Authentic Being: Our Existential Ontological Relation To Our Ontological Base As Timeless Awareness

Authentic Being: Our Existential Ontological Relation to Our Ontological Base of Being as Timeless Awareness

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D. Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P.

The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Center for Existential Phenomenological Consultation

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The Dzogchen Master Longchenpa writes about our Authentic Base Of Being. Longechenpa   describes how this Authentic  Ontological Base of Being is Ontologically  Multidimensional and Ontologically  Unconditional. Our Ontological Base of Being is the  Authentic State that is Ontologically Unconditional. This Authentic state is Timeless and Endless. This Authentic State is Timeless Being and this Authentic State is Being Knowing Being . This Authentic State Is Being Knowing The Infinity of  Being  Non Conceptually Directly and Experientially. This Authentic State is Being knowing Being Non-Conceptually and Directly Perceptually.  Gnosis or Jnana is the Knowingness of our Authentic State of Unconditional Actuality of  Reality.

There is amazing similarity between the Existential Phenomenologist Heidegger and the Dzogchen Master Longchenpa   of the 14th century. Both Person’s focus on their “lived experience” of Ontological Being. Both Persons make a Distinction between Psychological or Ontic Knowing and Ontological Knowing which Is Being Knowing Being. Both Person’s describe how we are both ontic and ontological Beings who have psychological minds that know phenomena and we are the Authentic Ontological Beingfull Awareness that knows Being and is Timeless  Being Knowing Being. And most importantly this Ontological State of Primordial Awareness, Primordial Timeless Being is Actually Unconditional Being.

Our Being is Being itself which is  Multidimentiional Being and Pure Beingfullness. This Multidimensional  Being is both Source and is  the Beingfull Manifestation of Source.  Being is both the Ground of Being, and Being  is the Archetypal Manifestation of Being and Being is Cosmological Being  as the Manifestation of Our Ordinary life world. Our Personal Being is  Being and our Personal Being is infinite in its horizons, vast and multidimensional. Being.   Being is our Living Source of Self Liberation.

I will in this paper explore  this Authentic Base of Being and how this Authentic  Ontological Base of Being is our Intimate  Source of  our Profound  Self Liberation and is  the Ontological  Source of our Innate Freedom of Being and  this Self Liberation is  within  our Ontological Field of Luminous Beingfullness.

Let us begin with Martin Heidegger

Heidegger began his Phenomenology of Lived experience as a Transcendental Phenomenologist following his teacher Husserl. Hermeneutically, he made Transcendental Exoteric Interpretations about  our Transcendental  Consciousness as Being and Being as Transcendental  Consciousness.  This Transcendental Experience is  reflective of the early and   Eastern Transcendental Philosophies of the Samsara Nirvana Drama. Samsara is Bad and Nirvana is Good.  Our ordinary life world as Being is Saturated  with Suffering and so to free ourself from Endless  Suffering, we enter into Transcendental Awareness or Transcendental Consciousness in to order to Transcend Samsara and  to go beyond Samsara and to go further  beyond Samsara and to  go completey  beyond  Our Existential Life World of and as  Samsara.

The foundational way of Going Beyond Samsara is by  entering Transcendental Detachment and Transcendental Dissociation and Transcendental Dissolving into Emptyiness and Voidness and even our  Dissolving of our Whoness and our dissolving of essential Sense of Self. No self no Whoness, No Suffering, No Problem!

We go beyond and we go beyond and we go beyond  our Samsaric life world and we  enter the Realm of Transcendental Consciousness. Transcendental Consciousness is the Infinite Vastness of Nirvana which is the Infinite  Realm of Emptiness, Voidness, and Absence of Being and Beingfullness.  We  disappear and our Whoness disappears and all the Phenomena of and as  Samsara disappears. What remains  is Emptiness, Voidness, Absence, Nothingness. Sounds like Death, this experience  of  Nothingness.

Empty of what and Voidness of what and Absence of what?  Why  BEING AND BEINGFULLNESS.  Freedom from Being and Beingfullness and Freedom from the World of Being and the World of Beingfullness .  This is  the freedom from Samsara.  There is no suffering because there is no Whoness   and there is no self. . In Nirvana There is No Self. There is No Being. There is Only  Void.

  In early Buddhism Ontological Being and Beingfullness is consider” BAD” . Being dissolves into Emptiness, and Being disovles into Voidness  and Being Dissolves  into Nothingness. Being is both Knowingness and Energy as Longchenpa describes. And Being is Ontological  Knowingness and all Being is Energetic  Aliveness and all Being is Whoness. So Transcendentally Personal Being and  Beingfullness  must be Transcended.   

Now this Transcendental Drama  is  Distorted  in this  Masochistic Experience  of our Samsaric Experience . This Samsaric View and Samsaric Path is  Anti-libidinal  experience and Profoundly  Anti life Force Experience that is Endless and results   tragic forms of Transcendental  Disappearance.

This Transcendental Voidnes  and  this  Transcendental  Path of Emptiness  is  distorting   form of Existential Masochism. This Existential   Masochism is  Suffering Voidness in order to  avoid suffering ontological Humanness. This in Dzogchen Language is Ma Rigpa which actually  means NO Authenic Awareness, and no  Primordial Knowingness, and No Human Being Knowing Being.

Back To Heidegger

Heidegger was the teaching assistant of Husserl and Heidegger turned against Husserl’s limiting view of  Transcendental  Consciousness. Heidegger and  the teaching assistant Edit Stein left the Transcendental Phenomenology of Husserl and began bringing forth the Phenomenological  Ontological Experience of Consciousness as Embodied  Beingfull  Being. Being is the Being of Ontological Immanence. Being is not  lost in Transcendence.  Being is a Phenomenological Ontological Experience and Being is an  Embodiment Experience of Ontological Self Liberation. Ontological Being is beyond our Psychological Ontic Dualistic Mind.

Heidegger’s great text on Being and Time was a  Transitional  Transcendental Exoteric work about the facticity of human Beingfull experience as Being. This Transitional Text opened for Heidegger his Phenomenological Ontological Doorway  into entering the Esoteric Ontological Experience of   Being full Ontological Consciousness. Ontological Awareness is both our Ontological  Base and Ontological Source of Human experience within  the Ontological Context of the  Sublime Immanence of Ontological  Being.  Heidegger was influenced  as was Eidth Stein in their Creation of Phenomenological Ontology by their medieval studies of the mystic Ontologist Thomas Aquinas  of the 14th century  and Thomas Aquinas’s Experience of the  Pervasive  Ontology of Beingfull Lumenous Immanence.

Heidegger through his personal phenomenological ontological  experience of our  Unconditional Experiential Primordial State of the Infinity of Timeless Being and Timeless Awareness. Heidegger’s Ontological Base of Existence was not his Personal Psychology but his experience of his Personal Experiential Beingfull Ontology.

Heidegger later in his life because of  his written  works on Ontology  and his  teaching of phenomenology to  psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with Menard Boss, the Jungian Psychoanalyst at the ZolliKon Seminar for some ten years. Heidegger has had great influence on Contemporary  Existential Psychoanalysis and Existential Psychotherapy. Heidegger has had great influence on Existential Psychoanalysis. He also had a great influence on Existential Experiential Psychotherapy such as Gestalt Psychotherapy.

Heidegger’s work introduced Being  as a essential Dimension of Psychotherapy and Human Experience. We are both psychological and ontological Beings. We are ontic and ontological beings. Psychotherapy is both a psychological and ontological experience. Life is both a psychological and ontological experience. Self-Liberation is both a psychological and ontological experience.

Heidegger’s phenomenological ontological understanding was that our lived  experience of our Ontological Being was the Basis of Profound Human Self Liberation. Heidegger’s Existential Phenomenological work greatly influenced Donald Winnicott and the English School of Transitional Space and Transitional Relatedness. Winnicotts ontological understanding was revealing that our continuous sense of  self is the ongoing experience of our Ongoing Continuity of Being and Beingfullness. The experience of the Absence of Being , the experience of Beinglessness  was experienced as the absence of self and Absence of Beingfull Experience of life  as the aliveness as  Beingfull Ontological Phenomena.

What remains for human’s who are within the ontological suffering of Beinglessness and ontological Emptiness, and  Voidness   is often  the experience of psychological and ontological Schizoid states of Meaningless and  Profound Emptiness  reflecting  various forms of  Ontological Terror.  Beingless States are states of despair, states of lovelessness and can even become states of  Psychopathic Rapaciousness .

These Psychopathic Beingless States can reflect  endless Sadistic Cruelty. Beingless Schizoid States  create the experiences of rapacious ontological madness  within persons who lack of the living experience of ontological Beingfull  self  within themselves and  lack the experience of the Beingfull  self of others.

Schizoid states  destroy the experience of human Beingfullness. Philosophical Emptiness and Voidness of Being brings about profound schizoid States. Schizoid states are states of emptiness, voidness, absence of Being and terrifying nothingness.

This Psychoanalytic  understanding  of Schizoid States reflects the English Psychoanalytic School of Object Relations Understanding as well as the French Psychoanalytic Understanding of Jacque Lacan. Schizoid is a Beingless Existence and Existence Empty of Beingfull Love  and Beingfull meaningfulness.

Heidegger’s profound natural phenomenological experience of Being as our natural state  of Direct Non- Conceptual Ontological Knowing  of Being as Being and as Timeless Ontological Awareness Knowing the Infinity of our Timeless Being and Timeless Ontological Being full-ness. This Ontological Knowing opens for us our Pre-reflective Non -Conceptual Experiential Knowing of Pure Being and the Pure Being of Phenomena and of most importance the Pure Being of our Innermost   Beingfull Self as Unconditional  Ontological Authentic Awareness.

Our natural ontological experience of Pure Being and the Pure  Being of our Self and the corresponding Pure Being of Phenomena opens for us our profound experience of Being full Ontological Intimacy within the Human Being of beings and the experience of  the Pure Being of Being itself within us and as The World. This experience of the Infinity of Pure Being is Self-Liberation within our life.

This Ontological Self liberation takes place in Time and in Time Bound Relational Situations and Time Bound Context. So within Timeless Awareness we can experience Time and the Context of Time. And so within   our ontological Timeless Awareness we can experience Being within us and simultaneous experience the Being of Human Beings and the  Being of the World, and the infinity of  Being as Universe.

Moreover , we can feel the intimate union of our Being entering Human  Beings and Human Beings entering Pure Being itself. Our experience of Being and the Infinity of Being is a natural source of Self-Liberation. This is the path of Immanence. This is not the path of Monasticism. Monasticism  fears the Samsaric  Being of the  World and  pursues  Transcendental  Detachment and Transcendental Emptiness and Transcendental Aloneness. The Transcendental path is the experience of I Alone Exist.

Psychological Mind Alone

Our Primordial Ontological Authentic State is not simply a function of our psychological mind or ontic mind. Often our mind is like a Box. Highly Contained and Trapped by Context. This context is both our  historical developmental context and the contemporary context of Time. This Primordial State of Non-Conceptual Consciousness Awareness is not a function of our psychological mentalistic mind. Our mind knows phenomena and our awareness knows Being.

There is this foundational and important experiential distinction between our mind knowing phenomena and our Primordial Unconditional State of Being knowing Being within the Being of Phenomena.. As Merleau Ponty describes and elaborates, there is this Pre-reflective Non- Conceptual Experience of our Direct Knowing of the Being of beings. This knowing of Being is the profound  Source for our direct experiential knowing self liberation within our Existential  context and  our context of Time Bound experience.

Now  In the ancient  Dzogchen experience of this Direct Non Conceptual   Knowing of Being is called GNOSIS Or JNANA Or Yeshe OR Semde. Our Direct Knowing of our Primordial Awareness or Our Primordial Consciousness  is the Non Conceptual Experiential Ontological  Knowing of our Being KNOWING BEING. Our mind knows our personal historical phenomenological  context and   the present  phenomenological  Contextualization of Time. There is Ontological Phenomenological Non-Conceptual understanding that is a mutual understanding between Heidegger and the Dzogchen Master Longechenpa .

The Ontological Psychological Difference of Knowing of Mind and our Ontological Knowing of Timeless Awareness

Within this experiential ontological difference between our mind knowing phenomena and our ontological Knowing Knowing Being. Our phenomenological ontological path of self-liberation is experienced as we experience the ontological Freedom of Beingfull Timeless Awareness in Time.  We can experience our Ontological Freedom of Being within Timeless Awareness within our experience of   Phenomenological Ontological Phenomena. We discover the Freedom of Timeless Awareness by Being in Timeless Awareness and by Being Timeless Awareness IN Time.

We have the ongoing continuity of experiencing Being and Being fullness in the context of Time Bound Situations and the Time Bound Context of Our Existential Experiential World. Death itself is a Time Bound Ontological Experience that takes place in Time.

Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being

Our profound experience of Timeless Awareness in Time reflects our experience of the Timeless Infinity of Being and Being fullness.  Timeless Awareness or Timeless Consciousness reflects our foundational Authentic Primordial State of Being both as  Ontological Source of Being and as Being our Ontological Self Manifestation of Being. Again, our Primordial Foundational Authentic State of Being is both Ontological Source and the Drama of Ontological Self Manifestation of Being in the world and in our Existential Time Bound Context.

Heidegger’s Phenomenological Ontological work reflects our western phenomenological understanding of Ontological Self liberation within our Esoteric Embodiment of Phenomenological   Being and Being fullness. This effortless entry into Self-liberation through the doorway of our Direct Non- Conceptual Ontological Experience of Timeless Awareness of Timeless Infinity of Our Own Innate Ontological Being full Awareness.

Our own Ontological Being full Gnosis, our own innate Being full Awareness of our Being of our  being, is amazingly found in the Dramatic Phenomenological Ontological Experience of the ancient Dzogchen Experience of Directly Knowing Being. Dzogchen is an ancient and contemporary path of naturalistic Self Liberation.

Dzogchen is the Luminous Natural Path of Ontological Being and Ontological Being full Awareness that belongs Naturally to everyone everywhere. Dzogchen and Heideggerian ontological Understanding are amazingly similar. These mutual understandings of Timeless Awareness in Time support us in depth and in breath of  our living experience of Being. Contemporary Phenomenology illuminates experientially Dzogchen forms of Phenomenological Ontology. This simply means we experience Being  both through  Phenomena and simultaneously  within our own Ontological Awareness. We are and we live in the Field of Being as Being.

As the great Dzogchen teacher Namkai Norbu would so often say Dzogchen does not belong to any tradition, Dzogchen is our real Condition, and Dzogchen does not belong to any one Culture. Norbu then says Dzogchen is Galactic or Cosmological in its full vastness. Dzogchen is not a Transcendental Phenomenology but rather, Dzogchen Is the Existential Realm of Phenomenological Ontological IMMANENCE.

This ontological path of natural self-liberation is simultaneously both in Dzogchen and in the Phenomenological Ontological Path   of Contemporary Existential Phenomenology. Dzogchen is an ontological path of our embodiment of Being and Being fullness. Dzogchen is not a path of dissociation, detachment and disembodiment of Being. Dzogchen is not a Beingless Drama of ontological lack and transcendental dissociation. Dzogchen is not a path of nothingness, emptiness, voidness and eternal absence. Dzogchen is not masochism for the sake of self liberation.

Dzogchen is not the Transcendental Phenomenology of early Heidegger, but the embodied Immanent Phenomenological Ontology of later Heidegger. The Phenomenology of Ontological Dzogchen is the Infinity of the Phenomenological Ontological Field of Being full Immanence.

There were some early forms of expression of Dzogchen that reflected the early Buddhist Dissociative Transcendental States of Being lessness or Emptiness or Nothingness or Disembodiedness.  As the Dzogchen early Master Padma Shambhava said Dzogchen would come into maturity when the Iron Birds Fly.  He also said I have come to introduce to you the path of Embodied INTENSITY of Being.  In many Dzogchen Text Ontological Being is introduced as well as Ontological Timeless Awareness in Phenomenological Time. Longchenpa’s great text ‘The Basic Space of Phenomena’ is translated by Roger Barron. IN Dzogchen text of Longchenpa the word Being is focal and of great importance. Dzogchen is not a beingless tradition of absence and lack of self, and lack of  self-manifestation.

One Early Dzogchen Text introducing Creative Ontological Being as Source is the Supreme Source of the 7th century later edited By Namkai Norbu. Another Dzogchen text is Establishing the Divinity of Appearance by the 10th century Tibetan author Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo. And then the most direct and elaborate introduction of Being and Being fullness within the context of Dzogchen is in the 14th century by the Great Master of Dzogchen Longchenpa. In later centuries, Being is elaborated by Chatruyl Rinpoche, Manjusri, Dudjom Rinpoche and Lama Tharchen and the Lama Trakeg  Kyabgon, Namkai Norbu and Lama Norhla,  Kungsang Dechen Lingpa, Lama Wangdor and the Shaivite Master Swami Muktananda and Hindu Master Amma.

Initially Buddhism was a Beingless Phenomenology and thus everything was without ontological base and thus without ontological support. Beingless  Phenomena was experienced as illusion or delusion. The early Buddhist Praxis was not the Praxis of embodiment but dissociative transcendental disembodiment into forms of objectified Witness Consciousness and then   states of nothingness, states of  absence,  and states of emptiness, states of VOID. Emptiness of what? Why, of course Emptiness of Being and Being- fullness. Empty of Being both as the experiencer  and the experienced. This philosophy of emptiness is Being lessness of us experiencing the Being lessness of Phenomena, the Being lessness of the Universe and the Beinglessness of the Knower. This does not sound like Fun. This sounds like Ontological Boredom.

The Absence of Ontological Base and Ontological Source

As Gautama would say endlessly, there is No ontological Beingfull Base to phenomena and thus all phenomena are a delusion or illusion. And thus, his profoundly masochistic conclusion was that all life is suffering, and human Desire is the Source of suffering. This of Course is a profound Distortion of Human Beingfull  Experience. This is a Profound Schizoid View of Human Beingfullness. This is not a happy view, this is not a fun view, this is not a humanistic view. This Schizoid View brings forth the emptiness of human existence and voidness within human beings.  Schizoid is a Beingless State.

As Lacan said in his lecture at John Hopkins University in 1998, “Desire Built Baltimore!”. The  Transcendental Doorway is a way out  of Samsaric Beingless suffering . This transcendental way is to detach one self from  Samsaric Phenomena  and Samsaric Reality. Transcendental Detachment and Transcendental Dissociation and Transcendental  Disappearance  forms our endless Empty Beingless Experience  of Nothingess and Emptiness. This Emptiness of Ontological Being full results in Ontological and Psychological states of Being lessness or Voidness or Emptiness or Meaninglessness. This is not a view of Love. This is not the view of the Love of the World and the Beings of the world. This is not a View of the Bliss of Being.

This is an Anti-Libidinal or Anti life Force experience. This is Empty  Existence  and Empty Absence of Transcendental Soli/psistic  Existence. Go Beyond, Go Beyond and Go Beyond  our Human Experience of Being and Beingfullness. This method is the method of Boredom ?. This is a method of Ma Rigpa which means a method of not knowing Being. In Dzogchen Language this is a method of MA RIGPA.

Similarity of Phenomenological Ontological View

Heidegger’s Ontic Ontological Understanding is intimately like the Phenomenological Dzogchen understanding of our Primordial Being full Timeless Awareness experiencing Timelessness Being and Time as our Ontological Source. This similarity occurs in the form of our Ontological Knowing of Being Knowing Being. We know Being by Becoming Being. We embody Being and we experience Being as us and as others and as the world. The Bliss of Samadi is the Bliss of the World.

The Ontological Psychological Distinction

Our Timeless Knowingness experience as our Ground of Being as our Ontological Source is not simply a psychological event but is the profoundly Ontological Experience of self liberation. Human awareness is profoundly ontological and not simply psychological. Our Psychological Awareness is concretely contextualized and is not our doorway to self-liberation.  Self-liberation arises out of the infinity of our experience of our ontological dimension of Being and not simply out of our concretized psychological context of mind alone.

We are the psychological knowing of Mind Knowing Phenomena and we are our Ontological knowing of Primordial Timeless Awareness Knowing Being. Timeless Being Self Manifests Being and the Being of beings in time as time.

Our Being knows Being! Through our Natural State of Innate Ontological Being Full Awareness, we naturally and spontaneously experientially Know the Being of beings, the Infinity of Being and the multidimensionality of Being. We are ontic ontological Beings who know both the ontic actuality of phenomena and the ontological actuality of Existential Being and our Being full self-manifestation of Being within beings. Our direct natural direct ontological knowing of Being is called Dasein by Heidegger. Dasein is our ontological openness to the experience of Pure Being and the Being of beings.

Non- Conceptual Gnosis

This natural direct non- conceptual knowing of Being in Dzogchen is called Gnosis or Jnana. This direct non-conceptual natural knowing of Being and the Beingness of beings is our Primordial State of Ontological Awareness as our Primordial Awareness and as our Ontological Being and Ontological Being fullness. Our Ontological Being Full Awareness is Our Ontological Knowing of Being and our direct experience of ontological Being Fullness.  Our Ontological Being Full Awareness is our Ontological knowing of Being and our Being non conceptually knowing Being. Being Fullness is language that implies the manifestation of Being and Being fullness. Being self manifest Beings and Being.

Often, human beings only experience awareness of mind: the knowing of phenomena and phenomenological experience. Most often this knowing of mind alone is conceptual and representational and exoteric knowingness.

Esoteric and Exoteric Knowingness

Hegel in His magnificent Phenomenology of Spirit suggests that in our study of the phenomenology of our lived experience of phenomena, we can approach phenomena, as a thing, as an object, as a concretized experience of cause and effect, as concrete operation of viewing and mentalistic ideational thinking. This thinking and this concreteness will give us a reasonable and rational understanding of phenomena. This experience as rational reasonable ideational understanding in a word is an exoteric experience and exoteric understanding. This cause and effect thought  is concrete objectified ideational thinking.

This knowing of mind is psychological, experiential and representational. Our mind does not experience ontological Being and Being fullness. Our Awareness State, our Primordial Foundational Ontological Awareness State is Being Experiencing  Being. This Ontological Knowing of Ontological Awareness is Ontological Knowing and this Ontological Knowing knows Being. This knowing as Primordial awareness is Ontological Knowing and this Ontological Knowing Knows Being and knows the Being of Phenomena. Our mind knows phenomena and our awareness as Being knows the Being of Phenomena and the Phenomena of Being. There are two types of Knowing.  Knowing of our mind knowing phenomena and the Knowing of our Being Knowing Being and the Being Fullness of beings.

Our mind knows transcendental experience and our Primordial Awareness is the realm of Immanence. The Realm of Immanence is the direct experience of non-dualistic knowing of Being within the knowing of duality of phenomena simultaneously.

DASEIN

Heidegger would say that our ability to experience ontological knowing and ontological experience is DASEIN. Dasein is Primordial Foundational Ontological Awareness knowing BEING. Dasein is our Being knowing BEING. This understanding is profoundly like the Dzogchen understanding of the Primordial STATE OF Consciousness or Primordial Authentic Ground of Being as Timeless Awareness Knowing Being, knowing the Being of beings, and Being  knowing Pure Being. Ontological Awareness is Timeless Being knowing Deathless Being life after life and death after death. Ontological Primordial Awareness is Deathless Awareness.

Our direct non-conceptual knowing is DASEIN. When our mind alone attempts to know Being we experience metaphysical conceptual representational knowing. Our direct knowing of Being is our Being there knowing Being. Our mind does not directly or non-conceptually know Being experientially. Our Mind is not DASEIN. Dasein is our Being Knowing Being. Dasein is our Being directly  non- conceptually knowing Being and the  experience of Being. Our mind is not DASEIN. Dasein is this Open Ontological  State of Our Being Knowing Being.  This foundational state of our Being Opening into Being. Ontological Being Knowing Being.

Our mind is psychological and ontic. Our primary source of self-liberation is our primordial awareness as Dasein. Dasein is our Beingfullness openness to Timeless awareness As Timeless Being. Our Mind is intrinsically dualistic and subject object oriented with intense conflicts and the endless   terror of annihilation anxiety.

When phenomena are only known by our mind or sems in Tibetan, then phenomena have no source, no Base and No Being Fullness. When phenomena are experienced absent from Being and Being fullness Phenomena are experienced as empty of Being and is Beingless. When phenomena are profoundly and experientially absent of Being what remains is absence, void, emptiness, nothingness and even meaninglessness. Longchenpa the great Dzogchen master of the 14th century describes the agony of Beingless Absence.

Hiding In Being- Lessness

People can hide in emptiness, hide in absence and disappear into voidness, and dissolve into Being lessness. We can take masochistic refuge into Emptiness of Being. This is the power of the absence of BEING AND Being Fullness. The absence of the BEINGFULLNESS  OF PHENOMENA, the Absence of Being within the human face, the absence of the Being of the beloved are forms of ontological Lost and Terror. The loss of Being of self, or loss of Beingfull  self  within Otherness is a profound source of Terror and Meaningless. WE can experience the Purity of Being of our own Being and the Purity of the   Being of others and the Being of the world. We can enter into the Being of the other; we can enter into the Being of the world and enter into the Being of the Beloved. There is  Self- Liberation  through Intimacy of Being within the Being of  beings.

Our Transmission of Being to Other Human Beings

We can also transmit Being into each other. The experience of Being as Being is the source of liberation life after life and death after death. This power of our Transmission of Being is our   natural transmission of Being from within our person to another person and from our person to a group of persons. Also, since Being is multidimensional our transmission can also be multidimensional.

Transmission Of Being Into Human Beings, Dzogchen is the Ontological Drama of Transmission

There is our Nirmanakaya transmission of the Being into our ordinary life world. There is often the simple transmission of the felt sense of Pure Being and Pure Being Fullness of Being. There is transmission of  the Sambogakaya transmission of Dimension of  the symbolic energetic  archetypal dimension of ontological Luminous Archetypal Luminous Energy. And then, there is the ontological  transmission of the Dharmakaya which is the transmission of our sense of Ontological Source of Ground of Being . Our Self- Manifestation as the Ground of Being as our own Primordial Awareness as Primordial Being Fullness can be transmitted into other human beings.

This ontological Transmission is profoundly intimate and is our own intrinsic mysterious union with and as the Ground of Being. The transmission of the Ground of Being is the Transmission of Timeless Awareness, Timeless Being from within one person to another person or persons. As Dudjom Rinpoche would endlessly say, Please Take This Power into Your own hands. Please stop Begging. Dzogchen is not the path of Begging and Begging and Begging. Dzogchen is the empowerment of the self manifestation of multidimensional transmission within us.

The Ontological Four Times of Dzogchen and Heidegger

In both Dzogchen and in Heideggerian Phenomenological ontology there are four times. In Dzogchen ontology there are 4 times. The time of the past, the time of the present and the time of the future. And the fourth time is Timeless Awareness. And Timeless Awareness is Timeless Being.

And in   ontological Dzogchen as well as in Heidegger ontology  there are Four times. We can experience Time Within Timeless Awareness and Timeless Being. We can experience the Future Time in Timeless Awareness, the Present Time in Timeless Awareness and we can experience the past Time In ontological Timeless awareness. Timeless Awareness is Timeless Being and Timeless Being Fullness. We can enter the past, we can enter into the present moment, and we can enter into the future. This Timeless Awareness of Timeless Being is infinite in its horizons vast and multidimensional and yet completely near. In Timeless Awareness there is no distance. And from within Timeless Awareness, from within Timeless Being we can enter the present time, we can enter the future time, and we can enter the past time.

In this way, Timeless Being as Timeless awareness, helps us directly know the Past, directly know the Present and even for some Directly Know the Future.

We can all also from within Timeless awareness in Time transmit Timeless Being to other human beings. We can transmit Being to other Beings even in the past and in the present and even in the future. We can transmit the Sambhogakaya dimension of Being or the Archetypal Dimension of Being to other human Beings We can open the archetypal dimension of Being in another human being. And most amazingly, as we transmit Being and PURITY OF Being as we immediately and intimately experience our Ground of Being as Source. Our intimate Being full Awareness is an Ontological Source as the Dharmakaya.  Yes, our awareness our natural Timeless Being full Timeless awareness is Source, Ontological Source. The Dharmakaya dimension of Being is Timeless Awareness as Ontological Being as Source.

Timeless Awareness is a multidimensional experience. Within Timeless Awareness we can experience Timeless Being full Awareness as an ontological source, we can experience Timeless Being full awareness as the archetypal ontological expression and manifestation of the Being of beings. We can directly experience the Ontological Creative Energy of Being  as Source and we can experience our Ordinary Experience of our world as our Existential Situation and in this way within any situation we can experience as Phenomenological Being. Being is always manifesting phenomena and Being  is always manifesting Being  through Beingfull  Phenomena.

We are able to continuously experience the Being of Phenomena and the Being full Energy of Phenomena as Pure Being.  These states are all states of Natural Liberation. Yes, all states of liberation are self-liberation. Or as Dudjom Rinpoche would always say, “Take this power into your own hands. The Dzogchen empowerment is the empowerment of Transmission. Our Desire of the manifestation of Being into beings is the source of Transmission.

Sometimes in the history of Dzogchen, the illusional Patriarchal Metaphor dominates the experience of Transmission. Only the master can transmit.  As the Dali Lama said in presenting the Kalachakra Tantra in Washington dc years ago,, the Tibetan Buddhism will be destroyed by the domination of Patriarchalism. Then he said I am the Dalai Lama. I do not know  everything and I can not create everything , I do know I love people loving me.

Our Authentic Natural State of Being

Our Being of  Our Being Full Consciousness or  Our Being full Awareness is our authentic natural State of Being. This Natural State is not our mind of thinking, feeling and sensation. This natural state is not the state of endless ideation. Or as Padmashambava would say laughingly thinking thinking and thinking  ideation, ideation and ideation. In ideation thought becomes a thing.

This Natural State of Being is Timeless and Endless. This Natural Authentic State of Being is not subject to change and has no origin and no cessation. This Timeless State of Being is without Boundary and is both infinite in its horizons, vast and multidimensional and is completely close, completely intimate. Our Natural Real Condition as described by Trakeg Kyabgon in His text on Longchenpa’s Three Cycles of Natural Freedom. This Real Ontological Condition is our Authentic Ontological State of BEING.

We can only know or comprehend of experience of this ontologically natural condition by Being in Being, by Being in this State of Ontological Being. We cannot know it intellectually as concept. We can experientially know the natural condition by entering it and Being it and remaining in it. This state of Being is not simply an event. You can find it within you, and you must embody this state of Being. Thus, you belong to this State or Being and this State belongs to ‘you as you’.

No Thing

This state of Being is not a Thing. This State of Authentic Being is profoundly Personal as your own innate intimate Awareness. Your awareness, your consciousness is Being Knowing Being. Within this State of Being there is no it. Being is not a thing. Being inhabits beings and the form of Beings. Being is not a Thing. Being knows the Being of Things.

Being Being is Knowing Being

We must experience  this state of Being; Being in Being.  This state of Timeless Being is not easy to comprehend or conceptualize. But this Being is known by our Being  Being. We have a felt sense of Being and Being Fullness and Being lessness. Being lessness is Emptiness, Voidness, Absence, and Meaninglessness. Being is non- dualistic knowing. To think Being is not necessarily to know Being.  To know Being we must be experientially  in Being and discover the path of articulating our sense of unfolding Being and Being Fullness.

Some of us discover Being though the Being of our mother.  Some of us experience the multidimensionality of Being naturally and spontaneously. We experience Being as the Being of forms, the Being of beings, the Being of a woman and the Being of a child and the Being of an old being.  Through our Being we can experience Being and the Being of others. Our mind can have ideation about Being, but we can experience Being directly and intimately and immediately through our Direct Perception of Being.  Gnosis, Jnana and Semde is simply our direct perception of Being.

Our authentic State of Being is changeless and endless. We must be in the Natural State of Being to experience Being and to experientially articulate our living experience of Being. Our Authentic Natural State of Being is Timeless and Atemporal. Our authentic state of Being is unconditional. Being is not a conditioned experience. Our Authentic State of Being is totally Pure. Again, as Lama Kyabgon says “Our Authentic State is this Natural State beyond Conditioned Existence”. This means to directly and non-conceptually experience Being, and the Nature of Being and the Power of Being and the infinite Vastness of Being and the Multidimensionality of Being is to become liberated by Being. We Live within Being and Die in Being. In Dying within Being we live in the infinity of Timeless Awareness.

Being cannot be known by mind alone. Being is a direct non-conceptual knowing that can be experientially articulated. To language Being is not easy. We learn to put words to our felt sense of Being and Being Fullness and Being lessness. Being is our living source of Self Liberation.

This Natural State of Authentic Being is Beyond Conditioned Existence.

This is a most important and Profound  Statement of understanding the nature of  Beingfull Self liberation. This Natural State of Authentic Being is Beyond CONDITIONED Existence. This Authentic State of Being is the Infinity of Timeless Being as Timeless Awareness. We can be in Being and thinking thoughts and feel feelings, and experience sensations all within this Ontological Field of Being. Being is the  Field of Timeless  Infinity in Time. Being is a field Infinite in its Horizons Vast and Multidimensional. Being is Energy and Being is an Archetypal Energy Field of Being Fullness. And Being is Alive. Being is both Source and the Manifestation of Source. Again, Being is both Source and the Manifestation of Source. As the Dzogchen prayer says May we experience all Phenomena as the Dharmakaya.

When we enter into our phenomenal experience, we discover that our own natural ontological condition is Timeless and not a function of Endless Change. In a profound way there is no beginning and there is no end within the Ongoing Continuity of Being. WithIn our natural ontological condition, we can experience Timeless infinity in Time. Ultimately, to enter into Being as our own Being which is Being itself is to enter into the Infinity of Being. To enter into the Infinity of Being is to enter into the Whoness of Being. To enter into our own Being is to experience the profound Whoness of Being. To enter into the Being of the Beloved is to experience the Whoness of Their Being. When  we enter the Being of another , we enter the Profound Whoness of their Being. Whoness is not simply a psychological Phenomena. Being entering Being is profoundly Intimate and is self liberation through Intimacy. This happens between mothers and their Baby, between Friends, between companions, this can happen with anyone and even everyone. True Intimacy is not simply a psychological event but is profoundly Ontological IN Nature.

Field Phenomena as Being Phenomena

Being is a Field Phenomenon. Ontological Awareness is a Profound Field Phenomena. The Field of Being is both a knowing of Being and a knowing of Phenomena as the manifestation of Being. Being is ‘The Field;’ a Field of Luminous Energetic Being and Being Fullness. Being is also light and Being is Knowingness. Being is Ontological Presence. And Being is Luminous Energetic Manifestation of living experience. Being is living within the Light and Energy in interface. Timeless  Being is Unconditional Experience. Being is Timelessness in Time. Being is both Source and Self-Manifestation of Source Simultaneously. Being is Alive. Being is Consciousness as Primordial Awareness. Being Knows Being Directly and Non Conceptually.

To experience Pure Being is to experience Self-Liberation  As Timeless Awareness In Time

To experience Being is to Experience Self-liberation. To Be in Being is to Be within the Ontological  Context of Being. Yet Being and The Infinity of Being is not contextualize  by Existential   Context. Being Manifest Context.  All Context is the Manifestation of Being and Being Fullness even the Context of  Death. To Be in Being is to be in the Infinity of Being Full Consciousness. To experience Being is to Experience Bliss. Yes, to experience the  living Infinity of Being is to experience the Vast Infinity of  Unbound Bliss.  To be in Authentic Being is to experience the Infinity of Unconditional Experience, Unconditional Being. To be in Being naturally, is to experience the Pure Freedom of the Infinity of Beingfull Self- liberation. Being in Being, Being in the Infinity of  the Pure Being of Being is to become experientially free of Contextualization. Without Being in Being we do not Know Self Liberation.

Again, we comprehend this Natural Ontological Unconditional Condition by by Being Primordial Being of and within Primordially  Being as Primordial Consciousness  which is the Infinity of Timeless Being and Timeless Awareness.  Being within Being is Self-Liberation. As the great Tantra the Chakrasamvara Tantra says over and over and over is  to experience Being is to experience Ontological Bliss. To experience the Bliss of Being is Self-Liberation. Self-liberation is not a Transcendental Experience beyond Being. Rather, Being and the Infinity of the Field of Timeless Being is the Timeless Infinity of Beingfull Immanence and thus every event is Ontologically   Intimate and Infinite. Self-liberation is an event of the Intimacy of Being.

The Infinity of Timeless Being, The Infinity of Timeless  Awareness In Time

To be in Timeless Awareness is to be in the Infinity of Timeless Being . The Infinity of Timeless Being is Endless and Timeless. Timeless Infinity and the Timeless Infinity of Being can be Felt , we can feel the Felt Sense of INFINITY and The Felt Sense of Endless Beingfullness and Endless Timelessness.  We may not be able to conceptualize or think Infinity  but we can non conceptually  experience Infinity and the Felt Sense of Infinity. To think Infinity is often  beyond our mind and the conceptualization of our mind. And yet ,we can directly experience and feel  the Infinity of Being and the infinity of beings.

The ontological felt sense is non conceptual Direct Knowingness and our non conceptual profound experience of Pure Being and Pure Beingfullness. The Infinity of Pure  Being and The Infinity of Pure Timeless Awareness  can be felt but not conceptualized and can  directly be experienced through Gnosis or Jnana but can not be easily be thought with or as  ideational Thinking.

Infinity can not be conceptualized and can  only be directly known and experienced non conceptually. Our infinity of our Being and the Infinity of Primordial Beingfull Awareness can not be experienced as representational contextualization in Context. Thus our experience of the Infinity of Being is always the experience of the Infinity of Self Liberation. Our lived experience of Being  is our pathway of self liberation.

The experience of the Infinity of Being is always the Infinity of Self Liberation. Self liberation is always liberation from Contextualization. Contextualization contains, confines and limits our experience of Infinity. This is important to experience and to understand and to embody by our embodiment of Beingfull Understanding which is non conceptually  known experientially  as Actual Actuality. We can experience the non conceptual  Reality of Experiential Actuality.

This ontological Timeless Experience of Timeless Awareness is the Knowingness of Timeless Being Knowing Being and Knowing our unbound experience of the Infinity of Timeless Being As Timeless Awareness or Timeless Consciousness. And thus Timeless Being and Timeless Awareness which is Unconditional and which is Un Contextualizable. Thus Being In Being as Being  is the Infinity of the Freedom of Being. When you live in Being as Being our context is infused by Being and the Profound Actuality of Being. In a way, all context and contextualization dissolves into Pure Being and Pure Beingfullness and Being Full Energy.

So within the Infinity of Being , and within the Infinity of Being as Ontological Awareness, phenomena is always always re-contextualized as Pure Being. All Context and All Phenomena is manifested as Pure Being. Phenomena naturally contains hides dominates if you wish the experience of Pure Being. But within the Infinity of Being , and Timeless Awareness as Pure Being,  Being Dominates and configurates all phenomena as Luminous Being and Luminous Beingfullness. The felts sense of Pure Being organizes and dominates the phenomenology of phenomena. All Phenomena is Pure Being. The essence of all Phenomena is Pure Being. All phenomenology becomes the experience of Pure Being in our self manifestation as a phenomena as the Phenomena of Being.

In the realm of Pure Being language itself is Pure Being. The Pure Being of Sound. The Pure Being of Sound is the Self Manifestation of Pure Being as Sound as Energy and as meaningful Vibrational Energy.

In this way of Pure Being as Pure  Phenomena is directly understood with or without the meaning of language connotations  or language representations. The Beingfull sound of phenomena is the sound as meaningfulness understood through the sound of the phenomena which is the sound of the Being of phenomena.

In this profound and mysterious way Being is always Liberated and always Uncontained and always the experience of Timeless Infinity in Time.  Thus to be in Timeless Awareness In Time is to experience Pure Being of Beings and the Pure Being of all phenomena. To experience the infinity of phenomena and the infinity of Context is to always to experience the Pure Being of all beings and all Beingfull phenomena. Thus in the truest sense there is no containment by context or by phenomenological context. True  Being is always self liberation within Phenomena as the Being of Phenomena as Phenomena.

Now this experience is the true nature of human experience and human knowingness. The Infinity of Being is the true nature of all human Beings. This is why this drama of self liberation is completely natural and profoundly normal and completely possible. Self Liberation is simply Being Being. And Being Being is Being the Infinity of  Being. This is the profound secret of Dzogchen. This is the profound secret of Dzogchen.  This is the secret of Dzogchen and the Secret of Kashmir Shavism. This secret is also the deep secret of  Contemporary Phenomenology.

Being Disolves Samsara and Being Disolves Nirvana. Being dissolves Context and Being is our Pure Experience of Conscious Awareness and  Being is Pure Phenomena of the Infinity of Timeless Awareness In Time as Time. Being is always and will always be Pure Self Liberation both in Time and In Timelessness. The profound experience of the Infinity of Being, the Infinity of Timeless Awareness in Time dissolves our context and our contextualization of situational experience. Timeless Awareness and Timeless Beingfullness in its Infinity evens dissolves the Contextualization of Death.

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