{"id":1262,"date":"2024-03-27T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbatoronto.org\/en\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2024-03-27T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:21:45","slug":"perfect-enlightenment-28-purifier-of-all-karmic-hinderances-revealing-the-nature-of-dharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbatoronto.org\/en\/2024\/03\/27\/perfect-enlightenment-28-purifier-of-all-karmic-hinderances-revealing-the-nature-of-dharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Enlightenment 28: Purifier of All Karmic Hinderances: Revealing the Nature of Dharma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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English:<\/h2>\n

Then the bodhisattva Purifier of All Karmic Hindrances arose from his seat in the great assembly. He bowed to the Buddha\u2019s feet, and circumambulated him three times to the right. He then knelt down with his hands clasped and addressed the Buddha, saying: \u201cGreatly Compassionate World Honoured One, you have explained at length for all of us this inconceivable matter of the aspects of the practice of the causal stage of all Tath\u0101gatas, enabling all in the great assembly to gain that which they have never had. Having had this chance to see the Tamer, all of their passage through realms of suffering for countless kalpas seems as if it were but an instant of thought. We bodhisattvas have been greatly encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld Honoured One, if this enlightened mind is originally pure, what kind of defilements cause sentient beings to be suffer in delusion and not enter? My only request is that you thoroughly reveal the nature of phenomena [dharmas], and cause those in this great assembly and sentient beings of the degenerate age to create the future eye.\u201d After finishing this speech, he prostrated himself to the ground. He asked this three times in succession.<\/p>\n

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The ninth inquiring bodhisattva is Purifier of All Karmic Hindrances, but in terms on the practice itself, he is the eighth bodhisattva. The questions of the previous seven bodhisattvas all involve the way to perfect enlightenment, to which Buddha had answered all of them, ending with his illustration of twenty-five expedient practices. Now Purifier\u2019s question was still on the practice, we have come to a new topic on revealing the nature of phenomena for all sentient beings.<\/p>\n

Up until now, we have only discussed the nature of awareness\/enlightenment, but now we have turned to the nature of phenomena. What is the difference between the two?<\/p>\n

On the nature of awareness.<\/span>

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The nature of awareness is about its essence. For a practitioner, when the primordial awareness has awakened, a function has come into action, such that there is an awareness of the realm of dharmakaya. There are many entrances towards this realm: dharmakaya and the Buddha-Within (both of which are part of five main topics here, see the preface). There are also the teaching of non-duality, the profound praj\u00f1\u0101p\u0101ramit\u0101, suchness, the moment of now, reality, and much more. These realms are an awareness of the primordial awareness. The nature of primordial awareness is the nature of awareness. This nature is also awareness itself.<\/p>\n

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On the nature of phenomena.<\/span>

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The nature of phenomena is the true essence of all phenomena. What are all phenomena? They are inclusive of phenomena of all different space-time. They are called phenomena (dharma), they refer to the infinitely many conceptualizations and sophistry. These conceptualizations and sophistry are in turn based on further words and conceptualizations. By eliminating all the conceptuality and sophistry, the realization of the nature of phenomena is the true essence of all phenomena, the ultimate characteristic of all phenomena. In terms of appearances, we call it suchness; in terms of nature, then we call it emptiness in accordance with the establishment of the emptiness of dharmakaya, the nature of emptiness as the primordial nature; in terms of function, we call it the great compassion, the virtue of dharmakaya. Because there are many different names established as the nature of phenomena, there are also many different teachings established accordingly.<\/p>\n

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On obscuration, awareness, and wisdom.<\/span>

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Purifier\u2019s question was rooted in the impression that because of obscurations, the primordial awareness cannot be awakened in sentient beings. However, if the nature of phenomena is revealed, then there is no longer obscuration and confusion, through the primordial awareness, one thusly enters the realm of wisdom, hence the question to Buddha on causing \u201cthose in this great assembly and sentient beings of the degenerate age to create the future eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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