..续本文上一页 be removed. It is the same with enlightenment. What is necessary is that beings become liberated through the Buddha teaching the Dharma. We should develop the notion as the sangha, as being companions or friends on the path. Sometimes what happens, within practicing, we meet unfavorable conditions of both the external and internal type, that take the form in the following way. In the past we were more devoted and diligent and this has begun to diminish or become lesser and lesser. What is necessary is to associate with spiritual teachers or spiritual guides, who can help us overcome these obstacles which are inner unfavorable conditions of "weekend devotion." With the help of the spiritual teacher or friend we can overcome the obstacles to the path. In this way the noble sangha can be regarded as companions or helpers on the path. In the vajrayana system the buddha, dharma, and sangha are the objects of refuge.

　　 In our present condition we are unable to meet the Buddha and receive teachings directly from him. We have the fortune to receive teachings from a spiritual guide and practice them. So we can receive these same teachings from our root master, and in this way we go to refuge within the vajrayana system.

　　 The dharma teachings encompass 84,000 different teachings to suit the various needs of different people in order to help beings to effect a change which is required, to purify negative states of mind, and to overcome the unfavorable circumstances. This chapter continues in how we should develop the strong interest in the inconceivable qualities, and how it is necessary to persist in the attainment of these great inconceivable qualities. After the Buddha taught this, then the gods from the realm of desire appeared with a retinue of celestial musicians and offered music to the Buddha.

　　 The next chapter, the twentieth, is titled, "The King Mighty Topper Victory Banner." In it, compassion is shown to be an indispensable quality for a bodhisattva and also how compassion is naturally present when remaining in the supreme samadhi state that is described in this sutra. And that compassion is a natural quality of the state of samadhi. When the great non-conceptual state of compassion arises within our stream of being, does that compassion somehow obscure that state of samadhi

　　 It does not. The third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje stated, "In the moment of love, the empty essence dawns nakedly." When great compassion arises in the moment of non-conceptual wakefulness and we see how all sentient beings suffer, the very essence of this love and compassion we feel is emptiness. In this way, true samadhi is the nature in which emptiness and compassion are an inpisible unity. This concludes the chapter taught by the future Buddha, Mighty Topper Victory Banner.

　　It is important to pursue the practice of the dharma and more importantly while practicing samadhi to refrain from wrong behavior.

　　 The Buddha begins to recount a story of a former life in which two bodhisattvas that keep pure conduct and, while residing in the forest, applied themselves in samadhi. One day while they were practicing in the jungle, in seclusion, the king from that region, who was hunting within the same forest, came upon the two bodhisattvas. The king gave rise to strong faith and devotion toward them and seeing this the bodhisattvas gave advice to the king by telling him that the time of this life gives out quickly and there is no time to waste oneself on evil deeds. Always be mindful and careful and give up evil deeds such as harming others. At first the king had great faith in the bodhisattvas and then he began to think, "Not one of the dharma practitioners or teachers within the city keep such pure behavior as the bodhisattvas i…

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