12. Week 2 - Teaching 4
2024.08.04
Once the formal meditation session has completed, what should be our practice in the meditation break? How do we practice pure view outside of meditation? Geshe-la said:
In 2006 Tara teachings, Geshe-la said:
We can’t impute nectar or mandala on the things we normally see. But if we’re not remembering emptiness, we’re just painting purity on a wall of ordinary appearance. We have to stop our perception of the things we normally see.
With a little experience on the emptiness of phenomena whenever we see physical form we can immediately bring to mind the emptiness of that form. At that time we are concentrating on the emptiness of the form, so we lose the ordinary appearance. With this wisdom there is the correct basis for imputing pure objects. This is very subtle and not easy to understand.
There are many determinations; we should not ignore making determinations. We should make determinations every day. We should determine to put Geshe-la’s advice into practice. How do we make it effective? We have to renew our determination everyday. We also have to request blessings. Without them we are powerless to make these virtuous transformations. Over days, weeks, months, and years, we will make progress. The more we remember and apply that meaning, we will naturally be opposing our delusions, we will be increasing our peace of mind, we will become happier and happier. But initially it’s difficult because we lack familiarity.
We can remember all phenomena are like dreams.
Do we have the wish to go to Keajra? How would we describe this wish? Is it clear and stable, motivating our daily actions? Or is it a bit weak? Honestly examine our Dharma practice. Will we reach Keajra if we don’t really want to go there? If it’s not strong or stable, what’s the obstacle?
From one point of view we are so fortunate. But from another point of view things are difficult for us because we have been born in the unforgetting world, where beings of this world never forget the objects of their attachment. This holds us down into the ordinary. Just like a bird who has stones tied to its legs cannot fly, so we cannot make spiritual progress if our mind is tied down to objects of attachment. So we remain bound to an endless cycle of dissatisfaction and suffering.
Venerable Geshe-la will lead us out of samsara to the pure land of Keajra if we rely upon him.
At Summer Festival 2008 Geshe-la taught a simple but profound method to transform our attachment into the spiritual path: Remember our spiritual guide, Guru Sumati Buddha Heruka at our heart, inseparable from our continually residing mind at our heart, then with the wish to benefit all living beings, we offer our pleasure to our Spiritual Guide at our heart.
To strengthen our wish to go to Keajra, we can improve our understanding of what are outer and inner Dakini lands. In NGTDL: Dakini = yogini = heroine. Keajra is the pure land of Heruka and Vajrayogini. Pure Land is a world that is free from true sufferings. What are true sufferings? It is a contaminated object that is created by delusions and karma. Our uncontrolled rebirths in samsara are true sufferings. Our impure body and mind are true sufferings. Our worldly pleasures and pains are true sufferings. In the pure land there are no true sufferings. There are no contaminated objects. In pure land there is happiness without suffering.
There are different pure lands associated with different Buddhas. Keajra pure land is similar to Tushita pure land and Sukhavati, but in Keajra they can attain full enlightenment in that pure land because they can receive HYT instructions and have thr bodily basis to engage in completion stage HYT practice. The pure land of Keajra is unequalled among all the pure lands of Buddha.