Emptiness and Compassion: Retreat Serial 00028

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Taught by: Luding Khen Rinpoche (now Luding Khenchen Rinpoche)

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yes for a moment in emptiness and as far as the degree venting as they're all the same identical in essence
however
the perhaps it wouldn't be too good to try the stay too long in the you know the emptiness state in each case because a to when you enter into samadi than you probably familiar with the fact that you suddenly get a rush of discursive thinking and finally for long that you've been
easily distracted for the last few minutes and so it would be unwise to try to extend this period of maintaining an emptiness like is created on somebody
longer than necessary for from the practice
you get distracted
it's ever earn
particularly
the up
realization
in
it was not just
today
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and yes definitely is or town many female deities that in fact they all have the same incredibly profound symbolism various aspects and as so meditating upon say tits and duomo tara is equally benefit
official to meditating on ten races and the every way it's identical so the difference between the female deities in the male deities is that what we're dealing with is to discover the truth
and realization of the union of emptiness and clarity or wisdom and skillful means so if the male deities
the particularly relying slightly little bit more on the skillful means and the female deities river the practice is relying little bit more the wisdom however all the deities of the same in that they are
the realization of reunion of skillful means and wisdom it's just like a slightly tilt to one side of the other and they're all equally beneficial
two questions one is when here during your daily activities way of seeing everything as part of the deity throne and your stop the data is it happen now
because it's all supposed to be illusory so that happened and you start feeling my facts more real in india because to always known that this is an illusion
or do you feel that it's really really feeling yourself to the data that they that's also
maybe he's talked about the athletics to stay eighteen police okay
but
you you might get like a little degree for thinking that the deity is real and you know clean to that is real but that's okay but as you progress you you you develop more and more a very profound realization that this is form point
this the deity is illusion this whole thing of deity that it is illusory rainbow like illusion that it's like a reflection in a mirror that you seen substantial and yet there and so as begin a you mais you may find a degree of
a fixation upon that appearance deity
second question you can figure one is in the votre on the meditation when you're on a pure heart or single the defilements obscuration passing away what part of your body or where it sound from that it's called of course of your skin
two or three or send us that known that list about on
the demons the room
them the the our explorations and island and set was the third section
yeah is from the same artifices as before the
but with one's feet the big toes at once excreta airy orifices
in actually one more is that when the wisdom nectar flow down as it just saw her about their bodies yes you have just float down there scary
wherever it comes out as okay
a snack was just so i just imagine that is coming out
yeah recently a friend of mine died died in hospital by have i have to for hours and hours and paramedic i'm on morphine and luminous mom left he worked
you know there was no sun hospitals that check things as a sign that he was on drugs and it was long period dying to just didn't have and so under circumstances modern circumstances though the sun
without if you're high on drugs is that it doesn't need we do is take right thing
how would you say maybe you need to be hooked up to machines to keep certain things like so how you die in those situations relax you do

yes the program this nifty future
no no
yeah so if
i'm such a person dies with some kind of sudden death oh death where he it's completely this no sort of self control of the circumstance is no kind of awareness and then a obviously is very difficult to
to ascertain the death process and to perform the first however if you do the poor practice than by the blessing of doing the poor practice then even that won't happen to you and also if something like that does happen then you will know you will have
the awareness just by the blessing of having developed the you know the habit so you know like from within even if you're high on morphine and anything like that you'll not be able to do it just like that
my question little difficult to to put it works off
the with the are a luxury and brioche as
can we see if you want to visualize what the cetera and you think it's not real
the fear from the very beginning with you say is not a lot
but if you do feel that it's real because
feelings the ocean
when he said about that as dumb as jim mckay they're pretty good feeling isn't it possible that that is can it is greater yeah
to feel the air
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bomb
because we have no fixation clinging to appearance as being real then we naturally perceive the buddhism both south when as same concept the context is real people who giving benefit and so on to all beings
however thing about this that if a all samsara was real like a fixed substantial state of existence and how with the buddhism bought herself as be able to transform it into enlightenment so that
the where it is is that because of our fixation and clinging to reality thinking of all appearances real than we cannot perceive the buddhas and bodhisattvas who are able to operate within this samsara that is insubstantial and unreal by me
means of their in substantially city and r realness and so
that is how the buddhas and bodhisattvas can waken up sentient beings because all is uncreated illusion that unreal but to begin with than we definitely have this idea of the buddhas and bodhisattvas is
you know beings the helping us and then we pray to them in this dualistic way and this is okay to begin with to develop our faith in this in this way and in there's an element of truth in that but in the ultimate sense the all finance
amina without exception is uncreated is insubstantial and like are like an illusion yeah you can have us
i asked
that means that reality
this is reality is reality but then there is another reality
where is not on reality where is this going to address
hi there and to this reality
you to us which are also real to relate to us oliver some real have been married and another round there are and when they are you know so
it's actually okay to think of it that way that's a an acceptable explanation that the buddhas and bodhisattvas in this a real in this the completely real place that are helping us to waken up from our delusion is in our non reality and
and so the
so if you think thinking that way then you can pray to the buddhas and bodhisattvas for blessings to develop your own realization your own compassion your own glove and so on and develop faith and devotion in the buddhas and bodhisattvas which really do
do help and
at present the clinging to something is being real or not real may be too difficult to deal with too difficult to grasp with the mind because our minds tend to fixate upon things so much that this whole thing of real and not real
becomes a real dilemma and so to begin with just think of the compassionate buddhas and bodhisattvas sending blessings to you and that you pray to them and invoke them for blessings and wisdom and gradually the realizations within your mind will increase
oh this is sort of literally right so much easier
i was really good for sharing this experience has no teachers that have a personal interests are you looking test fire
stories about a are finished and work of masters or
you're wondering tomorrow my first teaching usually show that the hundred education
we since we served his time studying and you tell us about that's more illustrious followers sad
well obviously there's many many stories from great saints male and female who attained the full realization through the practice of tennessee
how the just to give one that is extremely famous is the story of kalama palmer that was a woman who
we got leprosy
and because she had leprosy and therefore was contagious to the other people the the chiefs of the village were banished her to the charnel ground and she had to dwell in the charnel ground and was you're not allowed to go near anybody
and so she
body was writing her fingers and face in all her you know extremities the dropped off her body and she prayed continuously with great devotion to chenrezig just developing love and compassion and so on and cured herself of this
leprosy or was cured of leprosy by means of this practice and her body was perfectly restored became beautiful and she became famous as one of the great composers of the southerners of of chin racy and her transmission of kill on the pommel exists
today as one of the most followed
liturgies within the practice of tennessee
yeah
henson
a shame he was show contrast
rural patterns
the associated with each family is contract
a basically you can determine the blood family of each of the deities by the color so that
the deities red in color the usually
the lotus family same color as amitabha and yellow as a rotten assemble a blue as show beer and white as very china and green as a motor city
five
yeah and so however in this sort of various exceptions to the rule on this for instance that tennessee's white however he is belongs to the lotus family because ten raises like emanation of amitabha and
then for instance visor pani
channel digital meet to is is of the value family budget me and manjushri that normally because of his body cover would belong to the families of wrap the some
baba and
however usually belongs also to the budget family because his school is considered to be be cheerful or show pia
but anyway this like a there are definitely you know all of the deities and both buddhas and bodhisattvas fit into these various categories and as a sort of a basic overview just think you know the colors kind of connect them together but it's
actually you know there's no real specific thing like the one bird is up for belongs you know each each buddha family has a representative on the body sat for level doesn't work you know in such a fixed way

with their activity
having
supposed safra directly
hi i see
yeah i guess so the each family in a way presides over each one as the
good activities like pacifying enriching magnetizing destroying whatever
but then at the same time each deity also has all those different aspects so spell like there you know just as one sided things that they just belonging into one category don't fit in anything else and that incidentally is that the whole principle of of us that it's an entire realm that every
bodies there so anyway the so each of the deities has its manifestation into each of the different activities and they're all complete an entire of way and each can have the wisdom blessings of all of the five families
he cares
exactly yeah so it's not like clams you know that have their own
yeah they say yeah
tranquil j he could identify ah
well it should be karma
yeah yeah
typically a hard impact yeah
shitty garda in tibet is signing for which she means
a heart of the earth or
essence earth essence might say and anyway there are these eight what are called the eight close by the south first which is
have a low-key cash for our manjushri buzzer ponting shitty garba akasha garba and there's three others i can't remember the names but there's that these eight classes of body suffers that are
they actually were present at the time of the buddha's teaching the sutras and so on but the shitty garba
it is the same as all the other bodhisattvas in terms of wisdom and blessings compassion and everything that has a particular sort of special power of enriching the earth the really enriching the element earth and is to do with every
a thing to do with firmness and solidity and the earth and riches and and saw it and
kind of takes care of the realm of earth
thank you i guess found feel very attractive
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if they were a time that and were only to you
in practice i am i
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yeah be entering and don't act what will happen on an asset if you choose at looking
not that see from the pound taken them out can we have to remove ourselves less process to me i would examine what would we need to do
two
ah yeah i'm going to have to ask you to define this little because do you mean you decide that this practice is no good is wrong close to something how boy you just think better you don't feel like doing it
perhaps that yeah i repeat not that i had i choose not to do
after looking at or do have are not an entire practice where do you mean by only part of it
just up to a certain stage in the meditation and in a different set of second
i pad difficult
scott asked him not coming with ah i and i'm trying to copy down this means i have been empty absorb and i say and of again to rotate so healthy
what i wanted to know if after looking at
you choose to on southern africa my mujer for example where i would be reading a certain way yeah now and i'm realizing a certain l k or knocking out and it doesn't matter reasons ah well what do i do i mean do i say okay i
the divorce myself from this vow ah you know i had to take these steps not to do this or is it always lift me you know and that and maybe some time later on my life i refused to
if you have to
so if you decide you say just do the my mujer meditation
yeah for an example
yeah i might have asked if not quite the right way back and give you the answer anyway so if you decide to do just that the mom mujer meditation that ultimately that is the only point of meditation is to realize mahamudra that aspect of realizing minds nation this is very clear
however as a beginner if you just try to do mahamudra than it's very easy to make a big mistake and think that you're meditating on minds nature were in fact you're not that you're kind of fooling yourself deluding yourself so we have this pro
process of transforming your current fixations upon know the body as this thing and in although we don't actually even know it at this present time our view of ourselves in the world is an extremely
low level gross perception compared with you know good as realization we think actually that are cross perception is quite uplifting but in fact he can very solid so to transform that by means of meditating on yourself as the deity and six
or undermine the whole fixation upon this gross appearance is extremely beneficial means to be able to meditate and rest of mind and seven natural state which is my murder
so for this reason it's good to do whole practice if you desire to take on ruder but if you if you didn't make a decision that this is not worthy of your faith that this is
like not a valid meditation that it's a false path or something like that then year
welcome to be any relatives from maybe i'm effect selling us from more affected by a male worker here was so if you decide that you know it there's something inherently wrong with the meditation which is in other words like a loss of faith
faith then there is this is actually a negative accumulation of carmen that extremely negative results that come from doing that you know that that's sort of mental action of saying this is no good but if you just sort of put it into a position where you think
that is something really good and really wonderful but right now you can't quite get into it has to the you not disrupting your connection with it that's okay
when approach you that way if you need to
and even if you do a room she says even if you do have like a break a faith breakdown
you can fix it too
with confession and purification and stuff like that you have to want to
desert answer
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it's more effective
i love her so the and that
it's not that i don't think this will affect you some aspects of punishment
perhaps
this is what so use this is everyone this is if you think that is teresa yeah because i when this is the way that is know that is not tolerated i'm not sure that because a community
of stretch
matthew most of the time
android is that terrible i've been here was a keg an absorption powers in i'm not sure yeah
i will i say
yeah
actually there's no fault there's really no problem that you can take it or leave it you can just decide when you want to practice it or not and you can still look into it study it more see if you like it or not and there's really no problem
but if you can just
think you know a few totally have the opposite of faith which is like somehow despising the dharma then you would bring upon yourself a great deal of negativity you'd be really unsuccessful and everything trying to do it would have a big effect both it's just like you're approaching this
like you want to find out what path is and you're looking into it on that level of just china make a choice than there's absolutely no problem and each feel free to do that so okay
don't worry i think yeah i think that finishes for today
oh okay good to have a timely question
we say thank you for going this time we were struggling your kitchen together this was the irritation
you give us much further elucidation
i think this guy years the street to go small group go to him
i didn't just ask him good works in appreciate to keep us in my new mutations seamlessly string because we
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we go every drop of manager yeah takei
so i is very nice your thought and tj says of course he will always dedicate his marriage to you and to all of you and you always within his prayers and so don't to think that you have to being
great big hurry to to make some fantastic dharma center that things grow very slowly and gradually from very virtuous roots in sudan feel too frustrated with that it's just like practicing dharma because little by little and it grows grass
actually and even times he think that nothing is happening but it is so gradually just with little bit of faith diligence and doing some practice together and then or things can grow and be a big success
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