those who would lead us astray. Again, I repeat the famous lines of Longchenpa in
The Treasury of the Dharmadhatu,
Creativity projects display into another dimension,
Where it appears as the multifarious variety of the universe.
Never say categorically that there is no cause and effect.Jowoje Atisha said,
Karma exists until thought is exhausted.
You can depend upon the maturation of your karma!Until thoughts are exhausted, until we are free of all mental and sensory
elaboration, and so long as there is dualistic perception, there is karma. From that
karma sentient beings and their projected environments are established, and
thereby all the various sufferings of the six realms, high and low, are inevitably
endured. That is certain. Until the dualistic grasping of mind is either quickly
exhausted through Dzogchen nonmeditation, or very slowly exhausted on the
sutric path of Approach with Signs, which may take three countless eons, in short,
until the mind is free of concepts, the abuse of karmic causality is a damnable risk.
Longchenpa says in The Treasury of the Dharmadhatu,
If we vacillate, losing that essential space,
The intellectual mind at work becomes samsara itself,
Involving the causal concatenation that precludes resolution,
And, inevitably, confused beings fall lower and lower.
In the supreme secret that is Dzogchen, on the other hand,
We never stray from intrinsic spaciousness,
And its creative expressions naturally fall back into their source:
This vision implies resting in immutable sameness.So long as pure presence abides in the dharmakaya, we are untouched by karmic
cause and effect because in that space there is no opportunity for the movement of
dualistic thought. When we waver from pure presence, the speculative concepts
that are the function of the dualistic mind tie us to samsara, and in that dualistic
condition, samsara and nirvana, cause and effect, are established, and we cannot
go beyond it. Unable to transcend cause and effect, clinging to things as
substantially true, we are caught in the trap of samsara, and mistaken in that way,
we go down to the lower realms and suffer accordingly. For that reason the
supreme secret of Dzogchen yogins and yoginis is that they are never separated
from the space free of conceptual elaboration. No matter what positive or negative
thought arises, right from the moment of its appearance, they hang loosely,
without rejecting or accepting it, in the primordially released ground of the
dharmakaya. That is unwavering mind abiding in the magnificent sameness of
reality, uninfluenced by karmic cause and effect, where they cannot be harmed by
karmic retribution, and no matter what concepts arise, however they arise, they