Random Things That Amuse & Amaze Me

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IDENTITY by Clara Llum on Twitter @lux1008

‘Ayam Atma Brahma’ (self is none other but the absolute) is equivalent to ‘all dharmas are empty’ [of intrinsic existence].

Like form is in truth formlessness and formlessness just appears as form, avidya attributes concrete entity (atman) to the infinite (Brahman).

No concrete self (atman) can be found among the phenomenal aggregates, their nature is anatman (without own entity).

The true nature of all things that are empty of themselves is the ineffable suchness of the absolute expanse ~ namely, Brahman or Dharmakaya.

So when we look at any ‘dharmas’, say ‘self’ or ‘atman’, we in truth are only looking at the Great Nondual Mother, the Prajnaparamita.

Not one ‘dharma’ (phenomenon) remains itself other than the infinite formless, Kuntuzangmo ~ This is the very meaning of ‘Ayam Atma Brahma’.

What we call soul in the West is just the assemblage of the psychological aggregates which make a changing stream without own essence.

And yet that changing soul-stream without own essence is indistinct from the formless whole, the ineffable principle (ayam atma brahma).

Streams and patterns appear to appear within the undivided all that knows no particulars ~ the dance of emptiness.

The person is anatman and the true self (atman) is not a false finite dharma but suchness itself, the vast expanse of reality (Dharmata).