"In general, all the Buddhas hold all sentient beings in the core of their heart with love and compassion. Out of their great compassion, they formulate powerful aspirations. They make great vows. They work through many lifetimes, while in training as Bodhisattvas, before they become Buddhas, to affect all sentient beings in a vast variety of ways.
Just as you can create fire by rubbing two sticks together long and hard enough, so, by the accumulation of merit and primordial wisdom, anything can be accomplished.
Fire does not spring automatically from one stick. You need two sticks and you need the effort of rubbing them together in a particular way over a period of time. Eventually, a spark leaps from the conjunction of the sticks and the fire begins. In a similar way, all phenomena, all reality, all dharmas, manifest by the conjunction of emptiness and interdependent origination. Everything is totally interrelated with every other thing. That is called interdependent origination. That is one stick. The other stick is emptiness. The complete lack of inherent existence of any phenomena. The two sticks together are the actual nature of reality. This is true of everything, of all realities....
It is because of emptiness that things can manifest as appearances. Only because of emptiness, can anything exist at all.
Nothing could possibly come into relative existence without the ultimate grounding in emptiness."
His Holiness Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang Rinpoche
The Oral Commentaries of Drikung Kagyu Teachers in San Francisco
Translated by Michael Lewis and Robert Clarke
Edited by Jeffery Beach
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