Talk 1, Tibetan - English
English translation by Michele Martin.
Review notes kindly provided by Hanna Severin.
The Forth Vajra Point: The Element.
'The perfect buddhakaya is all-embracing,
suchness cannot be differentiated,
and all beings have the disposition.
thus they always have buddha nature.'
'The Buddha has said that all beings have buddha nature
"since Wisdom is always present within the assembly of beings,
since this undefiled nature is free from duality,
and since the disposition to buddhahood has been named after its fruit."'
The essential nature of the mind is awareness and emptiness inseparable, it is Dharmakaya, the ultimate reality. like a crystal ball from which rainbows appear - the Sambogakaya, the rainbows appearing from these in a mirror are the Nirmanakaya.
Nagarjuna: 'between Nirvana and Samsara is not the slightest difference...' they are free of complexity
Prajnaparamita Sutra: 'equality, the objects of the sense faculties, the paramitas and the Buddha are non dual...'
there is no difference between mental afflictions and primordial wisdom
Nagarjuna: 'if you realize the emptiness of one phenomena then you will see through that the emptiness of all phenomena...'
Rinpoche is using Milarepa as an example because his realization arises from meditation.
Götsangpa: 'clearifying the settlement of very kind of apprehension,
the arising through causes and conditions as a reflection
and knowing very subtle what to take up and what to cast off,
knowing these three things that is like flourishing a lance in space,
knowing well what interdependent existence is.'
There are the natural abiding potential which is the true nature of mind and the activated positional, from the display of the natural abiding potential arises compassion, it is never present nor not present, it is never cut off where as the second one can be present or not ....
in order to obtain buddhahood one needs to develop loving kindness and compassion, joy and equanimity, bodhicitta
'The perfect buddhakaya is all-embracing,
suchness cannot be differentiated,
and all beings have the disposition.
thus they always have buddha nature.'
'The Buddha has said that all beings have buddha nature
"since Wisdom is always present within the assembly of beings,
since this undefiled nature is free from duality,
and since the disposition to buddhahood has been named after its fruit."'
The essential nature of the mind is awareness and emptiness inseparable, it is Dharmakaya, the ultimate reality. like a crystal ball from which rainbows appear - the Sambogakaya, the rainbows appearing from these in a mirror are the Nirmanakaya.
Nagarjuna: 'between Nirvana and Samsara is not the slightest difference...' they are free of complexity
Prajnaparamita Sutra: 'equality, the objects of the sense faculties, the paramitas and the Buddha are non dual...'
there is no difference between mental afflictions and primordial wisdom
Nagarjuna: 'if you realize the emptiness of one phenomena then you will see through that the emptiness of all phenomena...'
Rinpoche is using Milarepa as an example because his realization arises from meditation.
Götsangpa: 'clearifying the settlement of very kind of apprehension,
the arising through causes and conditions as a reflection
and knowing very subtle what to take up and what to cast off,
knowing these three things that is like flourishing a lance in space,
knowing well what interdependent existence is.'
There are the natural abiding potential which is the true nature of mind and the activated positional, from the display of the natural abiding potential arises compassion, it is never present nor not present, it is never cut off where as the second one can be present or not ....
in order to obtain buddhahood one needs to develop loving kindness and compassion, joy and equanimity, bodhicitta
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