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Manifesting Enlightenment: Embodying Vajrayana Pathways

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This talk primarily examines the intricate process of achieving enlightenment through the lens of the Vajrayana teaching, focusing on the metabolization of the five Buddha bodies. The discussion navigates the detailed framework of guiding an individual on the path, exploring the essential interplay between empowerment stages and reliance on the consort for ultimate accomplishment. Key teachings encompass concepts of the three continua, Mahamudra, and the crucial absorption method leading to the manifestation of the enlightened bodies.

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  • Vajra Verses: This text is central to the talk, providing a framework for understanding the manifestation of the five bodies within Vajrayana. It helps elucidate how these bodies are perceived as results of certain practices.

  • Three Continuums: Refers to the causal tantra, the path (body method tantra), and the result (manifestation of the five bodies), structuring the path to enlightenment outlined in the discussion.

  • Acharya Rorupa's Teachings: Offers classification of empowerment, path, and result times vital to understanding the process of attainment within the teaching framework.

  • Ngo Chankanchakalundra's Commentary: Provides insights into the necessity of the consort within the attainment process, emphasizing its role in achieving accomplishment.

  • Concept of Mahamudra: Central to the discussion as the final continuum, described as both an ultimate stage and method for realizing enlightenment.

  • Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Swabhavakaya Bodies: These are explored as resultant manifestations of enlightenment through specific absorptions and empowerments.

  • Channels and Winds: Detailed in the traditional tantric descriptions of the physical changes occurring within the body during the process of enlightenment.

Though the discussion emphasizes technical aspects of the path, it intricately connects the physical and metaphysical processes leading to achieving the sublime state of Buddhahood.

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So, as for the third broad classification, which is the way of manifesting the five bodies as a result, won't you just let me experiment to put this in context? Yeah, it would be nice. Thank you. Okay. So we're on the homestretch. So the whole text is organized into these very broad classifications, which is the first is the means of establishing pensara. The second was the means of guiding the person on the path. And that goes all the way back to page 286, line five. So, on 286, line 5, the major divisions of the outline, let's see, yeah, there's meditating on the view, and then there's meditating on the body, not the tantra, in conjunction with the four initiations, and then, finally, the result of those, which is where we're at now.

[01:30]

So we're all the way back to finishing up the entire second division, which is the means of guiding the person on the path. I guess other people aren't quite as excited about that as I am. I'm just trying to figure out what you just said. Okay. So there's the means. Practically the whole book is devoted to the means of guiding the disciple on the path. meditating on the view, then meditating on the body method Tantra, and that's in conjunction with the four initiations. So we've now completed the middle part of that. About half the book is devoted to the four explained by the five from the Vaisa verses. So the four initiations explained by the five divisions. So we completed all that.

[02:31]

We completed all that. The four initiations described by the five divisions. And now we're on the result of that. Okay. 286. 286. 286. Just manifesting the result, which is the result, which is manifesting five bodies. I don't know. [...] So they are 286.

[03:39]

Right there. 476. So Yeah. So maybe again to get into these three divisions. So another way of getting the three divisions are first the view, which is the causal tantra. The second is the path, which is the body method tantra. And that those two are now completely finished. And the third is the result. which is the way of manifesting the five bodies, which is what we're at now. Very good. So now from the literature, which I think here means the Vajra verses, it says the...

[04:47]

tantra or the continuum so this is in the three continuums this is the third continuum the continuum of the resulting mahamudra and then further elaborates the through the four empowerments of the result everything is understood that's what is said So furthermore, as explained by this Acharya, that is meaning Rorupa. So now, again, another classification is there is the time of the empowerment, the time of the path, and then finally the time of the result. And in all three of those times, if one relies on the consort, then one achieves the result.

[06:14]

So, as for the first two, as for the first two, relying on the consort, Maybe it's better not to translate. The first two rely on the concert also. So, and at the end, at the time of the results. So the first two are the time of the empowerment, the time of the path. So those two rely on the consort. And furthermore, if you don't rely on the consort at the end, that is the time of the result, then you don't achieve accomplishment.

[07:30]

And then... So this is saying exactly the same thing. If you, again, if you... Sorry, sorry. And then if you don't rely on the first two, or even though you don't rely on the first and second, that is the time of empowerment and the time of path, at the end, if you rely... you will achieve accomplishment. All right. So let me just make sure that's clear. So the point here is that if you rely on the consort in the first two of these three stages, which keep being referred to, and the division that's being used here, it's the time of the empowerment, the time of the path, and the time of the result. So you could rely on a consort in the empowerment, the time of the path,

[08:40]

But if you don't rely on the time to rely on a consort at the time of the result, you won't achieve accomplishment. Alternatively, if you don't rely on the consort on the first two, the time of empowerment and the time of the path, then even so, even though you do that, at the end, if you rely on the consort, then you will achieve accomplishment. So according to that it is necessary to rely upon the consort to achieve the result.

[10:00]

So this whole discussion... may have seen about the consort, may have seen a little out of context. So maybe I should have been using the Sanskrit word mudra, because Ngo Chankanchakalundra then goes on to explain, if it is like above, because there is no other way to attainment, then this is called a maha mudra or a maha consort. So maha mudra, take it simple. Yeah, so one of the words that was used to explain the stage of Mahamudra, and then the other word is the resultant continuum. Now, it's... It's called the resultant continuum because it is the ultimate result of accomplishment through the continuum of method, which is the second of the three continuum.

[11:12]

Therefore, it's called the continuum of the result. What does the blue book call it? What is it called? The Triple Tantros. I think Sarah Sternius is continuing. Oh, okay. None of this is in there, incidentally. No, that's it. You mean we're beyond the sound? Well, they have like a paragraph on this whole thing, which none of this that we're saying here is easy. Perhaps the translator left two parts out so that This is not a translation of this. This is a much more extensive text.

[12:25]

When they're trying to change the language, they will change the language. They [...] will change the language. Okay. So now, as for the method for manifesting that, and the that here, as Rinpoche explains this, is Mahamudra. So as for the method for manifesting that, that is the four empowerments of the near method. Sorry. The method for manifesting that, that is the path of... result and that path of the result is the four empowerments of the near cause of the Tsong Zhur.

[13:30]

Tsong Zhur is connector, connector, Tsong is boundaries. So what does that mean? It was contributing to connect to giving the result. The connector is the four initiations. Okay. All right. So... All right. Yeah. Okay. So now as for the time of receiving that Mahamudra, so in those empowerments, there are these seven moments, kind of like seven moments of realization or seven kind of successive moments

[14:48]

stages of realization. And as for those, this is the seventh. So if one exposits the stages of realization in three, this is the third. Now if one exposits the stages of realization is two, then this is the time of the second. And as for the object of receiving empowerment, the Acharya of the three times collects together the essence of all... Sorry, the Acharya... Forget about the three times. The Acharya... himself, that is the one who confers empowerment, he collects together the essence of the Tathagatas of the three times.

[15:54]

Right. And then the Lama is also inseparable with the deities, the tutelaria or special deities. Sewa means the kind of tip of the Supreme. So now as for the place...

[17:12]

So we just talked about the empowerment, and then we talked about who gives it, and then we talked about the time of receiving it, and now finally, as for the place for receiving it, it is in the tenth ground, and so forth. That is the essence... Satchu is the name of the... Satchu is the tenth age bodhisattva. No, ladies, names of ladies. They are... qualities of ladies. So what does Satsuma have to do? Satsuma has the highest consort. Okay, so that changed the situation. So the The place of receiving this empowerment is not the 10th grad of Bodhisattva, but is this ultimate, like in that movie 10, Bill Derrick.

[18:17]

So literally, it's the consort who receives a 10, is the place where you receive the empowerment. The way down in the secret place. The secret place of the... consort who receives it. That is the place of receiving the empowerment. Okay. So, so, [...] So it is known as the path of the perfect existence. And this is the four empowerments of the result of the... There's this... The...

[19:31]

the absorption of the four goingings, the four transferences, which are a laundry terminology. Let's see if I can find it here. 3G2. Okay, yeah. 395-11. Okay, so just as queer... So this is called, for the reason, the path of the perfect existence. And it's the result of this term that we're going to look up, which is the absorption of the four traversals, or the four goings. And so we're looking up where that term is explained more in context, which is 395.1.1. Yeah, the trial is insopable from it, so it was a through time.

[20:50]

Yes. I'm sorry to get back to him. Maybe 459, please, is a little better. Yeah. Absorption on the four goings. Something like that. The four trips. 4, 5, 0, line 2. 4, 5, 0, line 2. 4, 5, 0, line 2. 4, 5, 0.

[21:55]

4, 5, 0. Okay, line two. Remember, where is the duration? That's the definition of the jersey. Yeah, I think it's as close as we get. So now, so in other words... But there were four jerseys, right? Well, no, there's one jersey. So there's...

[22:58]

So you want a better definition. Yeah, better definition. Well, so the context that we found basically just really... By absorption, she means samadhis. It's a very physical notion. This is interesting to listen. All right. So, the first part of this is just exactly the same as the context we have now, which is basically saying that the five bodies are actually manifested... Of the body of the Buddha.

[24:15]

Yeah, the five bodies of the... Five resultant bodies of the Buddha are actually manifested due to the interdependent connection of this true jitim, these four... the four traversings. From this interconnection between what and what? Between the four. But the time thought is it's much more similar to the county discourse. Three. yeah those are the only citations that I can ask you about so we have to but the idea is

[25:26]

So in the laundry system, enlightenment is gained through this body. And this is describing those particular stages of physical absorptions of this body, not absorptions in the mental sense of samadhi, but absorptions in the sense of elemental sense, that different aspects of this body are absorbed into other aspects. And through that, the five enlightened bodies of the Buddha are manifested. And for more particulars than that, we'll have to do another research. The four elemental aspects of our bodies are absorbed into what? We should say maybe four factors of our body. Because four elemental sounds like the four elements. Well, the four aspects of our bodies are absorbed into... Yeah, the four gatherings. The four gatherings which are... I think that's maybe more of an experiential thing. Maybe one reason is hard to find... Is that a description?

[26:37]

This is good. This is the word we were reading 477. That's the expression. When you got it, right? It is called, right? What are these silver number of lambs? Silver number of lambs is juicy timbers. Right there is four initiations. Where do you recognize? What time do you recognize? Then it continues here in detail.

[27:38]

If you explain it in more detail. Okay, so let me make sure everybody gets that. So the... So first, it gives kind of like in quotes, this path of perfect existence, so-called. That is the four empowerments of the result. The... and also the, maybe four gatherings sounds better, the four gatherings. And furthermore, if one were to explain in more detail. So the first gathering is the gathering of the channels. The gathering or the traversing. Yeah.

[28:41]

Well, maybe leave it as just traversing. Okay. All right. So the traversing of the channels in the ways empowerment. That is called . Okay, so... Right. So, independence on the arising of appearances of the... in the mind of the inseparability of nirvana and samsara. So independence or in reliance on that, all of the channels are absorbed into the central channel.

[29:43]

And that is the traversing of channels in the raising planet. So then the 32 knots of the central channel gradually become loosened. I'm going to use my fingers. I'm going to use my fingers.

[30:47]

I'm going to use my fingers. So it's as fine as a... Horse hair. Horse hair. Horse tail. Okay. So first what happens are the 32 knots... So first of all, the channels of the body become absorbed into the central channel. And then as for the central channel itself, the 32 knots of the central channel become loosened. And then, as for the central channel itself, then... It becomes kind of in the form of a nada at the crown. And that nada, which is reported to here, is this. That kind of thing. Isn't it? Is that a nada? Yeah, that's it.

[31:49]

So, and that's as thin as a horsehair that nodded at the crown. And, look at them more. It becomes as length. Oh, I see. It's the length. It's the length of about four fingertips. Right. And at that time... And at that time, one manifests the complete knowledge body that is the mnemonicite. So that's... I see. Okay, so... Yeah, so it's kind of ironically... I got looking through the previous part of the text for this four gatherings and this is actually where exactly at the part of the text which explains the four gatherings better than ever before.

[32:57]

Now as for the secret empowerment. The ways empowerment. That was my ways, right? Right. Now the Samoan, you get this stuff. One of them, they kind of do this. So now again, to emphasize, so what traverses in the Vais empowerment, it's the channels towards. Again, let me just explain, the channels become successfully absorbed until the family is nada. Now, in the secret empowerment, there's the traversing of the letters. So something is a mistake.

[34:02]

And I think it's the mistake I can. But you can omit that whole thing in Sumbha instead of Mikyaba Nam. As for the traversing letters and the secret empowerment, the basis of the pronunciation of speech in the body, which are the letters, the inconceivable number of letters, All of these become absorbed in the 50 vowels and consonants. Mm-hmm. The 50 vowels and consonants. Mm-hmm. What's all I call it? Vows and consonants. That's what you did. Mm-hmm. And those vowels and consonants are divided into A classes. Hey! So now as for the stages, so those then become absorbed into AWOM.

[35:21]

So those 50,000 continents then become absorbed into eight classes. And then those eight classes then successfully become into AWOM. AWOM team did. And then those become absorbed in the outer form into A. And what, like A1 children? Right. Oh, this is just a... Subtle, subtle. Right, into A1. Mm-hmm. No, I'm confused in terms of, so we started that with 50. Right. Right. So all the letters of the body can absorb them with 50 vowels and consonants.

[36:23]

Right. So what does it mean then they are absorbed in eight classes? The division is kind of like a divided into eight. Yeah. Eight divisions. Fifty are divided into eight. So then... Well, maybe we should just keep reading, because now it seems like suddenly, somehow, we'd have 12 vowels. I thought they were already absorbed into the A1. Yeah, they are the things. They are already doing these. So then furthermore, the 12 vowels are absorbed...

[37:25]

I thought it was a raw rib sword, but... Okay, maybe. That is, Trump division makes some sort of substitute for the... So then... So when the 32, as for the 32 countenance, they become... Can you draw that, Um-Chi? Yeah, you can draw. No, can you draw? It's like this. It's like it's power with two zeros. As you saw, the 32 countenance somehow absorbed into this. Is that a personal revelation?

[38:44]

I know. I lost it. Twelve hours were absorbed. It just says the twelve vowels are absorbed. Absorbed. Anyway, then what's it exactly saying is smaller and smaller. There's a letter, just one single letter. So, ah, I'll take that, you know, that thing. That thing, it becomes two hundred things. Two hundred things, right? And then that becomes absorbed into the thong at the crown. Where should it say that? Oh, I see. Okay. All right. Thanks.

[39:49]

I think it's some maybe mistakes. What I'm exactly saying is ah and hung is absorbed together. Ah and hung is up. Hey. Could you, could you. Oh, oh. He's not supposed to eat that. No, no, don't come down. It's not bad. Looks like he's been in a cold bean. No, he's been in a cold bean. He's been in a cold bean. Ahang, what this thing is saying is Ahang mixed, finally, and then becomes a color. Becomes? Color white. White color. White color. White color. So through the absorption of the colors, it becomes white. And through the absorption of the power. Top timbe. Du shi shi jinnunbe. Top timbe du shi shi jinnunbe. All right, so the colors are absorbed into white, and then the powers, which are associated with those letters, those become the power of whom, which is to overpower...

[41:22]

Before Mars. And at that time... And at that time, one manifests the complete enjoyment body and the ability to comprehend all speech. That's the time of the secret apartment. And that's what's meant by the traversal of the waters, or the gathering of the waters. All speech. Manifest the enjoyment body. And what's that body? Sambhogakaya. Sambhogakaya. No special powers in brokenness.

[42:50]

the wisdom empowerment dependent on the wisdom, sorry, the primordial wisdom empowerment dependent on the wisdom lady, which is associated with the traversing of the nectar elements. Traversing of the nectar element. Right. Sakje means that they were defiled. Defiled. So all of the... Sorry. So in this body, which is full of defilements, then all of those nine elements of this conditioned body, all of them gradually... become power?

[43:53]

Yeah, become one power. Become powerful. Become powerful. Powerful. And then those elements become absorbed into the white and red elements. All those elements, nine elements, become absorbed into the white and red elements. Now, also, as for this power of the white and red elements, there's the red, which is like the sun, which is the rakta, which is the Sanskrit word for blood, which is obtained from the mother at the lower tip of the central channel.

[45:13]

And then there's the white element which is like a moon nectar. which is obtained from the upper tip, or the upper point, and somewhere in here it should say it's obtained from the father, and those are absorbed. And those two become one taste, and they're mixed together. So then from the mixing together of those red and white elements, there's the traversing of the sixteen joys.

[46:39]

And then through that, through those 16 joys, these elements become the most quintessentially purified, or literally the clear, even more than the clear. And through becoming supreme like that, they become five colored rays of light that and are absorbed into the supreme crown of the head. And then at that time, or at that moment, one manifests the Dharmakaya, and one has the knowledge of all minds. That's what occurs on the occasion of the third empowerment.

[47:51]

So now as for the traversal of the wind, which is associated with the fourth empowerment. So then, as for what actually happens, so all those karmic winds, which generate the mind together with its thought, All those karmic winds become absorbed in the two winds, which are those of inhaling and exhaling. And then the exhaling and inhaling winds become absorbed into the wind of just abiding or resting, resting between two breaths.

[49:09]

The resting between two breaths becomes absorbed into the central channel. And then through that wind being absorbed into the supreme crown, Through that absorption, it becomes what is known as the wind of wisdom or wind of primordial wisdom. Then, at that time, when that occurs, that is when the winds are absorbed into the when the primordial wisdom of the crown, then one manifests the Swabhavakaya and gains the ability to know simultaneously all body, speech, and mind.

[50:24]

That's why we make a statue of Buddha. It has some bond there. That's called the Chongdhul Chok. The Supreme... So that every... you know, the deities. That data has it. This is really interesting. This is the first time that things have gone on at the crown. Usually things go on at the heart. It just seems like the first thing where stuff is happening at the crown. Yeah, I know. That's because it's missing for supreme attainment.

[51:27]

Supreme attainment happens at the crown and this is not at the heart. Or is it because the crown is the... Is the crown is the form? Is it the crown? So these are different manifestations of the form? It's that the crown is the supreme... I'm sorry. Then you can continue. Can I keep... Continue this finish. So, in that manner... At this very time, it becomes the abiding of the four mandalas. Depending on that. What do you call it? What do you say? Stable. One is object and one is the things that you put on top of it. The residence and the residence.

[52:31]

Okay, residence is the temple. But this should have a drinkable, then? That's the temple, right? That's the temple. So there's an error in the Tibetan on 478, line 6. But the temple should be... E-R-T-E-N-P-A. Okay, temple, we should need a name for this. So that transforms the place. So now, through that, even the base of all, or the ground of all, or the alaya, even that becomes transformed.

[53:50]

So all those previous paths were unable, didn't have the potency, to abandon or eliminate the stains of inclinations. I've got a ma in the wrong place. So all those previous paths until now were unable to abandon or eliminate the inclinations as well as the things of potency. What's a spin of potency? So there's like so if you have like suppose you have like a Supposedly, Nita is Shakti.

[54:53]

So if you like had a poison, right? So there's some chemical in there which is the potency of the poison, right? That's the stain. You could say it's the stain of the poison, right? The stain of the potency of the poison. And this destroys that. None of the other palesins will now have the abode. There's infinite issues like some scars. Tendencies. Vassanis. [...] So having depended on... the separation from obscurations, one is able to manifest the body, which is known as the Swabhavakaya, but not just any Swabhavakaya, the Swabhavakaya of spontaneous perfection or spontaneous accomplishment.

[56:06]

So that's the fifth body. So we started out tonight going, I thought there were only four bodies. Well, this reveals the mystery of the fifth body. Could you start again, depending on what? So having depended on the separation from the obscurations, so having depended on that, one manifests the very pure... Sorbavakaya, our spontaneous accomplishment. The definition of how Buddha works. You know how the Buddha, the Buddha Sagvas are there in a lot of beings, how it works for the sentient beings.

[57:11]

This will tell you how it works in this. So now at this very time of transforming the foundation or the base like that, even what is contained within the base is transformed. So for example, the base would be this house, and we are what is within the house. So similarly, there's the base, there's the transformation of the base, and then there's even the transformation of what resides in the base.

[58:19]

So simultaneously, when it happens, the house was transformed. At the same time, people were also transformed. Then, rather versa, right? And then at the very time that the residents of the base were transformed, then the base is transformed. So then... So then the residents, as in like the house, and the residents, like the people in the house,

[59:28]

All those are become of one taste, become of one essence, and are completely pure in the primordial wisdom of innate awareness. They are one taste. Right. All right. So then that space, which is how I would translate the yin, as in qi yin, the space, and the primordial wisdom, yeshe, these become one equal taste. Okay, so then All sentient beings

[60:54]

Without moving from that, without striving...

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