Self-Illumination as a Co-Emergent Process

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

Being within awareness as awareness and being with another who is within
awareness is a most powerful skillful means to bring forth awareness within
ones self and within each other. Two awarenesses are better than one, just as
self regulation can be enhanced by co self regulation on the bodily dimension.
Self-illumination is a co-emergent process between and within companions,
compassionate companions.
The lucidity within ones own awareness, as ones own awareness can
experience the lucidity within the others awareness as lucidity. It is true,
awareness awakens awareness both in ones self and in the other. This is the
secret of the tantra. The luminous energy within ones own body can resonate
to the luminous energy in the others body, deepening the mutual
embodiment of light. Light is awareness and awareness is light. The
attunement to awareness within ones own body can bring forth the
attunement of awareness within the body of the other.
The self arising of the awareness field in ones self resonates to the self arising
of awareness within the others body. The self arising of the energy or the chi
or the shakti can bring forth the self arising within each other and can bring
forth the sustaining of the energy field within each other. In essence,
humanness is the manifestation of light, and the manifestation of primordial
luminous energy, and the openness of the great space of compassion.
It is true as the Dzogchen Master Yangtang Rinpoche suggests that the great
compassion is the capacity to extend the light into a persons presence in the
present moment, into a persons presence as past, and into the persons
presence as future. This extension not only brings forth the light of presence in
the person but brings forth the presence of light in ones own self. This is the
drama of mystic humanism, the drama of timeless awareness manifesting in
time. This is a co -emergent or co-relational process of the human
embodiment of primordial awareness. This is complete embodiment, possible
for everyone.
Dasein, as Heideggarian phenomenology implies, is not the experience of mind
alone but rather the foundational experience of being, which is openness to
openness itself. Dasein is the openness of a human being to Being itself.
Dasein is the openness of awareness to primordial awareness itself. Dasein is
the light open to the light.
This drama is the power of contemplation and the power of contemplation
within one or more people. This is how the Christian Gnostics understood the
statement of Jesus, Where two are more gather together in my name, there I
am.
When we attune to the guru within our own embodiment we bring forth the
attunement to the guru in the other. The guru is the ontological process of self
illumination. Gu is darkness and Ru is light. The drama of Eros and Thanatos
is both psychological and ontological.

This light infuses the mind and infuses the body. The channels within the body,
the chakras within the body can resonate to the channel within the others
embodiment. This intensification of the luminous energy is the process of
embodiment of the light or embodying Ja Lu, the body of light) This unfolding
is intense. This intensity is the unfolding and expansion of the energy as light.
Chi, shakti, tigle is energy as light. The light becomes energy and the energy
becomes everything and anything. The embodiment of awareness is the
embodiment of light. Awareness is light. The embodiment of the light is Self
Illumination.
Gazing within opens the gaze into the innermost phenomena of awareness as
lucidity. All phenomena is lucidity unto itself. As we gaze into all external
phenomena the light is gazing into the light. The Dzogchen methods of Trecko
and Togal can be simultaneously experienced. The purity of phenomena and
the purity of light is a simultaneous experience. The gaze in togal is the
experience of luminous openness of everything and anything as light, luminous
spaciousness. The luminous gaze of awareness allows us to experience duality
within non-duality and non-duality within duality. All phenomena is the
expanse of the Dharmakaya. Living in the light of awareness is living within
potentiality of our real condition within our real circumstances. In mind alone
none of this can be accomplished, none of this can be experienced. The true
hermeneutic is the mind awareness continuum being in oneness. The true
hermeneutic is experiencing the mind awareness continuum in this world. It is
quite a view. What might be and what could be and what might have been is
sad. Or as the Shaivite Master Swami Muktananda would always say Keep
moving and keep unfolding whatever and wherever.
Of course, as the masters of Kundalini understood, without sublimation of
instinctual energies as source energy, embodiment of the light is limited.

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