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Re: HUH??? BRILLIANT OPINION!!!From: rex
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-05-12 11:40:44
Remote IP: 193.61.82.223
MessageThere's a nice summary of the different Tibetan views of mind and subsequent practice in the preface to this document:
http://www.shenpen-osel.org/issue3.pdf (See pages 3-4).
In Tibetan terms the dialogue between Buddha and Ananda seems to come from the rangtong madhyamika view.
Tibetans also see mind in terms of the eight consciousnesses:
http://www.rinpoche.com/nbp/PDFCHAPTERS/E.%20Five%20Buddha%20Families%201999.pdfbuddha%20families (See pages 10-13 of the actual document, Acrobat page numbers 12-15).
There's also an almost tediously overexhaustive and prehaps unintelligible coverage of the eight consciousness here: http://www.buddhistinformation.com/verses_delineating_the_eight_con.htm
The locaton, or prehaps correspondence, of the dharmakaya in the heart centre comes from the the Bardo Thödol teachings. See page 16 of this document: http://www.shenpen-osel.org/issue5.pdf. The opportunity for enlightemnent when the ground luminosity arises fits in with Buddhas words to Ananda:
"The Buddha then informs Ananda that rebirth is caused by lack of
knowledge of the pure, bright substance which is the nature of the
eternally dwelling true mind and that enlightenment comes through
the exclusive use of the straightforward mind."
As the Bardo Thodol says:
"Oh son/daughter of noble family. That which is called death has now arrived. Now for the benefit of all beings, recognize the luminosity that dawns before you. This great blazing mass of light is enlightenment itself. It is the natural mind. It is the essence of your own mind.
Recognition and liberation are simultaneous." [actually I nicked this quote off the web somewhere and might have to check this from the printed version].
A Tibetan teaching on the nature of mind, the bardos and the elements can be seen here:
http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/bardotea/bardotea.html
Bodri seems to say something similar to this last teaching in his 5 Element Meditations booklet where he says the phenomenal world and spiritual mind come from the same source:
"The top secret in cultivation is that mind and body are really one: our original nature and this entire phenomenal aspect of false appearances really belong to one whole."
All the best,
Rex
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