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Tag Archives: True Bliss
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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Tibetan Buddhism and the Pure Land
There is a strong (and unfounded) belittling of Pure Land teachings and practice in the Western understanding of Tibetan Buddhism. Perhaps this is due to the dominant position of academics and nihilists in ‘western’ Buddhist circles, although there has been … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Land
Tagged academics and nihilists, Buddha Essence, buddha-kshetra, Dharma-Ending Age, dharmakaya-kshetra, Holy Path, Master Kunchen Dolpopa, nirmanakaya-kshetra, om amideva hrih, other emptiness (zhentong), parinamana (merit transfer), sambhogakaya-kshetra, The Supplication, True Bliss, true existence, True Permanence, true purity, viable way to enlightenment
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To a Christian Friend
For all persons entering the teachings of the Buddha, Buddha Dharma, Refuge is a necessary sacrament, but the outward ritual —while it can be helpful to our minds— is only a confirmation of an inner disposition to learn and practice … Continue reading
Settling the Three Minds on Birth in the Pure Land
The Buddhas teach unanimously and without reservation That the nature of all sentient beings is perfection. “There is nothing to add, and nothing to subtract.” However, since beginningless time, I have allowed the taint of ignorance —the cognitive and affective … Continue reading
The Fourfold Negation & the Perfection of Wisdom
The chatuskoti, or the Fourfold Negation (NOT THIS: NOT THAT: NOT BOTH: NOT NEITHER) is a principal tool in Buddhist contemplation and analytic meditation. Repeatedly enunciated by the Master Nagarjuna, it is the systematic application of analysis for the deconstruction … Continue reading
Posted in Dharma View
Tagged absence of self, absolutization of emptiness, analytic meditation, Buddha Essence, Chandrakirti, compounded, consciousness, contemplation, deconstruction of false appearances, deconstruction of fixed views, dependent, direct, enlightenment, exhaustion of all views, external appearances, external fabricated natures, Fourfold Negation, fully established nature, gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha, Great Exposition (vaibhashika), Great Middle Way (maha madhyamika), Heart Sutra, impermanent, internal appearances, internal dependent natures, mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom, materialism, Middle Way (madhyamika), Mulamadhyamakakarika, nagarjuna, non-affirming negation, non-dual, NOT BOTH: NOT NEITHER, NOT THIS: NOT THAT, other-emptiness, peace and clarity, perfection of wisdom, Primordial Buddha, self-arisen pristine wisdom, self-emptiness, spontaneous, Sutra (sautrantika), the view of emptiness, True Bliss, True Permanence, true purity, True Self, ultimate reality, Yoga Practice (yogacharin)
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Tonglen: Exchange Meditation
“Thus have I heard (evam maya shrutam)…” The text that follows is neither a personal opinion nor an ‘original’ presentation of Exchange Meditation (Tib. tonglen; Skt. parivartana). On the contrary, although committed to conveying these teachings in the context of … Continue reading
Great Middle Way 