Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
March 11 lecture©
as outlined by a Buddhist monk
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Verse for opening a sutra
• Homage to the Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra and the
Vajra assembly of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas (3x)
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Q&A
Question: Is there a balance between letting it be and taking
action to uncross the legs when you feel the pain?
Comments:
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Q&A
• When you first sit in full lotus, you may find that you have
pain in the legs and back in the first half hour.
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Q&A
• Whatever happened to the pain in the first half hour and the first
hour? It disappeared.
• Had you not uncross your leg at any point in time you feel
painful, you will find that the pain disappears faster. This is
similar to the sudden teaching.
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Q&A
• The point is this: it is the mind that is in pain rather than the leg.
• Similarly ‘let it be’ and ‘take action to uncross the legs’ comes
from the discriminating false mind.
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Q&A
• The point when you uncross your legs is the point where you let
the false mind take over.
• Though you endure the pain by letting it be, you are also
recognizing the false mind because there is a person who
endure.
• Patience is a virtue but the thought of emptying the pain has not
been fully emptied.
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Q&A
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Q&A
• In this case, the mental pain and the object of pain don’t
exist at all; hence there is not even the person who
endures the pain.
• This qualifies as prajna paramita when realizing it was all
made from the mind. 9
S 26 The Dharma body is not appearances
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S 26 The Dharma body is not appearances
Sutra: Subhuti addressed the Buddha, “World Honored
One as I understand what the Buddha has said, one
should not contemplate the Thus Come One in his
Thirty-two Physical Appearances.”
Comments:
• Why shouldn’t we see the Buddha in his Thirty-two
Physical Appearances?
• It is because the appearance is just the Transformation
body and not the true Dharma Body.
• The Transformation body dwells in this false world of
existence and therefore it is not permanent.
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S 26 The Dharma body is not appearances
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S 26 The Dharma body is not appearances
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S 26 The Dharma body is not appearances
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S 27 Not destroyed nor annihilated
Sutra: “Subhuti, you might have thought, ‘It was not
because he perfected his Physical Appearances that
the Thus Come One attained
anuttarasamyaksambodhi.’ Subhuti, do not think, ‘It
was not because he perfected his Physical
Appearances that the Thus Come One attained
anuttarasamyaksambodhi.’.
Comments:
• The Buddha here is cautioning that we might think that
when the Buddha swept away all appearances in s 26,
we might misunderstand it to be annihilationism. This is
not the case.
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S 27 Not destroyed nor annihilated
Sutra: Subhuti, if you think in that way, then those who have
resolved their minds on annuttarasamyaksambodhi would
affirm the destruction of all dharmas. Do not think like that.
Why? Those who have resolved their minds on
anuttarasamyaksambodhi do not affirm the destruction of
the appearances of all dharmas.”
Comments:
• The above passage is affirming that the Buddhadharma is not
about annihilation but to dwell in the Middle Way.
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S 28 No greed and nothing acquired
Sutra: Subhuti, a Bodhisattva might fill up world systems equal
in number to the grains of sand in the Ganges River with
the seven precious gems and give them as a gift. But if
another person were to realize that all dharmas are devoid
of self and attain patience, that Bodhisattva’s merit and
virtues would surpass the merit and virtues of the previous
Bodhisattva.
Comments:
• All dharmas means everything living beings, the entire universe that is:
• It means even the teachings of the 3 Vehicles within the
Buddhadharma
• All dharmas include our self, living beings and the environment
which we come into contact as sense objects including our
thoughts. 19
S 28 No greed and nothing acquired
• Why is everything devoid of self? It is without identity; it was all
one true appearance; being appearances from or projections of
the mind.
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S 28 No greed and nothing acquired
• Because we see through everything as devoid of self, we see
through its true character that everything is inherently non
existent and empty.
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S 28 No greed and nothing acquired
• What is Reality?
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Dedication of merit
• May every living beings,
• Our minds as one and radiant with light
• Share the fruits of peace, with heart of goodness
luminous and bright.
• If people hear and see, how hands and hearts can find in
giving unity
• May their minds awake, to great compassion, wisdom
and to joy.
• May kindness find reward; may all who sorrow leave their
grief and pain;
• May this boundless light break the darkness of their
endless night.
• Because our hearts are one, this world of pain turns into
paradise;
• May all become compassionate and wise (2x) 26