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Buddha Nature

SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
edited January 2006 in Buddhism Basics
Today's "Glimpse" from Sogyal Rinpoche:
Where exactly is our buddha nature? It is in the skylike nature of our mind. Utterly open, free and limitless, it is fundamentally so simple and so natural that it can never be complicated, corrupted, or stained, so pure that it is beyond even the concept of purity and impurity.
To talk of this nature of mind as skylike is, of course, only a metaphor that helps us to begin to imagine its all-embracing boundlessness; for the buddha nature has a quality the sky cannot have, that of the radiant clarity of awareness.

It is said: “It is simply your flawless present awareness, cognizant and empty, naked and awake.”

Comments

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited December 2005
    Back to the Here and Now, where everything is absolutely perfect just as it is....
    Lovely reminder, Simon, to be Mindful....
    Thanks!
  • zenmonk_genryuzenmonk_genryu
    edited January 2006
    Thank you Simon.
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