Vajrayana enlightenment is like two wings of an eagle: one wing is study and contemplation of the Buddhas teachings, the other is meditation.
Worldly beings are afflicted. The Buddha a doctor. The Dharma is medicine. If you know are you afflicted you will take the doctor’s advice and eat the medicine.
The medicine is not just to recognize mind’s nature, which is the Dharmakaya, the Buddha-nature, but to practice always. You practice in meditation. You practice in post-meditation as appearances arise, as emotions bind you, as thoughts spin the spiderweb.
In meditation you habituate yourself to seeing the nature of mind. You wake up for a little while. Get up from meditation. Thoughts and emotions, even in your dreams will lull you back to sleep. At the moment, if you can remember mind’s nature, liberate the afflicted states. Practice meditation again until you are fully habituated to abiding in the Dharmakaya. Repeat liberating your karmic afflictions.
The is the continuous 24/7 process of awakening to complete Buddhahood with miracle powers and omniscience.
Afflictions self-liberate only if, at the moment they arise, you are resting in the View with no attachment, no focus or hope.
Only possible to do in one lifetime through tantra right?
Even ninth bhumi stage bodhisattvas need a little bit of tantra to obtain tenth stage.
From my understanding, as long as you have a physical body, your “karma” has not been taken care of.
That is why when someone attains the ja lus, their karma is finally done.
The objects of the senses, the intellect and emotions arise 24/7 continuous. As each one arises, at that moment enter the View, no attachment, focus or hope and the object will be liberated in the Dharmakaya. Repeat this over and over in waking, dreaming and at the moment of death.
As you untie the knot, you awaken and their are no knots. Then some time later another arises, you recognize you have fallen asleep, practice again, untie the knot and wake up. With enough practice, you cannot be lulled back into sleep. Then, you will progress from the first to the 10th bhumi.
This is the Supreme Vehicle, the Unsurpassed and most excellent teaching of the Glorious Buddha.
even if you do that your entire life, nothing is going to happen
Alwayson, Until you meet a qualified spiritual master with genuine realization, you should think twice about making statements about what you think is dharma. I’ve quoted the Buddha’s teachings directly.
What I have placed here is the essence of Kagyu teaching, Vajrayana and Mahayana. The Kagyu and Nyingma View, Practice, Action and Fruit are identical. These are teachings of my Lama, Drubpon Rinpoche, and the teachings of Mahamudra as taught by Milarepa, who attained buddhahood.
You can choose to cling to being right or you can choose to let go of your concepts and judgments and leave your samsaric self behind.
At this stage, your assertions are opposite the Buddha’s dharma. Until you practice non-clinging and non-discrimination, nothing will happen for you except for more debates. You are chasing your tail with your self-taught “non-meditation” discriminatory judgmentalism practice.
I sincerely hope nobody takes you seriously. You should pray every day for a dharma teacher to meet you. Then, your feeling of being caught in a spiderweb of thoughts and analysis will cease.
Dharma is the path of non-discrimination.
I will ask you straight out.
Is tantric practice necessary or not for Buddhahood in one lifetime?
Milarepa practiced all sorts of tantric practice.
Hi, alwayson. I think that dependant origination requires that there is no such thing as “one lifetime”. What do you think? With Thanks, divinefurball
I will quote the Ganga Mahamudra by Tilopa to Naropa:
Visualization, the Six Yogas, Deity Yoga, Tummo, karmamudra, togal and other tantric practices are auxiliary tools to assist or speed up the realization of Mahamudra. These practices are not required. However, they can be prescribed by the Guru based on the needs of the individual practitioner. Milarepa’s primary practice was Mahamudra assisted by Tummo.
Mahamudra is a stand-alone practice, and there are some practitioners who can proceed to buddhahood with just the pointing out instructions and constant meditation. Mahamudra is my primary practice.
If you learn to practice on each of the senses and emotions as they arise in a vivid and strong fashion due to previous karma and attachment, then you liberate each attachment as it arises. If you can learn to untie the knots, then there is no need for Tantric practice.
All the Vajrayana practices of prostration, mandala, mantra, deity and guru yoga are so that one can get a glimpse of the nature of mind. Once you have the glimpse, the pointing out instructions start. Then once you recognize your nature, you just enter The View Practice Action.
Tummo, Six Yoga, thogal, etc. are like adding high octane fuel to an ordinary car. They speed it up.