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Zen Pathways: Unity in Perception
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The talk focuses on advanced meditation techniques emphasizing sensory concentration and perception transformation within the framework of Zen philosophy. It explores visualization and sound meditation practices to cultivate a deeper state of Samadhi, stressing the important role of bodily posture, solitary environments, and object contemplation (e.g., flowers, sounds) in practice. The discourse further delves into achieving a state where one perceives all phenomena, including both Samsara and Nirvana, as ultimately unified and indivisible through advanced meditative realization. Concepts such as trailhead paths, worldly and supermundane paths, and the attainment of Buddhas' perceptions are analyzed, drawing upon historical figures and teachings.
Referenced Works and Concepts:
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Nangcho and Dongcho: These terms describe the visualization of appearances and emptiness within meditation practice, essential to understanding the dual aspect of perception.
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Preliminary Practices: The talk highlights preliminary practices involving samadhi postures, essential for meditation preparation, including focusing on simple objects like flowers to cultivate concentration.
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Samadhi: Discussed as the non-conceptual concentration state achieved through meditation where one realizes the intrinsic nature of reality.
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Path of Accumulation and Path of Preparation: References are made to these paths as stages towards enlightenment, vital for understanding the progression through meditative practices.
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Bodhisattva Bumi: The levels of spiritual development in the Bodhisattva path are discussed, particularly moving from the first to sixth Bumi.
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Supra-Mundane Path: Identified as advanced stages of realization beyond ordinary experience, transitioning from worldly practices to profound understanding.
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Historical Figures and Teachings: There are references to historical yogis and zen practitioners who demonstrated advanced mastery over perception and matter, exemplifying the ultimate achievements of these meditation paths.
AI Suggested Title: Zen Pathways: Unity in Perception
On page 402, line 6, end of it, here it's called that which is not born, making it a cause to be born. The method of that is being born and generated that it is, if there is no realization on the side of the appearances, nangcho is called appearances, if you don't have a, if there is no It doesn't generate a perspective of sight.
[01:09]
Sight. View of sight. Then, in order to generate the sight view of a clear view of that, I'm at 403. 403-1. Yeah. We're just... 4391. I give a company, which is the method of... method of... to... to rise... or to increase your visual... sights... or any... Nangcho and Dongcho, these two subjects here is Nangcho, which is the side view of visualization on the side. And Dongcho is the visualization of the emptiness part of it.
[02:17]
So here is first, if one has a difficulty to have a visual, Then in order to do that, in order to increase that, the first thing is important to have is place. It's the very solitude, the quiet. And then there is the place of very solitude or quiet place. Yes. Then first thing what you should do is just do the one practice, preliminary practice, one role. And that preliminary practice involves with the divisions of the kandam samadhi, categories of samadhi postures.
[03:28]
There's something yellow is those body postures. I mean, they're talking about the body postures. And then besides that, you're seeding and the environmental part of it. And then how you're seeding part of it. All those things are called something yellow, which is the... the branches of one, the necessities of two, in order to help yourself to be comfortable, to meditate. And I'm told to tell us, it's required to gather all those necessities together. Then one should practice visually that focusing on some kind of object. Here is an object that is mentioned, here is a flower. Medok, the flower.
[04:30]
Medok is flower, right? Et cetera, such as chip jar, or glass of jar, or the image of Buddha, or flower, or candlelight, or bottle lamp, or et cetera, et cetera. Something that is most beautiful for your meditation. verbal kind of logic whatever the optimal means the object whatever is suitable for you to focus in your sight concentration so that you arrange that in front of you through the cherries and to that object such as flower By the way, sometimes llamas were suggested to say specifically that the color of the blue, dark blue kind of flower is suggested sometimes, the blue flower.
[05:38]
Meditate, focus in your mind, and easier. So to that, the object of that flower, which means When you look at it to that object, you should be kind of moderate eyes looking at it, not too wide openly, neither too close, but very comfortably, just to relax all the muscles of your eyes and look at it comfortably to that object, without distracting, losing your concentration by ingberg, without losing your concentration, and then the consciousness awareness, which is awareness. Your awareness is our focusing intention, here it's called.
[06:40]
Intention is to not to be intense, not to lose, but it's a very moderate intention, yes? the quiet to look at it but at the same time you are not looking intensely in there to find out something or color watching but it's relaxing and looking in some sort of comfortable manner do that then which means when you do that in a sudden Then sometime later, teaching that means sometime later, you do self-management, and then that, the object of developing from that object that you will also have a perception is becoming clear.
[07:45]
Self-management, your perception is then you begin to, what do you call the, progressing situation once you have a distance once you get that comfortably that you get the sights comfortably you have achieved and then you should apply your the awareness that You should not have so much conceptualized about that particular moment of picture. Prior to that, you should relax about that visualization of that. And then you come by it.
[08:51]
You just bite. that is and so when you do that relaxing and eliminate thoughts of that conceptions relaxed and then there is intrinsic nature of which is there is some absolute miss of absolute miss of concentration from the by way of visualizing from the appearances or the the object will arise then then you will have this absolute there is a really kind of absolute miss this such a thing is there now I'm talking morning is called is that absoluteness of the, some kind of talking about the samadhi, peace, tranquility, your resolve, that mental resolve, mental significance of that is generated by way of the appearances.
[10:09]
Then when you come to that point, then as you progressively The method is you can freely change to another place, such as sights change to sound, so that you can change, and now you can provide a bell or a ball, a nice singing ball in front of you, and making a sound, and listening to that sound. And so then you can develop the sight, the sound of it. So you just play around with all you need is to generate or to make an expert overcome all the five senses. You do the sights, you do the sounds, you connect to the smell, and you can have touch, and you can have a taste, yeah.
[11:23]
And so you can change a little bit of those things. And I'm not sure, [...] It is also stated in the Sambuddha text, all the objects to be looked, all the sights for the purpose of looking at it, all the sounds for the purpose of it to listen, all the such as sound. In the hearing term, sound is practicing sound of speech, sound of laughing, and those things you can practice.
[12:34]
And then there is another one of the sounds, the eating or tasting, they are tasting all the varieties of food. And that's where concentrating, you know, you can meditate, even if you're eating, you know, go to like wine tasting, you know, you go to Saloma, Saloma, where there are one taste place. Anyway, they like tasting and different tasting and they get the I guess these taste, you know, wine experts, they have a good sense of understanding of that particular perfected taste of Samadhi, almost like, right? They can tell, good people can tell, good time tasting, they can tell exactly what is good or bad. So I learned a time to say,
[13:38]
So once you become to whatever you do, you must see that they do eat, they do talk, they do listening, they do seeing things, but they don't lose their contemplation. And their contemplation is not scattered or skipped somewhere else. by that the yogi would understood that those nature of systems and then the the yoga practice of yoga is all the time within that in the in the in in that person that always the living yoga last this and so this is a code from Sambora
[14:40]
That's her cell. So the same situation on the Dong Chao, which is the direction of the emptiness. And there is an absoluteness of the from the point of view of the emptiness, samadhi of the absoluteness, from the point of view of the emptiness, if this has not been generated, then in order to generate it, likewise, prior to the previous one, it is which means the preliminary practices are prior to doing it. do it as before. And... What's that?
[15:51]
Oh, you can... Okay, then. I'm going to just roll it. Well, it's more... It didn't work, huh? I want to hang where we are in the... Because now it's going to be all up. So what are you going to do? Just say where we are. We are in page 404, line 3. We're talking about it is... Here it says... If one is... able to generate it, such as the samadhi, the non-conception or samadhi on the basis of yin, then chalam, tru, jolam.
[16:58]
So there are three things that are achieved. Chalam and tru and jolam. There's three yinbes. I don't think it's Juralam. Right, because Juralam is spelled Sago. Well, this could be many mistakes, but... Maybe joining our... Maybe, yeah. Maybe could be joined, let's say, joined the path of accumulation and the path of want.
[18:04]
Mm-hmm. And Then it's applied that, I mean, it is become that. So therefore, he is saying is, it was proclaimed by the great Sajjapa, the Sajjapa, the Sajjapa, the Sajjapa, when the yogis to... be able to generate through samadhi that a samadhi and then conception or samadhi on the basis of what killing then this in demarcation means that means that it is already achieved at the the beginning of the path of enlightenment because it is beginning to join the path of the accumulation and the path of the warmth.
[19:18]
And so, lamnasimba yin is a very important word. It's to begin to, like I said, travel, to wandering around in the And then finally, you know, 401, maybe you lost your path. And then finally you begin to find one particular road. And that road leads to the main avenue. So that means Lannat Simba. You are not loose. Lannat is kind of like a trailhead. Trailhead. You begin to cut the trailhead. What? I'm not saying. I'm not a trailhead. Trailhead, beginning. Ah, you found about trailhead. Chattles. Da-da-da-da-da, line, end of the line three. Lamna is the main trailhead.
[20:27]
Yeah. Trail, T-R-E. You're A-I-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L Now you are secured. You are now in the Symbal Institute. You reached. You found your trail. You reached. Now the general category, third category of the general.
[21:31]
He's talking about the , which is the tenant. Tenants? The expression of the tenant is . He's talking about the . His core is samsara, and the is nirvana. Yirme is non-differentiation, non-differentiates between samsara and nirvana. is the Duda, or the Tawang, or the Tenants. And it's called Jutta Kungde Yiming. So likewise, on the path of the world, there is... That means the path of accumulation and preparation.
[22:34]
The path of the accumulation and the termoration. Cholam and the Jolam is called Choljurini. These are all the Genbe Lam. The path of the world is called. Choljurini is called, right? Mm-hmm. Choljurini. In the situation of these two, path of accumulation and the path of application, and that is called the path of world, or the Jigdenbya Lam, it's called. And this Jigdenbya Lam has also a view that is just we've been talking about Dawao. Ngonyi Sun's absolute or intrinsic nature of view.
[23:41]
There are three kinds of intrinsic nature of views. With that familiarized yourself, these three worldly views the yoga move, on the basis of that, the formula is to yourself, becomes... This is what it's called. Lam Nisa. They're like the super mundane. So it's a path of being... In a path of meditation, in a path of nothing to be learned. So the path of meditation, in a path of meditation, in a path of nothing to be learned. So the path of meditation, in a path of preparation, in a path of preparation, in a path of meditation, in a path of preparation, in a path of meditation, [...] in a path of preparation, in a path of preparation, in a path [...] of preparation, in a path of preparation, in a
[24:59]
And Gom Lam is called. Gom Lam is what? And Milob Lam. Nothing to be learned. So Tong Lam is the part of seeing. Gom Lam is the meditation, part of meditation. And Milob Lam is the part of nothing to be learned. So these are called the super, super path, right? Super mundane. Super maintained path. Supra. S-U-P-R-A. Supra. S-U-P-R-A. R-A. Supra. Mundane. M-U-N-D-A-N-N. Supra. Mundane. Yeah, two Ns. Supra. Mundane. D-A-N-E. Oh. Supra. Mundane.
[26:01]
Path. Three of those are caught. As far as the Bodhisattva Bumi, you are talking about the Bodhisattva Bumi level, you are getting first Bumi to up to the sixth Bumi. So this whole thing is from the worldly path true and super mundane path through accumulation and those things. Five of them, you will reach from the good south of a Bumi, first stage up to the sixth Bumi. That you will accomplish. So the Mahasada Birubha will reach those things within a short period of time. And one time I gave the teaching.
[27:06]
And... And... So they... So what is finishing here is on the first Bumi to the sixth Bumi in the Sutrayana and at the same time in the Vajrayana is what is accomplishing from the generation of the stretch that covers from all the way from the Jipinbe Lam and also you can develop a lump you reached from the gilium so the completion of the gilium is there so the benefit from the gilium is that much covered once your gilium is very successful
[28:33]
One is that successful . So what happens for that person? In other words, the yogi who's reached, completed the generation stage, achieved all that. To him, is that his conception about the appearances of his appearances conception of what is he seeing, such as the samsaric nature of everything and the contents of human beings, facing beings, everything. All of those things he sees in the narrative of the shabbos. He will appear to him that everything is Neu is Xiaoyakeng.
[29:37]
Neu is Xiaoyakeng and Ju is Yidam. Right? Everything is a mandala for him. It's automatically. You will never get me. Because you have to take my three phrases you just do... Well, what I'm saying is that the perception is completely changed. You know, you took something and your perception, like if you take LSD or something, the perception has changed. You know, it changed everything. You know, you drink a lot of alcohol and some people experience that everything is perfect, you know, to some people. Right? It just changes everything. Yeah.
[30:51]
There's nothing ordinary for those yogis. There was no ordinary under one. So therefore, there's no ordinary. Then, samsara and the nirvana is just a matter of your own wisdom. A matter of wisdom. And that understood everything. You understood the Remember three previous things talking about Sung-jung-won-i-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding. Sung-jung-won-i-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding. It's sometimes called Midok-ba-ding-e-ding-e-ding, which is Samadhi of the Non-Conceptional. Or Sung-jung-won-i-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding-e-ding.
[31:57]
So when you generate that within your mind, then it turns to him completely real. Everything is perfect, in other words. There is nothing else to the ordinary objects you cannot see. So they are there from... He can go through the walls or through the mountains. So we usually, what many people have the wall means stuck. Imagine the stuck, stuck. And the negative things. He has nothing like that. So that's why he can go through the walls. That's what the Mahasiddhas, when they reach there, they can do their things. Remember Mark, the Telo Bar and the Biruba himself was, you know, one time I had a trouble with a town somewhere.
[33:08]
They caught him and they tried to beat him. They literally just buried a pile of rocks in the underground, you know, a pile of rocks. And they had completely smashed his body. And they thought it was completely, you know, dead. Next day he came back. He came like rose. You remember what? Huh? Rila. Talk about this. Rila. Oh, Rila, no. Rila. I think better than Rila. Talk about this. Rila. And now the one topic, that is expression, powered under appearances. Power on appearance. Perception. Power on the perception. You can get empowered. You get a power. Or an empowered perception. Well, you got power. You get a power over matters.
[34:12]
Now it's a matter. Over matter? Because of that... There is no, for him or her, not difficult to conceptualize the whole realm of universe in one small single appear of the single seat. There's no need to worry about it. Right? That's when the Birubba was crossing this river.
[35:15]
Something is Ganga, maybe maybe Ganji. Ganji is good to go backwards. Why he is able to do that? Because he achieved Changsim Chela Lava. He has a secret of his Bodhichitta to turn backwards. The Thiglit Karma Ching Nus Ching means too tight usually the Rasana and Lalana through fluids the red and the white fluids are able to control
[36:18]
So he is also hold the sun and the moon for himself, what's called drinking the beer. What? Clateral. Sun and the moon. Right. He held. So that by power, that was the power over metals, and now the power over consciousness or mind. So it's multiplied many times or many times one. At that time, when you'll be able to do that, then there is no need to do the ghirim practice.
[37:33]
You've already done it. And so the result of that is everything is become a garden, a rhythm, a choice. Now, Charles, all the sounds are become a mantra. Lyu Jijin Gurung Ngu Churu. Lyu Jijin Gurung Ngu Churu with the body mandala is manifest. And then because of that, you are also able to see the realm of Nirmana Kaya. And also empowerment. The body initiation. It's completed here. Then the consort of the Brother Yubini or the Zomo is the Queen. The Queen will embrace you and embrace you and to increase immeasurable great bliss.
[38:46]
all the time. And you enjoy it. You'll be able to enjoy it. So we'll stop here at the page of 405, line 2. I do have two simple questions here. When one is doing the meditation of the sense objects, like the flower, when the reference is to the nandra, is that the refuge and the generating bodhicitta and so forth, or is that like a more elaborate nandra with madala offerings? You can do the mandala offerings too. You can do the also vajrasattva mantras, you can do the bore yogas. Right, okay. Yeah. Then you can do the concentration. So then concentrating on the flower, is there a point where we visualize the flower without looking at it? Or do we always look at the flower until we feel the samadhi?
[39:50]
No, you have to look at it first. Right. And the thing is you're holding your attention here, not up there. Right. And then eventually one will feel the samadhi. Then change it. Then you change the different senses, right? Ah, once you begin to feel the senses, that's the samadhi. And then you switch to what you said. Yeah, perfect. . [...]
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