Talk 2, Tibetan - English
English translation by Michele Martin.
Review notes kindly provided by Hanna Severin.
The Forth Vajra Point: The Element
some explanations on the first two of the ten presentations
The essence being what is to be purified:
' (Wielding) power, not changing into something else,
and being a nature that has a moistening (quality):
these (three) have properties corresponding
to those of a precious gem, the sky, and water.'
the subject of reasoning is the Dharmakaya, suchness and the potential. They resample the wish fulfilling gem, space and pure water.
...because their essential nature is primordially completely pure and the stains that cover it over are incidental.
The way the four veils to be abandoned are given up:
'Enmity towards the Dharma, a view (asserting
an existing) self, fear of samsara's suffering,
and neglect of the welfare of fellow beings
are the four veils of those with great desire,
of tirthikas, shravakas and pratyekabuddhas.
The cause that purifies (all these veils)
consists of the four qualities (of the path)
which are outstanding devotion and so on.'
These are the four obscurations and the four ties of individual to which they reply.
The way to become an heir of the Victories One by means of the antidote
'Those whose seed is devotion towards the supreme vehicle,
whose mother is analytical wisdom generating buddha qualities,
whose abode is the blissful womb of meditative stability,
and whose nurse is compassion, are heirs born to succeed the Muni.'
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