What Is the Essence of Vajrayana Buddhism?
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HLmsbxzlc

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0:00 Welcome, everyone, to the course. This year we will explore
0:07 the essence of Vajrayana. The essence of Vajrayana teaching
0:14 is based on what we call “pure perception,” or sometimes what we call
0:21 “taking fruition as path.” The meaning of this is that,
0:29 from the Vajrayana perspective, we all have this wonderful nature.
0:36 All of you have what we sometimes call “basic innate goodness,”
0:41 “true nature,” or “enlightened nature,”
0:47 and the fancy terms are “buddha nature” or “dharmakaya.”
0:53 Traditionally, there are many beautiful names. Basically,
1:00 you are a buddha by nature, right now, right here.
1:05 But the problem is that it does not manifest for us.
1:10 What manifests for us is that we are lost. We are in samsara,
1:20 and we all appear to be living in our own bubble,
1:26 or cocoon, with what we call an “impure body,”
1:33 an “impure mind,” and a perception of
1:38 an impure environment. So what is the meaning of “impure”?
1:44 It does not mean impure in terms of cleanliness, hygiene,
1:49 shining or not shining, or being expensive like diamonds or gold.
1:56 It is not as if something like a rainbow and a lot of light is pure,
2:00 and garbage and pollution are impure. It is not like that.
2:04 Impure perception means perceiving phenomena as solid
2:12 and real, with biases, boundaries,
2:16 limitations, and sectarianism.
2:20 That is impure. For example, yes/no,
2:25 both/neither, big/small —
2:28 all these are contradictions, right? Subject/object.
2:32 Then we have a lot of ideas about who we are,
2:39 and then there is an unhealthy sense of self. From there, a lot of kleshas come.
2:45 Following that there is an imprint made in
2:50 what we call the “subconscious mind,” alaya. There is a karmic imprint,
2:54 and we are totally lost with that. All this is what we call “impurity.”
3:02 When we say “purity,” it means that the nature of all these things is wonderful.
3:11 Let's say you put a candlelight
3:18 in a dark room, and bring a glass cover for it —
3:24 a glass with wonderful images,
3:28 like flowers, rainbows, fruit . . . All these beautiful images.
3:34 If you cover the light, what will happen? Your room will be full of flowers,
3:39 rainbows, fruit, and all these beautiful images.
3:44 Then you bring another layer of glass that has scary images with spiders,
3:53 crocodiles, or other scary animals.
3:57 Tigers, lions,
4:01 all ready to eat you. Or poisonous snakes.
4:08 If you cover the light with that, what will happen? You will see your room full of scary images.
4:17 When we say “lost,” it means these scary images appear as real.
4:24 Like a huge, deadly spider image. Actually, that spider image comes from light.
4:31 If you recognize that, it is just light. But you do not recognize that, it is a real spider.
4:39 So what we call “samsara” is not recognizing our true nature.
4:46 Then everything is solid. If we recognize our true nature,
4:50 then everything is luminosity — empty luminosity.
4:53 It is not real, yet it appears. That is what we call “pure perception” —
5:00 seeing everything as a manifestation of empty, luminous nature.
5:08 That means we are buddhas right now, right here,
5:13 and we are not recognizing that. That is the view.
5:17 Our principles, beliefs, and all the entire practice of Vajrayana
5:23 are based on that pure perception. Then what is the actual practice?
5:28 The actual practice is what we call taking fruition as path.
5:33 For example, there is an apple here.
5:38 The apple is the fruit, the fruition from the seed.
5:43 A fully grown apple here. Let's say if I cover the apple
5:49 with a cloth, the apple is there, fully there,
5:54 but it is obscure. You do not see it. So, then what we have to do is
6:01 just take off the cover. Then you will see the enlightened qualities
6:08 within yourself. The fruit is already there,
6:14 so we do not need to grow new fruit. But the only thing is
6:21 that we need to take off the cloth. The cloth is what we call “obscuration.”
6:28 So in the practice of the Vajrayana, the style is taking fruition as path,
6:33 meaning you are a buddha right now, right here, and you integrate that with practice.
6:44 Normally, practice is being, or what we call “meditation.”
6:49 We need to practice awareness,
6:55 mindfulness, loving-kindness, compassion,
6:58 wisdom, and all these things. And as for how we bring pure perception
7:04 into practice, here we will discuss the guru principle.
7:09 First we imagine the guru in front of us,
7:13 and we project all the enlightened qualities on the guru.
7:17 Then in the end, not only does the guru have an enlightened nature,
7:21 but the student and then all the beings — everybody — have this nature.
7:27 There are so many different practices in Vajrayana.
7:31 I think in other
7:37 courses we have explored pure perception through the development stage, completion stage,
7:42 and the path of liberation. Here, we will discuss it through guru yoga —
7:48 and how students see themselves and all beings as the guru.
7:54 And we will especially work with the kleshas. The five kleshas.
7:57 We will see the nature of the five kleshas as the five wisdoms.
8:03 We say, “Poison becomes medicine.” Also, we will
8:12 discuss how the style of practice itself
8:16 is not totally relying on the antidote style only.
8:22 It is what we call “self-liberation style.” All this we will explore in this course.
8:29 I hope it will be beneficial for freeing our kleshas,
8:36 our minds, and developing contentment and joy.
8:42 Eventually, we will discover happiness within ourselves.