Trust your buddhanature

Your buddhanature. In more modest terms: the five aggregates that make up our person. Each of them is evidently non-self. The body knows quite well how to breath, digest, walk and talk. In a similar vein, our feelings, thoughts, and perceptions come and go without any interference of a “homunculus” or little man in our head. Obsession with our self-story, desires and aversions not only obfuscates our awareness of all that our aggregates do, but also hinders its function through providing it with wrong information.

Trust is gained through getting to know the aggregates and how they function under which circumstances. Knowing what they need allows for building them a healthy environment in which they increasingly perform a function that is both skilful and reliable. It is the task of a yogi to infer these things mainly from his or her own experience; others’ words cannot describe it exactly as it is. Shamatha based on definite emergence is a path of healing the relationship with oneself. As the Uttaratantra says: the highest self is non-self. When you are free of the story things appear as they truly are: effortless and free.