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The Pen

Mindfulness, key to Awareness

By: Susan M. Griffith-Jones


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This book is dedicated to

Chogye Trichen Ngawang Thupten

Khenrab Lekshey Gyatso Rinpoche,

without whose precious guidance

it would not have come into being.


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Authors Note

This book, The Pen has been extracted from mypreviously published book, The Rainbow Bridge -Directly perceiving emptiness whilst holdingappearance, a comprehensive compilation of Buddhistthought on the nature of awareness.

In February 2009, I took the plunge and published it. Yetits journey had already started long ago, high up in thetrans-Himalayan region of Mustang in April 2005, when I

went there on a journey that would lead me to an in-depthcontemplation on my inner psyche.

Indeed as most life-turning events seem to begin, it wasnot planned, but an expedition prompted by anunexpected suggestion of my spiritual Guru, His EminenceChogye Trichen Rinpoche, a great Master of the TibetanBuddhist tradition, who was then residing in Bouddhanath(Kathmandu, Nepal), as I too was.

And so it happened that the day before departing on a tripto Tibet, (a planned trip), I went to visit him for hisblessing as is customary before long journeys. With ticketsbought and visas and permits already obtained, I wasmentally ready and all packed up to leave on thispilgrimage

when suddenly he stopped me in my tracks.

Go to Muktinath! he told me, and even though I wasfully coherent in the final decision making process, I couldnot fail to listen to this simple statement that hisclairvoyant mind had detected as perhaps a more suitableoption for me. Was it protective advise against an ill tobefall me in Tibet? I wondered at the time. Now in 2010, Iunderstand it as a fulfilment of personal destiny, a springboarding of events and life circumstances that wouldfollow.

Within a few more days and a plethora of mind shatteringrealisations between, instead of arriving in the Tibetan


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regions capital of Lhasa, I found myself in the heart of theKali Gandaki gorge heading towards Mustang in thenorthern reaches of Nepal.

But it was only upon entering the valley of Muktinath,nestled in the southern part of the ancient kingdom ofMustang that I was unknowingly swept into the vortex ofthe place as I explored its highs and lows, interiors andexteriors as well as the sacred and mundane without anyintention of going anywhere in particular.

Consciously realising that I had entered a kind of sub-strata reality where the division between gross, hard-coreexistence blends easily into a more subtle space of being,

this unchartered journey of spiritual awakeningculminated in a kind of transcending of the so-calledordinary world.

Just following my Gurus advise I was truly there to visitthe place, to understand it, to find out its essentialmeaning and the vision of the Guru who had sent me onthis journey, by just simply being there and facingwhatever occurred.

Location of Mustang in Nepal

After returning to Kathmandu and shaken in a new way bywhat had happened, I set about to write it down in a

Mustang


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travelogue of sorts. A mystical and yet flowing explanationof the deeper process that had occurred ensued upon thepage in the root text, The Rainbow Bridge thatappeared in a series of verses pouring from my mind in an

insistent and procreative way.

These verses remained in a file on my computer for thenext three years as I set about digesting their meaninginto everyday life.

It was only in the middle of 2008 when I had alreadyshifted to the old British hill station of Mussoorie in theIndian Himalayas after the passing away of my Guru, thatI set about to explain the meaning of the verses in a

commentary to the essential text.

Thus bridging the so-called outer meaning of our lives toour inner senses, thoughts, perceptive states andultimately to that naked state of awareness that cannotdefine itself except as just existing, I attempted to explainthe verses in as near as possible language to our ordinaryperceptual state of being.

My main aim was to include its most obvious as well as

hidden meanings within the rainbow allegory thatpervades the book by paralleling them with our variousshades of consciousness, so that our naked coreawareness may stand visible beyond all of thosedimensional aspects.

On March 1st 2009 in Delhi, I finally gazed at the cover of ahardback book depicting a rainbow outstretched above amonastery in the heart of the Muktinath valley. Looking

across at the twenty or so boxes within which the 1000copies we had published were neatly stacked, I felt asense of wonderment of the power of words and theircapacity to achieve creative fulfilment.

I had already decided to self-distribute the books as I waskeen to learn the process as well as to slightly keep tab onwhere they would be placed in the market. I also knewthat this was not a book for everyone and that it requiredan audience of like-minded seekers of spiritual knowledge

and wisdom.


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places of distribution of books in India

I could not cover the entire world with my 1000 books, butif I were to concentrate on certain key areas wherepeople, who were wishing to reach beyond the mundaneworld and understand their inner truths, from all over theworld would come, then they would do the job for me bytaking the books back to their homelands, giving them aplace upon their various bookshelves and awaiting thosewho may be attracted to open its pages.

Rishikesh

Dharamsala

Delhi Kathmandu

Pokhara


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So it continued in Dharamsala - Northern India, where theprocess of distribution had become even easier as I wasbecoming familiar with the way that the shops worked andalso more flowing in my description of the book. Then on

to Indias great capital of Delhi and Nepals two largestcities of Kathmandu and Pokhara.

The finer details of what occurred in each of these placesand the meetings and conversations that ensued aroundthe distribution of The Rainbow Bridge to bothindividuals and shops would merit a book in itself. I wasmeeting different religious backgrounds, beliefs andmoods in which I came to detect a unified spiritualunderstanding that definitely exists between people of

different origins.

The launch of the book at one of Delhis great culturalplaces, India Habitat Centre in May 2009 brought about anew series of questioning and debate around it. I suddenlyfound enthusiasts interested in learning more and goingdeeper into the meaning of its content.

Today as I see one third of the pile gone to theirdestinations and another third within the distributionnetwork, I feel both a sense of satisfaction as well asintrigue as places further afield reveal their interest in it.From Holland and the United Kingdom to South Africa andSingapore, I have now been invited to lecture on itscontent and how the book came about.

Today, I contemplate on how one small step, three simplewords of Go to Muktinath really does lead to giantpaces. And how Muktinath, a previously silent and remote

valley of the Himalayas is now travelling the world, itsinner meaning and secret essence manifest upon thepages ofThe Rainbow Bridge.

Even though Muktinath has its own particularities and is asacred place in itself, I also realised that going beneaththe surface could happen in any place and at any time, inthe sense that ones vision always has the potential to seebeyond the obvious physical and geographical layout ofthe scene and the day-to-day activities of its inhabitants.


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to measuring the light, he had told me, More lightoutside, let less light in, aperture (opening) low andshutter speed high. Less light outside, reverse theprocess. I found myself paralleling this statement with

many aspects of life.

For whilst roaming the valley, held by my inquisitive hand,the camera had seemed to take on a mind of its own as Iwas inspired to shoot a plethora of plants, rock formations,villages, people and whatever else that stood along theway.

Because the light meter on this twenty-five year oldPentax was long past mending and doubled with the urge

to shoot many appearing forms, I was forced to read thelight of the intended object of my focus and fix in thecorrect coordinates of shutter speed and apertureaccordingly, with such speed of attention so as not to losethe object of the picture, which is constantly changingappearance before ones eyes.

As I played with the light in this way whilst standing atdifferent locations of the valley, I shot different aspects ofit everywhere, clumsily adjusting the light aperture andshutter speeds whilst attempting to read the light on theobject of focus, an exercise that turned out to be anadjustment of my own vision.

One thousand, three hundred photos later, somethingintricate and unusual emerged in my understanding.Sometimes I could barely decipher the originality of eachpicture, as they seemed to blend into one great mix ofphotos of every corner of the valley, a blur of colour and

shape, indecipherable as one or another aspect ofphenomena.

This understanding of the inseparable nature ofeverything had expanded whilst following the main river ofthe valley along its naturally winding course down by theriverbed aligned by high cliffs of crumbling sandstonerock.

For logically so, I had started to place my focus on the

prominent mountain at the back of the Muktinath valley, aspecial mountain with a mandala-like plateau at its apex


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Prominent mountain of Muktinath valley from river bed

However, at the same time I was aware that it was alwaysthe same mountain, same physical size, same height,unchanged in its natural presence, even though itappeared to change as I moved my location.

For this reason, I started to play a game of perspectivewith it from other parts of the valley too rather than justdown by the riverbed, each with the same result.

Object in focus is always fundamentally unchanged, yet itsappearance is totally different depending on where one isviewing it from.

This blatant paradox got me thinking.

Transferring the understanding of this into the parallel of


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ones nature of mind, I saw that ones mind focus, namelythat which is the object of appearance totally depends onthe perspective or viewpoint of the perceiving mindbeholding it.

And even though the objective appearance seeminglychanges as ones subjective point of view changesposition, it never actually strays from its absoluteawareness nature.

For when ones perceptive awareness sees what appearsas simply appearance and does not interfere with it inany way by changing ones viewpoint from here to there,so does the focus of the perceiver as well as object being

perceived rest in a perfect natural state of being.

When this understanding is realised, then no matter fromwhich angle it is seen, even though it appears as changedin relative shape, form and appearance, subject andobject are in union.

The mountain is always simply the mountain.

Born from that understanding came the entire text of

The Rainbow Bridge that appeared as a vision of itsmeaning. That vision is neither of an actual bridge ofrainbow light itself, nor as any fixed image as such, but asthe visual aspect of the words that now appear in the text.Nor is the vision solid, but appears as a changing,mutating impression in the mind.

As I perceived the multi-layers of the vision by focussingon one or another part of it and in order to keep as closeto its meaning as possible, I simply wrote down what

appeared in the mind at that moment, displaying in wordswhat was actually appearing in a subtle visual way, whilstattempting never to stray from the main focus of it, thelesson that the great mountain in the valley of Muktinathhad taught me along with the camera.

Following it through until it held at a certain point, Iattempted to rest my mind alone in the nature of writingand it was in this manner that the words tumbled onto the

page during the summer months of May and June 2005 inKathmandu, Nepal.


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Even though I am strictly speaking both the author andcommentator of The Rainbow Bridge, it is not a textthat I can say that I wrote as such, but it was truly like Iwas the pen of the following verses, where the text was

just appearing onto the page as I put pen to paper. In thissense, my authorship of the text can be reduced toscribe.

Due to this feeling, I refer to myself as the writer duringmuch of the commentary and in this way have been ableto de-identify myself with the authorship of both theverses and the commentary, which is how I evidentlyperceive it. This technique has also allowed me tocomment on its content without personal attachment to it.

After spilling the original text down onto paper, pretendingthat I was any reader that may follow its course, I saw thatit may raise some questions and thus decided to make acommentary to explain its subtleties, so that its definitionaccording to the original meaning of the vision would bemaintained.

I thus assumed the same practise of de-authorship whilstediting such commentary.

Even though some of the text may seem biased towardscertain philosophical or religious viewpoints, it was simplywith the vision held in mind that I let the words pour forthwhilst attempting to describe that same vision.

Presenting this work has not been without itscomplications, just as any written text poses an automaticdifficulty in that the writer writes from one perspective

and the reader reads from another.The text of The Rainbow Bridge, which is to beperceived by readers, itself aims to provide a means tobridge that automatically appearing gap between theawareness mind of both writer and reader.

In this way, the text encourages the reader to rest mind inawareness so that awareness may provide the necessaryconnection or bridge between what has been written and

what may be understood by different individuals readingit, meaning to demonstrate that the essential awareness


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space of one relative form is the exact same awarenessspace of another.

The text is a description of a vision of such awareness, ajourney of perceptive mind across the rainbow bridge toits pure awareness nature.

Following a short prologue of just one verse that in itselfholds the entire meaning of The Rainbow Bridge is thesection entitled, The Pen, which inadvertently describesthe nature of awareness mind through giving instructionsto the pen being used to write the text. This is followed bya short five-lined epilogue that sums up the essentialcomment of the whole text.

It is this section of The Penthat I have reproduced herein this short book named, The Pen, Mindfulness,key to Awareness, as it contains the entire essence ofThe Rainbow Bridge.

Focussing on the most essential aspect of our dharmapractise, that of familiarising ourselves with our inherentawareness nature of mind, the whole spectrum of mind isbrought to its natural state.

It is with profound thanks to many who have helped mebring this into being that I therefore present this text tothe publications department of the Kong Meng San PhorKark See Monastery in Singapore.

Wishing that this reproduced work will truly bring thosewho connect with its meaning to a state of perfectawareness, remembering that it had been inspired by asimple, short comment from a great Master followed by a

journey of revolutionary nature in Muktinath (Mukti Salvation, Nath place, Muktinath Place of Salvation),may any reader who may rest in its words and any listenerwho may hear its name, reach such perfect state.

Susan M. Griffith-Jones

Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India

July 2010


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How to read the text

There are three different aspects to the text and the

reader may like to consider each one of them.

Firstly, there is the root text, which is written in full onthe following pages and also verse-by-verse throughoutthe commentary.

Secondly, there is the commentary, which is adescription of the meaning of the root text in full, wherethe meaning is fully explored and looked at from eachangle.

Thirdly, there is a subtle essential text that is written inbold throughout the commentary. These are words thatare picked out of the root text, but when read piece-by-piece from start to finish, form a simple and directinstruction that nevertheless contains the essentialmeaning of both the root text and the commentary.

As the reader, if you have more time, then you can go

through each section of the commentary verse-by-verse.Being the first part to emerge, the root text is moreconcise, but the subtle essential text in bold is the mostdirect and to the point.


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Prologue


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I give you one task

O reader of this text,

Ingest the fire of wisdom nectar

And digest each word,

Then conjure the picture.

For this translation is of images,

Now evaporated

And replaced with words

Of human awareness,

The clarity of perception

Ever-determining

The nature of appearance

As it crosses

The rainbow bridge

To its birth less

existence.


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Text of

The Pen


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1.

The page is blankThe pen wet,

Poised above the pregnant emptiness.

Anything,

Anything

May arise,

May appear

In forms

That speak their truth

Through a multitude of displays.

2.

For inside each character,

Each letter,

Is contained

The essence

Of the unity of light and sound.

Thus with light as pure bliss


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Whatever appears

Remains ever this.

7.

Oh pen,

Your job is futile

For whatever you say

Is always that same combination

Of bliss and emptiness.

8.

If your perception,

The manifesting tool of awareness,

Strays from that understanding

Then you will write

Nothing of the truth.

9.

Yet just as you may not speak the truth,

It will always be contained within.

For the nature of the letters on the page

Are simply your union with it.

10.

Thus, bliss appears as letters

And emptiness as their sound,


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Perception as their meaning,

Both inherent within.

How wonderful

The marvels that may appear

From your tripartite union.

11.

But even though they seem to appear,

They never actually appeared at all.That blissful emptiness

Of intrinsic awareness

Stirred,

Played and then rested again

In its true state.

Yet in truth it never awoke

From its timeless poise,

But seemed to

Whilst spontaneously holding

The marvellous display

Of bliss and emptiness,

Understanding itself

As their union.

12.

And so is revealed

True mind


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From the union of these three,

The eternal guru.

You pen,

Are the guru.

Trust firmly in your true nature

And inject confidence

In your form.

13.Oh pen,

You are but a novice to the page.

Do you know where you are going

And why?

What is your reason

For such work?

For all that appears

As a result of your union with the page

Is but an expression

Of the nature of that union.

14.

Let your design

Reflect that blissful state

Your constant empty nature.

15.


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For your words

Have power on perception,

Can influence

Can mould

And mutate it

Into anything at all.

Take responsibility

For such endeavour,

As the ways of perceptionCan bring rise to trickery.

Then the essence seems lost

Although it is always there.

16.

So remain with that essence

Using sound

And light

As your tools

To display its truth,

The blank page as space

Upon which it may appear,

The meaning encoded within

Yet designed perfectly

On the exterior

To mirror that core.


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17.

And where do you stand?

In truth your words

Have no position

Yet they appear on the page

In specific places.

One in front of the other

Lending meaning to the next

And the one before.

18.

By the power of you union

With the page,

You give birth to space and time.

As you write,

Both the moment

In which you write each syllable

And the place it occupies

Form an impression

On perception,

That inherently

Knows its true nature,

Yet understands the words.

19.

Do not cause perception


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To awaken its judgment

For there is nothing to judge.

20.

As the timeless state

Becomes a moment

And the eternal space,

Place,

Choose wisely the coordinatesOf your awareness.

For as perception

Grasps the moment

And its position,

It is in danger of losing

The correct viewpoint.

21.

Stand in the core,

Dear pen,

For that is the only place

In the vastness of time and space

From where your perspective

Remains all-pervasive.

22.

But if you search for the centre


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You may never find it,

For how can one pinpoint infinity.

23.

Yet in the world of time and space,

The centre appears,

Perfectly emanating forms and sounds

And perception of its creation,

That cut up infinityObscuring its pure,

Continuous,

Stainless nature

With its multitude of designs.

24.

Your words too

Are clutter

For the eternal space.

25.

Stand in the heart

Of time and space

So that you may connect

To its essential truth,

The eternal guru,

To become its meaning,


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By trusting its meaning.

26.

Like this,

You too are the guru,

Dear pen,

Manifest in form and sound,

But a reflection

Of your inner awareness.Keep your awareness

In that nature

And you will reflect this threesome

Perfectly

In your words.

27.

For those words

Are but the mere tips

Of the rays of light

Upon which dance

The deities of perception,

Manifest through the

Songs of intrinsic awareness

That lies at the core of the ray.

28.


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Bursting into rainbow colours,

That playful energy

Of true being

Displays itself

In your speech.

Feel the deities dance

As you

Scratch the surface

Of the blank page,Intrinsic awareness

Manifest as words.

29.

So remain in the centre

And proclaim your message.

But what is that message

You may consider.

But why be curious,

For the matter is self-revealing.

30.

Your perception

Remains ever

As that nuclear energy


That appears


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As a multitude of

Its own forms,

Driven by its playful energy

And blissful knowledge

That it is actually

Nothing at all !

31.

The mirror of awarenessEver revealing

Itself to itself,

Bliss and emptiness

Dancing together

In inseparable union.


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Epilogue


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So that all beings

May be liberated

Into their essence less nature,

May I remember,

To remember !


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Verse by verse

Commentary of

The Pen


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Introduction

In essence, The Rainbow Bridge is a text of poeticalprose describing a vision of awareness.

As awareness is not something necessarily tangible, yetdefinitely exists in the sense that we are consciouslyaware, it may be considered as both nothing (no-thing)

and something (some-thing), simultaneously.

Something = Nothing

Looking at this in simplified mathematical terms, thewhole of relative existence that we are individually awareof (something) may be sum totalled to zero (nothing),where the meaning of zero is not actually nothing as itwould seem to be, but something, simply because itexists.

Something = Zero

Although that something or relative existence actuallyappears spontaneously as anything at all, its essence orroot is hidden within the codes of nothing, of the zeroitself.

It has to be something for the very reason that within themake up of this equation, zero equals the entire make up

of relative existence, which we agree does so-calledexist.


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Relative existence = Zero

For the zero is not an empty void or nothing as such,since the equation would not be complete if a blank spaceoccupied one side of the equals sign, if the symboliccircular shape of the zero did not appear there, holding itsentire meaning within its perfect form, as well asdemonstrating the relative meaning of awareness in itsabsolute state.

Relative existence = O

Something both definable and tangible, in this sense issymbolised by nothing at all in particular, except for the

simple understanding of existing.Relative existence = Absolute existence

The realisation of the union of this absolute space ofawareness with its relatively manifesting aspect is theessential meaning of The Rainbow Bridge.

Relative Awareness = Absolute Awareness

Therefore,

Relative = Absolute

At the 7th equation, the circle is complete and returns toits original point.

Something = Nothing

The text ofThe Pen is largely an allegory of the naturalstate of mind whereby the writer encourages both thewriter (as the text is being written) and the reader (as thetext is being read) to place mind in its natural state ofawareness, or the state of the view before starting towrite or read the text.

So in the direct sense, the pen represents theawareness mind of the writer that must accurately display

the meaning of the text in words and indirectly, the penis the reader being instructed on how to interpret the text


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accurately, as perception.

In order to do this, the writer talks directly to the penthat is being used to write the text by initially instructing itto recognize the natural state of mind and rest in thatview so that whatever words appear may perfectlycompliment it.

In this way, the perceptive awareness of the reader shouldautomatically become aware of that natural state ashe/she interprets the meaning of the text within his/herown cognitive awareness.

In this way, the written words may be perceived

accurately with mind resting in its natural state whilst thereader proceeds through the text, reflecting on the natureof mind through the visual means ofthe pen and pagemetaphor, thus placing mind into the state of the view.

In order to sustain this realization and continue to writeusing words that naturally reflect the essential state ofbeing, the pen should take refuge in its true nature andbe confident in the truth of whatever appears.

In this way, mind rests in a natural state of awareness,trusting it through knowing that all appearing phenomena,both animate and inanimate are the mere appearingaspect of its essential awareness nature.

So is appearance, made up of all rainbow images ofexistence, but the multi-faceted display of the energies ofones life force flow, interconnectedly intertwined with theenergies of the life force flow of all beings as a multitudeof sound and light.

These subtle energies, a dance of the five main inneressential elements each containing certain qualities ofmind, arise automatically as an outwardly appearingmanifestation. Mind held in awareness of its true naturemay perceive it as such, as well as directly behold suchsubtle energies in manifest form throughout appearance.

Pure awareness that is an invisibly present subtle energy,naturally appears as perception that manifests as

sensation and thought that may take on any formless


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description as vivid as imagination may be, where theappearance of form phenomena - seemingly as solid asrock, appears as most real.

In this way, a perfect appearance of light (as formappearance) and a perfect potential of sound (as formlessappearance) are contained within appearing awareness.

Purified by awareness itself into its non-appearing state,the rainbow colours of appearance and theircorresponding sounds melt into their common essentialclear light nature, without colour, shape or form.

Pure awareness nature of perception and awareness of

the appearance of that perception are thus united. Eventhough they may arise in their own individual way, theyare not containing a separate self as they arise from thesame womb of all phenomena. So are awareness andappearance in reality the seed and fruit of each other.

Even though everything that is written in the text is itselfa marvellous truth of existence, the writer laments thatthere is not necessarily anything in particular to writeabout at all, as everything ultimately ends up having the

same essential meaning.

However, an ensuing chain of logical arguments revealsthe actual meaning of the text and the value of using thecreative quality of mind in this way.


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Commentary to Prologue

I give you one task

O reader of this text,

Ingest the fire of wisdom nectar

And digest each word,

Then conjure the picture.

For this translation is of images,Now evaporated

And replaced with words

Of human awareness,

The clarity of perception

Ever-determining

The nature of appearance


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As it crosses

The rainbow bridge

To its birth less

existence.

I give you one task O reader of this text -Here the reader is being instructed to bring his or hermind into a state whereby it recognises its natural statebefore beginning to read the text, whereby awarenessdirectly recognises itself as all manifesting appearance,

yet empty of any inherent reality.

In this way one directly perceives emptiness whilst holdingappearance, where the word, emptiness denotes its lackof any actual concrete reality, the essential manifestationof pure awareness as the absolute nature of appearance,rather than a void.

Empty gives the idea of a nihilistic state, but that is notwhat it means in this context. An empty state of mind

recognises that what appears as seemingly real, does notactually possess any inherent pre-determined reality.

This is because what is perceived by the mind alwaysdepends on ones individual viewpoint, which is entirelymade up of its own perceptive cocktail of judgments. Yetthese are ultimately and simply ones pure awarenessnature, appearing in an assortment of ways according toones filter of perception.

In other words, emptiness here describes that whateverappears is inherently empty of any certainty, even thoughit holds an energetic potential to appear as anything at all.

What perceives is what is perceived. When mindsawareness reveals that viewpoint to itself then it rests inits appearance, as its appearance and can be termed as inthe state of the view (of awareness).

In this way, everything that appears is the manifesting

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mind in union with its inherent pure awareness, yet emptyof any actual manifesting reality.

Two words that appear repeatedly throughout both thetext and the commentary are perception andawareness and it is worth noting their definitionsaccording to this work, at this point.

Awareness refers to the pure, original space of mind thatdoes not hold any particular conceptual reasoning. It ispurely aware of existing and may be considered asabsolute, in this sense.

However, awarenessdoes also have the capacity to think

and conceptualise, the quality of which is referred to asperception or minds perceptive awareness, like arelative appearance of an absolute sense of awareness.

As the mind rests in its truly natural awareness state, thespace within which appearance may come into being asa result of that union state of mind is held or poised in theview.

During the course of our day-to-day lives, forms and

impressions of those forms, namely appearance, andjudgments of that appearance continuously appear.

Just like a rainbow that appears and then disappears againaccording to the causes and conditions present, so doesthe appearance of all phenomena, both animate andinanimate as well as thoughts about that relativelyappearing display seem real, yet disappear as soon as thecauses and conditions for that state of mind change.

And likewise, in a dream state, where we continue to existphysically as an impressionable form within a relativeuniverse, another world of images arises whilst we sleepor even daydream and we feel we really exist there at thatmoment.

With mind rested in the view, the play of creativeessential energy manifest in a plethora of ways does notaffect ones state of mind, nor does the mind judge it asthis or that. One then meets the naturally arising causes

and conditions for certain happenings to relatively occur


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and animate or inanimate beings to physically appear,with joyous feeling.

And anything that appears within mind held in the view isautomatically infected by that mirror of essential qualities.

For all that appears is but an arising expression of un-manifest potential, which directed by accordinglyappearing causes and conditions becomes a realisedmanifest potential that is the sum total of the multitude ofexperiences of all appearing form and formless beings.

The masses of beings arising within appearance eachcarry their own package of their total experience within

appearance, whose individual sum total arises as thequality of their awareness experience, along with the sumtotal of the experiences of all beings.

The experience of individuals may not be separated fromthat of all beings in this sense.

Beings take physical shapes and forms according to thetotal result of their experience of existence, yetcontinuously change shape and form as that experience

mutates within appearance. Yet ultimately, all beings sub-consciously search tounderstand total knowledge of their being.

Absolute formless energy of being gives birth to form andform dissolves back into formless unborn yet arisingpotential, a process simultaneously going on all the time.

The subtle formless image of the rainbow complimentsthis meaning, as it is itself an apparition that mysteriouslyappears and subsequently disappears in a seemingly shortrelative time frame.

Subject and object are understood as arising from thesame source, self and others are recognised as simplymanifest appearances of essential awareness being.

So is the meaning of the rainbow itself in this sense thebridge between viewpoint and appearance.

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appearance, namely the view, beholding all phenomenawhilst directly perceiving its inherently empty nature, itsone taste basic component pure awareness energy, theappearing zero of all inherently empty appearing relative

phenomena.

The view, which is the necessary awareness space forthe words to reveal their correct meaning to the

perceptive awareness of the reader is referred to asfire of wisdom nectar.

Thus the reader must connect with that same awarenessspace of the writer so that with mind held in the view, he

or she may conjure the imageby re-living the mindimages of perception that the writer experienced as anappearing vision in the mind when the words were writtenonto the page.

In this sense thetranslation of images that wasperformed by the writer, whereby the images of mind

literally evaporated and were replaced bywords when they were written onto the page has beenachieved and indeed when the text is both written and

read with mind held in the view, then this process shouldtheoretically happen automatically.

Thus the reader, with mind held in the view, shouldsimply read the words and allow them to naturally

digest, whereby they instinctively return back to theiroriginal visionary impression.

In reality, much of the meaning is of course sub-

consciously experienced and only consciously manifestsaccording to the perception or viewpoint of the reader,

ones human awareness.

However, the potential for pure awareness to be perceivedthrough the human form is common to all humans andtherefore the reader should be able to interpret words thatwere written by such, back into those same mind images ifthat pure awareness state of the view is maintained.

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the vision, then they will reveal this same vision to thereader and the one same awareness space is attained.

Both the writer and the reader are responsible for thisprocess to be achieved. In this way, the words nowmanifest as symbols upon a page may re-manifest in theirsubtle form as visual images in the mind.

The so-called level ofclarity of perception, onesperceptive awareness, is what determines ones state ofmind and accordingly, the appearance of the worldappearing around ones human form.

Just as a classical rainbow itself is a show of colours

merging one into the other, the colours appearing fixed inbent lines possessing their own track of space, arcing onenext to the other until seven major colours can beperceived by a viewer in the distance, so does minddisplay its different moods, or states of consciousness.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet -different frequencies of refracted light, different moods ofmind, different waves of consciousness perceivingappearance.

It is from within each conscious state that appears as theperceiving mind in that particular moment that one willperceive that corresponding vision of appearance.

However, if we fail to recognise that appearance asnothing but a display of awareness that is also itselfperceiving it, then a separate and somewhat hostile worldappears.

This state of mind may be considered as captured by itsown sense of self, or ego where the ego places itself asking and centre of the world within which it appears,separating itself from others and living such a dualisticexistence, seeking its own gain and power over otherswithin the illusory appearance of phenomena.

Whereas the view reveals all phenomena as illusory, justlike a rainbow that appears and then disappears againaccording to the causes and conditions in place, it can besaid that the ego mind state is one that is distracted from


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the view, by the lure of phenomena as somethingtangibly real where the ego state grasps onto appearanceand suffers when it cannot be in full control of its actualtransitory nature.

Various transforming states of mind such as jealousy,desire, anger, pride and ignorance awaken and sleepagain, appearing from ones perception in a particular wayone-by-one or in groups when they are perceived,sometimes playing together, sometimes one moredominant than another.

Even though their potential to appear is always there, theywill only appear when certain causes and conditions for

them to appear are in place and do not arise when thoseconditions are not met. The nature of appearanceis in this way determined by such perceptive aspects.

Thus attempting to sway appearance towards its selfishgoals, the ego state of mind swings back and forthbetween glory and defamy and all other possible oppositeaspects, like a pendulum.

However, when the pendulum of opposites stills minds

perceptive nature to its absolute non-dual aspect of pureawareness, the rainbow bridge symbolically appears and aunion state of mind ensues.

Then all the qualities of awareness naturally appear fromones inherent awareness nature as pure perception, bliss,clarity, wisdom and awareness of all these aspects,inseparable from each other as the negative mind statesof ego are simply purified into their more subtle aspects of

awareness.The circle of zero itself represents these pure aspects ofrelative awareness. For as it appears, so is its clear naturerevealed and as it is understood, so does its wisdom ariseand wisdom could not appear without its blissful naturehaving been awoken. Through wisdom understanding itsinherent reality as empty of any fixed nature, it naturallycontains compassion for the truthful nature of all relativelyappearing phenomena.

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many encoded meanings are hidden simply within itsmanifest shape.

These qualities are automatically available within mindheld in the view and out of these qualities emergecountless qualities of various manifesting aspects.

Awareness space is filled with these qualities andtherefore all appearing phenomena and beings that ariseout of that space are naturally replete with such qualitiesinherent within their essential state of being.

So as perception becomes unobstructed through mindawakening to levels of consciousness beyond states

usually experienced by a human being operating withindualistic (or ego) mind, what arises as appearance is alsotransformed into a differently perceived space ofexistence containing manifesting aspects of that realmappearing everywhere.

The words, The Rainbow Bridge themselves carry theentire meaning of the text. For it is an allegorical rainbowbridge that we both consciously and sub-consciously seekto pass over as we progress through life, through

existence.

So do the words, Rainbow and Bridge simultaneouslycontain both their most obvious and most hiddenmeanings as the perceiver contemplating them unfoldsboth their relative and absolute truths within the mirror ofhis or her understanding of them.

For words on a page each contain their own meanings andwhen strung together as sentences, form another holistic

sense. Depending on the perceiver perceiving them, theyare translated according to his or her individualunderstanding of them back into mind images, namelythoughts and visions of that meaning.

The first image that may appear when the word, Rainbowis perceived is one of a largely visual quality where anarray of colours arcing across the sky, hang over someundefined point in the distance. And there one arrives at

the mythical pot of gold at its end, never to be found aslong as it is searched rather than beheld, yet a reminder


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of the vast symbolic wealth of the rainbow image.

The word, Rainbow also reminds us of a state ofappearance that is not solid as it cannot be grasped orheld, yet nevertheless vividly appears when it is seen froma certain viewpoint.

And, the correct spatial cocktail must also be mixed for itto come into being. For example, a certain blend ofmoisture and sunlight must be present in the atmospherein order to procure the necessary screen upon which therainbow image may appear to ones perception.

So a rainbow may only appear when certain causes and

conditions are present. The rainbow is in that sensealways there, yet remains in a state of non-appearanceuntil both the atmosphere and viewer are correctlyaligned, relatively speaking.

In this way, as one perceives existence moment bymoment, ones natural awareness state of being appearsas rainbow images of form and formless aspects.

Perception, the great tool of awareness that all sentient

minds contain thus consciously perceives whateverappears according to its relative understanding of it asmind attaches to one or another of those form andformless aspects appearing within the spatial screen ofexistence.

Thus perception automatically translates all perceivedimages, sounds and sensual experiences according to itslevel of realisation of its absolute nature, depending on itsrelative viewpoint of existence.

When ones awareness does not perceive this ongoingchain of appearances as simultaneously occurring fromthe same source, because it is stained by habitualdefinitions, it instead divides the process into two, andbecomes both a perceiver and what is being perceived, asseemingly separated aspects.

So in this way, anything that appears at a seemingdistance from the perceiver seems to be separate from

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Thus the illusory world of duality swings back and forth asminds perception is not fully aware of its essentiallynatural state of being as both perceiver and perceivedinseparably united in one perfect state of awareness.

For without holding a mind of pure awareness, whereones perceptive faculty is perfectly tuned to onesinherent awareness nature, ones perception is tainted inmany ways of attachment, aversion and indifference towhatever appears within that spatial context.

Yet in absolute truth, ones inherent awareness naturealways perceives what is to be perceived in an absolutelysimultaneous way, as it is really the source of both the

projector and projected image that appears.

So does the viewers conscious perception realise thatautomatically as it rests in awareness of its essentialbeing. For it is awareness itself that creates a spatialscreen seemingly out there within which those imagesmay appear.

In this way, we appear to move around withinappearance, as in a relative sense we have a human form

and perceive a universe around us as seemingly separatefrom our physical forms.

Yet here it is worth noting one irony that the rainbowsymbol presents in that it would not appear to the viewerif he or she were actually inside the rainbow itself. Onehas to be at a relative distance from it in order to perceiveit.

So, the rainbow does not directly appear if you are present

within it.

In this neat little way, the rainbow symbol reminds us oftwo fundamental aspects of our being.

Firstly, that of viewpoint as in the position from whichform and formless aspects are perceived and secondly,that of an appearance or spatial screen, within which anappearance of form and formless aspects takes place, andsimultaneously from within which it all may be perceived.

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essential factor to ones understanding of the nature ofphenomenon, as well as being a key meaning of TheRainbow Bridge.

But perhaps most importantly the word, Rainbow holdsthe idea of something appearing from seemingly nothing,remaining as something and then disappearing again intoseemingly nothing, creating an image of a time framewhere there is a moment of birth, a period of remainingfor a while and then a moment of death.

And how many causes and conditions need to meet forthis visual timeframe, a dance of sound and light affectinga temporarily existing sensory frame that transmits and

receives signals according to its capacity to rest in itsnatural state of being, to appear.

Referring to the next word, Bridge, the image of astructure that serves to unite two parts that areseparated, easily arises.

A bridge provides the crossing point between those twoplaces so that there is no longer a separation betweenthem, whether they arise externally in what appears

around ones form as a human, like as a bridge betweenmainland and island or abstractly within the mechanism ofones awareness mind, as both the perceiver ofappearance and that which is perceived as appearance,simultaneously.

For commonly termed as mind, ones awareness throughits faculty of perception, directs the viewpoint of thehuman organism within different states of being, and

simultaneously various appearances arise automaticallyaccording to that particular viewpoint.

In the present work at hand, the Bridge aspect morespecifically refers to the way ones perception connects tothese two aforementioned seemingly different aspects ofthe one same perceptive faculty, namely viewpoint andappearance so that that which perceives and that which isperceived are no longer viewed as separated.

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awareness attributes melts into its two ends united asone, clear quality of pure awareness.

From this perfect state of awareness, the circle ofimmortality is born. That circle is zero, the symbol thatmarks the watershed between positive and negativenumbers, like a bridge of non-duality.

For ones pure, clear, clean awareness nature is immortal,a birthless and therefore deathless state of being fromwhich all arises, in which all rests and to which alldisappears. No time exists in the state of immortality as itis but ever present continuously as ones natural state ofbeing.

Appearing in this way as the symbolic bridge of all relativeexistence to achieve understanding of its absolute being,the zero of nothing symbolically appears as an infinitecircular line. No point on it can be determined as thestarting, nor ending position. If one point on it is chosen asits starting point and one follows the line, it will come backround to that same point again, which therefore may alsobe termed as its ending point.

It could begin and end anywhere relatively speaking, butthose two points of seeming beginning and ending wouldalways constantly be the actual same one point. So everypoint on that infinite circle is both a starting and endingposition, any moment of time is that point. That point ispresent everywhere in immortal awareness.

However, when perception is not perfectly aligned with itspure awareness nature, then they relatively speaking

need a point of crossing or connection. The Rainbow Bridge is the absolute connection in thesense of non-separation between what arises in the mindat the moment of sensing any form aspect that appearssimultaneously as external to our human form and anyformless aspect, which is simultaneously perceived by ourhuman sensual perception. It is thus its own inseparablequality of awareness perceiving its appearing nature.

Our sensual receptive attributes and judgement of thosearising sensations as perception of them ultimately form


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our viewpoint that translates the appearing creativeessence according to ones vision of existence.

If something else other than pure awareness recognitionof that creative essence in manifestation arises in onesperception, then subject and object are seemingly dividedand manifest as appearance of all types. One then formsrelation and judgmental attitudes to the appearanceresulting in attachment, aversion and indifference to whatis essentially but the creative manifestation of onesessential awareness energy of being.

Essential creative energy connects all phenomena,because all phenomena are themselves manifesting

aspects of that creative awareness energy, thus makingup the vast seeming existence of form and formlessrealms of appearance. Therefore, depending on theperceptive quality of ones view of existence, oneperceives likewise.

Ones perceptive awareness resting in its absoluteawareness state will view relatively appearing phenomenaas rainbow images of manifesting aspects of essentialcreative energy, whereas awareness split into dualisticperception of perceiver and perceived, of self and otherswill perceive an appearing world of form and formlessaspects around itself as either harmful or attractive toitself.

Thus different species and capabilities of perceptionfaculties within those beings inhabiting a multitude ofvarying physical and non-physical bodies, perceive theappearing realm around them according to the limitations

of the perceptive faculties of their particular physicalforms.

The human species has the essential frame and innernetwork of energy channels within which perception mayrest in its essential awareness nature. The human form istherefore a priceless form to have obtained through vastnumbers of relative causes and conditions having cometogether.

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reality of the colourful display of appearing rainbowimages that appears and sounds to ones sensualperception in form and formless ways, is fully realised inits essential aspect.

The crossing of the rainbow bridge heremeans passing through the different stages of conscious

perception, until the birth less natural state of pureawareness mind is revealed, where no obscuration ispresent.

Viewpoint and appearance are present togethersimultaneously; essentially combined, manifestingsimultaneously and consciously perceived by the

awareness mind as not separate, but completelydependent one upon the other for the so-called others

existence.

And ever present within ones awareness is thatknowledge of The Rainbow Bridge that our consciousperception must metaphorically cross to become itsultimate potential state of awareness being.

Awareness is aware of its natural appearance, the true potof gold at the end of the rainbow !

Rainbow and Bridge are two words united as one imageofThe Rainbow Bridge.


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Commentary to The Pen

1.

The page is blank

The pen wet,

Poised above the pregnant emptiness.

Anything,

Anything

May arise,

May appear

In forms

That speak their truth

Through a multitude of displays.

The page here refers to the absolute ground of allphenomena, yet un-manifest, but ready to burst into anydisplay at all, whilst the pen refers to the power ofcreativity of that empty space seething with the energy ofits own creativity.

Both its empty and creative aspects inseparably unitedare the make up of essential awareness mind, which is

here referred to aspregnant emptiness.

Like the page that is ready to give birth to any appearanceupon its blank surface and accept it fully without

attachment or rejection to its relative meaning, so is thepen wet with the ink of skillful means, ready to spill outits perfectly encoded meaning, knowledge of an ultimatereality contained within the words that appear on thepage.

In this way by simply resting mind in its natural state, theink is the method for the pen to unite with the page, the


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nectar of creativity of the spacious birth ground of all

phenomena now arising as words containing theiressential meaning.

Anything brought forth from awareness mind is inessence this relatively appearing creative aspect bornfrom an absolute state of un-manifest being. Theserelative and absolute qualities always remain presentwithin everything that appears.

What exists as form and corresponding formless aspectsare there present one within the other as all relativeappearance is temporal and subject to birth and death,appearance and disappearance, like a dance of changingimages, transforming from one state into another as onesmolecular essential format mutates shape according tothe causes planted and subsequent conditions present.

All phenomena, both animate and inanimate contain thisblend of form and formless aspects, whereby relative formis continuously becoming relatively formless, disappearinginto its essential aspect and back again into appearance,

thus demonstrating its essential truth of existence

whilst appearing ina multitude of displays of itsdifferent relative aspects.

2.

For inside each character,

Each letter,

Is contained

The essence

Of the unity of light and sound.

Thus with light as pure bliss

And sound as pure emptiness

The great truth is proclaimed.


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Once the characterofeach letter is written onto theblank page, the formless impression (namely the soundaspect) of its form (namely the light aspect) automatically

contains unspoken vibrations within each of its

appearing shapes.

So do the letters written on the page display the unityof light and sound, of form and formless to theperceiving mind of awareness. In this way, through themethod of the appearing shapes upon the paper, togetherthe pen and blank page reveal their inseparable union,

inside each character.

When form appears in the shape of a letter, it is amanifesting design of light automatically encoding aformless symbol holding an essential meaning within itsmanifesting form. The perceiver, resting in the nature of

that essential meaning may perfectly read theencoded symbols written as letters and thus perceptivelytranslate their meaning.

Shaped perfectly to carry an encoded message within theappearing mark upon the paper to the mind visually

perceiving it, when the sound of one or another letter isproclaimed, a vibration of energy carries the perfectlyencoded formless message to the mind within atemporarily appearing sound.

So does each letter that is written onto the blank pagethat is bursting to give meaning to its otherwise emptyspace through union with the pen, carry with it theencoded message of great bliss manifest within its own

empty nature by virtue of the shaped form containingsound vibration.

Yet neither light, nor sound is more or less supreme thanthe other as they are both contained inseparably, onewithin the other as the same appearing letter and areequally responsible for transmitting the essential meaningto the perceiver.

The inherently empty yet fully cognitive aspect of mind

may thus appear perfectly to itself with its essentialmeaning always encoded within it.


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The page is blissfully receptive to the pen in this way.Whereas previously it had remained as a blank sheet ofpaper, un-manifest potential upon which anything at allmay appear, it may now manifest its creativity.

The pen is thus blissfully rewarded as its creativity bringsrise to the pages great bliss, previously unspoken inkappearing upon an otherwise empty, spacious surface.

That light and sound manifest from their inherently blissfulempty nature is perfect skillful means as unrealizedpotential of essential being coming into appearance.

Light here refers to both solid form and formless

aspects of itself that appear tangibly to visual perception,stay a while and then disappear again, whilst somethingelse appears in their place to repeat the same process, allresulting from the same source.

This process, when understood from an essentialviewpoint, triggers the sensual perceptive faculties ofblissful awareness to appear clearly as the light of all

phenomena, a perfect state ofpure bliss, or creativeenergy of ultimate awareness within the mind of the

perceiver.

Sound appears to audio perception, but cannot begrasped or held in the same way as solid form, appearingtemporarily out of nowhere and leaving again withoutneither a trace, nor scratch upon the surface of

appearance. In this sense, sound may be referred to aspure emptiness.

However temporary appearing sound vibrations resonatewithin ones inner energy flow, affecting it by awakeningthe energies present there. So do the energies of thewhole of existence course through the channels of allbeings, their common denominator of pure awarenessever present as their seed.

Sacred words and sentences known as mantras are thustuned to pitch ones inner channels, awakening such pureawareness, which directly affects the manifestingappearance around ones human form as what courses


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the veins of ones subtle energy routes is none other thanits formless corresponding aspect.

It is not sure what will arise and how it may appear as theunion aspect of light and sound, of blissful emptiness goeson manifesting appearance at its own rate and speed,according to countless causes and conditions that are allpre-dispositions for ones present state of mind, causingone to react in a certain way to what appears to onesperception as appearance.

One therefore automatically perceives in ones mind, boththe mirrored aspect of the energies coursing within theinner essential flow of ones life force that runs throughout

the whole human physical form, whilst simultaneouslyexperiencing the corresponding circumspect appearanceoutside ones human form.

In this perfect way, the great truth of the nature ofexistence displays its total realization to ones awareness,as ones appearance of awareness, always.

3.

Oh pen,

Please keep your true nature in mind

And form union with the empty space!

The instruction to the pen is to stay consciously

aware of itstrue natureby realizing that there isno ultimate significance to what is going to be writtendown. Yet as the pen enters into union with the page, itdoes have a meaning in that it displays its true nature inthe appearing form of each letter, each character orsymbol on the page.

For the tools of light and sound, of bliss appearing from aninherently empty nature carry their immortal message

within them as the shapes that flow from the pens ink,forming indelible codes, symbols upon the pages surface


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that are in themselves just subtle forms of energy arisingfrom an otherwise non-existing or empty state, which isnevertheless always present within whatever arises asappearance.

For what does appear and sound as a result of that unionmark written onto the pages blank surface becomes aperfect symbol of its ultimate meaning.

The nectar of creativity from which all is born and comesinto appearance visibly arises, its formless audible qualityhidden subtly within its form.

So the creative aspect of mind rests eternally in its non-

manifest or empty nature, the union of essential beingthat holds the great wealth of awareness qualities

automatically within it, thus forming union withthe empty space.

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

4.

You are no longer

A pen

And blank page

Separated,

But together you invite awareness.

Once the pen has written upon the surface of the blank

page, it is no longer empty - a blank page, butcarries a meaning depending on what has been markedupon it that will be interpreted accordingly by a relativelyconnecting perceptive awareness, namely a reader.

For without awareness to perceive the words, their

meaning remains un-manifest, unfulfilled potential. But

together with the pen, the page upon which thewords have been written invites awareness as one


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without the other has no resultant effect upon perception.In this case, awareness does not arise as anything in

particular, except as aware of its separatedaspects.

For without a perceiver, the play of existential phenomenadoes not behold its essential meaning and therefore doesnot arise.

In this way, a previously inert potential awakens from theunion of the pen and the page as letters that start off asindividual characters that interact to make up words,sentences, paragraphs, chapters and finally whole booksthat may now carry a meaning within their written form

once there is a perceiver to perceive them.

5.

For as the letters appear

They stir the perception,

The third participant

In the game of being.

The third participant, which is the awareness mindof the reader perceiving the words is the crucial otheraspect required in order that ones existence be fulfilled,that appearance may hold a meaning and come into beingthrough awareness beholding it.

Here in thegame of being refers to the constantplay of appearing and disappearing phenomena andperceptive mind that interacts with that display as itinterprets the appearance from its own viewpoint.

As the words arise from awareness and are beingperceived by awareness, the writer is warning the readerthat the meaning perceived from the text depends whollyon his/her state of perception perceiving it. In this sense,

its own manifestation stirs the perception.


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For there is no one true meaning to the words, butcountless meanings depending on the viewpoint of theone perceiving them.

However, the ultimately essential meaning of the natureof existence is always present within each manifestingletter and so does all appearance contain such codedsymbols.

Therefore, the absolute truth of essential being can neverbe hidden because its appearing aspect is always present.

6.

Remember that awareness

As an immortal combination


Whatever appears

Remains ever this.

Once someone has perceived those words written uponthe page by virtue of their awareness faculty, theawareness that arises from such perception is simply theperceptive awareness of the one reading it.

In whichever way the text may be interpreted by suchperceptive faculty, it does not hold any actual separatetruth apart from its ultimate awareness nature, as the

resulting words of the pen and the page union are but thevisual and audio appearance of bliss andemptiness inseparably united, continuous, neverending and pervading all phenomena in this way, animmortal combination.

So does the writer indirectly instruct the pen to

remember that all that appears as words upon thepage is really just an expression of that union nature of

awareness, which remains true for all appearing


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phenomena.

7.

Oh pen,

Your job is futile

For whatever you say

Is always that same combination


Whilst remembering that whatever arises as appearanceand the sounds that are contained within such forms areultimately just a display of awareness giving birth toappearance in manifest ways, the pen should write from acompletely detached perspective.

For it is from this state of non-dual mind, that inseparable

blend ofbliss and emptiness, that all appears and

disappears. Thus everything that is being written down isreally just an appearance of that resulting union state ofawareness expressing itself by giving rise to appearance

filled with its perfect qualities, yetalways that samecombination.

By humbling the pen in this way, the writer gives noimportance to the individual words that are appearing, butinstructs the pen to proceed to write without attachment

to the letters or words that appear.In this way by expressing that the pensjob is futile,the writer indirectly raises the question, Whats the pointof it all?

8.

If your perception,

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Strays from that understanding

Then you will write

Nothing of the truth.

Both appearing aspects of blissful emptiness as light andsound carry with them such power that when they doappear, they may figuratively scratch or rather effect theconscious mind of the one perceiving them.

For when the faculties ofperception wander fromtheir perfect awareness nature, mind is influenced

and manipulated by its personal perspective and loses itsessentially manifesting truthful expression.

So, the overall meaning interpreted from the experienceof the visual and audio appearance of the words ultimatelydepends on the individual state of mind of the oneperceiving them.

It is because perception has such power that the writerwarns the pen that if it does not remain in the view of the

words as just an appearance of the union blend of blissfulemptiness, which are the essential base and resultingappearance of existence, then a lot of rubbish will bewritten as it is not being expressed from a state of mind

resting in its natural state of being. Thus nothing ofthe truth will be perceived.

So the writer asks the pen to be very mindful of this and tohold its true nature in mind at all times so that what it

writes remains truthful to its ultimate meaning and maybe perfectly translated by the one perceiving it. If this isnot the case, then the meaning of the words may thus bemisinterpreted and the task of transmitting the essentialmeaning therefore unfulfilled

Using the allegory of the pen, the writer is indirectlypointing out that mind must always rest in its natural stateso that whatever appears may be recognized from a

perfect viewpoint of pure spacious awareness that has noactual limits and is never even scarred by its own inherent


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faculties of perception that do not arise in the face of theview.

9.

Yet just as you may not speak the truth,

It will always be contained within.

For the nature of the letters on the page

Are simply your union with it.

The writer is here declaring that there is no un-truth inreality as whatever is written as words in outer forms,even if the words themselves are not carrying theiressential meaning in an obviously literal way, the absolute

truth is nevertheless always contained withinthe very form and formless aspect of those words; as

letters, as light forms, as pure bliss; as sound, asvibration, as emptiness; all combined in essence as pure

awareness.

So just as whatever the pen writes on the page isitsunion with the page, so the writer is also indirectlyreminding the pen that anything that appears, allphenomena both animate and inanimate is simply themanifesting union state of blissful emptiness, pure perfectawareness.

Such symbolic codes indicating this are embedded

everywhere within appearance.

10.

Thus, bliss appears as letters

And emptiness as their sound,

Perception as their meaning,

Both inherent within.


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How wonderful

The marvels that may appear

From your tripartite union.

As the union state of bliss and emptiness, which isin itself an inexpressible state creates its ever continuing,ever changing appearances, so does perception awaken toits truth.

So is all relative appearance but a manifesting play ofthose two aspects of pure awareness mind, of light and

sound, the energy of blissful emptiness arising in itsresultant union appearance.

The light of bliss and sound of emptiness are thus theconnecting means between the dualities of form andformless, appearance and non-appearance, bliss andemptiness, awareness in its perfect state of union.

Perception, inherently knowing its natural andperfect awareness state to be an inseparable union of

bliss and emptiness, is the fundamental component here,the one that recognizes what it is. It is born out of their

union, yet is also their union itself, beholding theirmeaning.

Bliss and emptiness are therefore inseparably unitedwithin the meaning being perceived by a perceiver.

The writer reflects for a moment on how truly amazing it is

that the whole of our so-called existence may be bornout of the union of these three essential aspects of bliss,emptiness and perception, which themselves are but oneof awareness.

Like this, the awareness state of union may be achievedthrough seemingly divided aspects of that union stateappearing as separate. Yet containing these three aspectsin perfect union, they may recognise the true nature ofwhat appears as one inseparable state of pure awareness.

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emptiness as a multi-dimensional screen within which itsnature may spontaneously manifest itself in all directionsas appearance and the mind of awareness to perceive it,is thus an inseparable combination of all aspects in one.

As that awareness is itself that union appearance ofblissful emptiness as well as that itself which is beingspontaneously perceived, through the power of

awareness, a wonderment of marvels may appear.

11.

But even though they seem to appear,

They never actually appeared at all.

That blissful emptiness


Stirred,

Played and then rested again

In its true state.

Yet in truth it never awoke

From its timeless poise,

But seemed to

Whilst spontaneously holding

The marvellous display

Of bliss and emptiness,

Understanding itself

As their union.

So does perception awaken or stir from its pureawareness state, play a little with its creative aspectsand then dissolve again back into that rested state.


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In order for awareness to recognize its own being, it

appears to itself, displays itself to itself. And in orderto see that display, the perceiver or mind state that isobserving must be standing at a relative distance from the

object it is perceiving, minds dualistic state.

For a sense of relative time existence only occurs to mindperceiving a solidified reality to appearance, within whichrelative timeframe there is the sense of a beginning,remaining a while and end to the appearing vision thatarises according to causes and conditions present ie.

Those that are being created by ones perceptive state. In

this sense, appearance never actually appeared

at all, but seemed to. The arousal of appearance wholly depends on theviewpoint of the one perceiving it, whereas actually theblissful union mind energy of perfect awareness neveractually steps into a time frame, nor appearing aspect asit rests immortally present within its own perfect natureand does not hold any certain reality other than simplyexisting.

When awareness recognizes its essential state, it does notperceive the manifesting forms of that essential state ashaving an inherent reality, but rests in the appearance, asif it were a rainbow arising and dissolving into its union

nature of blissful emptiness, within a timelesspoise.

For the skillful means of awareness to recognize itself asboth the perceiver and what is being perceived is to

seemingly appear as two relatively manifesting andinteracting aspects, of light form (appearance) and blissfulformless (sensual receptivity or perception of thatappearance), which each contain a plethora of differentresulting manifestations, but are never actually separatefrom awareness itself.

Even though it is unified as a whole, it appears as amultitude of particles bonded together as form, embeddedby waves of formless aspects, that occupy different fields

of existence, as subtle or as gross as their vibrationalqualities dictate.


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So consciously perceived, awareness always remains inthe understanding of its true nature, yet at the same time

is naturally holding the marvellous display ofthe union of blissful emptiness, like a limitless cradle of

energy ready to give birth to whatever is perceived.

Even though what appears interacts with ones humansenses and feels real, it is only a resulting creation of theunion state of bliss and emptiness appearing in its myriad

forms, a wonderful play of bliss and emptiness,which never actually awakens nor strays from that

realization, of intrinsic awareness resting in itsnatural state of awareness.

Neither does that spacious energy grumble nor complainabout the resulting manifestation, but patiently andcompassionately holds it so that awareness may recognizeits true nature, rest in that nature and thus producemarvellous creations by virtue of its inherent qualities thatare in perfect accord with their true meaning.

For awareness, as a union state of blissful emptiness isitself the creative tool whilst simultaneously

understanding its resultant appearance as illusoryimages of its own formation.

Awareness, recognizing itself as their unionstate,is itself that union.

And awareness, recognizing all appearance as but amanifestation of the union of blissful emptiness, is itselfthat union.

Awareness thus unites within awareness like pouringwater into water.

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And so is revealed

True mind

From the union of these three,


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The eternal guru.

You pen,

Are the guru.

Trust firmly in your true nature

And inject confidence

In your form.

Mind as one pure awareness energy is here referred to as

True mind, the tripartite union energy of blissful

emptiness and perception of that union.

Allegorically speaking, from an initial point of perception,two lines emerge and shoot off at different angles fromthe point, resulting in the appearance of two separatelines extending outwards.

The ends of those two lines extending from the point arethus joined together, forming a two-dimensional triangle.

A triangle is the union of three.

In the same way, a perceiver, having connected theperceptive quality of blissful emptiness together like this,is now aware of what is being perceived as inseparablyunited, simultaneously occurring at the initial point, eventhough it is now manifesting as three points.

Awareness!

The symbolic nature of the triangle is these three aspects

united in one of awareness, an inexpressible state of mindthat may only be beheld, unexplainable in essential terms,that perceives appearance and the nature of thatappearance as inseparably united, perfect awareness.

This state of union of awareness and appearance can be

likened to the eternal guru nature, as its essentialmeaning crucially refers to the absolute manifestation ofthese three aspects of appearance rolled into one, vast

energy of awareness that continually exists as nothing inparticular at all, except as its natural state of being.


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Guru also literally means teacher and in this case isreferring to mind rested in the view as both the awarenessaspect, meaning what appears in the perceptive mindspace as well as what appears as an outer vision, which is

the manifesting appearance of awareness, as its ownteacher.

Yet mind held in the view, the guru nature as the resultantunion state of these three aspects revealed perfectlythrough whatever appears at whichever level of subtletythey appear, is neither affected by subtle resonations norgross forms of appearance, as it is the perfect union ofform and formless, of gross and subtle appearance.

Injecting confidence in the awareness of itsessential guru nature whilst recognizing all appearance in this case, the words on the page - as but a

manifestation of that essential guru nature, the penmust take refuge or shelter within the knowledge of itsappearing display.

In this way, whatever appears from the pens writing isthe guru of appearance.

In order to take refuge, the pen must ultimately trustfirmly in the true nature of awareness as thatwhich is appearing and be confident in that knowledge, inthat union state.

Here, awareness is encoded and manifest as symbolic

letters of form that contain potential sound withinthem, which is fulfilled when such manifesting sound

vibrations resonate perfectly in harmony with onesessential nature.

The energies within ones inner energy channel flow maybe balanced within this sound resonation.

13.

Oh pen,

You are but a novice to the page.


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Do you know where you are going

And why?

What is your reason

For such work?

For all that appears

As a result of your union with the page

Is but an expression

Of the nature of that union.

Here the writer introduces a new aspect. Ultimately, themeaning refers to the path of awakening ones perceptiveawareness to its true nature, but is here demonstrated bythe pen just starting to put pen to paper. For in this sense,

the pen is a beginner or but a novice to thepage upon which its text will appear. Has the thoughteven occurred to it as to what should be written down andwhy?

Thus beyond the literal question being posed here, thewriter urges the reader to check his/her own purpose forliving.

If one searches for any relative reason for such, amillion may appear, yet if one examines those reasonscarefully, one finds that they are all subject to birth,temporary existence and death. Anything made up of the

five elements, such as the physical, manifesting aspects ofour human lives, shares this fate.

For the five elements dance together in the form of thehuman body as long as there is mind coursing through itsinner energy channels, that may perceive it. Indeed, thefive elements at a more subtle level are the figurativemake up of minds perception itself, each elementpertaining to a predominant emotion.

So is mind subject to fleeting, temporary appearances thatare constantly changing according to the dance of those


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five most predominant inner elements of ignorance,jealousy, desire, pride and anger, which are themselvesultimately but manifesting forms of perception.

When transformed into their purified principles of pureawareness, they are but the same essence manifesting asthe supreme qualities of that state of awareness, insteadof their judgmental aspects, like the other side of thesame coin.

The difference lies between the perceiving mind that canconsciously recognize its true awareness nature and restin that view and mind that perceives itself as separatedfrom appearance, whereby a resulting battle between self

and others dominates ones appearance.

For mind resting in the view is neither subject to suffering,nor resulting mind states of attachment and rejection thatform an appearance of suffering. So is the mind of the oneperceiving the words just an appearance of that unionstate, expressing itself in a relative way to itself.

The words on the page are like a million different truths toa million different human beings, whose minds are all

shaped according to various viewpoints, yet ultimatelyshare exactly the same essential nature. So doesawareness continuously offer its knowledge of existenceand appear in ways that displays it.

For the writing on the page, that is but the pens unionwith the page is just an appearance of that unionstate, seemingly split into two parts. In one sense it is theperceiver and in another, the perceived, even though

these two parts of it cannot be and are never separated inabsolute truth. For what manifests as a resultantreality of ones perception depends totally on theperceiving mind.

In this way, awareness displays itself as appearance bymanifesting in myriad forms of sound and light, but twoaspects of awareness itself, blissful emptiness in creativeplay, the essential make up of all phenomena.

So does the awareness energy of the perceiver seeminglydivide into these two aspects in order that it may perfectly


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reflect and behold its true being as one unified entity

within appearance as it does the work of perceivingitself.

This state of mind of the nature of that union isnot held in the sense of grasping onto, but in the sensethat the union state of awareness mind is not lost ordropped by perception at any moment, that the naturalview of awareness is always pervasive and in that way isconsistently operative within appearance, as appearance.

14.

Let your design

Reflect that blissful state

Your constant empty nature.

By wandering through myriad appearances in transitoryforms, perceptive mind awareness may ultima

the pen ...mindfulness, key to awareness

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