Three Bodies of Buddha

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the and to the time jersey morning
the working
okay
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throughout the history of buddhism but especially then
in now the history of vin how we find this question
have students two teachers
what is buddha who is buddha this is a
expressed in various ways
oh
ah and it's a question that always need to that kind of means to the essence
and the zen masters are always very careful to not explain
so the mode asks mr mum on what is buddha he says three pounds of flax
for
another my against him he said and who is buhler what is buddha and he said a shit wiping stick which she did that was before toilet paper was written
so this kind of response is
ah a spontaneous and has nothing to do with the object ah
can they do with the three pounds of flags or whatever it has to do with spontaneous
ah response which brings us to the moment
the ungraspable moment
this is a response that ah
cut through the thinking mind
ah the deliberation mind and
bring to the monk into the present and ah
is code a sneeze he is a sneeze a real sneezing to everything has gone
and then you come back to life you can back to your world again so
it's a moment of opening your mind letting go of discursive thinking boy so and you will find that most of the coins are center around this kind of activity and
ah helping the student to let go
and sometimes they seem illogical because the response doesn't go through the logical processes it simply comes out in a spontaneous way
the and course we're used to thinking in patterns of logic
and when a patterns of logic are
ah
he interfered with or not brought into that day
the process the retreat and last
so
the question is how to be a how to be born freshly on each moment
i'm in the arm
on the sixteenth century and can impair for a genius but it was considered
that silence was the most valuable thing
and if you were going to make divisions of silence may sound it should be done very carefully
but today
i'm going to talk about ah when is buddha
in a
more logical way because i mind i want to have some illogical satisfaction as well
so i'm going to talk about
how of mahayana
presents the understanding of what is buddha
am
when shakyamuni appeared as what we convert buddha of the present a on or whatever point of time it is to the present
he he was a person
and he discovered the ancient path of it of the ancient of all the past ancient buddhist
so when people were practicing with him
there was simply practicing with the teacher and so they get a container understanding through association with teacher later
after he passed into burn ivana
they had to the students had to recollect when he said and create a practice based on the buddhist practice or understanding
which they did in various ways there were eighteen schools of buddhism before the first century
which
you know had different ideas about what the buddha said or meant
so
in order to really understand where the buddha
whoo hoo this buddha was or what is this beer
and they came up with the understanding of the three bodies a buddha
if we just say shockey moody was a person that's true
from buddha was a person that is true but that's not complete there has to be something behind the buddha there'd be something that the buddha is a buddha of
so they came up with his three bodies a buddha the dharma kaja the sam boga qaeda and the new monica
the diamond kind of as pregnant this before an opium
don't feel point but
dharma gaia is the undivided buddha mind
you can say many other things but for this purpose
dharma guys the undivided buddha mind
or the undivided presence of an eye
buddha nature
hmm and
there's no way to access or grasp the dharma kaja the dharma binding came body so the dharma higher is that a total body and buddha
in which everything else on all aspects of our life our expressions
our divisions the buddha is one big thing without ah divisions
that's time ah kiah and it hot and dharmic higher
ah
holds the potential for all activities and then universe or what
universal simply a big to pattern for something enormous unthinkable
the indians always right out
when they talk about time they ran out a number that's impossible to decipher the other so long so it just means endless so i put an issue is it is beginning with
endless
nature of everything that is universal everything is an expression of
dharma gaia buddha nature and even dynamic high is a little bit limited
and that's since is something more than dharma kind of but we can't express that
so ah
dharma higher
is expressed through pneumonic i know monica is the division the all the divisions of
dharma gaia
divisions means when something is discriminated it's divided so ah
the dharma chi divides itself into an innumerable
manifestations and some of those manifestations are called you and me
so ah the shakyamuni buddha with the person
who accessed his put a nature i completely
so he's called the near mine and kaja buddha
the one who has his team
not the essence body but the manifestation or transformation body so this has gotten their monarch hyatt is the transformation world which were in which we all live because in this world everything is in transit
everything in this in our world is in transit found there's nothing to grasp there's nothing to hold onto really except for a moment
so then we you know that although we talk about birth and death and the alternation of night ninety day they simply transformations fundamentally everything is in the state of transformation so there is a
no burst no death in a fundamental way
so something arises through causes and conditions and when the cause of the conditions are not bear it no longer manifests so
but we're all manifestations of dharma gaia buddha nature which when the conditions are appropriate we manifest as myself and when it conditions and causes are not working together
we are
i don't manifest
but we we are never lost because the manifestations are simply
manifestations of the ocean of existence
so we talked about the waves and water
the waves are the manifestations they arise through causes the condition
and then
find another existence and other big join other ways to manifest continuously so our life with actually continuous
hum
it always had a hard time believing in reincarnation
and can't believe in reincarnation
but life is continuous
nothing return it's exactly is it
map out phenomenon doesn't return in its former
hum
manifestation but the energy
continues in various is please have some water
okay
but if you really want monitor there is
eight
so
in order for the dharma higher
to come together with a pneumatic higher seems like that has to be something in between as a catalyst or as a as a way of
ah
creating
bringing the two together
so the sun boga kaja anywhere we shed our meals such i like we did this morning for breakfast homage to dharmic higher viral china buddha homage to the sam boga kaja
the shakyamuni the a kayak gouda
so we have those that chat we also chat
homage to the future maitreya buddha
and then we took away pay homage to the three-body sadrist manjushri samantha bandra and ah
avalon he were so all of these
a buddha's put a bodies and
addis supper manifestations are interconnected
they're just ways of talking about
personifying
our nature
so some bolkiah is buddha body which is and between the
dharma korea which is inaccessible as itself and the mnemonic height at which is the divisions
so some higher is like since it's some pub sometimes is translated as enjoyment body food is enjoyment buddy which is okay but it doesn't really describe what it does it's more like the yoga body or the
body which is
connecting everything
so when we talk about buddha usually but we're really talking about is the somebody kiah
sam boga kayak is like while the dharmic high is like the the moon body the moon in i'm in ah then i stand for enlightenment
as cool cool energy
cool light
hum
which is very settled so i die my guy is like the body of the moon
and some bowyer guy is like the light of the moon
the and
near monica is like the reflection of the light of the moon in the water
and numb
tendulkar on master dogen thoughts about ah
it's like the moon reflected in the water ah
the water
on the moon is not
penetrates through the water and the water is not change or disturbed
so
this
zamboanga guy is enlightenment art and blyton and body but the enlightened mind and as the mind of practice
is like the hinge between the two
what is like two faces one face faces dharmic i have the other face spacious than i and
ah connects all three together as one body is really one body for three manifestations
hmm
so a kayak
his flag timeless
timeless means one time
mnemonic higher is tankful
when we think about time we think about one o'clock two o'clock yesterday the day the future in the past
but in a diamond guy is no such thing
but the divisions of yesterday today tomorrow one two three o'clock is new monica
so no monica is our past and our future
and i present
know if you bring the past and future together
where's the dividing line
where can you point to where the dividing line between the past and future or the past and present
the president is really hard to take hold of but we think that we're always living in the present
that's her idea where are we living in the present
but actually
as we speak it's all history
wow what we're mostly aware of miss history doesn't say since the called the historic
a body
mr mann diet
and then future is just an idea because
ah
there's no future that actually meet
the present for the past but we talk about it that way so it's kind of illusory
this is the the illusory world where we make up things we make up our world and in order to adjust ourself to the live
but i'm actually
i'm a continuous time is no time because there has to be somebody contrast time with in order to make it work
so in order to make time work we have to say there's a past and present and future
from and works for us because this is the active world
but the world of stillness is just continuous time which is no time for this is
zazen when miss only practices in thoroughly
it's no time
because it's just all one time you know if past and present you can sit in zazen
the bell rings and then the bell rings again and when all that time go
what a waste of time
it really wastes time
time is wasted

significant probably him
can we want to accomplish something which is cocaine which is the world of accomplishments but when do they amount to
and so
that in it and sam boga kaja and is pure sense then connects the d'amico with the new monica
this is pam
ah r m
ah
this is what's called samadhi
samadhi is when that the dynamic higher and the new monica
our ah
expressed in appears sense through the some of your hand through our activity so seborrheic i it is
personified by the bodhisattva summer to bhadra samantha bhadra rights and elephant
and
still he is considered with the the shining practice for his upper body server m who personifies
practice
and practice means
to connect
to be at one with the dominic higher and bomber guy and in the monica
that's our practice so what is all this about well about how we practice
we don't think in this way necessarily but if you have his understanding than you always know why practices
ah
his
this is samantha you're right here he is am
running is elephant
because elephant is the symbol of good is nationally the and buddhist animal speak who when he takes a step it's a sure step he doesn't just kind of flit around you know if one step at a time
and he knows what is going i mean hopefully
magician manjushri is like the personification of the dharma higher even though is called the bodhisattva of wisdom right so we usually associate that with what would normally associate that with some retire because
somebody
the six and sister says in python suture when he was asked this question what is buddha or what does the word is the trachea
he said
but ah
tamaqua is your
your nature is sam boga guy is your wisdom and the new monica is your actions
so but here in this case
am
manjushri the bodhisattva of wisdom
represents the die makhaya because
i was wondering about why but then i realized that because magician is the teacher of all the buddhas
his boys have been is actually a teacher of all the buddhas
and i'm semi i have located while
represents the new monica he has a thousand arms
the thousand arm of luggage as were which means he has all these means to an and each each hand has an eye on it so he has a thousand eyes and he can see what sentient beings need so his practice is to
pamper provide the needs of all it be
because he understands that he
oh she actually no androgynous so that if every androgynous but sometimes may also female
depending on how you like to think about it
i'm

so ah
mainly we practice in the realm of dynamic higher i mean some very high and new monica
and domenica is this colleague idea you know
but it's in the way little by the christian trinity because it's hard to access god you know and the poor suffering binge can relate to
de jesus as the kind of like the some of gaia
the access to the pneumatic and to the dharmic higher
it has that similarity but since we don't have those
think in that way in buddhism
the viral china is this is a cut like
the drdo of the don't retire the personification of dom okay but not really because buddhism resists settling on a deity
but
viral china is the buddha of radiant light
so this radiant light is what makes everything appear
and yet it's totally still
the china sits in the center of the universe
in total stillness and doesn't do anything except emit light
can like the sun japan
and the sun is there
ah center

yeah so
the sixty ancestor when he's talking about
the three bodies he said the three bodies if you want to understand the three bodies you also have to understand the for wisdoms
hmm so out when our mind is awakened then
the the three bodies are expressed as the for wisdom
so the dynamic higher is expressed as the mirror wisdom
which is totally empty
non active in a division since
it's active and a non-moving sense it's the activity of stillness on the stillness of stillness which is the greatest activity
and reflects everything just as it is
so if the mirror is turned for the sky with no clouds then nothing is reflected but when his turn around and reflected down toward the earth than it reflects all of the activity it's going on in the earth
accurately
it doesn't distort when it sees it doesn't have opinions as an endurance over just totally as it has which is really hard because we always want things to be
as we like them and we're so used to pick them ah
our partial understanding as the truth that it's hard to see things as they really as it really is
because we want something and we want something we can't see things as it is
so dharmic higher and and fun
the the mirror wisdom and just like a mirror which is non distorting
when a flower passes by and sees the flower just as it is
has nothing to do with how we like it or don't like it
hmm then
some bogus higher the wisdom of the sambo ukiah sees everything
as it's equal
unity equality as well as is difference
sometimes we say
we want to get rid of hierarchy know because hierarchy is dominating and hierarchy has that dominating quality but hierarchy is also necessary otherwise
ah if everything is actually the same there's no life so we need hierarchy in known to produce life
but at the same time
everything is equal
so to be able to see every the equality of every of each thing as well as the difference
with that same mirror mind
ha ha
we we save the world
and then the
our wisdom of our activity
is have no monica new okay
so when we awake
all of this
the three bodies are i have the foot out create before wisdom
who is the most
near wisdom
the wisdom of equality
the wisdom of differentiation and the wisdom of oliver activity during the right thing doing what's appropriate in every situation
sunday's the kind of outline
or way of thinking about
tom
what is the body a buddha would who is put it when in put it but it's not just a person with the person is all of those bodies he served for three bodies of you and me
my dharmic i am my son motor carrier and made him on kyle
so we have to put to access
the dharma higher
where there's some overtime body mind
pneumatic higher body mind we have to practice which is
some of the guy
there's a poem which i've read here before
that dogen
so you do don't you used in his tens children
it's what one seven three five the truth you search for cannot be grasped
as night advances a bright moon eliminates the whole ocean
the dragons jewels are found in every wave looking for the moon and his hair and this wave in the next
this is ah this i think this poem personifies the three bodies
one seven three five the truth you search for cannot be grasped that's gonna gaia
for all looking for the truth body
in our lives
the cheaper it can't be grasped
as night advances a bright moon illuminates the whole ocean that's some of the gaia
the bright moon of our
some bouquet of body mind
the dragons jewels are found in every wave looking for the moon it is here this wave in the next and other words is right here in our new monica her body right
so last
some a summation is the sam boga higher allows the dharma kaja to express itself in the new monica
so
when we wash the dishes just wash the dishes and be before just leave before
the final conclusion
but do it with your whole body and mind
given a question this is one seven well it that's a that's a question but am
i
it

i'm not sure that adds up to anything i think it am
i'm on

hmm
i think i once knew

is there are numbers
prime numbers yeah

i thought it represented
no you're my fire on health of them
hell
and is is because it's dividing yes so they were the world and divisions
yeah
yeah that's i think you can yeah
what or night as night descends the well in order for the light to to be present there has to be darkness
i felt like something around death of agent and i don't think so
no
well in this sense but darkness you know means in this sense means oneness
and and the light is like illumination which means
ah differentiation between comes to like it comes of present in the light and buddhism with the two meanings too dark and light but basically it's like in the darkness all things at one
that's not differentiation is like da mikhail
pneumatic higher is like the moon
so from emerging from oneness is elimination
like work right now we are in elimination i can see you you can see me
this is the
the the brightness of the darkness
this the bright side of the darkness
so brightness and darkness i two sides of a coin but the coin is one thing
one piece
so the moon comes out from the darkness and eliminate
the way to the and make sparkles on the waves
called glee
the irish word
means
the sparkles on the water
the glee club
i'm sure the that's where it comes from
yes
why
well when you sit in zazen
no i mean i at well but i'm just saying when you sit in zazen one two three
no this is the most stable combination triangulation is really stable it can be unstable and in in human relationships

but basically is it's stability so that's why it's so important and in all mean in architecture
and any kind of building any kind of structure the triangle
is important to is not in a if you have even have to like it's is very weak boundary have that strong
hum ha major reason for the truck for the triangle and will for the number three but there are other reasons as well in people have their reasons but i think that's one very universal reason
this
i'm only
yes
yes
oh
that asking a question
my
and
access to the past year
the accessible accounts
he is the summer i
understanding
i have
yeah
the if they're all equal but different
yeah i'm ah
the equality of differentiation and the differentiation of equality
jesus
you know you have your thoughts and i can access them unless i am close to you
if i'm concentrating on you i can pretty much see what your thoughts and feelings isn't it it's not like the particulars of your thoughts and feelings that is like a dog knows your thoughts and feelings
because it i'm thinking
just in artists very immediate oh now the i'm in
ah
did you know
because we have such as a discursive mind
it tends to block out our access to each other
and i'm doing such shame we don't speak in over by the fifth day weekend of know where everybody's a hat in a fundamental way
so know each other in a fundamental way without
the intermediary you thinking or talking you just you know have that
so if we were to be sitting for a month together every day would just be one person
it is anyway
but with many different manifestations

quick where we we already are but we will
be possible to eliminate
the ah
hum
you know it's like the sun is always out
but the clouds or i mean data but the clouds are obscuring it so he say it's a cloudy day and of the know that but when the sun with the classical where the sunshine trade so when we let get let off the clowns then we access the sun
so the three bodies are always there it's not like it's it's like we access than rather than try and find them
my there and allow that to manifest
you know awareness
so it
and if you're married to somebody for twenty years
you know the other person thinking and feeling you know without trying
should we

okay

ah
me