"However, in the Vajrayana, the Buddha taught that you are Amitabha, or Avalokiteshvara, or Tara right here and now. Due to the obscurations though, we have not recognised it. So recognising that everything right now is the pure land of the Buddha, and is perfect, that is bringing the fruition as the path." "That Buddha… Continue reading THE CREATION STAGE AND PURE PERCEPTION IN VAJRAYANA: Taking refuge vows and getting a new refuge name, instructions on pure perception and the creation stage, and deliberately harassed/targeted by total strangers revealed as part of a general smear campaign to disrupt my connection with the teacher (Beaumont, Belgium Part II, 9th Gyalton Rinpoche)
Tag: buddha nature
What is “Divine Pride”? Explanation of the difference between worldly, arrogant pride and divine pride
"What You Think You Create. What You Feel You Attract. What You Imagine You Become." ~Buddha "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~Albert Einstein "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." --Carl Sagan New Reel Here is a new… Continue reading What is “Divine Pride”? Explanation of the difference between worldly, arrogant pride and divine pride
BUDDHA NATURE IS NOT LIKE A ‘CHILDLESS WOMAN’S CHILD’: THE CLARITY ASPECT OF BUDDHA NATURE AND MIND: The importance of bodhicitta, devotion and recognising the nature of mind as a union of clarity-emptiness (Magic Key, Day 8, Thrangu Rinpoche)
“It is not completely non-existent emptiness, mere nothingness like space, or the child of a barren woman.” --Khenpo Gangshar in the Magic Key to the Philosophical Tenets commentary "When we think about that emptiness of space what is it like? It is inanimate, there is no clarity to it in any way. But when we… Continue reading BUDDHA NATURE IS NOT LIKE A ‘CHILDLESS WOMAN’S CHILD’: THE CLARITY ASPECT OF BUDDHA NATURE AND MIND: The importance of bodhicitta, devotion and recognising the nature of mind as a union of clarity-emptiness (Magic Key, Day 8, Thrangu Rinpoche)
MAGIC KEY FOR ENTERING KNOWLEDGE (PART IV): SUGATAS GONE TO BLISS, THE EMPTY-OF-OTHER (ZHEN-TONG) VIEW. Buddha Nature bliss beyond suffering and clarity awareness-emptiness indivisible union ultimate nature (Thrangu Rinpoche teaching, Day 7)
རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང༌། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང༌། །རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན། ། རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན། །Because the perfect buddhas’s kaya is all-pervading,Because reality is undifferentiated,And because they possess the potential,Beings always have the buddha nature. --Maitreya, Sublime Continuum, I, 27 “These explanations are taught in the third turning the wheel of dharma and contain irrefutable statements of the definitive meaning, which explain that Buddha nature… Continue reading MAGIC KEY FOR ENTERING KNOWLEDGE (PART IV): SUGATAS GONE TO BLISS, THE EMPTY-OF-OTHER (ZHEN-TONG) VIEW. Buddha Nature bliss beyond suffering and clarity awareness-emptiness indivisible union ultimate nature (Thrangu Rinpoche teaching, Day 7)
MELTING THE HEART AND LETTING IT BE: REALISING THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM. Teaching on the Heart Sutra by 8th Garchen Rinpoche (July 2022)
“At the ‘understanding’ of one’s hidden afflictions,There is nothing other than ‘primordial awareness’If you practice meaningfully, it is like thatSounds of empty words are of trivial value.”ཉོན་མོངས་རང་མཚང་རིག་པ་ན། །ཡེ་ཤེས་བྱ་བ་ལོགས་ན་མེད། །དོན་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་ན་དེ་ལྟར་ཡིན། །ཚིག་སྟོང་པའི་སྒྲ་ལ་དགོས་པ་ཆུང་། །--Excerpt from Je Milarepa's Ten Paramitas Song (tr. Adele Tomlin) “It is just like you have a crystal ball and all the qualities are included within… Continue reading MELTING THE HEART AND LETTING IT BE: REALISING THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM. Teaching on the Heart Sutra by 8th Garchen Rinpoche (July 2022)
LIBERATING ONE’S BUDDHA NATURE AND FOUR WAYS OF SEEING A TORMA: Garchen Rinpoche Medicine Buddha teachings 2022
For the Tibetan Losar New Year on 3rd March 2022, HE 8th Garchen Rinpoche generously bestowed the Medicine Buddha empowerment (video here), which I was also fortunate to be able to take online. I have written about the Medicine Buddha before in connection with the Sutra of Medicine Buddha (see here). The teachings Garchen Rinpoche… Continue reading LIBERATING ONE’S BUDDHA NATURE AND FOUR WAYS OF SEEING A TORMA: Garchen Rinpoche Medicine Buddha teachings 2022
MIND-ONLY IN TIBET (PART II): FIVE DHARMAS OF MAITREYA; KAGYU, JONANG AND SAKYA ZHENTONG VIEWS AND DIFFERENCES; DOLPOPA’S ASSERTIONS ABOUT MIND-ONLY TEXTS AS ZHENTONG MIDDLE WAY; AND THE NEED FOR THE THIRD MAHAYANA SCHOOL ‘BUDDHA NATURE’ (17th Karmapa teaching, Day 8)
"Generally, when talking about the 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, he had studied and contemplated the Five Levels and many other Mind-Only texts. However, he mainly emphasized the Dharmas of Maitreya, and was the first Kagyupa, in the general and the sub-Kagyu lineages to spread the teachings of the Dharmas of Maitreya in Tibet. He left… Continue reading MIND-ONLY IN TIBET (PART II): FIVE DHARMAS OF MAITREYA; KAGYU, JONANG AND SAKYA ZHENTONG VIEWS AND DIFFERENCES; DOLPOPA’S ASSERTIONS ABOUT MIND-ONLY TEXTS AS ZHENTONG MIDDLE WAY; AND THE NEED FOR THE THIRD MAHAYANA SCHOOL ‘BUDDHA NATURE’ (17th Karmapa teaching, Day 8)
THE IMMEASURABLE ‘ROOT LIFE-FORCE’ OF ALL DEITIES AND SAMAYA: White Tārā teaching by 8th Garchen Rinpoche (April 2021)
"Love and compassion is the life-force of the deity. It is said that what we call the deity is actually bodhicitta. Thus, the samaya is to maintain love and compassion for all sentient beings and when others harm you, one should practice patience and hold onto that love. Samaya is love and compassion for others."HE… Continue reading THE IMMEASURABLE ‘ROOT LIFE-FORCE’ OF ALL DEITIES AND SAMAYA: White Tārā teaching by 8th Garchen Rinpoche (April 2021)
Three new translations in other languages: Vietnamese and Russian
Today, I am happy to announce three more new translations in other languages. The first is in Vietnamese and is the Yeshe Tshogyel Guru Yoga. It can be downloaded here. Other language editions of this lovely Guru Yoga text will be coming shortly. Vietnamese translation of Yeshe Tshogyel Guru Yoga The next two are Russian… Continue reading Three new translations in other languages: Vietnamese and Russian
NEW TRANSLATION: ‘The difference between Buddha-Nature and Dharmakāya’ by 8th Karmapa
For Tāra day, am happy to publish the first translation of a small teaching given in response to a question by the 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje, on Buddha-Nature and Dharmakāya[1] from Volume 3 of his Collected Works (that contains several short teachings in answer to questions): ''In response to your question: Even though the resultant… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: ‘The difference between Buddha-Nature and Dharmakāya’ by 8th Karmapa