3 Levels of Experience:
We have a progression from what we might call the afflicted or impure experience through the experience of transformation, and finally attaining the pure experience or the experience of the enlightenment and Buddhahood.
Dream, Illusion and a Hologram (emptiness)
- Ultimate reality view of phenomenal reality
- Stage production - everyone playing parts according to karma
Buddha Nature
- Mind is pure by default
- Like a crystal = clear, yet takes on colors nearby like the mind tainted by samsara
- Lump of bronze fashioned into different objects = still bronze