Buddha-Nature: The Most Naked You’ve Ever Been - Jon Eden Khan

We think we know what it means to be naked.

Conventionally we relate to nakedness in terms of the physical body.

Sometimes we mean it emotionally, when we reveal ourselves vulnerably.

None of this compares to the revelation of who we truly are as buddha-nature.

As buddha-nature, the awareness that is the most constant, intimate, ever-present aspect of our experience is revealed in its most bare, naked state as the essence and ground of all reality.

When have we ever experience anything outside of awareness?

Hasn’t every single experience we have ever had been within the fabric of aware-experience?

When the true nature of that awareness is unsheathed, it is infinite emptiness, infinite consciousness, infinite light, and infinite energy,

Arising as the entire universe of appearances.

In primordial purity and spontaneous presence.

And it is our true nature.

It is what we are at the most naked level.

The entire Buddhist tradition and path is about radical awakening to this essence of who we are,

Then living from that place,

And drawing on its raw and potent sacredness to liberate our karmas and allows us to emerge as naked expressions of that ultimate ground.