Nature, Reality, & Buddhism

[takso]

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a technical term used to describe realisation, graduation, and liberation.  The essence of enlightenment can be described as follows: -

·  Inherent nature would not involve change.  It is an immutable, indestructible, and everlasting nature.

·  Dependent nature describes the iterations of fluctuating activities that are affected by conditional phenomena.  In this process of becoming, change is a constant.

·  Mother Nature is both inherent and dependent, resulting in its universal and infinite nature.  It operates through the principles of absence, balance, and constancy.

·  Kamma-vipāka does not involve punishment by nature.  It is based on the principles of absence, balance, and constancy.

·  Everything is a matrix of all things and matters, with duality and multiplicity of circumstances always present in the realm of something.

·  The mind is the precursor of all states.  To observe, the object or matter must be in the range of the mental frequency horizon; otherwise, observation is not possible.

·   Something will always come out of something.  The realm of something does not allow for the elements of nothing to exist.

·  Absence is not a synonym for nothing, it is a synonym for perfect equilibrium.

·  Phenomenal existence is the product of the right combination of causes and conditions. 

·  Each existence consists of three basic elements, namely energy, matter, and space.  These elements would be subject to the cyclical influence of equilibrium and imbalances. 

·  Everything exists simultaneously under the present dynamism.  The projectile time movement discerned by our mental consciousness is purely due to relativity, owing to the varying vibrational frequencies.

·  Without the mind, the multiplicity of circumstances does not exist.  All things seem to be the deepest facts of their own, that is, no label, no limit, no name, no activity, no form, no description, etc.

·  All subjects and objects are created, but they are always empty.  Emptiness is the primary source of perceptible realities. 

·  Although it is not illusory, the appearance is deceptive because it doesn't exist intrinsically and varies based on conditional phenomena. The notion of emptiness in all things is what this is, i.e. the lacking any inherent existence.

·  The emptiness of phenomena is the cause and consequence of the dependent nature of phenomena.

·  Absoluteness is a property of relativity, and relativity is a property of absoluteness.

·  Seeing things as they truly are, from a variety of perspectives, is what it means to have wholesome contemplation.

·  There are variations and conditioned relations in the consciousness between beings; it is not identical or completely separate.

·  There is suffering (dukkha) because of conditional phenomena that would require individuals or things to persevere or undertake indefinitely.

·  To alleviate suffering, the middle path is the perfect approach to life.  The main idea is to pay attention to the core, neutrality, equilibrium, and righteousness. 

·  A cause is never sufficient to produce an effect.  A cause must, at the same time, be an effect, and each effect must be the cause of something else as well.

·  Conventional reality is subjective-cum-relative, i.e. the final conclusion varies from one observer to another.    

·  Our mental consciousness can be altered and transformed into a powerful black hole that strongly attracts and magnetises the vibrational frequencies; the psychic powers discovered in individuals. 

·  Rebirth is not reincarnation or transmigration.  It refers to the evolution of an individual’s consciousness or stream of consciousness.  This means that the new consciousness that appears in the same person (in the new person after death) is neither identical nor wholly different from the old consciousness, but it is part of a continuum of causation or streams with it.

·  Without memory, the law of kamma would not exist because there would be no process of becoming into all beings or things.

·  Energy can never be stationary at any point in time, but it may seem to freeze due to the presence of homologous forces, as does a black hole.

·  There is an imperious black hole in the innate mind of all individuals which is also known as the Clear Light in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. 

·  In an enlightened mind, the dominant mental consciousness would lead observation without identifying with the thoughts that flow through the subtle mental consciousness.

·  The nibbāna is completely non-existent.  When there is no mind that can generate descriptions, perceptions, names, shapes, and so on, it will manifest.

 

Ultimately, enlightenment is not a distant prospect that can only be attained by the privileged, chosen, or qualified individuals who sit in ivory towers.  We may not realise it, but we have actually learned, graduated, and been liberated from something somehow and somewhere.  In other words, each of us has had a moment of awakening in some way or another.  Anyone who has the right attitude or determination can achieve this profound realisation.