Frank's Summary

The most significant event that occurred this week in terms of practice was the recognition that everything is an ornament of pure awareness. Nothing ever exists beyond that. This view came after reading the 12 Vajra laughs. There is no individual me apart from that arising. The individual I is a thought, or a conglomerate of thoughts and feelings. Other than that there is not much to it. That that I gets enlightened seems absurd. That I construct, these thoughts, will never enlighten, they will just do whatever they do, including being on a spiritual path, eat, having a good day or a bad day and so on. The character is a mirage and its importance drops away in this expansive view.

The essence, the ground of awareness is never affected or damaged by the arisings. Here is a beautiful perfection, isn't it? And this ground is never separate from me or better my sense of beingness. EVERYTHING arises from this and is made out of emptiness/consciousness. Also the observer, the awarer, the one who perceives emptiness or timelessness, the rules and relationships between "me" and my spiritual experiences they are all of the same nature, they are all made of the stuff that all dreams are made off. And when that same basis is tasted their importance dissolves.

In this view it is obvious that there is nothing to be done. Because there is nobody who could do anything. In a sense nobody ever gets hurt. I have a hard time believing that but that's what becomes obvious in the view, if I report honestly. In this view love is what connects everything, what moves the appearances in a symphony. There is a beautiful perfection in the effortlessness of this arising. The whole dance manifests without sweat. The view is whole because it includes everything. The small character is just what it is. A play of karma, maybe? It will suffer and rejoice. But how much do this impermanent phenomena really matter in the presence of the eternal, unchanging ground of being?? And seeing that there is relaxation, finally. My Karma will play itself out, but so what? The possibility to get off the hamster wheel is closer. When resting in the view I am actually already off the wheel. Because the I and the wheel are imaginary arisings. Pretty, but imaginary. And beingness neither being pulled here or there feels completely OK as itself.

This week practice uncovered the possibility that wh hold in this expansive view. There are still some doubts and questions how exactly perfection holds, but things may clarify themselves as they have done so many times before.