Two Temptations

Two temptations:

often it seems that there are two temptations here, and most especially through the direct means of our seeing, with the openness and clarity that ensures upon first noting the emptiness of our nature, and then the immediacy of it’s fulfillment. It’s a great awakening, repeatable and miraculous every time, that we are able to point and truly see the reality of our trade, capacity for the appearance of the world, spaciousness for form, the heart sutra directly realized.

and yet so often there are two temptations that soon come into play — first, that seeing alone isn’t enough, that there must be more to this than the very transformation of the world, as if our own direct participation of formlessness coming to the everyday reality of form isn’t a miraculous revelation and that somehow there needs to be an added benefit for our attainment. We are seekers still it seems, always wishing for another level just beyond our reach. That we are here, present to the remarkableness of reality, literally a transformation of nothing to the everyday — why, and how, could this possibly not be enough to the end cause of seeking?

as well, it seems, we’re tempted to create more to this than what’s directly seen, adding qualities of wishes and beliefs, imagining reality to fit our every need. We’re seeing, and indeed it’s a magical event, that each and every moment…