Not one? Not two? Then what?
There is the sudden and there is the gradual way of realization.
Then, there is also the simultaneous way where sudden and gradual are considered to be part and parcel of the timelessness of the immediacy of the moment and instant presence includes both as aspects of the pathless path that is already beneath our feet.
How foolish then is it to then miss it? It roars unmistakably in the sound of everything around us, be it quietude or the sounds of a busy, urban landscape.
We can smell it in the mandala of myriad scents from flowers to feces be they faint or rich and thick.
Even in every taste, from bitter to sweet, there is the flavor of Pure Mind itself as the taster and the tasted as all flavors have their basis in that which is the means and the method.
In every experience is that which has no definition and is unimaginable and uncontainable by concepts and is the ground of being and the essence and means by which all is. The indestructible core is the nature of being that relaxes into itself as itself without any other whatsoever. There is not one or two or any particular enumeration that would suffice to describe its all inclusive, pervasive nature beyond experience itself which is perfect from the beginning and shinning like the Sun itself through all aspects of experience and being without any restriction or barrier at all other than the radiant, self-revealing and random nature of conceptual frameworks that appear to occlude what they actually reveal upon recognition of self-nature.
This is always the time for the pinnacle of the path that is never traversed. The victory banner is already unfurled and undulates in the wind of mind to reveal and reflect itself as the ultimate and immediate, ever-dawning quantum leap into the natural state that has never been absent from any experience at all.
We are free and have always been and always will be free. What then are the shells of concepts and prisons of beliefs that make this fact to seem not so in our everyday, conditioned experience of being?
Not one? Not two? Then what? It is so simple that the complications are in the reactions and responses to it, not the subject matter itself. That is the very heart of where the reflection can be found to shine with an unmistakable effulgence as a thrilling, shining and blissful comprehension of what is direct and self releasing as immediacy without a second thought.
mind.
Since there is no phenomenon that is not included in awakened
mind,
the true nature of all phenomena is that of awakened mind.
Space is a metaphor for awakened mind.
Since that mind has no cause and is not an object that comes
into being,
it does not abide in any finite way, is inexpressible, and
transcends the realm of the imagination.
The phrase "the realm of space" is simply a way of illustrating
it metaphorically.
If even the metaphor itself cannot be described as some "thing,"
how could the underlying meaning that it illustrates be imagined
or described?
It should be understood as a metaphor for what is naturally
pure.
awareness equal to space.
It is not within the realm of the imagination, for it defies
illustration or description.
Naturally lucid and unwavering, the spacious expanse of
utter lucidity
is not created but is spontaneously present, with no fixed reach
or range.
Dharmakaya is the spacious domain that is the heart essence
of enlightenment.
The evidence is that anything can and does arise due to the
dynamic energy of awareness.
Even as it arises, there is no place of arising or anything arising.
"Arising" is simply a label, for if examined, it is found to be
like space.
Everything being encompassed within a supreme state of
equalness without bias
constitutes the expanse of infinite evenness, which entails no
dualistic perception.
(quotes are from The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena by Longchenpa Rabjam)
Good Fortune to All from the Wish Fulfilling Jewel.