Dharma Wheel

Enochian wrote:This is all silly.

Once you distinguish pristine rigpa from sems (mind), the view becomes like a thirsty elephant running to water. There is no need to argue, judge etc.

All right and wrong views are self-liberated

That never stopped the Buddha from running his mouth.

Vyavahāraḥ means conventional. I'll need you to show me where the Buddha uses this language. I've never seen this in the Sutras. You have not been looking for it, this is why. For example, the Samdhinirmocana sutra discusses conventions (vyavahāraḥ) extensively. Consult the Powers translation, Wisd...

Vyavahāraḥ means conventional. I'll need you to show me where the Buddha uses this language. I've never seen this in the Sutras. Prior to analyzing phenomena as mind-only, mind and matter are conventionally regarded as a dualism even in Yogacara. Why, because the imputed nature is exactly the conve...

Fine if you want to use that terminology go ahead. Then according to Yogacara you can call it "consciousness-only," and avoid the use of the word "mind." From the beginning, the Buddha taught purity and luminosity in consciousness. But Buddhism does not take the wind in the body ...

Atiyoga is the yoga of maya par exellence. Yogacara means the view that comes from the yogi's practice. Atiyoga is yoga. The differences between Sutra Yogacara and Ati is not view but method. In Yogacara you take the suchness of one skandha, like vedana, and don't get into the emptiness of the rest ...

Is this really novel though? Hasn't Yogacara already covered this? Nope. Yogacara accepts matter and mind conventionally as distinct and separate phenomena. Samvrti means "hypocracy, obstructed, occluded" not "conventional." The Buddha never taught a shared consensus or linguist...

Forgive me for butting in, but I feel there are various philosophical schools going on here. I come from a one vehicle standpoint. There are different modes of explanations, but to say one vehicle has some knowledge the other does not is inaccurate. Each wheel is contains each wheel. Practitioners e...

The net of jewels is more explicit in chapter 30, the Countless, which is often skipped over, because of its apparent math focus. But within the final dazzling verse portion are these lines: In each of those rays of light Appear untold lion thrones, Each with untold ornaments, Each with untold ligh...

This sutra, above all others, has touched me deeply. Indra's Net is not really a metaphor. Each drop in the web is our heart bindu. Due to method or drugs, the reflective drops and web can be seen directly. It's not just like looking into mirrors. Also imagine that each drop is a consciousness that ...

Sentient beings are not all equal, because of different capacities, fortunes, whether connected or disconnected to dharma, and, if so, their respective level of entry.

Because it happened before. Your nature is not conditioned by time. It can measure time, because it is other than it. But it conceptualizes time and an I to which it is subject. It did so before, now and so will again continuously, until you no longer grasp time and I. If you want to know how it is ...