Highest Yoga Tantra: An Introduction to the Esoteric Buddhism of Tibet by Daniel Cozort

Author:Daniel Cozort
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Health & Fitness, General, Religion, Buddhism, Rituals & Practice, Yoga, Tibetan, esoteric Buddhism of Tibet
ISBN: 9781559392358
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 2005-09-30T02:11:13+00:00

Types of Clear Light

The term “clear light” can refer either to a subject or an object. The objective clear light* is emptiness; it is the clear light that is to be realized. The subjective clear light* is the mind realizing emptiness and can be sub-divided into subjective clear lights that conceptually realize emptiness and subjective clear lights that directly realize emptiness. The subjective clear light that is the conceptual realization of emptiness is called the metaphoric clear light and the subjective clear light that is the direct realization of emptiness is called the actual clear light. The actual clear light of the fourth stage is also spoken of both as “external manifest enlightenment” because it is always initially manifested at dawn (just as Shākyamuni Buddha became enlightened at dawn) and as “internal manifest enlightenment” because it is the all-empty clear light into which all other minds have dissolved.

There are three other ways on the stage of completion of speaking about clear light, in terms of the “general” meaning, “hidden” meaning, and “final” meaning of clear light (see chart 10). There are two general meanings of clear light; the first is clear light in the sense of a coarse mental consciousness that realizes emptiness. Hence, in this genera1 meaning of clear light, a mind of clear light is experienced even in the Perfection Vehicle (the sutra paths) and the three lower tantras because they also include such minds that realize emptiness. The second general meaning of clear light is in the sense of a “melting” bliss consciousness — one generated due to the melting and dripping of the drops in the channels — that realizes emptiness. This type of consciousness is also not unique to the Highest Yoga Tantra stage of completion, for it can be experienced even on the stage of generation.

The “hidden” meaning of clear light is the metaphoric clear light, the ordinarily hidden subtle consciousness that does not become manifest until winds dissolve in the central channel. The metaphoric clear lights that occur on the levels of physical, verbal, and mental isolation, and impure illusory body are this clear light.

The actual clear light is the final meaning of clear light, the final mode of realizing emptiness by a consciousness of innate bliss. It is final in the sense of being the “final quality” or highest level of mind.196

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