Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Susan M. Griffith-Jones
Author’s Note 11
Epilogue 59
Something = Nothing
Something = Zero
For the zero is not an empty void or ‘nothing’ as such, since the equation
would not be complete if a blank space occupied one side of the equals sign, if
the symbolic circular shape of the zero did not appear there, holding its entire
meaning within its perfect form, as well as demonstrating the relative meaning
of awareness in its absolute state.
Relative existence = O
The realisation of the union of this absolute space of awareness with its
relatively manifesting aspect is the essential meaning of ‘The Rainbow Bridge’.
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to physically appear, with joyous feeling. ness being.
And anything that appears within mind held in the view is automatically in- So is the meaning of the rainbow itself in this sense the bridge between
fected by that mirror of essential qualities. viewpoint and appearance.
For all that appears is but an arising expression of un-manifest potential, Knowing this, remaining in the recognition of this, one may naturally rest
which directed by accordingly appearing causes and conditions becomes a re- in the absolute viewpoint of appearance, namely the view, beholding all phe-
alised manifest potential that is the sum total of the multitude of experiences nomena whilst directly perceiving its inherently empty nature, its one taste basic
of all appearing form and formless beings. component pure awareness energy, the appearing zero of all inherently empty
The masses of beings arising within appearance each carry their own pack- appearing relative phenomena.
age of their total experience within appearance, whose individual sum total arises To see that is to directly perceive emptiness whilst beholding appearance.
as the quality of their awareness experience, along with the sum total of the ex-
periences of all beings. The experience of individuals may not be separated
from that of all beings in this sense.
Beings take physical shapes and forms according to the total result of their
experience of existence, yet continuously change shape and form as that expe-
rience mutates within appearance.
Yet ultimately, all beings sub-consciously search to understand total knowl-
edge of their being.
Absolute formless energy of being gives birth to form and form dissolves
back into formless unborn yet arising potential, a process simultaneously going
on all the time.
The subtle formless image of the rainbow compliments this meaning, as it
is itself an apparition that mysteriously appears and subsequently disappears in
a seemingly short relative time frame.
Subject and object are understood as arising from the same source, self
and others are recognised as simply manifest appearances of essential aware-
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Orange
Commentary to Prologue
Here the reader is being instructed to bring his or her mind into the
state of the view before beginning to read the text, whereby awareness di-
rectly recognises itself as all manifesting appearance, yet empty of any in-
herent reality.
In this way one directly perceives emptiness whilst holding appearance.
The ‘fire of wisdom nectar’ refers to the view, which is the necessary aware-
ness space for the words to reveal their correct meaning to the perceptive aware-
ness of the reader.
Thus the reader is connected with that same awareness space of the writer
so that with mind held in the view, he or she may re-live the mind images of per-
ceptive awareness that the writer experienced as an appearing vision in the mind
as the words were written onto the page.
This process should theoretically happen automatically when the text is both
written and read with mind held in the view. Thus the reader should simply read
the words and allow them to naturally translate back into their original visionary
impression.
In reality, much of the meaning is of course sub-consciously experienced
and only consciously manifests according to the perception or viewpoint of the
reader.
awareness nature as pure perception, bliss, clarity, wisdom and awareness of all
these aspects, inseparable from each other as the negative mind states of ego are
simply purified into their more subtle aspects of awareness.
The circle of zero itself represents these pure aspects of relative awareness.
For as it appears, so is its clear nature revealed and as it is understood, so does
its wisdom arise and wisdom could not appear without its blissful nature having
The page here refers to the absolute ground of all phenomena, yet un-man-
ifest, but ready to burst into any display at all, whilst the pen refers to the power
of creativity of that empty space seething with the energy of its own creativity.
Both its empty and creative aspects inseparably united are the make up of
essential awareness mind, which is here referred to as ‘pregnant emptiness’.
Like the page that is ready to give birth to any appearance upon its blank sur-
face and accept it fully without attachment or rejection to its relative meaning,
so is the pen, wet with the ink of skillful means, ready to spill out its perfectly
encoded meaning, knowledge of an ultimate reality contained within the words
that appear on the page.
In this way by simply resting mind in its natural state, the ink is the method
for the pen to unite with the page, the nectar of creativity of the spacious birth
ground of all phenomena now appearing as words containing their essential
meaning.
Anything brought forth from awareness mind is in essence this relatively
appearing creative aspect born from an absolute state of un-manifest being.
In this way, a perfect appearance of light (as form appearance) and a perfect These relative and absolute qualities always remain present within everything
potential of sound (as formless appearance) are contained within appearing that appears.
awareness. What exists as form and corresponding formless aspect are there present
Purified by awareness itself into its non-appearing state, the rainbow colours one within the other as all relative appearance is temporal and subject to
of appearance and their corresponding sounds melt into their common essential birth and death, appearance and disappearance, like a dance of changing
clear light nature, without colour, shape or form. images, transforming from one state into another as one’s molecular essen-
Pure awareness nature of perception and awareness of the appearance of tial format mutates shape according to causes planted and subsequent con-
that perception are thus united. Even though they may arise in their own indi- ditions present.
vidual way, they are not containing a separate self as they arise from the same All phenomena, both animate and inanimate contain this blend of form and
womb of all phenomena. So are awareness and appearance in reality the seed formless aspects, whereby relative form is continuously becoming relatively
and fruit of each other. formless, disappearing into its essential aspect and back again into appearance,
Even though everything that is being written in the text is itself a marvellous thus demonstrating its essential truth of existence whilst appearing in a multi-
truth of existence, the writer laments that there is not necessarily anything in tude of different aspects.
particular to write about at all as everything ultimately ends up having the same
essential meaning. 1.2 For inside each character,
However, an ensuing chain of logical arguments reveals the actual meaning Each letter,
of the text and the value of using the creative quality of mind in this way. Is contained
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