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Blog postThey entirely subsume all the proclamations on the practice of the path of virtuous karma that are found in the Sugata’s Orations, however many there may be. For this reason, I show that we must be complete in all the Dharmas of virtue:
One who perseveres at all these ways of the Dharma,
In each of these enumerations of the path of virtue,
The extra word: “Do” must be added on here.
Regarding an account of virtuous practices, an example would be the seven branches of -
Blog postAfter a detailed presentation, I finish up with a final summary by offering advice:
Dependent origination is relative,
Totally obfuscated,
Like an illusion.
Its true nature is ultimate,
The holy intent,
Emptiness.
There is no separation between these two.
They are interactive.
You must understand all the Dharmas,
Of cause, path, and fruition.
In relative reality, the things that occur through dependencies and connections appear to us -
Blog postYou may ask: “What is the way of interactivity like?”
You must understand
That all objects are an interactivity
Of appearance and emptiness,
That our minds are also an interactivity
Of awareness and emptiness,
That our path is an interactivity
Of methods and wisdom,
And you must totally immerse yourself in this
In all things.
You must understand that while all objects, such as forms, appear, they are empty of any true nature, like the moon -
Blog postFrom the primordial, no dharmas, whether compounded or uncompounded, have been born, so they have no true nature. Once you understand that they are naturally free from all the indicators of complications, such as being existent or non-existent, you will stamp them with the seal of non-visualization, as if they were the sky. On this topic, the Compiled Verses proclaims:
Once we have used wisdom to decimate dharmas,
Be they compounded, uncompounded, white, or black,
We will not -
Blog postThe investigation through reason in the above shows that there is no one who takes things in that is made of an essential reality, as so there is also essentially no one who holds onto things. This is because holding on is done in reference to taking in. This is like the way that a consciousness of holding on to something as being white does not occur if there is nothing that is white.
When we look at those who believe that even though there are no subjects or objects, ther
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Blog postYou may say: “Both the appearance of stability and of shifting are delusions, for in truth they are the mind.”
This requires that we determine that the mind is made from a foundational entity that is neither stable nor instable. No matter how we advocate this understanding, we will be accepting something that is unacceptable, so what is there to refute?
Now according to the way of liars, consciousness is a lie. This is because lies appearing in a variety of forms and the sel
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Blog postHere I am showing the refutation to be primary. Is the appearance of subjects and objects in a multitude of forms a single partless knowledge, or is it diverse? If it is single, in the way of those who hold to a true form, this knowledge will turn out to be multiple. This is because the plurality and the self would be the same. For those who profess a Dharma that has this position, that which encompasses is multiple, while it is the self alone, but this is a plurality. An
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Blog postYou may ask: “Is a heap that is both of them the third?
It is not. Both existence and non-existence have already been elucidated through spoken logic. It is also not the non-existence of something that is both existent and non-existent, for there is no logic to proves this. If it were not either of them it would be necessary that they refer to something that is both of them, and neither of their referents exist, so how would there be a reality that is neither of them?
In thi
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Blog postAfter I describe the refutation of the extreme position that things exist, I demonstrate a refutation of the extreme position that they do not exist.
If nothing were long,
How could anything be short?
Existence is not made up out of any essence.
So how could there be a view
In which non-existence is natural?
You may ask: “You have refuted existence, so are things non-existent?”
They are not. The thing called: “Non-existence” requires that we refer to a -
Blog postFurther, if our view is to believe that knowledge that is instantaneous and has no parts is the ultimate truth, then this knowledge which is instantaneous and has no parts will not have the parts of birth, destruction, and continuation, and it will turn out that it is not compounded.
If it does have them, every instant will turn out to have three parts, and there will be no one thing. It will also turn out that pluralities do not come about, for there will be nothing to hol
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Blog postSo once I have explained stamping relative reality with the seal that it is like an illusion, I describe stamping ultimate reality with the seal that it has no true nature. I say:
There are no dharmas that do not have a time and place.
When we separate them according to their time and place,
It will be impossible for there to be a solitary entity.
There is no one,
So where will the many come from?
There is also nothing that is other than these.
So saying: -
Blog postThe Sutras also proclaim:
Our karmas will not decompose,
Even in a hundred eons.
When they find their associations and their time,
They will ripen into results for those who have bodies.
The noble Nagarjuna has also proclaimed:
Our blessed gurus have spoken on
The abode of karma,
The identity of karma,
The fruition of karma,
The personal karmas of sentient beings,
And on karma’s not decomposing.
Now the belief that because th -
Blog postYou may be thinking: “We may conclude that there is no truth to compounded dharmas, but uncompounded dharmas, such as the sky and cessation, are true." So I say:
Uncompounded dharmas are nothing but attributions.
The sounds of meaningless words
Are compounded by our conceptualizations.
Those who believe they are meaningful
Are mad.
Entities that are not compounded from causes and conditions, such as the sky, are nothing but ideas. They are not truly real -
Blog postAlthough they are not made of a true essence, the mind that has been mixed up through beginningless time by a multitude of habitual patterns, including external objects, inner consciousness, the running of consciousness toward objects, and the craving for this, perceives external objects that are attractive or unattractive, and experiences a variety of things within, such as happiness and sorrow, but these are not true. Master Nagarjuna’s Mind Commentary proclaims:
Relativ -
Blog postSo after an extensive presentation on the way to do a follow up, there is a summary to show what is needed:
So it is that all our virtues,
Being ornamented by recollection.
Dedication, and holy prayers.
Are not exhausted,
But are augmented,
And become causes toward the magnificent objectives
Of everyone,
Ourselves and other beings.
In this way I advise you to augment every virtue, ornamenting it with a holy recollection, make every vi -
Blog postNow that I have explained that we dedicate so that our roots of virtue will not be exhausted, I will explain that before we have done a virtue we make a prayer so that the things we desire will come to pass. We have not, at that moment, gathered the virtue that we will transform. So we make a prayer in our thoughts: “Why shouldn’t something happen that is both temporarily and ultimately of great purpose?” And with our voice we make a prayer: “May it be so.” If we do this,
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Blog postYou may ask: “What does it do when we make such dedications?”
In my concluding remarks you will see: “Inexhaustible” right at the end. This is because the virtue there is in a dedication toward magnificent enlightenment is made inexhaustible. The Sutra of Inexhaustible Intellect proclaims:
A drop of water that falls in the great ocean
Will not be exhausted
For just so long as the ocean is not exhausted.
In the same way,
Virtues dedicated toward enli -
Blog postMoreover, the Jewel Cloud of the Sutras proclaims:
Through peaceful abiding we smash the heads of emotional problems.
Through higher perception we bring emotional problems to an end.
Lord Maitreya has also proclaimed:
Through a stable peaceful abiding and higher perception
A yogin may go to every level.
He uses them for every practice.
You may ask: “Why is it that they are called peaceful abiding and higher perception?” Lord Maitreya has procla -
Blog postIn general, we are advised to do a recollection after all virtues, but particularly, we must do a recollection after we place ourselves into equanimity.
After we have settled ourselves
Into a specific visualization,
We scrutinize the visualization,
The form,
And the meaning of our experience,
Individually,
And examine them thoroughly.
We examine their causes, conditions, other factors,
And the way they arise in dependencies,
In all their var -
Blog postThe Dharma Lord has also spoken on this:
We direct our minds toward the visualization itself,
And our thoughts achieve peace.
When we direct ourselves to the visualization itself,
We brilliantly avoid clinging to the visualization.
I have made a good presentation on the way we place ourselves into equanimity. Concerning the way we follow up, the Sutra on Inexhaustible Intellect proclaims:
We use our sense of memory
So that these Dharmas,
In which
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