Nature, Reality, & Buddhism

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Rainbow Body: A Testament To The Formless Nature Of Form (Emptiness)
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Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon tradition have a concept called the rainbow body, which represents a high degree of spiritual realisation.  When a skilled practitioner dies, their physical body becomes a “body of light” or five-coloured rainbow, and only their hair and nails remain.  In some cases, this transformation is manifested in the body shrinking, emitting light, and even disappearing altogether.

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Having achieved this state is a demonstration of mastery over mind and matter, as well as the attainment of pure light and energy.  To be more specific, it represents the ultimate spiritual achievement, the attainment of enlightenment, and the practitioner's ascension from the physical body to a higher spiritual level.  Basically, Buddha’s nature exists within the innate faculty of all beings and things.  It’s just a matter of time before we discover such a reality through enlightenment.  

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For a general understanding, the nature of Buddha may also be recognised as the black hole of emptiness, as shown in the following illustrations:

In summary, if mental consciousness were not present, duality or multiple circumstances would be hindered.  Subsequently, all phenomena would manifest in accordance with the deepest facts, which means without any labels, boundaries, names, activities, forms, or descriptions. This implies that the ultimate truth is beyond the mind, concepts, and words, as it is beyond our standard ways of viewing things.  A clear mind is capable of discerning the most profound facts about things or matters, like a lotus flower that breaks the surface of the water and blooms without being touched by the mud or soiled water of the pond.

Form Is Emptiness

Heart Sutra
When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
was practising the profound Prajna Paramita
Illuminated the Five Skandhas
and saw that they are all empty
and crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty
Shariputra
form does not differ from emptiness
emptiness does not differ from form
form itself is emptiness
emptiness itself is form
So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness
Shariputra, all Dharmas are empty of characteristics
They are not produced, not destroyed,
Not defiled, not pure
And they neither increase nor diminish
Therefore, in emptiness
there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness
no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind
no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or Dharmas
no field of the eyes up to and including no field of mind consciousness and no ignorance or end of ignorance
up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death
There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, and no Way
and no understanding and no attaining
Because nothing is attained
The Bodhisattva through reliance on
Prajna Paramita is unimpeded in his mind
Because there is no impediment
he is not afraid
and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind
Ultimately Nirvana
All Buddhas of the three periods of time
Attain Anuttara-Samyak-Sambodhi through
Reliance on Prajna Paramita
therefore, know that Prajna Paramita
is a Great Spiritual Mantra
a Great Bright Mantra
a Supreme Mantra
an Unequalled Mantra
Remove all suffering
Genuine and not false
This is why The Prajna Paramita was spoken
Recite it like this:
Gaté Gaté Paragaté Parasamgaté Bodhi Svaha! (3x)

(Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, awakening, so be it!)