Loser sentient beings

One is a sentient being (sattva) in virtue of not recognizing Buddha-nature.  Such a life is one of confusion (samsara) desiring what is not Buddha-nature.  While potentially all sentient beings can recognize their Buddha-nature their delusions bind them to a wayward life of suffering.  Even those sentient beings who are desirous of realizing their Buddha-nature are limited by their delusions.  Such a burden amounts to mistaking what is not Buddha-nature for Buddha-nature.

From the beginning, sentient beings have not recognized their Buddha-nature.  As a result of this non-recognition or avidya, samsara is generated.  There is no escaping the fact that sentient beings have never known any other condition except samsara.  Still, it is almost impossible for us to accept that Buddha-nature is the fundamental nature of existence; more than our present way of life which is fictional.  It goes against all of our beliefs.

So what is Buddha-nature?  As the Tibetan Lamas tell us, it is utterly open.  We can think of it as a limitless, pure, open field or medium.  In addition, it is a dynamic—yet totally invisible and fundamentally empty.  It is luminous (prabhâsa) or the same, radiant.  Some call it clear light.  To experience it directly is to understand what compassion or karuna really means; seeing it mystically at work in the world trying to awaken the world.  By realizing it one no longer remains entangled with phenomena since phenomena do not actually exist.  Only this pristine nature or Mind-nature exists.

 

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[MStrinado]

“Mara is the great compassionate Boddhisatva that brings wisdom through temptation. There is no greater or more compassionate Boddhisatva than Mara. We should praise him every day for his most graceful activity.”

You sound like a child and disciple of Osho whose warped sense of “being playful with the mysteries of the universe” opened a demonic black hole from which many misinformed worldlings never escaped. You, too, are a consort of Mara, masquerading through some warped form of Advaitism that equates the demon of avidya as a mere comic mask on the face of Brahman—yet in reality an evil clown that has created tragedy and disease and misfortune upon so many unsuspecting victims throughout the millennium. You disgrace the very name of bodhisattvahood and in so doing you will be assured of karmic recompense. So, keep praising your dark lord and one day your precious butt will really discover just how gracious he can be.

[The Slayer of Boddhisatvas]

The mystery of semblance or appearance can be understood this way:

It is not the case that there is mere appearance and there is separate Reality, and the two are pposed to each other.

But it's the case that there only appears to be appearance.

The same with ignorance; ignorance has no reality of its own: only the ignorant see ignorance. Ultimately it's without reality. It's self-triggered through self-negating negativity; a ripple in still water.

Ignorance is not the first. Before ignorance comes what Heraclitus called DIVINE PLAY.

It is that One wants to PLAY ignorant, so that the game of hide-and-seek can go on. Desire, will-to-play, precedes ignorance. Ignorance is its effect, not the cause. Cognitivism is the idiot's philosophy. Putting knowledge before desire is a sure sign of idiocy.

Tanha comes before Avidya, because Avidya is willed, craved, desired.

We could say that the whole universe is loveplay, Love playing hide-and-seek with itself. Ignorance is willed. People who see ignorance as a mistake are very far from the Way of Play, the only true way.

Ignorance is willed, is desired; illusion is willed, and is desired, by the One. It is the consort of the Absolute. Even Buddhas bow down to Maya: the one, the only; it conceals and gives signs. "Nature is wont to hide herself."

Mara is the great compassionate Boddhisatva that brings wisdom through temptation. There is no greater or more compassionate Boddhisatva than Mara. We should praise him every day for his most graceful activity.