“Great doubt, great faith and great determination” is Zen’s pith instructions for opening up the trikaya.
Great = refined; completely experienced.
So: refined doubt, refined faith and refined determination.
Or: completely experienced doubt, completely experienced faith and completely experienced determination.
Doubt reduces to suffering, faith reduces to knowing and determination reduces to intention.
The greater the doubt, the greater the liberation.
Or: the more refined the suffering, the more refined the liberation.
As a view, all of this reduces to knowing awareness.
Gross level doubt is subtle level suffering. Doubt reduces to suffering.
Gross level faith is subtle level knowing. Faith reduces to knowing.
Gross level determination is subtle level intention. Determination reduces to intention.
Subtle suffering and subtle knowing must be held together with subtle intention.
The only vantage point from which this is possible is the causal level.
The certain knowledge that this is a definitive experience marks the only definitive non-duality: all-at-onceness, beyond samsara and nirvana, the becoming of dependent origination itself as expressed through supra-holonic ascendancy, simply and freshly with absolutely zero subtle dullness.
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