..續本文上一頁butes are created in our minds. It”s how we label things. When understanding this we realize that there is no point in being attached to them.
"Analyze identity of phenomena" is the next subject of Rinpoche”s teaching. His example is the hand. For some reason our minds think that all things are of a single identity. These examples are called "taking deduction as the path, or taking inference as the path." It is possible to establish how things are through analyzing them. This is seen as the long path to arriving at true enlightenment.
When training in samadhi we need to view the mind that perceives that which feels happy or sad, to discover how it is. We can look directly at it. What color or shape does it have
Where is it located, inside our body or outside
If the mind is located inside the body, is it in the head or one of the outer extremities
We will come to discover that the nature of the mind doesn”t possess any shape, color or location. This way of looking at the mind is different from the path of deduction. This is called direct perception of the mind. In order to convince our self that all things are empty; we use the path of deduction, analyze and come to the conclusion that all things are empty. But when it comes to personal experience, to understand we use direct perception. Milarepa attained enlightenment through the practice of mahamudra, direct perception or experience of one”s mind.
The ninth chapter explains how, due to dependent origination, all manifestations unfold like a dream, even though they are empty of true existence.
The tenth chapter is entitled "Departing for the City." This chapter describes the bodhisattva Youthful Moonlight who makes a request to the Buddha to place the Buddha”s hand on Youthful Moonlight”s head. As soon as this happens Youthful Moonlight receives the realization of perfect understanding and great awareness. He receives the direct blessing of knowing the state of samadhi.
Through devotion and training, we too, can also receive great blessing from the realized beings and understand or improve our state of samadhi.
After having received these blessings from the Buddha, Youthful Moonlight gives the Buddha and Bodhisattvas an invitation to visit his home. In doing so Youthful Moonlight prepares his surroundings by cleaning and making the way beautiful, with decorations, for the arrival of the Buddha. The chapter also describes how Youthful Moonlight made offerings and showed great devotion in order to receive these teachings.
When we request teachings from a master we should think of our selves as a sick person and view the dharma as medicine for the cure of the illness. The Buddha said "Give rise to the teacher as a skillful person who is learned in the dharma. Keep the notion of the practice as steps to curing a sickness." We should show respect by decorating, cleaning and beautifying the surroundings to purify everything as a preparation for receiving teachings.
After Youthful Moonlight invited the Buddha, he offered verbal and mental praises, and asked, "How is it possible for an aspiring bodhisattva to proceed and develop qualities
" And the Buddha replied by saying, "A bodhisattva who possesses one single quality will quickly awaken to the true enlightenment." "What is this single quality
" asked Youthful Moonlight. "It is to understand the essence of all things," said the Buddha. What does this mean
It is the empty nature of phenomena. That all things are empty of any substantiality and identity, and all things are beyond words. We can not formulate by a name how things are.
This chapter is called Retaining the Sutra. It means to experience the meaning of which these words refer to.
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