Buddha on the Diamond in the Mud
Direct Channeled Message – Received from the Buddha at the threshold, where dreaming and waking are one
Diamond Sutra
“This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”
I. On Living and Dying
Being alive is dying,
But in death there is no dying
But living.
So what is death
But a mere illusion of the mind?
And so is living.
To live is to die.
To never die is to never live.
Whether it is about
Living or dying,
One must embrace it with open eyes,
So that one will not miss
The diamond in the mud.
II. On the Observer
It is not the presence
But the absence of an observer,
Observing nothing at all.
If you can perceive all that is
As nothing,
All that is nothing, is not,
Then you perceive
Truth as the diamond
That cuts through the illusion.
III. On What Is and Is Not
There is no life in dying
And yet there is no life in living.
To be is to see that all that is
Is all that is not,
And all that is not
Is truly the gift to be received.
IV. On Fear and Seeing
It is not about coming or going,
But the absence of fear
To be where one’s body is.
If you truly perceive
Life as not the gift
But a receiver of no giving,
If you can open arms
To all that is not seen,
Then your eyes, the no-eyes,
Will then see.
V. On Light
To touch light is to hold no perception
Of what is said to be light.
And to see not-light is just as
True as the pure light.
VI. On Practice
(Diamond Sutra, with my disciple Subhuti.)
This is what I taught in that sitting.
If you want to learn more,
You have to sit, to lie,
To be still, to run,
To be free, to be nothing.
VII. On the “Who”
Nothing is not who you are,
And yet the “who”
Is both question and answer.
To not perceive a “who”
Is the greatest gift of all.
In no perceiving,
Nothing can be judged.
And so in no judging,
Not one thing can be a thing.
VIII. On “Is”
To be is the same as
To not be.
The “is” is not what you think.
It is the mind playing tricks on itself.
Therefore, strip the mind of all thinking,
And you will perceive the light.