Awareness and Knowledge, 30 March 1989, part 6

They love someone giving them the: “You exist because of causes and conditions. There’s nothing more than that. There’s nothing outside of that. So why does the flower exist? Because of causes and conditions?”

Due to karma. So if we can use our existence to attain Buddhahood, then we can be of great benefit to sentient beings. Why is your consciousness clear? So your consciousness is clear. You know, if it wasn’t clear then nothing could appear to you.

Just as in the case, it’s like a mirror. Whatever is placed in front of the mirror is reflected. If, on the other hand, if the mirror was covered by dust, then nothing could reflect in the mirror. If, for example, you shut your eyes, then nothing could appear to your eye consciousness. But in fact, various objects are able to appear to your eye consciousness because the mind, the eye consciousness is clear.

It’s not obscure. Things are able to appear to it. So in addition to when we did retreat together, we created collective karma, shared karma, common karma. And this means that the results will be we will experience the karma together. The results of that karma will be experienced simultaneously together.

The consciousness which created those actions, they weren’t in any way shared or common. So we’re so we’re correct we’re collecting the karma. We are collecting the collective karma of listening to the dharma together. So if two people were to kill another person, then they both would create a negative karma and they would experience the resultant suffering simultaneously. And they understand something, for example?

That’s quite that’s quite different, isn’t it? That’s it. So I I just I just made up a question like, you know, two people call each other at the same time. And so I was gonna oh, they well, they’ll call each other. But I was just thinking about calling you.

You know? Why or how does that happen? He said, because they have a very close they have very close relationships. And they think of they think about each other quite often. But just be there’s many times when they’re thinking about each other at the same time, but they don’t call each other.

And but it just it just happens at this time they were thinking about each other. They’re calling each other. So that finishes our discussion of awareness and knowledge and intervening times between the teachings. You know, just as in that these questions, you know, answer asking each other questions and having discussions is a way we can progress, you know, just in that these you’ve asked very good questions and and asking these you create doubts and this is a way we can develop our understanding. So it’s this process of continually developing questions or doubts.

And then, you know, the previous doubts, by creating them, they were cleared up and you come to an understanding and, again, creating more doubts and coming to a higher understanding. And this way, know, progressing. So it’s extremely important in developing our wisdom that we make prayers to Mañjuśrī and make requests to help us develop our wisdom. Say yes, Say