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What Is the Essence of Vajrayana Buddhism?
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- Welcome, everyone, to the course. This year we will explore
- the essence of Vajrayana. The essence of Vajrayana teaching
- is based on what we call “pure perception,” or sometimes what we call
- “taking fruition as path.” The meaning of this is that,
- from the Vajrayana perspective, we all have this wonderful nature.
- All of you have what we sometimes call “basic innate goodness,”
- “true nature,” or “enlightened nature,”
- and the fancy terms are “buddha nature” or “dharmakaya.”
- Traditionally, there are many beautiful names. Basically,
- you are a buddha by nature, right now, right here.
- But the problem is that it does not manifest for us.
- What manifests for us is that we are lost. We are in samsara,
- and we all appear to be living in our own bubble,
- or cocoon, with what we call an “impure body,”
- an “impure mind,” and a perception of
- an impure environment. So what is the meaning of “impure”?
- It does not mean impure in terms of cleanliness, hygiene,
- shining or not shining, or being expensive like diamonds or gold.
- It is not as if something like a rainbow and a lot of light is pure,
- and garbage and pollution are impure. It is not like that.
- Impure perception means perceiving phenomena as solid
- and real, with biases, boundaries,
- limitations, and sectarianism.
- That is impure. For example, yes/no,
- both/neither, big/small —
- all these are contradictions, right? Subject/object.
- Then we have a lot of ideas about who we are,
- and then there is an unhealthy sense of self. From there, a lot of kleshas come.
- Following that there is an imprint made in
- what we call the “subconscious mind,” alaya. There is a karmic imprint,
- and we are totally lost with that. All this is what we call “impurity.”
- When we say “purity,” it means that the nature of all these things is wonderful.
- Let's say you put a candlelight
- in a dark room, and bring a glass cover for it —
- a glass with wonderful images,
- like flowers, rainbows, fruit . . . All these beautiful images.
- If you cover the light, what will happen? Your room will be full of flowers,
- rainbows, fruit, and all these beautiful images.
- Then you bring another layer of glass that has scary images with spiders,
- crocodiles, or other scary animals.
- Tigers, lions,
- all ready to eat you. Or poisonous snakes.
- If you cover the light with that, what will happen? You will see your room full of scary images.
- When we say “lost,” it means these scary images appear as real.
- Like a huge, deadly spider image. Actually, that spider image comes from light.
- If you recognize that, it is just light. But you do not recognize that, it is a real spider.
- So what we call “samsara” is not recognizing our true nature.
- Then everything is solid. If we recognize our true nature,
- then everything is luminosity — empty luminosity.
- It is not real, yet it appears. That is what we call “pure perception” —
- seeing everything as a manifestation of empty, luminous nature.
- That means we are buddhas right now, right here,
- and we are not recognizing that. That is the view.
- Our principles, beliefs, and all the entire practice of Vajrayana
- are based on that pure perception. Then what is the actual practice?
- The actual practice is what we call taking fruition as path.
- For example, there is an apple here.
- The apple is the fruit, the fruition from the seed.
- A fully grown apple here. Let's say if I cover the apple
- with a cloth, the apple is there, fully there,
- but it is obscure. You do not see it. So, then what we have to do is
- just take off the cover. Then you will see the enlightened qualities
- within yourself. The fruit is already there,
- so we do not need to grow new fruit. But the only thing is
- that we need to take off the cloth. The cloth is what we call “obscuration.”
- So in the practice of the Vajrayana, the style is taking fruition as path,
- meaning you are a buddha right now, right here, and you integrate that with practice.
- Normally, practice is being, or what we call “meditation.”
- We need to practice awareness,
- mindfulness, loving-kindness, compassion,
- wisdom, and all these things. And as for how we bring pure perception
- into practice, here we will discuss the guru principle.
- First we imagine the guru in front of us,
- and we project all the enlightened qualities on the guru.
- Then in the end, not only does the guru have an enlightened nature,
- but the student and then all the beings — everybody — have this nature.
- There are so many different practices in Vajrayana.
- I think in other
- courses we have explored pure perception through the development stage, completion stage,
- and the path of liberation. Here, we will discuss it through guru yoga —
- and how students see themselves and all beings as the guru.
- And we will especially work with the kleshas. The five kleshas.
- We will see the nature of the five kleshas as the five wisdoms.
- We say, “Poison becomes medicine.” Also, we will
- discuss how the style of practice itself
- is not totally relying on the antidote style only.
- It is what we call “self-liberation style.” All this we will explore in this course.
- I hope it will be beneficial for freeing our kleshas,
- our minds, and developing contentment and joy.
- Eventually, we will discover happiness within ourselves.