Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

Author:Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche [Gyamtso Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsultrim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

Fruit of Chittamatra

The fruit of the wisdom that sees the emptiness of the mind/matter duality is the removal of suffering (duhkha). Just as dark cannot exist in the presence of light, suffering cannot exist in the presence of wisdom.

The first ignorance is to take as a self what is not-self and from this arises the concept of a difference in substance between self and other. From this duality arise the afflictions (klesha) of attachment to what is dear and aversion to what is not dear, and through attachment and aversion the klesha and suffering increase.

The wisdom that sees that mind is empty of a perceiver/perceived duality (i.e. empty of outer perceived entities different in substance to the inner perceiving consciousnesses), at a single stroke, cuts through attachment and aversion and all the associated suffering. On the most subtle level every moment of consciousness is purified of all stain of ignorance and there is not even the shadow of the idea of a difference in substance between mind and its objects.

That means the mind rests free from all conceptual contrivance based on such dualistic ideas. Such ideas are based on false assertions and denials. Differences are asserted that do not exist and the true nature of reality is veiled. All our confusion is based on grasping outer objects as separate from the inner perceiving mind, and taking them to be real in a way that they are not.

By letting go of all these concepts through meditation on the mind’s emptiness of this duality, the veils are cleared away and the light of the wisdom mind, the selfaware self-illuminator, is experienced. This is a very profound experience and even for those who experience it, it is difficult to explain.

Chittamatrins tried to explain it as a pure stream of selfaware moments of consciousness, but such an explanation falls into a logical contradiction (see later chapters for details). Because of this, more refined teachings on the nature of emptiness are required before one can realize the true nature of this self-aware self-illuminating experience.

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