Awakened mind was never hidden,
You never needed to move from this spot!
Bright beyond bright energetic expressions,
Flowing through you now,
were simply missed;
This Veil is not real,
This separation
is your own creation;
Unlimited potentiality,
open, luminous clarity
Has always been here now!
A poem by Robert Aho © 2026
People make an assumption that there is some sort of veil separating the world of the living and the world of the dead. To think this is to randomly believe something without evidence. If we truly examine this perceived separation, the only thing that we find is our own ignorance standing in the way. We create something with our mind which prevents us from understanding the true knowledge about our situation as a sentient being. Awakened beings do not see any separation whatsoever.
When I died in 2016, I instantly became the light of Dharmakaya. I didn’t go down a long tunnel. I didn’t go through any veil. I didn’t move at all. My own realizations had advanced sufficiently to know that I am already there. This took considerable amounts of Spiritual Practice over many lifetimes in order for me to have such an extraordinary experience, in order to go as far as one can possibly go without needing a new body and a new life.
It is no coincidence that people are very eager to learn what it is like when we are dead. We all know, even if we don’t know why, from an abundance of personal experience from time immemorial, that we experience Ultimate Reality every time we die. This knowledge becomes muddied by our own life, beliefs and imagination. We intuitively know without remembering that we were briefly aware of our own awareness while our mind was completely open in the death bardo. Since we know intuitively that something quite amazing happens when we die, we have a sense that people who have died and come back to life have something to offer in terms of just what is going on.
It’s similar to when we have a dream of clarity. It makes complete sense to us in the dream bardo; however, our conceptual mind is unable to grasp just what that means or remember most of the details. Our own fantasies about self and other begin to manifest in such a way that we are unable to communicate, even to ourselves, just what it is that we experienced.
This is what makes Awakening so incredibly difficult. It’s not that Enlightenment is far away or hidden from view, it’s that it is so incredibly simple and apparent. When the clouds start to part, as our capacity increases, we begin to notice that we’ve always had the ability to become fully Enlightened Buddhas, at any time we wanted. The problem is that we stand in our own way, creating clutter and confusion for ourselves, then defending beliefs as if they were the most important truths we could ever possess. We don’t allow ourselves to let go.
Ultimate Reality is perfect just as it is. It cannot be conceptualized, nor created in any way. It is perfect from the beginning. Ultimate Reality encompasses all that we can possibly perceive, as well as all that is beyond that. It is even beyond all that we would regard as All. Our beliefs are of absolutely no significance; they are completely worthless.
Visualize yourself in a physical body, with all the limitations that go along with being a sentient being. As a sentient being, you are extremely limited, not only sensing a tiny miniscule fraction of what is happening to your body and your physical condition, but also unable to imagine what is possible for you to know, unable to even imagine a fraction of what is happening within an arm’s length of your body. When we are able to perceive a Buddha, we have gone just a little bit beyond these physical limitations.
Now, some people are a little bit more perceptive, possibly due to a genuine application of Spiritual Practice, or it may be from developing empathetic psychic skills over many lifetimes. People like this are very in tuned with energy. Maybe they can see auras or have some sense about the energy beings generate.
Having some sense of our energetic condition means that a person can utilize energy for Awakening. Having this sort of ability requires a much more open heart and mind than someone who might be completely trapped by cyclic existence. This energetic condition that I wrote about is significantly more vast than our virtually microscopic physical dimension. People with this sort of ability should apply themselves at once, Enlightenment is not as far away as you might think.
When we discover the Nature of Mind, we are beyond both the constraints of this physical dimension and the energetic dimension. We have gone far beyond into an infinitely vaster realization, all without moving. It is here now. When you have this realization, you become more aware of all these times that this extremely bright condition appears. You might even experience this for an extended period of time while meditating, or in dreams.
Don’t put up barriers. This Veil is not real. The time is now—Aspire to Awaken!
Blessings of Source,
Rigdzin Robert Aho
Robert Aho is the author of Timeless Luminosity and The Frog: A Spiritual Autobiography, Spanning Many Lifetimes. Both books, written after his death experience, give advanced spiritual advice regarding the complete Spiritual Path, inspiration for living each day and words of encouragement, with the intention of helping people to stay committed to their Spiritual Path, as well as preparing for death. This ultimately leads to discovering your own unlimited power within, which leads to Awakening. Both books are available on Amazon, Zenith Bookstore, as well as various other sources.
Thank you robert ☺️