VAJRA POINT V:
BUDDHAHOOD
Shugchang" <bialick@usit.net> Date: Thu Aug 9, 2001
9:22 pm Subject: VAJRA POINT V:
BUDDHAHOOD
Vajra Point V: Buddhahood
- features eight points: (here are a few
general
notes)
nature:
the
nature of buddhahood is defined as the
two purities-
1.
pure in itself /suchness
2. pure in the world/ becoming.
These
correspond to the two kayas, formless dharmakaya realized during
meditation (jnana/yeshe), and
the
rupakaya
'between sessions' (prajna/sherab)
... as well as...
vimuktikaya/dharmakaya or svabhavikakaya/jnana dharmakaya)
In accordance with the gZhantong view, dharmakaya is to be
understood
as the joint manifestation of the realization of space-like essence
(emptiness sTong pa nyid) and
the liberated primordial wisdom of
awareness (T. rigpa
yeshe). Unlike the 'emptiness only' rendering of dharmakaya
according to the
Rangtong view, this union or
coalescence is called dharmakaya (from
gZhantong
perspective). The form kayas spontaneously arise within this dharmakaya.
cause:
the
cause of buddhahood is the perfection of tranquility (S.
samatha T. zhi-né) and insight (S. vipassana T. lhag tong). all
buddhist practices can be divided into either one or both of these,
which also correspond to the two accumulations, those of wisdom (non-
conceptual virtue) and merit (virtue with concepts). Keep
meditating.
fruit:
realization of the secret nucleus. this translates as freedom
from all emotional and mental defilement, perfect enjoyment of the four
mindblows (true purity, spontaneous identification with the essential
reality or self, incorruptible happiness, eternal life)
function:
overcoming the four primary sufferings (birth, old age,
sickness and death) the causes which originally moved Shakyamuni to
begin wandering across the plains of northern India, 2500 yrs. ago.
endowments:
completely beyond concept and measurement, primordially
pure (in itself) and free of all conditional defilement (in the world),
empowered with the perfection of wisdoms knowing correctly [profound,
suchness] and completely [vast, things in their relations] and
transcendent freedoms.
manifestation:
in the form of the three kayas, unchanging, unceasing,
and undeluded, replete with extraordinary qualities
permanence:
of the kayas in the following manner- the permanence and
unchanging quality of the absolute nature, the permanence of the
perfect enjoyment body is not its unchangingness, but of the unblocked
flow of awareness, of the continuity of appearances. Having received
teachings and meditated extensively on the all-pervading impermanence
of the relative world, the mere notion of permanence should quickly
point one in the direction of inconceivability.
inconceivability:
first among the 15 endowments, the one that pervades
all others. Buddhahood is not attainable by thoughts or conceptual
thinking, beyond intellectual modeling or the subtlest of relative
designations.
VAJRA POINT SIX: BUDDHA QUALITIES
OUTLINE
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