It is quite a shock to ones intellectual system should one awaken in Pristine Awareness. The facade built by millennia of human cleverness exists as an all but impenetrable barrier to an accurate understanding of the personhood. Awareness is born into a world of intact, deeply evolved, rationalizations of animal archetype. Naked raw instinct is everywhere and in every circumstance cloaked in the colorful patchwork of cultural bric-a-brac which is the narrative upon which we build a personality. We say "I" to these antique prods to behavior and play our part in the maintenance and refinement of the facade.
This is not a bad thing for these narratives are adaptive mechanisms protecting the orderly progress of creature hood as Pristine Awareness, vining on the armature of nature, explores its way to the full bloom of Awakened-ness. One can see that systems bent on the refinement of the personality are like polishing a mud ball, but even the most exquisite porcelain figure was once a ball of mud.
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An ancient master when asked "What is Buddha?" replied
the one in the shrine
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