Vajra Heart Revisited by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Author:Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Rangjung Yeshe Publications
Published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

QUESTION: In the moment of recognizing a thought it dissolves automatically, and at that point there is a blissful feeling. Is that only in the beginning or is it always like that?

RINPOCHE: In the moment the thought vanishes, there is nonconceptual wisdom. You should not get attached or fascinated by this blissfulness. This is basically what is meant by the inseparability of bliss and emptiness in the Mahamudra system. It is not the bliss of the male and female together. When the thought has vanished and the nonconceptual wisdom can stand alone, there is not even the word for suffering—that is the bliss. But if one experiences this bliss and gets fascinated by it, then it becomes the bliss in the three experiences called bliss, clarity, and nonthought. If it is not grasped, it is just as it is. The bliss in the emptiness is endowed with all aspects, the supreme unchanging bliss—this is what is meant when we say bliss and emptiness inseparable, (bde stong dbyer med).

There is the nature of bliss inherently, but you should not hold onto it. In fact, the three experiences of bliss, clarity, and nonthought are the adornments of the three kayas; they are like ornaments. When you do not grasp these experiences, they become the ornaments of the three kayas. When you fixate on bliss, clarity, and nonthought, you will stray into the three realms of samsara. The three experiences of grasping mind—bliss, clarity, and nonthought—are called the khams, the dispositions of grasping mind. This is similar to when we say people have earth disposition or water disposition and so forth. When you do not grasp these three, they have the qualities of the three kayas, and when you do grasp them, they become, as a result, the three realms of samsara. That’s how it is.

But as you said, in the very moment of a thought vanishing—there is a saying, “Within thought I discovered nonthought.” When there is changelessness, that is the bliss. When there is not even the word suffering, we should call that bliss. This is what is meant. It is not the physical bliss of a man and a woman making love, which is experienced by the body and wherein there is something experienced. What is mentioned here is bliss free from something experienced, because as long as there is experiencing, there is fixation. Here there is bliss but it’s free from experience. Do you understand this, without experience?

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