind, You realize that even things in a dream can appear and function even though they may defy what we know to be conventionally true, Its because the mind is the creator of all we perceive, Nothing is impossible when we consider the reality of a dream and the reality of the waking world is seperated by a state of mind namely gross and subtle.
I dont think there is a definitive answer.
Try not to confuse Buddhanature with some kind of permanent identity.
Buddhanature is our true nature that is beyond extremes etc.
Our true nature is obscured by ignorance. Our job as practitioners is to fully recognize our nature, not define a first cause of our obscurations.
No friend this is confusion. Buddha looked and he saw with his omnisicent wisdom that there was no begining to our birthing in samsara, But that each succesion is as you say propelled to the forces of action and reaction. We all have Buddha nature, It become very confusing when you look for a definitive begining as Buddha said there is none, But it is better to accept that like a circle one cannot draw a point of begning or natural end to it. Buddha nature is that which underlies all sentient beings it is not inherant ( Self existant ) But exists in a conventional understanding because of our apparent consciousness and the Dependent relationship upon such, Without such a Dependence relationship of all the factors of consiousness a perfection without delusion could not be present. Do not think of Buddha nature as something that is Self-existant but rather as a result of its Dependence....As it is said Samsara and Nivarna are inseperably one.
However where the difficulties of rosicrucian and golden dawn go to prove a monotheism the Kalachakra on the other hand doesn't partake in this idea at all .This is brilliant and truely inspiring it brings the nature that Emmerson is talking about into a new perspective. Truly awesome.
My teacher gently told me that attempting to examine "The First Cause" was an imponderable, we cannot see it, and telling stories about it would not be helpful in examining the truth that is in front of us.
It is akin to saying "Oh yeah, well which came first, the chicken or the egg", as if the origin will help prove that the chicken or the egg exist today. Looking backward for proof actually undermines the strength of our focus in the present, which is how we quell the disturbance that causes our need for proof.
Better to let go and sweep the floor around us.