The Buddha's light is infinite. His way has no bottom nor top. It extends from here, where does it end? Extending from here, where does it begin? If you try and take away from what you have you will not see who you already are. Each acting of taking away, is the Buddha shining. The Buddha's light is like glass that you can see through, and not like glass because it is immaterial, more so it is intangible. When everything becomes this kind of glass, there is nothing left to see through, it is no longer transparent. The world along with all it's dharmas join the Buddha in enlightenment as the single Light in the firmament of Heaven. This One Light is the Precious Jewell of Enlightenment. Light from below, light from on high. The world and all it's experiences are One with this light. Unknowable, unnameable, all life comes from this and arises in this, inseparable from it. It is the Buddha light shining high in Heaven. Joined is everything already to the Supreme Wisdom of the Buddha, never has anything been lacking. Realization is unnecessary, as there is no one to gain enlightenment, there is and has always been the unknowable name of the Buddha that is the true nature of all beings. All that is here is Light, and Supreme Wisdom. There is nothing shy of perfect enlightenment, for our true nature is perfected being. The quality of all things is Wisdom and Enlightenment, an unfettered, unbounded Infinite Wisdom and Glory of Being. There is One Life and this is it. All that is is One Perfect Wisdom, it is all that has ever been and all that will ever be. The Buddha came more than two-thousand years ago. The truth is that he has always been with us, the Light has always been here. The infinite wisdom is here. Closely examining form, one realizes that all form is formless, that there is One formless being. This is the true nature of the universe. This Self is infinite and transcendental. Yet it is immanent. There is a single nature. This is it. The true nature of self is infinite being. There is One Light in this Universe. One Light and One Wisdom. It is boundless and infinitely compassionate. It is Self. This is it's infinite expanding body. It stretches ever before us.
Given everything that we know, what of it is worthwhile? When we cannot hold onto anything, or prove anything, what is the purpose of knowledge? Knowledge is the key to insight. One word may open the door to the infinite nature of being, yet if we cling to knowledge, we will remain blind. When we can see, there is no longer a need for anything, and the buddha speaks for himself. There is no longer any need for anything in particular, yet we may still require any kind of nourishment that is required in this world. Much learning may further the openness of our perception, and the acuteness of our observation. Even so, all of this points to the same truth, the supreme emptiness of being. Any change in perception is illusory, and only the infinite truly exists. It appears to me that there is conventional wisdom alongside transcendental wisdom. That the two are inseparable. It seems that what makes one wise is the ability to be present with the eternal while responding appropriately to the immediate concerns of daily life. It also appears to me that a keen awareness of either when given proper awareness greatly advances one's awareness of the other. It seems to me that ignoring one leads to drowning and that if we have the proper awareness, there truly is no division between the two, both are the same expression of the eternal spirit. When we are unbalanced, we seek extremes. Until we center ourselves within truth and face reality directly can we undo the excessiveness of our tendencies and find ourselves properly righted in the world. The purpose of liberating truth is not merely to find transcendence, but to be wise in human living in everyday activity. It is a excellence privileged to be privy to this insight. This kind of modesty is obviously the heart of wisdom to any pair of eyes that belong to a relatively sane human being. The excessiveness of any society is toxic to the cultivation of wisdom among it's inhabitants. A fresh search for evenness of temperament and appropriateness of action is necessary to undo this toxicity. One must find this modesty within the lens of their own culture that is so deeply rooted in their perception. To acquire such an ability is wonderful, to use it for the sake of restoration of human society is an unparalleled gift. Proper attitude and conduct is the wellspring of life-force that sustains human life. If we do not have Buddha-knowledge, how can we behave properly? If it is not inherent in the fabric of our culture, how can any goodness be sustained? If we directly perceive Buddha-knowledge and it flourishes within us, we will be appropriately guided to restore the heart of our society.
If our hearts are pure enough, we will be protected as we seek Buddha-knowledge. The more the Buddha becomes our aim, the more we are uplifted even as we fall. The Buddha and the Universe wish us to succeed and they are aware of our predicament. If we trust in them and trust in the power of Truth we not fear whichever way we go. They offer the highest protection. It is only the truth that may save us. Darkness deceives, ignorance is darkness, both are ignorance of truth, and ignorance of truth is ignorance of wisdom. It is of vital importance that we take up the spiritual search for truth and wisdom. To ignore such a quest is allow the impersonal forces of karma to play as they will in our lives, throwing us to and fro without any lasting ability to provide security for ourselves and our loved ones. To ignore such a quest is to turn away from liberation which is our soul's only means for true happiness. We are born in this world, but are not of it. We cannot find peace in this world without first discovering our true nature. No thing in particular will satisfy our thirst save enlightenment. Such a quest does not mean the end of this world and our life in it. It means an end to life as we knew it. It means an end to the belief in the permanent substance of the world. God asks us to give up our mortal lives so we may be reborn in Spirit. Spirit is the culmination of every dimension of the universe that precede it. It is also each one of these dimensions and all of them altogether at once. This includes our lives on Earth. To gain awareness of Spirit as Spirit, we must die to our awareness of ourself as a finite fixed body, which is the same awareness that each thing in the universe is a finite fixed body. The play of life is simply an expression of Spirit and no thing in it is of permanent substance. Gaining enlightenment, we continue to exist as we did, yet we are no longer centered in what we thought of as ourselves we now are centered in God, which is the same as enlightened awareness. God does not want us to leave this world forever. He wants us to give up worldliness so that we are free to fully live our lives. I believe we continue to exist after the mortal body die, even after more subtly bodies may pass away as the center of our attention. Our individual nature, I think, does not end when we wake up, I think it continues on as a unique expression of the infinite. It seems to me that this Earthly life is an active expression of Spirit, and while we are here, we may be fully present in God, while we live this Earthly life, in no way that is impure or false. It also seems to me that we cannot fully manifest enlightenment until we allow it to blossom fully in our human consciousness and within our human bodies. A fully enlightened person, is a fully enlightened human being, not a disembodied soulless something. Wisdom is transcendental, yet takes in every practical consideration, being embodied in manifested form.
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