..续本文上一页 without defect or incomplete, in this way one is utterly fearless. There are two types of fearlessness; the fearlessness in declaring the true path is the awakened bodhisattva. This is understood as the right path. The fearlessness of declaring what is an obstacle or hindering. It is possible that a practitioner might hear the wrong instructions, such as from a demon. So have the fearlessness as to not believe this information. The third quality is achieved by the bodhisattva when training in the state of samadhi. The wisdom will become boundless, increasing in immeasurable ways. When we train in samadhi, this is the wisdom that knows the nature of things as it is. This wisdom knows that within this space all conditioned phenomena take place. The other wisdom perceives that all-existing phenomenon is automatically realized. All the five wisdoms will unfold out of this training. The fourth of these qualities is that one”s courage becomes boundless. The courage arises after truly experiencing the true realizing of the special state of samadhi. One is unafraid of taking the wrong path. There is this confidence that one will arrive at the unmistaken qualities to reach enlightenment. There is no longer any fear of going or leading others in the wrong direction.

　　 The nineteenth chapter is titled, "The Inconceivable Qualities of the Buddhas." The Buddha continues in explaining to the bodhisattva Youthful Moonlight, what qualities a bodhisattva must train in to experience the qualities of a buddha. The Buddha then states, "A bodhisattva wishing to train in this samadhi must develop the strong yearning toward achieving these qualities of the awakening state within oneself, and by knowing that these qualities are the right path, in so, become skilled in acquiring how to achieve this enlightenment." In order to accomplish full awakening in supreme enlightenment, we need to fully develop the wish to attain enlightenment and to have faith and devotion in being able to achieve this. Don”t harbor the attitude that we cannot or it doesn”t matter if I reach enlightenment. That feeling comes from a feeling that buddhahood stems from another far away place. The state of buddhahood doesn”t exist in another place, far away from this world. Once we remove the obscurations or negative states and purify and develop the perfect inherited positive qualities buddhahood is attainable. It is important to develop this yearning and devotion to reach the final attainment. After understand the reasons mentioned we should become skilled in understanding the qualities of buddhahood and develop the yearning and sincere interest in achieving it. And finally we should be unafraid and have no fear concerning the qualities of enlightenment.

　　 How is this applied within the practice of Mahamudra

　　 Within the preliminary practice of taking refuge, we take refuge in the result. When we develop these enlightened qualities, we ourselves become the ultimate object of refuge. Until we do so we haven”t fully developed this quality. In the Uttara Tantra explanatory text by the bodhisattva Maitreya, only the buddha is the ultimate refuge. In order to achieve the ultimate state of buddhahood, we need to take refuge in the causes of achieving buddhahood, which are the buddha, dharma, and sangha. We should develop the notion that the buddha is the teacher, because only the fully awakened one, the buddha, can show us the path to that state. The Dharma realization of the Buddhas also cannot be transmitted directly to others. What this means is, that whoever has created karmic deeds will experience them in the future, and the Buddha cannot take them or make them go away. It is only through our own practice, that the negative deeds or actions can…

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