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Harmonizing Cosmos in Tantric Mandalas
The talk explores the concept of the Bada Mandala in Tantric Buddhism, highlighting its superior nature compared to the Outer Mandala. It also delves into the intricate symbolic representations within the mandala, including the body's representation of mandala structures, the connection between nerve channels and divine manifestations, and the symbolic depiction of different deities. Central to the discussion is the concept of integrating body, mind, and speech as visualized through channels and chakras, anchored in traditional texts like the Sambhuta Tantra and the Hevajra Tantra. Additionally, the symbolism of the mandala's elements, such as the earth and celestial structures, and their alignment with cosmic patterns are explained in depth.
Referenced Works and Philosophical Concepts:
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Sambhuta Tantra: This text provides dialogues between the Buddha and a disciple, exploring the worship and symbolism of mandalas. It serves as an underlying reference to understanding the spiritual and bodily representations within the Bada Mandala.
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Hevajra Tantra: Mentioned as a root tantra, it is crucial for its teachings on the inner mandala and its symbolic portrayal within the practitioner's anatomy, providing insights into the transformation of body and mind through Tantric practices.
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Kama Mudra and Lachana: These terms relate to practical ritual practices and the visualization of deity forms, reflecting an experiential aspect of tantric training encompassing physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions.
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Five Wisdoms and Five Families: These key concepts highlight the crucial structure and hierarchy within the mandala system, representing various Buddhas and their corresponding wisdoms, illustrating the multiplicity and unity in tantric teachings.
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Description of Chakras and Nerve Channels: The analysis includes a detailed metaphorical alignment of bodily structures with sacred geometrical forms and the cosmic symbolism of sun and moon, essential for understanding Tantric physiology.
This detailed inquiry into the Bada Mandala enhances the practitioner’s comprehension of self-realization through its intricate symbolic system, providing a rich tapestry for advanced Zen practitioners to explore personal and spiritual growth.
AI Suggested Title: Harmonizing Cosmos in Tantric Mandalas
Okay, we are reading on the page 395. So the subject is the... Luki is the Bada Mandala. So the Bada Mandala is the superior, much better, the more superior than the Outer Mandala. And so the, here is also a quote stated in the literature of the Indian literature of the Tantra.
[01:10]
It's called Kishun. Particularly in the Sambhuta. Oh, is it the first line then? Yeah, first line. First line, okay. It's 395. Yeah, Sambhuta is very simple. Sambhutale. Sambhutale. It says, and this was the Buddha and the person is a discussion there is some sort of a dialogue between the Buddha and the person and the person asked in order to worship In a mandala, how should we do about it? How should we work on it?
[02:15]
And he asked to Hiruga. And to that reply, then he says, you follow that it says the Hiroga is the deity God and all of them are manifesting nicely through your nerve channels and channels, the subvene, the pretty body of the deity, came out through the channels.
[03:30]
And so the body Therefore, the body is very beautiful, or very significantly excellent of a mandala. So the body is mandala. Then there is it is said that there are four doors. such as the embodiment is describing the body, the parts of the bodies, symbolically there are also parts of the, such as the pillars,
[04:31]
No, I mean the pillars of the mandala, the building. And are they saying the genlock? Yeah, I mean the limbs. Again, the eight, which is eight years from here to here, one, two, three, four, five, four, six, and then from knee down to the ankle, two of the next eight pieces of these bones are the... Actually, basically, inner mandala, it represents the eight posts of the, you know, celestial mansions. Right. And so, Nobu Kunngin, Nembe Chiru, Pushypaniraptotas, Nobu Kunngin is all phenomena. all go out.
[05:33]
Everything is equal. Nyambai means equalized. Every phenomenon, everything is equal. For that, symbolically, that body is when you square, right? From the tip, fingertip, to the fingertip. That is equalization. Equal. And then there is three wheels such as crown wheel, throat wheel, heart wheel are symbolically the body, mind, speech of the Buddha. Oh, kūtung tūk. Kū is body, sūng is speech, and tūk is mind.
[06:38]
Law is the transcendent of that. What's the pūši? Pūši means square. Oh, okay. Pūši means square. Oh, I see. And kūlo stūne jītūtūms, so kūlo means wheel, sūng means tree. So that's the reason why we have a visualisation of... There are three principles, talkless mentions inside of the body. They are also achievement of the Buddha, the body, mind, speech. Then they are talking about the mountains. Part of the... the upper part of the body, particularly on the back of the head, all the way represents the Mount Samiru.
[07:40]
Ri means referring to the mountain. Remember that in the Sadhana, in the Havajra Sadhana, the Bhaira Mandala, It says all this describes of the body, parts of the body. Heart is earth. And the head is the part of the mountain and the skin. Seven practices of the Bodhisattva and so on. Is it a tick on the head? Okay. The tip of the head is a mountain. It doesn't say it means the universal center of the mountain.
[08:46]
It's called . There is a wind. The name of the wind is called Zomchen. And in the universe, there is a kind of wind that is Zomchen. They saw rinjis, which means the Guru's method of teaching, such as rinjini, means two different types of the completion stage, gi rim and do rim.
[09:53]
And do the means of condensing or the means of speaking? The method of the time. I'm sorry, the method of? Time. How do you get it? Is that the engine? Sure, uh, just inclusion one. Okay. Timba. Okay, I'm sorry. Let me see. On the bottom of the gangba means the feet, here. Gangba tido means the The feet of the bottom of the feet. Soils of feet, the wind of the Zomjin. Shui is a number of name, which means location. It is the wind that, the Zomjin wind is the shape of the shoe, the arrow and the bow. Oh, that wind mandala. Yeah, it's talking about the soul to the feet.
[10:57]
Right. Okay. Yes. The shape of a bow. Bow, shape of bow. Yeah. See, that's a... Then there is a... It's in the... The sadhana of the body mandala. As you know, Som-do is the, what's called this area here? Where? Where the baby carries abdomen, pelvis, right? Pelbus is Som-do. Som-do is the place of the Som- pelvis at the same time. Likewise, Tuzung means triangular.
[11:59]
Bara means burning fire. Fire is located. And the fire is located in that place. And then the next one is Towa, which is... the stomach. Choo is the nature of the water, the moisture of the world represents in your stomach. The shape of that is The shape of that is... Dumbu means around. Severe. Severe. Around. Miracle, nice. Yeah.
[13:00]
It is situated there. And... This is all describing the... Those... The earth. Not the earth. Where is the earth located? The location of the earth is the heart chakra. Inga. What looks like the shape of the earth? It is a square, like this, black. Right, this kind of one. Which is also like this, cubicle. Right? Green tree needles. Now, galsic is the bourbon, what's called the bones, backbones.
[14:02]
Right? Huh? Butter bread. Butter bread. Galsic. In English, you can say, galsic is usually called galsic. Galsic is the butter bread. Yuko is the stick. The image, the form of bird break is like a stick. Like this. Spine. Spine of the bird break. The second bird break is the monster mirror. The king of mountain, like was, that's it. That's right. The main celestial mansion has four doors, right?
[15:10]
Now, you know, mandala has where is it? Heart has four chambers. Four. four walls. That's the pad. There's no mention of the protection shopper or the vajar tent to the vajar tent. Yeah, that's it outside. You know, those are never... I don't know, I was saying, yeah. Protection is the thing, the lips. Yeah, remember? Yeah, yeah. Right, right. Maybe this is just... The vajar tent. So this describes everything right? Now here this interesting thing is this structure of Bhada Mandala which is describing everything here is
[16:19]
Not only a Vajra but in the Chakrasambhara, same thing. Chakrasambhara, Bhada Manila, is the same thing. What about Tumum? Tumum is commonly, commonly, commonly has been taught. Both, they refer to Demjong, they refer to Devatoji, a Vajra. So commonly, it's shared with both Chung San Baba and the Air Vajit Dandran. So they're both sent. And now, it is called Zegyu-les, root dandran. Here we refer to root dandran, Zegyu-mi-zi. Zha is root, Gyu is dandran. Lays form, form according to the root tantra which meaning that the Hevajal root tantra.
[17:28]
It says, means of . He will call something. Hey, you, hey. Hevajal, hey. He, jump down there. He is calling there, jump down there. Like a kundun. Not invoking, but a vakata. Directly directing. Vakata, right? Yeah. Hey. Hey, you. Hey. Right. But for the high ones, you don't say hey. You say jie. Jie. Jie. That's a very, very classical kind of word. We don't say it in Hindi.
[18:31]
How many nerves or channels? How many channels do we have in our vital body? You're talking about the vital body. This is the question, the discussion. Understand? Zhaotula, Zha is nerve channel. So he asked, how many, when you talk about the whole body, how many in this body, how many channels, nerves do we have? Xie Sojji Shuleng Chutang, Xieva Lens, etc. Asking and reply, and with that, then Lord Buddha explained, the body is Zha, Lui Zha is called, the body is Zha, and early Goli Nin, Dawada Nima Da Xieva
[19:44]
And so there are letters early and early, right? Early means what? Early means vowels. Early is vowels and early is consonants. While we have early and early inside of our body, Because if you don't have an early and early inside of your body, you won't be able to see the moon and the sun. So why is the moon and the sun so important? The moon and the sun is also internally the wisdom and the method. Okay, and this is the, they are conversing, conversing, the Buddhas and the... Then where is the letters?
[20:54]
The letter is not exactly, not separated from the zha or the channels. The channel itself is the letters. So you cannot separate the letters. The channels are the shape of letters. And that's why you cannot find it if you operate it. You can't find it in alphabet. But you can't find it where those channels, nodes, junctions, are the shape of letters. And then Dawa and Nima, which is understand, right? Da is moon and Mima is sun. That's right. Da is really moon represents the vows and sun represents the consonants.
[22:03]
Yeah. Yeah. And then that includes the kum du ji, the element. Element. Element nectar. Kum du ji is the element nectar. It's also about the... There's already some... Peace of the earth, yes. Poa ju du da wu, yu gu tu ju zai shi da wu, chu du. Pua Juktu is the time. There's a 16 kind of ways of counting the time measurement of 16 in general. Then it's 16, sometimes 16 hours. And then Yugu Juktu Juktu is
[23:05]
The hours are also divided into minutes. One hour has 60, usually 60, but there is, according to the antic, 64. So there's 60 meters of the day and 64 meters of the... Yes. And 64 natures of the divisions of the day. Divisions of the day. And then the divisions of the troopers. This troopers, we still used in our common, the name of the, you know, wristwatch or the watch. Watch is called chotsu. Chotsu. Chotsu in the time. The water time. Does it come from like a water cloud?
[24:08]
Water cloud. So there is a church house from the Zen, 32 churches in the proper measurement of the 24 days, 24 hours. Okay, so 32 measures of the water cloud. Water cloud. Then the 23 sheet is the... four divisions of the session of the day divided into session is the time is divided by session you can have four sessions which means that morning at dawn and morning and noon and evening or something like that kind of divided do you mean how you would divide up the meditative sessions? Well, it's talking about the basic universal tunnel chart. Oh, okay.
[25:08]
So these are sections of it? Sections of the time and the space. Oh, okay. There is... There is... There is... is the essence of the element is wisdom with that vital air and all that thing is the which means the mandala basis of a mandala of the deity is divided into four divisions of the mandala. So therefore, it is made into four mandalas, it's shown.
[26:13]
The four mandalas. These are all mandalas of time to creation. Four mandalas. Four mandala is usually two Timba, Inga, Tewa. Oh, the four principal mandala. And then there is one more mandala in the sacred mandala. Chattva is a combination of both. Sometimes combined with crowned mandala and sacred mandala is the same nature. Is that why they both call Mahasuk? Mahasuk. They're counted as a one. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Now the ten, the last sentence, tenpa, tenpa.
[27:15]
Ten is, there is a, ten means a, a object. is that E-vam-ma-ya. E-vam-ma-ya is called. E-vam-ma-ya is the name of the Sanskrit word. Four syllables. E-vam-ma-ya. So the E, what's the E mean? E is the Hamujama. In other words, there are the four goddesses. There are the four principal deities in the four mandala, the four masters of the male deities.
[28:19]
So now he's talking about the four consorts. Consorts in the four major mandala. Now there are, represents the four syllables. E, Ram, Ma, Ya. Now there is a, comes out of a Lama Jema. It's a, the, or what is it called, Lama Jema? Lama Jema is called. Lama Jema is called. No, it's not that one. This is the consort of the main... Anyway, we don't know the name of Sanskrit, but this is... Then the one is Damiva.
[29:20]
The man is... Is this a mistake? Mistake, thy marriage. Oh, it should be meh, huh? Yeah. My name is Ramu Kwekarbun. The Ma stands for the goddess of Kwekarbun. Ya stands for Roma. So, remember that, uh, that, uh, where is that? That's... My guitar is the... Yeah, is it? That's right. It's Mamaki, and Pandara, Vasini, and Budhalochani. Budhalochani is the Sangji Jema. Amu Jema, yeah. Amu Jema is the Budhalochani. Budhalochani.
[30:25]
That represents the A. One is Dhamima, which is the Nratma. And Ma is Lamu Kwekarma, which is the Namaki. Ya is Adona, Tara. Right? But it's called Doma. [...] Doma means it's explained. Yeah. It's explained. Doma is explained like that. Yeah. Yeah is explained as Doma.
[31:26]
Oh, it's explained and... It could be simply... It could still be that one. No, no. And these are what they're talking about is this Amitabha Buddha... And among the Vanuachana, the Vanuachambhava, these four goddesses, the male gods in the four chakras, and they have consorts. And those consorts are mentioned. And there are consorts, all the syllables are Evamaya, The eva-maya is the four syllables for the tongue-shorts.
[32:28]
Trubya-kola-la-dhamma-dhamma-tujudha-shi is. Here is just talking about the Trubya-kola means the miracle chakra, which is the navel chakra. Navel chakra has how many petals? Sixty-four. Sixty-four is... Manifestation is... Not the Nimanakaya. Truba is a manifestation. Truku is the Nimanakaya. But Truba is the manifestation. or miracle, actually almost like miracle wheels. But if you just say that, it's Nirmana Chakra, is it? I might say it's Nirmana Chakra, but it's Nirmana Chakra, it's not.
[33:38]
It's not, but I mean it's the Nirmana Chakra, it's the manifestation chakra. That's right, Nirmana Chakra is the manifestation chakra. Chakra, that is a central channel, I mean the naval chakra, and it has 64... spokes or petals. And then the next one is a church color, which is a dharma chakra, which is referring to the heart chakra. The heart chakra has how many strokes? Eight spokes or petals. Here it is called dharma, which is petals. So the heart chakra has eight petals. And next one is, is the enjoyment of the wheel, which is here, jewel, crown.
[34:39]
That has 16 dhammas, or the panels. Okay? Now here is referring to the Dewa Temple, the great bliss, which is referring to the sacred chakra, right? To the sacred chakra, that is, how many petals? Sumjhi Zaini, 32. 32 petals. So all these things are according to the shapes of the letters. From that they talk about the fourth circle, they don't mention about the fifth circle.
[35:54]
talk about the four changlos, but it doesn't say the fifth changlo, but however, indirectly, that is also mentioned, the fifth changlo, which is the Great Bliss changlo. then it's talking about what they call the bliss the bliss the object of bliss or the place of bliss is usually in the bodhicitta itself bodhicitta is holding the great bliss now the location of that is usually in the jewel on the crown but When you enjoy it or when you use it, then it comes down to the secret chakra.
[36:59]
Therefore, the principle of the place where enjoying the Buddha Jitta is the secret chakra. So therefore, Therefore, there is five chakpas. Right? So, it's the... So. Okay. So the, the, um, the, um, the, um, with enjoyment place, um,
[38:16]
Is the basic? Is it secret? Yes. And the two? Is it the two? Both. Both? Oh, both listens? It's a showing. Or manifesting there, huh? Yes. Sure, that two means that... This is ancient scholars who breed. Okay. Therefore, she means therefore, and there is five chakras, standard, five chakras in the Anikara. They all breed five chakras. Yeah, it's mentioned before.
[39:22]
Anyway, then there is a temple, honey. Now, so far, that is called a den. Den means object. Den means like a table. Now, the temple, which is like cups, or the body, this corpse, is the object on which they dwell the consciousness, which is Denver. Denver. The theme is the basis. Denver means they are the one who dwells on the basis. Is that the container and the contained? Yeah, container and the contained. For the residents, the residential. Okay. Yeah. We had that way back. Yeah, the residents, the residential, yeah. Habitat and your habit.
[40:30]
Yeah, habitat and habitant. Remember, ponies, they are gods. What it's saying is that... Just previously we mentioned the verses that from the literature of the root tantra have been explained that are explained in details in the Sambuddha Tantra in the fourth chapter Sambuddha Thangbushiva. It says in Sarashevra-ca-necichakya-jamani is So it is like another saying is that the letter A is . And one should know that the seed syllable is also an element of the earth.
[41:33]
If we're talking about the goddesses, it is called a lead detector, which is a practical level. You know, there's a line up there. He's talking about the Kama Mudra. It's called the Lachana. Sambuddha explains everything that all the channels and the wheels letters are also showing as goddesses and nature of goddesses. Then, likewise, they are written in their family.
[42:42]
If you Think about how many families are there in these groups. There are five families. And then how many wisdoms are there? There are five wisdoms. How many Buddhas are there? the five Buddhas. From that, the Torah comes from St. Janice, which means that from these five Buddhas and five mothers, five consorts and five dead Buddhas are giving birth of the wrath of deities such as the chart, like this chart, the number of three seeds.
[43:46]
Oh, okay. Now, this is the Tadagadha family, it's talking about. Family. What's your name for? The Tadagadha family is the person who discussed ancient of those guys. Oh, okay. We discussed a lot of countries. Anyway, this is the Tadagadha family. This is the Buddha, the Bodhisattva. This is the radical deity family. They are the seed, it's called. They are talking about the seed. Three seeds. These are the Tō Gamsung? That's right. Tō Gamsung is the radical deities. Not only the... To represents all senshin beings throughout the universe.
[44:48]
Yes, I see. The division of these things you all discuss with your own guru. 396. 37. 397. Thank you.
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