Dissolving Samsara

In the teachings of the Great Perfection there is the concept of lhundrup, spontaneous perfection or spontaneous presence, that characterizes all phenomena, including happiness and suffering.

Whatever arises in experience is perfect just as it is.

All phenomena are a manifestation of the five pure elemental lights and from the five lights all the qualities of nirvana ceaselessly manifest.

It is only because we are trapped in erroneous dualistic views that we engage in an ultimately false struggle with experience.

We only need to wake—like from a dream—for it to end, and when it does, we realize that it was never real. But until we awaken, we suffer.

The world we experience, the world we perceive and think we know, has developed over time. We have substantialized it, made it concrete and distinctive, a dualistic world of “you and me.”

Internal obscurations in the moving mind have resulted in apparently negative external phenomena; reactions to apparently external phenomena have reinforced internal obscurations.

As we abide in the nature of mind, dissolving experience again and again into pure luminosity, experience eventually becomes a flow of light rather than solid forms, pure sound rather than noise or positive and negative speech, pure being rather than separate things and entities.

The clarity and purity of the nature of mind result in apparently pure external phenomena.

And the experience of that pure luminosity further stabilizes the practitioner in the nature of mind. This is the best way to balance the elements.