3 Courts 
The Shambhala-tradition talks about a threefold structure of the universe as the 3 Courts: External Court, Inner Court 
and Ultimate Court, which are three phases of all processes happening in our entire world. These three are connected inseparably. The Ultimate Court is the source, where everything is not-manifested potential still. From that source manifestations of energies will appear Big Bang-like* within the phase of Inner Court and bring about manifestations of form within the phase of External Court. In this graphic the Ulimate Court is depicted symbolically as grey area at the bottom of the graphic, the Inner Court as arrows, the External Court as grey dots and space as black dots surrounded by a white area, which extends limitless from the black dots. The black dots of space and the grey dots of form share the same place. Here the black dots are depicted a bit left to show, that space is primary and form follows.

The graphic shows, that communication is happening with the Ultimate Court as the source in the form of 
3Court-processes, which bring about the material world (light and body) and our experienced world as well. 
All processes are similar, follow cyclical patterns, but flash with different frequencies. 
Light-processes are flashing Trillions of time per second* and processes of awareness 360 times** in a finger-snap. 
All phenomena arise from the Ultimate Court moment by moment fresh and are all permeated by the wisdom of that not-manifested source. Despite the hustle and bustle in the background, we can still experience our world coherently, 
like in a film, in which flashing individual projections convey the experience of uninterrupted movement.

        *Sakyong Mipham, The SHAMBHALA PRINCIPLE page 144  "The BIG BANG of our consciousness is happening at this very instant."                          **Sakyong Mipham, RULING YOUR WORLD page 54