What is this?

Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World - (November Solitary) 49 mentions

• to start one day the buddha was sitting around with a group of monks
• something like well i think what the buddha is getting at is that basically we have to know what is
• about the ending of dukkha and another occasion the buddha actually was a bit more clear a bit more
• now let's go slowly here i don't know the buddha seems to be saying this needs to be experienced
• just wait just hold on just hold on um although the buddha says that dimension should be known experience
• way we see what we do to the buddha again there is what is inferior
• state of anger these are i mean in the buddha's words these are inferior states relative to let's say states of uh
• there is the perception of that state and the buddha calls vagina's perception attainment something very key i'm
• perception another quote from the buddha where water earth fire and wind have no
• there but there could be many many more um the buddha seems to point repeatedly to some sense of the importance of
• the second only to the buddha in in wisdom in the depth of his insight someone
• um it's actually from a suitor that's a discourse of the buddha that's famous for another reason
• exclamation inspired utterance sort of poetic utterance at the buddha gave it's actually famous for another reason i'll
• teach me and and the angel said to him well the buddha told him where he was and so he walks an enormous uh distance
• uh he walked and he arrived to where the buddha was and
• outside and he said well where's i want to meet the buddha and so they said well he's um gone for arms to collect his
• and so he hurried to the town saw the buddha and approached him and i really uh then by here hurriedly leaving the
• grove and entering the town saw the blessed one that's the buddha going for arms in in savati the town calm calming
• and bliss and the buddha said uh actually by here this isn't the time i'm i'm uh i'm
• blessed one teach me the dharma or one well gone that's an epithetic buddha that will be for my long-term welfare
• that will be for my long-term welfare and bliss and again the buddha said actually we're having our lunch
• um a third time he asked the buddha same thing we don't know what will happen i
• die teach me please now now apparently if you ask buddha something three times if they've said no they have to answer
• nor in the other world nor in between this just this is the buddha saying this just this is the end of suffering
• hearing that understood something a little time so the buddha then continues to have his lunch but here
• cow with her calf and the buddha comes back seized bahia's body and and the monk
• said well what should we do and black um the buddha says to the monks he was a completely awakened being he was an
• perplexing why isn't the buddha uttering a spontaneous poem about how wonderful it
• as i said before those kinds of pointers from the buddha to something transcendent to a transcending opposite
• instructions than it might first seem is there more to it if the buddha says just the scene only the scene let's turn it
• labeling things that that the buddha actually poo pooed that quite strongly that notion of we're
• woven in there so here's another quote from the buddha if a practitioner abandons desire for
• transcends ordinary perception another similar quote from the buddha when uh a manga practitioner has
• thank you so what what does it mean a buddha says eliminate average eliminate ignorance
• fundamental delusion it's kind of at the root and the buddha says this view i am this or i am that it's at the
• there's something all these instructions of the buddha whether it's to bahia or to the other practitioners in different
• and the buddha as air is pragmatic it's training thus should you train yourself
• deeper and deeper the buddha said all phenomena are fabricated the pali word is sankata
• something illusory and the buddha was also pointing to this when he said things are fabricated
• matter how subtle that thing is it's perception the buddha says any and all perceptions like a mirage
• uh so thing is made from other things but the buddha is saying more than that just that things are made from i think
• pointed to so the buddha uses this word illusion because i've said what does it mean what
• one time a guy called kachiana kachayana asked the buddha about the nature of things and the buddha said responded to
• asked the buddha about the nature of things and the buddha said responded to him
• the tatagatas another name for the buddha i accept neither is nor is not and i proclaim the truth of the middle
• was ready to hear that we ready to intuit that's what the buddha was getting at
• can know in meditation it's not just about the buddha said this or the buddha said that and quibbling
• it's not just about the buddha said this or the buddha said that and quibbling over some scholastic thing he taught 45
• experience in these states that the buddha's pointing to is impossible life is experience i need an experience

Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 1) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 45 mentions

• and within that particularly i'm talking obviously about the tradition of buddha dharma
• place of say soulmaking dharma with respect to buddha dhana what's that relationship there
• um the buddha is talking to someone and he says look at here is my disciples
• someone's park or somewhere where they will stand the buddha is staying with a bunch of monks and perhaps nuns and
• the nuns today but um anyway back then uh the buddha is there and he says look here here over there in that corner or
• sitting with mogulana one of the buddha's two chief disciples and they're sitting with mogulana
• that element is to me at least less apparent in say pali canon buddha dharma as it's come to us certainly in the west
• in the abrahamic religions and you only need to look at modern western buddha dam i think you have a thing what you
• dam i think you have a thing what you think but our modern western buddha dharma insight meditation tradition and
• incorporated uh modern western buddha time might also i think a lot of it includes uh or it's
• incorporated mixed in in a way in the presentation of buddha dharma that's becoming in a way you can't really see
• of the creation of the cosmos and the buddha came along at that time and of course there were a lot of people around
• aspects of evaded creation myth so again the buddha was in a culture where that was the belief that was the dominant
• philosophies around at the time of the buddha so i don't know did he originate the
• ideation both within and outside of buddha dharma has an enormous cloud and so in a way the whole soulmaking
• again if we if we cast our eyes about us in contemporary buddha dharma and um or even wider than buddha dhama we see
• in contemporary buddha dharma and um or even wider than buddha dhama we see um
• sort of fed back into buddhism um and what might become buddha dharma as well as secular mindfulness etc
• it's it's hard to take that uh to take that conclusion away from it the buddha talks about
• i don't think highly of this uh sort of attempted project of what the buddha really taught and this kind of looking
• interpretations and presentations of buddha diamond uh that that they are unavoidable we are
• purist yeah i want the buddha's original teaching stripped of everything you
• certain uh definitely certain ones i know contemporary traditions of buddha that actually some of the rifts there
• both tendencies with respect to different aspects of dharma buddha dharma if we're talking about that as an
• so to me being in tradition i very much feel this in terms of buddha dharma that i am we we are we can be in dialogue
• um uh obviously his teaching in the buddha dharma and explaining that and then
• there's a sutter somewhere where in the pali canon where um the buddha here is that a monk is
• teaching something or other about the nature of consciousness that the buddha did not agree with any any basically
• as i understand the dharma taught by the blessed one the buddha those acts the blessed one says are obstructive when
• um so um so the monks told the buddha and the buddha said go get him and
• um so the monks told the buddha and the buddha said go get him and he
• uh and the buddha ask him is it true that you've said that
• um and and he said yes and then listen to what the buddha says worthless man
• loss for words then the buddha doesn't even stop there and when he was sitting like that silent
• down brooding at a loss for words and buddha continues worthless man you will be recognized for your own pernicious
• point is just the buddha is not hey it's cool everything goes you know people can have
• mahakasipa was a senior uh disciple of the buddha went to the blessed one and on arrival having bowed down to him sat
• established their final losses and the buddha says that's the way it is when beings are degenerating and the
• established in final losses this is within the buddha's lifetime this is this is his perspective
• enlightenment and he continues the buddha there is no disappearance of the true dhamma as long
• somewhere in the pali canon where um after the buddha's death and they were um
• is some years after the british death and he was still alive when the buddha was alive
• from the blessed one's lips from the buddha's lips it touches me when i when i say that
• much how much the seeds of this were also in the buddha it is direct words but that differences
• again may be seated by something the buddha said contrary to some of the other passages

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta) - (The... 43 mentions

• would call world world rejecting but buddha's kind of hell-bent on ending rebirth on getting beyond this world
• actually the the realization of emptiness that's the ultimate buddha mind is the ultimate awakened mind is is
• possibility there is based on the notion of buddha nature or tataga tagarba in uh in sanskrit
• or tataga tagarba in uh in sanskrit um and so it's because we have buddha nature that we can that there's the
• beings but this this buddha nature has has really widely different meanings it's
• it can't ripen and it can't possibly ripen i'm going to be a buddha in this in this life especially if i have a
• in this life especially if i have a mahayana idea of a buddha um or because because in being actually
• it's beyond living life to the full this word for buddha nature that i mentioned tataga tagarba
• has its own whole etymology and stuff but we could just say buddha is um it's another word for buddha
• but we could just say buddha is um it's another word for buddha um garba is the interesting word here so
• from a passage by shenpen hooken in the book i think called the buddha within which is quite an interesting book
• relate the two words of the compound buddha and garba to tagatan garba you can relate them in different ways to
• in in sanskrit sentences so this is all beings buddha garba so all beings are the buddha garba all beings have buddha
• beings buddha garba so all beings are the buddha garba all beings have buddha garba
• dependent on uh the notion of buddha nature to target if we go through the different
• of all beings all beings are the buddha nature or all beings have the buddha nature all beings
• all beings are the buddha nature or all beings have the buddha nature all beings have it i'm going to go through some
• could be all beings are um a womb of the buddha or all beings are the womb of the buddha or all beings
• um a womb of the buddha or all beings are the womb of the buddha or all beings are a womb of the buddhas
• are the womb of the buddha or all beings are a womb of the buddhas and even then
• and even then it could be a womb of the buddha could be the womb that gives birth or that
• be the womb that gives birth or that holds the buddha before a buddha manifests
• or it could be um the womb of the buddha could be the buddha's womb
• um the womb of the buddha could be the buddha's womb so can you can you if you have to play
• about it a little bit all beings are the womb that give birth to the buddha so that means you are a womb from this from
• all beings are the womb that gives birth to a buddha you are a womb a matrix that gives birth to the buddha
• to a buddha you are a womb a matrix that gives birth to the buddha hey buddha
• gives birth to the buddha hey buddha and what is what does that do your body
• practice hard um then i'll you know become a buddha um or you are the womb that gives birth to
• or you are the womb that gives birth to a buddha uh
• or i said you are the buddha's womb all beings
• all beings are a womb of the buddhas and again play with us turn the phrase
• and again because garba can mean born from all beings are born from the buddha what does that mean what might that mean
• what does that mean what might that mean all beings are born from the buddha okay can you feel into that can you
• and kind of hearing it poetically all beings are born from buddha what butter where
• or again it could be all beings are to target but all beings other buddha's hidden treasure
• hidden treasure again it's the buddha's hidden treasure so that again has this
• and my perception all beings are the buddha's hidden treasure
• all beings have the essence of the buddha that could mean
• all beings have the essence that the buddha is or all beings have the essence that
• or all beings have the essence that becomes the buddha have an essence that becomes the buddha
• becomes the buddha have an essence that becomes the buddha so again if you're if you're listening
• sesame oil from sesame seeds all beings have that essence of buddha so there's actually many possibilities

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha Buddha) - (The... 42 mentions

• ideas images and practices and if i start with the buddha amitabha um who's the buddha of the western
• and if i start with the buddha amitabha um who's the buddha of the western paradise or the western pure land and as
• um in my area in all the you know globally this is a very popular buddha there's a lot of orientation towards
• there's a lot of orientation towards this buddha and his buddha field his pure land in all kinds of ways
• translation of amitaba is that limitless light the buddha of limb but the buddha named limitless light okay and that's
• um resemblance or appearances or images right so the buddha of infinite appearances
• not suggest um this the the buddha of the world of uh of of soulmaking of sensing the soul
• meaning for amitamba and that buddha and that pure land amitabha is also said it's used
• possibilities but these are primordial buddhas in the mayana have
• the female consort or counterpart is is said to be the president of the buddha compression actually you some of you
• fema is really the female aspect it's the same essence as the buddha and it's called the persian of the buddha
• the same essence as the buddha and it's called the persian of the buddha and of that buddha and so uh amitabhas
• called the persian of the buddha and of that buddha and so uh amitabhas female consul and they're depicted in
• sexual intercourse they're actually typical it's one buddha depicted as two in a pure land so you could say self
• foreign so this buddha's console is the embodiment of passion and lust and the
• sum up oneness or other that's fine for some other buddha um this buddha amitabha opening up the
• that's fine for some other buddha um this buddha amitabha opening up the uh distinguishing wisdom and the
• um uh or primordial buddhas or bodhisattvas or edoms or deity when we
• separateness and why not actually just as you know buddha taught eight jhanas but actually didn't didn't then just say
• meditating on vadriana deities or primordial buddhas or body suppers or um
• amitaba is often in a mandala uh opposite the buddha akshobia um
• if we interpret amitabha as uh the the the buddha and and who opens the world um of the limitless appearances that
• relationship or balanced by akshobia the buddha of the immutable what's immutable unfabricated perhaps is immutable being
• the goddess of passion and lust and this buddha of the imaginal realms buddha of limitless images
• and this buddha of the imaginal realms buddha of limitless images but there's all kinds of possibilities
• akshobia this uh buddha of the immutable uh something like the diamond the vajra is also
• that's kind of infusing akshobia in this example that the buddha of the immutable um the indestructible whatever
• understanding of emptiness the dharma kaya as the non-dual buddha's gnosis which includes appearances some of you
• it might be that we just kind of vaguely sort of it's just a buddha who understands emptiness and we are aware
• vague concept or image or any of this buddha that embodies and is if you like the the uh the consciousness that
• um mitaba at the buddha of the imaginal perception the deity the imaginal perception
• this very place is the lotus land this very body the buddha ivana's right here before our eyes this
• very place is the pure land this very body the buddha um the text up to that point uh in
• this very land is the pure land is the lotus land this very body the buddha um so sometimes when we talk about the
• sensing is open that her queen is alluding to is pure land of the buddha so we mentioned
• perception of the world so that it becomes the pure land of the buddha um and he
• um and thought and mental imagery remember that quote the buddha is pointing to that on fabric in that
• can sometimes mean by dharma datu is the buddha realms is the pure lands and so it might be something
• divine appearances or the gakaya if you know the bodies of the buddha dt suzuki um
• um the buddha of the gandhavior lives in a spirit
• he says there's no time continuity there in that world and the buddha in the gandav yuha thus knows no time
• this very place is the pure land the lotus land this very body the buddha

Awakening - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 41 mentions

• and began practicing buddhist practices buddha dharma began practicing quite intensely with great
• retreats had never even heard a lot of that teaching and what the buddha said was involved etc quite surprised
• collection of discourses and talks that the buddha gave what strikes me is that he was very very
• about death in the buddha right from the beginning of his practice so the other
• awakening which is actually the word the buddha used in the buddha used he didn't use the
• buddha used in the buddha used he didn't use the word enlightenment awakening
• just focusing on that and the buddha said something very interesting
• sometimes we actually don't know what's on offer the buddha said it's quite a funny
• their duty and their place in society and the buddha came and he used the same word dharma he says you know what your
• to talk about what enlightenment is what awakening is from the buddha's perspective from the perspective of this
• and so this attitude too was common at the time of the buddha relatively and
• something superhuman and the buddha asked well someone else was saying what pokemon said and the
• was saying what pokemon said and the buddha asked this person how does he know is he psychic can he
• you see what i'm saying so what did the buddha have to say about all this
• several aspects to this one of them is the buddha said a streamantic enterer can never again go
• practice and the goal and when the buddha says one becomes independent of others with regard to the
• teacher's message in other regard to the buddha's message independent of others so don't need someone to reassure one
• bit more subtle and so the buddha talked about when we define ourselves an even more
• viewing self in relation to those things is it a passage from the buddha and he he's talking to a guy called
• quite it's quite a profound realization there's another quote from the buddha and he's talking about stream entry and
• and there was an instance when the buddha i think he was with his attendant ananda and and a king one of the kings
• and so the king and i think ananda said to the buddha there are hunts aren't they they're
• fully enlightened or are they and the buddha said hold on it's you need to
• so this word awakening which is more commonly the buddha's words um
• so what do with the buddha called noble ones arias people one of these four categories that
• and the buddha really actually again was quite disparaging with that i said no an
• when the view that i'm presenting the buddha say to go beyond that to go beyond that view to see that awareness
• and available but from the buddha's point of view if you don't know if one doesn't know
• knowing the emptiness of things so the buddha says what has an arhan what is a fully awakened person what
• so it's quite particular what he's pointing to and what for the buddha what awakening means it's quite particular
• etc our completion in that and that to the buddha that would be one beautiful level to move through but it's not the
• mythological but after his enlightenment the buddha said something i find endlessly interesting he he was very
• profound enough why would the buddha be wearing vex about saying that i just i just said it
• don't understand i don't understand and the buddha says to him deep vacha is this dhamma this truth
• there's also i find a really beautiful passage it's when the buddha was literally about to die so it was clear
• and ananda who was younger than the buddha by samuels and was his his cousin but also his attendant for many years
• but also his attendant for many years many years attending on the buddha great love for the buddha well finest passage
• many years attending on the buddha great love for the buddha well finest passage so moving
• so moving and it says and so the buddha's lying down and preparing to die and they're
• tatagatellites another name he gave himself on the buddha you have waited on on the tatagata with physical acts of
• and in in stream entry and and the buddha talks about you're no longer an ordinary run over the mill person you're

From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 1) - (Eros... 40 mentions

• and with all that there's a fantasy or fantasies of the buddha if you're a buddhist or whatever teacher
• alive to you and important they will be fancy that's as fancy of buddha if you're a buddhist
• there's a fantasy of path and awakening and buddha that when we then say oh this is rubbish throw it all out there's a
• recognizing the fact that we have uh fantasies of the buddha about the buddha for us is fantasy it doesn't mean it's
• certain extent we feel liberated in relationship to the fancies of buddha path awakening tradition self on the
• such and such a supposed scholar or whatever the buddha taught
• experience ease this is the goal that's what the buddha taught try to be kind everything's impermanent or a process or
• recognizing this aspect of fantasy actually say is this such a buddha who just taught that are they even that
• just taught that are they even that interesting as a buddha is the fantasy there that that i can kind of build on
• that or around that if that's my fantasy of the buddha is it is it a a fantasy commensurate with with my soul and the
• needs for soulmaking with such a buddha as that be be that worthy of study
• devotion that could come into a path with such a buddha as that be actually worthy of that much study of it or the
• or whatever it is who claimed the buddha did not teach any transcendent unfabricated
• to a transcendent on fabricated and so and so might be saying the buddha did not teach transcendent unfabricated he
• development of the mayana and the buddha did not teach how that understanding of the deep emptiness of
• central thrusts of the vadriana and presently the buddha taught none of that person is insisting or claiming and
• you're saying that can i discover or create and discover create a buddha that did
• i'm aware already that i discover slash create the buddha anyway i create and discover you create and
• i create and discover you create and discover the buddha anyway and you might want a buddha that taught
• discover the buddha anyway and you might want a buddha that taught deep things
• discover to explore you might want the buddha that taught the unfabricated transcendent unfairly to the tour of the
• i recognize that we create discover the buddha anyway aware of that can i escape discover
• aware of that can i escape discover create a buddha that did teach or that will teach all that
• historical teacher didn't if the historical buddha didn't teach all that why can we not regard it as an evolution
• now the standard buddhist answer would be or the standard answer of buddha dharma at least the way i would read it
• would be the the way the standard sort of answer from buddha dharma would be um you choose a way of looking dependent
• my sensibility and my experience much more than when i hear the word buddha nature
• because words like divine and i would say also buddha nature to me imply um
• uh in in the very when i use terms like buddha nature and divinity i mean and uh this is often recognized in relation to
• of of the divine uh if you like what we might call the divine or buddha nature i'm actually gonna for myself use those
• dimension of timelessness to the divine to the buddha nature so for me it it
• is a dimension of timelessness to the divine to the buddha nature so all of this
• close and almost um echoing the buddha's words and some of those quotes i think i shared earlier
• posit kind of as an axiomatic kind of fundamental truth the buddha's perfection so he he is the ultimate
• that and this is kind of expansion if you like of what a buddha means historically but just by virtue of
• but i know people would debate that but so if a buddha is for example ultimate in his compassion
• ramifications that came out of it of how then the buddha um is the only being a buddha is the only kind of being that
• then the buddha um is the only being a buddha is the only kind of being that can fully and deeply see the emptiness
• noah feature no perception when a buddha is the only person this was all uh very i think beautifully and
• god must be or what divine is or what but in nature must be or what a buddha must be be like then a better metaphor

From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 2) - (Eros... 39 mentions

• divine is both a gift from the divine or a gift from buddha nature if we from the buddha nature if we the gift of the
• a gift from buddha nature if we from the buddha nature if we the gift of the buddha nature if we if we play with the
• buddha nature if we the gift of the buddha nature if we if we play with the wording and language a little bit and
• the manifestation of the divine or the buddha or whatever it is selfies as well and this is something we
• of the deeper implications of what buddha nature means so so much here and again we're
• that mind is operating in me if you like in you that's buddha nature that mind that awareness is buddha nature
• in you that's buddha nature that mind that awareness is buddha nature doesn't belong to me it's thoroughly
• we could say in some understanding what buddha nature means in in the way i would like to use the word buddha nature
• buddha nature means in in the way i would like to use the word buddha nature that's better nature
• that's better nature that's at least one aspect of buddha nature exactly that mind
• of looking this profound way of looking as one option it is this buddha nature and divine mind that fabricates all
• or the or god soul magnifies god the buddha nature soul creates the buddha nature
• beyond concept beyond attribute as the buddha said it's uh beyond any perception etc it's just this
• out um but it's there also in buddha dhana uh in different traditions and streams
• uh in different traditions and streams of the buddha you see this inclination one way at the expense of the other
• something that brings god if you like brings the divine brings the buddha nature into manifestation
• perceiving that that very double movement is divine is the buddha nature the very eros towards the unfabricated
• that double movement is divine is the divinity is the buddha nature that double movement discovers and
• that double movement discovers and creates the divine and the buddha nature as we said but it also embodies the
• as we said but it also embodies the divine and the buddha nature of the buddha nature
• divine and the buddha nature of the buddha nature to put it in classical terms and some of
• the becoming aspect of divine god as creative and being created buddha nature as both transcendent and timeless
• unity love doesn't just want that certain language god or the buddha nature doesn't just want you or things
• faces manifestations expressions of of the divine of the buddha nature so if we allow yours if yours is full
• these kinds of things like the buddha's teaching on the dependent origination but is teaching of
• divinity being if you like divinity so like the buddha's teachings of dependent origination they are not
• explanation there or if we take the divine buddha nature of god or whatever as an awareness and
• um if you say the divine is love god is love as you might have heard of buddha nature is love or whatever
• when there's divine eros when there's um the eros of the buddha nature it will unfold multiplicity multi-dimensionality
• mirrors or participates in in the divinity in the buddha nature so these are metaphysical assertions and they
• divinities eros is god's eros is the buddha's eros is the eros of the buddha nature becomes one of the available
• experience in the sense that one's eros is the divinity's eros is the buddha nature's eros one could just as well
• asceticism in in certainly at the time of the buddha and uh in the um abrahamic religions etc
• symbol of yabyum it's everywhere the buddha this buddha or that buddha in erotic embrace with his consort
• but actually the whole thing is the buddha the buddha is the couple
• buddha the buddha is the couple in erotic embrace the buddha is the
• the buddha is the couple in erotic embrace the buddha is the couple in erotic embrace
• you like the transcendently divine mind the chinyana or the buddha nature at least one aspect of that on the one
• and we could relate the eternal the timeless the buddha nature the divine mind the divine soul which is ours in

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) - (Path of the Imaginal) 37 mentions

• divine this is tibetan tantric language and talk about the primordial buddha or primordial buddha's cosmic buddhas all
• and talk about the primordial buddha or primordial buddha's cosmic buddhas all this so again the question how can is it
• different ways of talking about it in buddha dharma um again different the buddha describes
• buddha dharma um again different the buddha describes it in different ways uses a different
• now this unfabricated and again i mentioned this before the buddha it's so transcendent and transcendent of
• transcendent and transcendent of concepts also that the buddha describes it in three ways often he just says you
• and then a third way sometimes the buddha talks about it is is in a sort of positive affirmation as a kind of
• feature uh as the buddha describes yeah
• time timeless and therefore deathless so that's a word the buddha uses at times deathless
• dimension if you want to call it the buddha sometimes uses that word um
• it's first in in the in the 12 links of of dependent or rising the buddha outlines
• say the house builder that the buddha talks about is built on delusion it's one is
• delusion as the buddha might say but the journey in the meditative
• right now is not self not me not mine as the buddha says and one holds that in awareness and one sees
• consciousness without attribute that the buddha sometimes uses as a phrase to describe the unfair again but it
• essentially is a mimicking of um a buddhas i'm going to use the word noses g-n-o-s-i-s
• difference but the practice of tantra is this mimicking of a buddha's gnosis a buddha's ultimate let's call it wisdom
• this mimicking of a buddha's gnosis a buddha's ultimate let's call it wisdom awareness as another translation of the
• um ultimate because it's the uh because it's what a buddha has like a fully developed
• emptiness sometimes ultimate means um what what a buddha enjoys or or what is characteristic of a buddha
• um what what a buddha enjoys or or what is characteristic of a buddha and again there's all kinds of
• refer to the same thing and another word is buddha nature and it's this ultimate um sort of gnosis of of a buddha it's a
• is buddha nature and it's this ultimate um sort of gnosis of of a buddha it's a buddha's perspective
• um sort of gnosis of of a buddha it's a buddha's perspective so this buddha nature this ultimate
• buddha's perspective so this buddha nature this ultimate um it actually in in
• um it actually in in his way of presenting what buddha nature means it includes the both the
• subjective and the objective aspects excuse me of this buddha mind this buddha
• excuse me of this buddha mind this buddha um gnosis
• but this idea of the uh of the yashas the nurses the buddha noses is an empty awareness it has no inherent existence
• yes is from the subjective aspect and this subjective aspect of the buddha nature perceives the objective aspect of
• nature perceives the objective aspect of the buddha nature which is a world of divine appearances
• divinity and the particular divinity of divine appearances all that is buddha nature in that in that uh in say me
• so-called my mind is not separate from this buddha nature it's not separate from the cosmic buddha or the ultimate
• this buddha nature it's not separate from the cosmic buddha or the ultimate asmipam described it is not separate
• god god's mind from the ultimate mind from the buddha nature etc and then this experience that we
• god it's in the divine mind it's in the it's part of the buddha nature the potential of the buddha nature
• it's part of the buddha nature the potential of the buddha nature let's stop there and then

Pain, as Void and as Sacrament - (In Psyche's Orchard) 36 mentions

• teaching of the two arrows if you're familiar with it from buddha um is
• which is primary like i said he oftentimes our understanding of buddha dharma is that vedana is just a given
• kind of pleasure the buddha talk sometimes you say sometimes i teach three kinds of aid and
• least we'll just talk in terms of classical buddha dam this answer only really will make sense to people who
• answer but it has to do with budology the notion of what a buddha is and
• the notion of the terravada notion of what a buddha is and what a buddha mind is and and does
• what a buddha is and what a buddha mind is and and does and a mahayana notion of what a buddha
• and what a buddha mind is and and does and a mahayana notion of what a buddha is and what a buddha mind is and does in
• and a mahayana notion of what a buddha is and what a buddha mind is and does in all of the budologies between terrible
• pretty sure um it said only a buddha can look at a phenomenon
• and sanskrit only the non-dualiana of a buddha is capable of fully knowing the emptiness of appearance that's fully
• so bodhisattva is someone who's aiming or has vowed to become a buddha but in the mahayana a buddha is not someone who
• or has vowed to become a buddha but in the mahayana a buddha is not someone who who is then born like the story of sudan
• who is then born like the story of sudan becomes a buddha teaches for a while and then dies and just disappears because
• um in the mayana version of budology a buddha is someone who is able to
• them is is uh appears in the world the rupakaya three bodies of a buddha the rupakaya the emanation of the buddha
• the rupakaya three bodies of a buddha the rupakaya the emanation of the buddha so there's all kinds of you know arcane
• so the question is um how can a buddha then be reborn into the world of perception how can they be
• craving or clinging how can a buddha be reborn without avija and without any sankharas
• the vajrayana practice is then is essentially a mimicking of the buddha mind
• conceive of them as what we're really doing is mimicking a buddha's mind and the hope is that in mimicking a buddha's
• doing is mimicking a buddha's mind and the hope is that in mimicking a buddha's mind we eventually become just like a
• mind we eventually become just like a buddha just through the habit of mimicking
• so only the the non-dual now wisdom awareness of a buddha mayana buddha is able to fully know the
• awareness of a buddha mayana buddha is able to fully know the emptiness of appearances without those
• that it doesn't completely fade and in that way you're mimicking the the buddha mind the buddha perception
• that way you're mimicking the the buddha mind the buddha perception and as i explained earlier then it's
• mixing love with emptiness and again uh away taking us towards the buddha mind or mimicking the buddha mind
• away taking us towards the buddha mind or mimicking the buddha mind and so if you like towards more tantric
• so the buddha you know some people say well the buddha taught the black the buddha
• the buddha you know some people say well the buddha taught the black the buddha talked about you know meditation
• um meditation for developing meditation but the other reason uh the buddha gay of course is is for the development of
• and not being fabricated because the buddha suffered from back pain so you're telling me that um
• is possible of not fabricating physical pain but the buddha if the buddha had back pain then what so but there's such
• back pain then what so but there's such as where the buddha says he can be without his back pain as an old man and
• different body parts as you know the buddha kind of enumerates them in in the city patana center

Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 3) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 34 mentions

• um rumi is saying and what uh the buddha is saying or whatever we can put all these
• believe i have an interpretation of buddha dharma one interpretation or my dharma or my version etc i feel more
• the old testament in buddha dharma circles but i wonder how that lands and they're
• moved away from the insight meditation and the whole world of buddha dharma and was practicing in another tradition i'm
• and then she was telling me that she felt drawn to buddha dharma again and was explaining
• because if it's just the icon where is the buddha dharma in there actually representations of divinities
• regarded as a buddhist deity bodhisattva etc does that make it a return to buddha dharma
• perhaps through visualization perhaps through image etc where's the buddha diamond
• and of course that's the central thing as i was it we practice in in buddha dharma at least as i tend to most
• or think about whatever tradition we're talking about it says buddha dharma it's all making tradition whatever as aspects
• as a movement of the divine of the buddha nature etc that idea
• regarding its situation vis-a-vis let's say mainstream buddha dharma so given everything we've said it's
• boundaries within the scope of what we what we understand of as buddha dharma and certainly it evolved from buddha
• what we understand of as buddha dharma and certainly it evolved from buddha dharma insight meditation as its basis
• the way i would um practice and teach buddha a part of buddha dharma it came very much as i explained out of
• and certainly there's other elements of buddha dharma that we could say in soul making dharma they're the same concepts
• many proponents of mainstream buddha dharma would
• the other legacy of mainstream buddha and so that's actually again the soul
• kingdom is is just within the scope of buddha it's just one sub-tradition much as adriana's or insight meditation is or
• as adriana's or insight meditation is or whatever within buddha and really what's happening is we're
• or seeing it situating it conceiving of it is that actually buddha dharma is in soulmaking it's a part of soulmaking
• so one view is soulmaking dharma is within the buddha dharma and another view
• well within the scope of traditional buddha dharma and maybe even stretch it and claim that's kind of the buddha did
• buddha dharma and maybe even stretch it and claim that's kind of the buddha did teach soulmaking dharma etc so you get
• the vadriana was proclaimed by the buddha by siddhartha gotama in his lifetime but
• um as completely having broken out of the bounds of buddha dharma and being something else a vessel has shattered
• making dharma as part of the current expansion of buddha dharma in the in the west the current birth actually of
• west the current birth actually of buddha dam in the west buddha down a very young in the west
• of meeting of cultures just as when the buddha dharma went to japan or china or tibet and it met with
• so that movement of the buddha dharma meeting western culture
• range of what's already agreed upon as this is buddha dharma and maybe where i which story i choose depends on soul
• and if there's two ways of spinning a story soulmaking dharma is in buddha dharma or the dharma is in soulmaking
• dharma or the dharma is in soulmaking buddha is in in in the soul in in is part of the soulmaking
• culture at this time and because we've been saturated in buddha dharma it may be that doing that actually is light