WHAT IS “PURE PERCEPTION”? Seeing the pure nature of appearances as a “guru”, and the benefit and “blessings in disguise”

“Whenever you suffer misfortune or illness, think "This repays my karmic debts from former lifetimes and purifies my negative karma!" No matter what happiness you have, regard it as the kindness of the Three Jewels and arouse the strong yearning of devoted gratitude! When you meet with enmity and hatred, think "This is a good… Continue reading WHAT IS “PURE PERCEPTION”? Seeing the pure nature of appearances as a “guru”, and the benefit and “blessings in disguise”

A ‘MASTERPIECE’ TIBETAN DEFENCE AND REVIVAL OF YOGACĀRĀ ‘MIND-ONLY’: Extensive Commentary on Indian master Vasubandhu’s ‘Thirty Verses of Mind-Only’ by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Introduction/Day 1, January 2022)

"As we have made the Mind (or awareness)-Only the opponent in the Middle Way's texts, we say it is a bad philosophy and we think that Nāgārjuna completely finished off the Mind-Only school and totally defeated them. Yet this blocks the door of our beginning to really investigate the Mind-Only school properly." "In Tibetan, we… Continue reading A ‘MASTERPIECE’ TIBETAN DEFENCE AND REVIVAL OF YOGACĀRĀ ‘MIND-ONLY’: Extensive Commentary on Indian master Vasubandhu’s ‘Thirty Verses of Mind-Only’ by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Introduction/Day 1, January 2022)

“The three inner tantras assert that both the essence and the nature are the deity. The first of these is the mahāyoga, which focuses on the creation stage." “This Anuyoga asserts that one must restrain the aspect of ordinary confused perception into the expanse by focusing on the points of the channels, winds and drops… Continue reading SAMANTHABHADRI’S CHILD OF THE ROOT OF BLISS: TAKING THE RESULT AS THE PATH IN SECRET MANTRA VAJARYANA. The three aspects of yidam deity practice, the three roots of Vajrayana practice, and the first two of the three inner tantras, Maha and Anu Yoga, and the three-fold mandala of Samanthabhadra