..续本文上一页ransmission Lineage who abide in the splendorous mandala. One prays to them, too, because one has faith and wishes to receive their blessings. It is a wish, and wishes come true if one has faith and sincerely tries.
A few lines from the homage Patrul Rinpoche wrote in The Words of My Perfect Teacher:
“Venerable teachers whose compassion is infinite and
Unconditional, I prostrate myself before you all.
Conquerors of the mind lineage, Vidhyadharas of the symbol lineage;
Most fortunate of ordinary beings who,
Guided by the enlightened ones, have attained the twofold goal –
Teachers of the three lineages, I prostrate myself before you.
In the expanse where all phenomena come to exhaustion, you
Encountered the wisdom of dharmakaya;
In the clear light of empty space you saw sambhogakaya Buddhafields appear;
To work for beings” benefit you appeared to them in nirmanakaya form.
Omniscient Sovereign of Dharma, I prostrate myself before you.”
(Patrul Rinpoche, Kungzang Lama” i Shelung – The Words of My Perfect Teacher, Shambhala, Boston,
1998, page 3.
What is fruition of one”s efforts
Bringing appearances, which are generally experienced as imperfect, to a pure level. The view won through studying the scriptures understands that anything experienced is only relative. In truth, appearances have no real existence, are like visions in a dream. Understanding the true essence of all things is experiencing their purity. It is not through reciting mantras or through receiving some substance, which supposedly possesses power, that impurity is transformed. It is through understanding that appearances themselves are not imperfect, but that clinging to things as real generates and increases the confusion and suffering that the kleshas always entail.
What are impure and pure levels of being
Although things are in the absolute sense voidness or the pure nature, on the relative level things manifest in reliance upon one another; they depend upon each other; they originate, one from the other. Impure levels of being are perceiving and believing that things are real and exist independently, whereas the true nature of all things is emptiness. Appearances aren”t wrong; rather one”s way of relating to them - as though they were final and real - is mistaken. It is due to emptiness that things arise and cease again and it is due to their unimpeded self-expression that they incessantly arise. On the relative level, things appear but in truth are not existent, i.e., have no independent reality of their own. These two aspects only contradict each other as long as the interconnected nature of all things is not understood. As a result, one perceives appearances and experiences and hides from one”s own limitations because one cannot see that things appear while not existing independently, i.e., things seem to exist independently but don”t. The right view attained through studying, contemplating, and meditating the Buddhadharma is realizing that relative appearances and their ultimate nature are not in opposition to each other but are the inseparability of emptiness and self-expression, i.e., appearances are empty by nature, continuously manifest, and do so uninterruptedly, the three permanent aspects of lasting wisdom – the dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya.
4. When Did Samsara Begin
When Will It End
When did samsara begin
Always and ever, because it is beginningless. Following the homage to all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Rangjung Dorje tells us in The Tathagatagarbhashastra,
“Though beginningless, it has an end.
It is pure by nature and has the quality of permanence.
It is unseen because it is obscured by a beginningless covering,
Like, for example, a golden statue that has been obscured.”
That was taught (by the Buddha).
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