Sua Santità il Dalai Lama, Commentario su Gyalwa Gyatso: Quando fate una purificazione delle varie illusioni o attitudini disturbanti, la purificazione viene fatta applicando i poteri opponenti, ad esempio, usate un modo di approccio completamente diverso dalla cosa che dovete abbandonare.

Seconda parte del Commentario su Gyalwa Gyatso dato da Sua Santità il Dalai Lama a un gruppo di occidentali al Tempio di Teckchen Choeling a Dharamsala, in India, il 1 settembre 1984.

Appunti, traduzione dall’inglese della Dott.ssa Nicoletta Nardinocchi, revisione ed editing del Dott. Luciano Villa, dell’Ing. Alessandro Tenzin Villa e di Graziella Romania nell’ambito del Progetto “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” per il beneficio di tutti gli esseri senzienti.

Sua Santità il Dalai Lama

Il Dharmakaya

Riguardo al Dharmakaya, l’unico che può avere la percezione diretta del Dharmakaya è un Buddha. Continue reading »

First part of the Commentary on Gyalwa Gyatso given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a group of Westerners in His Audience Hall at Teckchen Choeling Palace at Dharamsala, India, on 1st September 1984 from 10-12 noon and 2-4 pm.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

I do not have the actual lineage of the discourse on this teaching nor the lineage of the oral transmission of this but I shall give you a general introduction to this practice.

At the beginning it might be good to recite MANI, one hundred, I think that is better.

(Prayers, Mandala Offering, Manis follow.)

To distinguish ourselves from the followers of the distorted path we take refuge to distinguish ourselves from the lower motivations, from the Hinayana motivation, there is the development of Bodhicitta. We shall repeat the verses of Refuge and Bodhicitta…

Sang-gyae ch’o-d’ang tseg-kyi ch’og-nam-la
J’ang-ch’ub b’ar-d’u dag-ni kyab-su-ch’I
Dag-g’I jin-sog gyi-pai so-nam kyi
Dro-la p’an-ch’ir sang-gyae drug-bar-shog

How many of you understand Tibetan? A little?

As there is not much time I shall not go into a very detailed explanation. I also feel that you can read details regarding visualization, you can understand this through reading. I am going to emphasize, try to explain, those points which are important not only in this practice but as a general practice, Tantric practice, or basically Buddhist practice, then the Mahayana practice, within that Tantrayana practice, within that Maha-Anuttarayoga practice. I thought it might be better to explain these important points. Continue reading »

Second part of the Commentary on Gyalwa Gyatso given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a group of Westerners in His Audience Hall at Teckchen Choeling Palace at Dharamsala, India, on 1st September 1984 from 10-12 noon and 2-4 pm.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

THE DHARMAKAYA

Now the Dharmakaya, the only one who can have direct bare perception of the dharmakaya is a Buddha. The main ones who can have direct bare perception of Sambhogakaya are Arya Bodhisattvas, and those ordinary persons who have the karma to meet with it can see the Nirmanakaya. Deep sleep, dream-body and rough body, it is like that. The actual transformation of the three bases into Buddha’s three kayas takes place in the second stage of practice, Dzog-rim. In Deity Yoga there must be a preparation for it. Continue reading »

Third part of the Commentary on Gyalwa Gyatso given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a group of Westerners in His Audience Hall at Teckchen Choeling Palace at Dharamsala, India, on 1st September 1984 from 10-12 noon and 2-4 pm.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

THE PURIFICATION OF ONE’S MINDSTREAM

Then there is the purification of one’s mindstream and that is done in terms of slowly in stages ridding the mindstream of its various stains. But the way of purification here, of purifying the basis of which is Death, Bardo and Rebirth, is a different one. It is done by meditating on the path which is similar to the basis being purified and by means of that accomplishing a result which is likewise similar to the basis being purified. Here, for instance, when we are talking about death for the basis of purification then by meditating on a path which is similar to the way that death comes ordinarily through its own forces, then one accomplishes the purification of that basis which is death. Here what is being purified is the type of death that comes about for beings of this world with the six elements. Because, if we can purify the kind of death, birth and Bardo that occurs for human beings of the southern continent then it is possible to purify any other type of birth, etc. in other realms. Continue reading »