“Creative power” is the power of awareness through which samsara and nirvana individually manifest. It is like the one light of the sun that by day causes the lotus blossom to open and the night-blooming lily to close.
“Display” is simply awareness displayed through its own radiance in the same way that a flame is displayed through the light it sheds and the sun through its own sunlight.
“Ornament” refers to the fact that when anything appears and is perceived in its full array, this appearance is an adornment for awareness that is self-arisen. It is like a rainbow, the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars, which are adornments for the sky itself.
For all these reasons, it should be understood that all phenomena appearing in the mind are nonexistent from the first moment of their being perceived.
- from the autocommentary to The Treasury of the Fundamental Nature by Longchenpa
Technique: drawing on paper, scanned, hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation.
13 frames
Drawn with coloured pencils on black paper in February of 2022, animated in Procreate in November of 2023.
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