G. The conviction of realization

If this is known, we have a need for nothing else.
Buddhas are nothing now, just as confused as we.
There are no more questions. Mind’s ground and root is gone--
No reference points, no grasping “this,” and nothing certain.
Relaxed and even, letting go into unity,
Having realized this, here is the song I sing.
Having taught by the rising of Spotless Rays,^[1] now I am gone.

All doubts about the natural state are resolved. This is the time of no further aspirations. Other liberated yogins have the same realization we do. So now, beyond this absence of doubts and questions, no one has anything to teach us. The Dohakosha says:

Before, behind and in the ten directions,
Whatever may be seen is that itself.
Today, like Buddha, I cut through confusion.
Now I have no questions for anyone.

That is what it is like.

The former well-ordered sequence of view, meditation, and action, depends on higher and lower stages like a flight of stairs. Its customary attitude regards yogins as higher and lower. Now the mind that asks questions about this is scattered, seeming to lose its ground and root. It finds no reference point at all. Whatever arises is ungraspable, as if one were drunk. Appearances are unrecognizable, as if one were a little child. With no orderly plan of action, all at once everything is on the same level, and we are naturally, alertly at ease. Without any reference point to lose, there is fundamental oneness beyond grasping. The phenomena of excellence arise within us. The Dohakosha says:

Realization is like a wish-fulfilling gem.
Its confusion-destroying power is really wonderful.

This is when that happens. What arises arises as dharmata. When we reach the ground of confusion, it turns out to be pure, objectless wakefulness, like the space of the sky. All karma and conditionality are liberated. The Dohakosha says:

Beings by karma are bound to the individual.
Once liberated from karma, thereafter they are free.
If our own being is free, there will certainly be no other.
This is called the attainment of supreme nirvana.

This is when it happens. Whatever is done is liberated into no reference point. By the arising of the power of non-fixation, there is neither bondage or liberation. The same text says:

If action and non-action are truly realized,
There is no more bondage, nor is there liberation.
By transmission of the realization of the guru, we are free.

The same text says:

That which is the primordial nature of the unborn,
Today I have realized, as taught by the glorious guru.

Becoming god-like, we sing a song of the manifestation of the nature of mind, self-arising wisdom. This is the natural state beyond existence or non-existence of the natural state. We realize the pith, the great limitless impartiality. With the rising of the thousand-rayed spotless disk of the sun, the world of good fortune is made to appear. Luminous mind is revealed as the lotus pond called liberation. We should know, “I have gone to mahasukha, the level of Samantabhadra.”