‘We know that the Buddha taught many different approaches to enlightenment, all as skillful means to release grasping of the limited sense of self and return to the inherent purity of consciousness. Similarity, we will discover that the teachings on enlightened consciousness include many dimensions. When you actually experience consciousness free of identification with changing conditions, liberated from greed and hate, you find it multifaceted, like a mandala or a jewel, a crystal with many sides. Through one facet, the enlightened heart shines as luminous clarity, through another as perfect peace, through another as boundless compassion. Consciousness is timeless, ever present, completely empty and full of all things. But when a teacher or tradition emphasizes only one of these qualities over the others, it is easily to be confused, as if true enlightenment can be tasted in only one way. Like the particle and wave nature of light, enlightenment consciousness is experienced in a myriad of beautiful ways.’