Three Visions: Fundamental Teachings of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub & Sakya Trizin

Author:Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub & Sakya Trizin
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Snow Lion
Published: 2002-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

For the common practitioner with the common transic absorption is the vision of the common experience. The common practitioner is a person who practices the Perfections and the common path. The common transic absorption consists of loving kindness, compassion, and the enlightened thought. The vision of common experience is the practice which generates a pure and uncontrived wish to selflessly undertake the benefit and happiness of sentient beings throughout space. The method to gain such a wish is (1) to meditate on loving kindness, which is the desire to benefit other beings; (2) to meditate on compassion, which is the desire to destroy the suffering of others; and (3) to meditate on the thought of enlightenment, which is the desire to gain Buddhahood for the sake of others.

Loving Kindness, the Desire to Benefit Other Beings

One may ask "Well then, since the nature of worldly existence is suffering, if, having discarded it, one gains the Nirvana of the Sravakas and Pratyekabuddhas whose body is without substratum, which is a state where there is no suffering, like a fire that has exhausted its fuel, then shouldn't we strive to gain such a state?" It is not like that. From beginningless time one has been disregarding all sentient beings who have been one's kind mother by striving to gain the happiness of liberation for oneself alone. This is like a mother being carried away by a river while her son happily remains indifferent on the dry bank, though he has the means to rescue her. Through being ignorant of kindness, one would be ashamed and one would become the laughing stock of others. As it was said in the sLob.spring (9ishyalekha),

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