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Tag Archives: Buddha nature
On Buddha Nature
In all Suchness there is no differentiation. The Tathagata is pure. All beings share that essence. —Sutralankara This essence of the Tathagata, when not free from the store of defilement, is referred to as the Tathagatagarbha. —Srimaladevi Sutra … Continue reading
Utilizing Adversity
I bow to the Lord of Compassion! When food and drink are ample and my bedding dry, it is easier to practice, but less urgent. As this world is tainted with the five corruptions[1], may I swiftly develop the … Continue reading
Posted in Mind Training
Tagged all-ground, Buddha nature, dependent, enemies, field of merit, five corruptions, friends, gratitude for all, impermanent, insubstantial, mind of renunciation, Mind Training 12 -15, no action, no actor, no object of action, self-cherishing, this burning house is blazing, True Bliss, True Permanence, true purity, True Self, unskillful action, unsurpassable qualities
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The Three Forms of the Buddha
The dharmakaya (Form of Truth) is your own Buddha Nature. The sambhogakaya (Form of Bliss) is your own Non-dual Wisdom. The nirmanakaya (Form of Manifestation) is your own Non-referential Compassion.
Four Strategies
All of us come to the Dharma with various degrees of wrong views, previous tendencies and conditioning, false identities, afflicted emotions, and extremely sensitive egos. It takes time and effort to leave them behind, or at least transform them sufficiently … Continue reading
Aloneness and loneliness
Being alone can be wonderful, but not if we feel lonely. Especially during the holidays, we can feel isolated and unloved, ignored and unimportant. It can feel as if the flow of social intercourse has passed us by —or worse, … Continue reading
Posted in Q&A
Tagged afflicted emotion, and sorrows, blame, blessing, buddha, Buddha nature, challenges and rewards, company, conceptual proliferation, deep introspection, different paths, drama of duality, drama of relationships, elaboration, faithful lover, filial child, finality of death, four life stages, ignored and unimportant, inner light, interpretation, intimacy, isolated and unloved, kind parent, lamenting, learning, natural migration of loved ones, om amideva hrih, our own mortality, patterns of a previous life-stage, peaceful transition, place and time, possible or desirable, production, purposeless time, real or apparent ingratitude, reality as it is, reasonable or adequate responses, resentment, self-inflicted curse, shame, similar values and spiritual interests, situational fact, social intercourse, spiritual friends, transcendence, true friend, withdrawal
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The Philosopher and the Boatman
The Three Wheels of the Dharma are the three periods of the Buddha’s teaching, in which He emphasized various aspects. The First Wheel (in which He presented the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Noble Path) are focused on cause … Continue reading
Are We Good Candidates for Enlightenment?
Do I understand and accept karma and rebirth? Do I renounce the illusion of material happiness? Do I desire enlightenment for all (not just myself)? Do I understand, at least conceptually, emptiness and dependent origination? Do I have certainty about … Continue reading
In this Dharma-ending Age
Buddha Shakyamuni preached for 45 years in this world. In that time, he was asked the same questions repeatedly, and he patiently answered them according to the capacity, maturity, and disposition of the questioners. In the conventional sense, there is … Continue reading
Posted in Q&A
Tagged Amideva's Promise, birth in the Pure Land, Buddha nature, Buddha Shakyamuni, capacity, certainty, disposition, era of the five corruptions, Kunchen Dolpopa, maturity, Mountain Dharma, om amideva hrih, practice, The Fourth Council, The Supplication, ultimate reality, vows
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Nirvana
Nirvana is the extinction of passions, the uncreated, peaceful happiness, eternal bliss, true reality, dharma-body, dharma-nature, suchness, oneness, and Buddha-nature. Buddha-nature is none other than the Tathagata, the One Thus Come. This Tathagata pervades the countless worlds; He fills the … Continue reading
