Buddha Nature Talks
In Buddhist philosophy, Buddha-nature is the potential for all sentient beings to become a Buddha or the fact that all beings already have a pure buddha-essence within. "Buddha-nature" is the common English translation for several related Mahayana Buddhist terms, most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu, but also sugatagarbha, and buddhagarbha. Tathāgatagarbha can mean "the womb" or "embryo" (garbha) of the "thus-gone one" (tathāgata), and can also mean "containing a tathāgata". Buddhadhātu can mean "buddha-element," "buddha-realm" or "buddha-substrate".
Buddha-nature has a wide range of (sometimes conflicting) meanings in Indian and later East Asian and Tibetan Buddhist literature. Broadly speaking, it refers to the belief that the luminous mind, "the natural and true state of the mind," which is pure (visuddhi) mind undefiled by kleshas, is inherently present in every sentient being, and is eternal and unchanging. It will shine forth when it is cleansed of the defilements, that is, when the nature of mind is recognised for what it is.
The Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (written 2nd century CE), which was very influential in the Chinese reception of these teachings, linked the concept of tathāgatagarbha with the buddhadhātu. The term buddhadhātu originally referred to buddha relics. In the Mahāparinirvāṇa, it came to be used in place of the concept of tathāgatagārbha, reshaping the worship of physical buddha relics of the Buddha into worship of the inner Buddha as a principle of salvation.
The primordial or undefiled mind, the tathagatagarbha, is also often equated with emptiness; with the alayavijñana ("storehouse-consciousness", a yogacara concept); and with the interpenetration of all dharmas (in East Asian traditions like Huayan). Buddha nature ideas are central to East Asian Buddhism, which relies on key buddha-nature sources like the Mahāparinirvāṇa. In Tibetan Buddhism, buddha-nature ideas are also important, and are often studied through the key Indian treatise on buddha-nature, the Ratnagotravibhāga.
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00049 Evil, training, Buddha Nature, Book of Serenity, Desire |
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YYYY.02.03-serial.00010 Buddha Nature, Diversity, Impermanence, Ego, Attachment, Describe, Happiness, Subject... |
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YYYY.02.02-serial.00011 Religion, Emotions, Passions, Culture, Buddha Nature, soto, training, confusion, Vows... |
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YYYY.02.01-serial.00013 Buddha Nature, Attachment, Samadhi, Culture, Echo, Silence, Emotions, Offering... |
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YYYY.02.01-serial.00014 Concentration, Emotions, Culture, Buddha Nature, causation, training |
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YYYY.01.30-serial.00022 Buddha Nature, causation, Big Mind, Nirvana Sutra, Soto Zen, Don't Know Mind,... |
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YYYY.01.30-serial.00024 Buddha Nature, Interdependence, lecture, Fox, Samsara, Dragons, Instruction,... |
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YYYY.01.19-serial.00034 Practice Period, training, Silence, Family Practice, Oneness, Buddha Nature, Lineage... |
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YYYY.01.18-serial.00035 Oneness, Meditation, Silent Illumination, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Anger, Dharma... |
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YYYY.01.15-serial.00040 Hindrances, Beginners, difficulty, Vows, Nirvana Sutra, Repentance, Buddha Ancestors... |
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YYYY.01.15-serial.00041 Buddha Nature, Impermanence, Daily Life, Subject-and-Object, Repentance, Buddha Mind... |
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YYYY.01.14-serial.00043 Attachment, Buddha Nature, New Year, Bodhidharma, Dependent Origination, Describe,... |
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YYYY.01.30-serial.00066 Buddha Nature, Nirvana Sutra, Big Mind, causation, Subject-and-Object, Zendo,... |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00092 Buddha Nature, Subject-and-Object, Interview, training, Offering, Passions,... |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00095 Buddha Nature, Compassion, Family Practice, Commitment, Oneness, Continuous,... |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00097 Buddha Nature, Politics, Oneness, Attachment |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00098B Meditation, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Non-discrimination, Nirvana Sutra, Passions,... |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00099A Buddha Nature, confusion |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00100 Family Practice, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Ego, Freedom, Describe, Happiness,... |
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Introduction to Vajrayana II, Serial 00040 Buddha Nature, Echo, Sutra, Delusion, Non-duality, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Describe... |
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Introduction to Vajrayana, Serial 00041 Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, Ceremony, Subject-and-Object, Breath,... |
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Introduction to Vajrayana I, Serial 00042 Birth-and-Death, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, Ceremony, Subject-and-Object, Breath, Peace... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00291, Side B Precepts, Buddha Nature, Priest, Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts, Ordination, Transmission... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00755 Discrimination, Five Ranks, Concentration, Subject-and-Object, Cultivation, Buddha... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00778 true dharma, Monastic Practice, Transmission, Teacher-and-Student, Continuous, Buddha... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00786, Side B Intuition, Karmic Consequences, Attachment, Buddha Nature, Continuous, Big Mind,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00950, Side B Hindrances, Heart Sutra, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Ego, Duality, Birth-and-... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00951, Side B Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature, Four Noble Truths, Non-duality, Platform Sutra, Subject-... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 01182 Birth-and-Death, Absolute-and-Relative, Religion, Don't Know Mind, Big Mind,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00363 Precepts, Impermanence, Continuous, Oneness, Buddha Nature, Beginners, Fifth Precept... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00366 Precepts, Buddha Nature, Fifth Precept, Don't Know Mind, Greed, Lay, Emotions,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00370 Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Emotions, Attachment, Constancy, Demons,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00388 Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Letting Go, Attachment, Echo, Emotions,... |
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YYYY.03.04-serial.00207 Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Interview, Buddha Nature, Community |
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YYYY.06.28-serial.00209 Delusion, Practice Period, confusion, Buddha Nature |
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Unknown year, June talk, Serial 00373 Continuous, Intention, Consciousness, Impermanence, Intuition, Right Speech, Buddha... |
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