Sunday, February 24, 2008

( 57 ) from "The Hundred Verses of Advice"

I really like this (57) from "The Hundred Verses of Advice" quoted below the dotted line, and I don't see this to be different from "anidassana vinnana", which I believe is described by:

"There is monks a domain where there is no earth, no water, no fire, no wind, no sphere of infinite space, no sphere of nothingness, no sphere of neither awareness nor non-awareness; there is not this world, there is not another world, there is no sun or moon. I do not call this coming or going, nor standing nor dying, nor being reborn; it is without support, without occurrence, without object. Just this is the end of suffering."

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(57)

The unborn absolute body is like the very heart of the sun -
People of Tingri, there is no waxing or waning of its radiant clarity.


The Dharmakaya, the absolute dimension, the ultimate nature of everything, is emptiness. But it is not mere nothingness. It has a cognitive, radiant clarity aspect that knows all phenomena and manifests spontaneously. The dharmakaya is not something produced by causes and conditions; it is the primodially present nature of the mind.

The recognition of this primordial nature is like the sun of wisdom rising and piecing through the night of ignorance. The darkness is dissipated instantly; the shadows cannot remain. The clarity of the dharmakaya does not wax and wane like the moon, but is like the unchangeable brilliance that reigns at the center of the sun.

(Dilgo Khyentse & Padampa Sangye, The Hundred Verses of Advice, page 106)

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