A Direct Path to the Buddha Within by Klaus-Dieter Mathes

Author:Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

When the Madhyamaka view of this [mahāmudrā system] has arisen in the mindstream, the natural mind is said to have been actualized and the dharmakāya to have been made directly [manifest]. 344 When you realize that phenomena (dharmin), such as sprouts and thoughts, are nothing other than their [respective] true nature (dharmatā), you use the verbal convention “thoughts appear as dharmakāya.” 345

We do not know if Rangjung Dorjé was of the same opinion, but given his attempt to combine mahāmudrā with Yogācāra, we should be at least careful not to define his position one-sidedly on the sole basis of his mahāmudrā teachings. 346

Directly related to the question of how Rangjung Dorjé could blend the mahāmudrā- and Yogācāra-based explanations of buddha nature is how he defines the two truths. In the first seven pādas of the ninth chapter of the Zab mo nang gi don, the chapter on purification and its basis, the two truths are both explained as being contained in the stainless buddha nature. The root text of the Zab mo nang gi don is:

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