..续本文上一页hould ask yourself, ”What is this radiance
” Fix your attention on it until you know. There”s no need to fear that once this radiance is destroyed, the ”real you” will be destroyed along with it. Focus your investigation right at that center to see clearly that this radiance has the characteristics of inconstancy, stress, and not-self just like all the other phenomena you have already examined. It”s not different in any way, aside from the difference in its subtlety.
Thus nothing should be taken for granted. If anything has the nature of conventional reality, let discernment slash away at it. Focus right down on the mind itself. All the really counterfeit things lie in the mind. This radiance is the ultimate counterfeit and at that moment it”s the most conspicuous point. You hardly want to touch it at all, because you love it and cherish it more than anything else. In the entire body there is nothing more outstanding than this radiance, which is why you are amazed at it, love it, cherish it, dawdle over it, want nothing to touch it. But it”s the enemy king: unawareness.
Have you ever seen it
If you haven”t, then when you reach this stage in your practice you”ll fall for it of your own accord. And then you”ll know it of your own accord — no one will have to tell you — when mindfulness and discernment are ready. It”s called avijja — unawareness. Right here is the true unawareness. Nothing else is true unawareness. Don”t go imagining avijja as a tiger, a leopard, a demon, or a beast. Actually, it”s the most beautiful, most alluring Miss Universe the world has ever seen. Genuine unawareness is very different from what we expect it to be.
When we reach genuine unawareness, we don”t know what unawareness is and so we get stuck right there. If there”s no one to advise us, no one to suggest an approach, we are sure to stay stuck there a long time before we can understand and work ourselves free. But if there is someone to suggest an approach, we can begin to understand it and strike right at that center, without trusting it, by investigating it in the same way we have dealt with all other phenomena.
Once we”ve investigated it with sharp discernment until we know it clearly, this phenomenon will dissolve away in a completely unexpected way. At the same time, you could call it Awakening, or closing down the cemeteries of the round of rebirth, the round of the mind, under the shade of the Bodhi tree. Once this phenomenon has dissolved away, something even more amazing that has been concealed by unawareness will be revealed in all its fullness.
This is what is said to be like the quaking of the cosmos within the heart. This is a very crucial mental moment: when the heart breaks away from conventions. This moment, when release and conventional reality break away from each other, is more awesome than can be expressed. The phrase, ”the path of arahantship giving way to the fruition of arahantship” refers to precisely this mental moment, the moment in which unawareness vanishes. As we are taught, when the path is fully developed, it steps onward to the fruition of arahantship, which is the Dhamma — the mind — at its most complete. From that moment on, there are no more problems.
The phrase, ”the one nibbana,” 1 is fully realized in this heart in the moment unawareness is dissolving. We are taught that this is the moment when the path and the fruition — which are a pair — come together and meet. If we were to make a comparison with climbing the stairs to a house, one foot is on the last step, the other foot is on the floor of the house. We haven”t yet reached the house with both feet. When both feet are on the floor of the house, we”ve ”reached the house.” As for the mind, it is said to reach the Dhamma or to attain the ultimate Dhamma, and…
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