Who I am

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These obscurations are not who I am

I know this deeply:

From the beginning, there has never been

Any obstruction whatsoever.

 

Can you see this clearly?

This is your original endowment:

Clear light, twinkling and shimmering

from every atom-dust

your own eyes and hands.

 

Sentient being-buddhas have had to learn this

since the beginning of time:

that though we grow out of these muddy waters of suffering,

nothing that is not us can stick to us.

 

Living in this suffering-swamp, you will feel deeply this painful existence

For it is your roots, your lifeblood—the nourishment

from which you blossom forth:

brilliant, unobstructed light.

Light and darkness are not different and so 

cannot obstruct one another,

like lead and follow in the endless dance

of existence.