If Truth is omnipresent and eternal, IT had to be everywhere and everywhen. Why is it that so few is aware of it when it is present Here and Now ?? In Buddhism, the problem lies in wrong view arising out of Ignorance. An illustration of wrong view or error is when people in the past being Ignorant that the earth is a sphere, assume wrongly the earth to be flat. Once the fact of earth being a sphere is established the error that the earth is flat is drop and the innocent assumption even appear silly. Error arise out of Ignorance and given up when Ignorance is replace by Truth or Fact. The world was always round no matter what wrong view is taken.
With the above background let us now tackle the Ultimate Truth. Because we are Not aware of the Truth of what I Am, we wrongly assume I Am to be an entity, a person, a mister or miss so and so. The Reality is that I AM is Awareness and has always been. By Self enquiry we intuit our self nature to be consciousness and only out of Ignorance we Mistakenly assume I Am to be a body mind or five skandas in Buddhist concept.
When we wrongly believe the world is flat there is valid fear we will fall off the edge. Similarly when we wrongly believe we are a person there is valid fear for old age, sickness, and death. Once The Truth of I Am is known to be the infinite Awareness, immutable, indivisible and Whole all concepts of duality are seen as delusion and there are no longer fear of limitation including death as I Am being unborn is beyond death and destruction
Gate, gate, paragate, Parasamgate bodhi shova.
The Truth is I Am cannot be bound or conditioned and as for the body mind it is an illusionary appearance in the dream of samsara. Silly to think of liberation for the fictional Donald duck and micky mouse. Because of misperception caused by ignorance we have unending fear with the snakes that ' appear ' On the rope which is a popular pointer in Hindu scriptures.
P.S. Short sharing on occasion of Benny Ang's birthday.
