Love on Every Breath by Lama Palden Drolma
Author:Lama Palden Drolma [Drolma, Lama Palden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Prajna and Upaya: Wisdom and Skillfulness
Our prajna, or “wisdom awareness,” glimpses and then fully recognizes truth, gradually coming to fully embody wisdom and love. Compassion for all beings naturally arises when we realize true nature.
In Vajrayana, upaya, or “skillful means,” are used to help us uncover innate wisdom and compassion and to work through and liberate our persistent unwholesome attitudes, behaviors, psychological issues, and the misunderstandings that obscure our true nature. Our development of skillful means helps us to be of benefit to others.
Engendering a broad, inclusive love for all beings is the basis of the Mahayana or bodhisattva path of meditation. Mahayana recognizes the illusory nature of what is: how things vividly appear and yet are empty of inherent self-identity. Yet we are taught, and my teachers surely demonstrated, not disdain or disregard for phenomena, but how to embrace what is with love. As I discussed earlier, genuine reality refers to the unchangeable, primordial purity and bliss-emptiness. True nature is the union of shunyata, or emptiness, and appearance, or presence. Phenomena appear to all our senses and to our minds, and yet they are a mirage. Genuine truth is inseparable from apparent truth. Apparent reality is what the Tao Te Ching calls the “ten thousand things,” the world of multiplicity, change, and flux, the dream. In the words of Tilopa, the tenth-century Mahamudra master of the Kagyu lineage, “The past is but a memory, the future a fantasy, and the present moment vanishes when we try to grasp it.”
And yet, as human beings, we need supportive conditions, food, water, air, and shelter in order to live. We are incredibly vulnerable. Earthquakes, floods, and guns can easily destroy us if we are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The bodhisattva understands this poignancy — how on the one hand we are deathless, and on the other hand we are always at risk. Therefore, love arises as the appreciation of the beauty of beings and their vulnerability. The path is the flowering of wisdom as we realize genuine truth, and the flowering of love as we embrace apparent reality. Wisdom and love are said in Dzogchen† to be the two wings of the bird that takes us to enlightenment: They are cultivated and yet revealed, as we discover who we truly are. So let us embrace life with love, and as one of my teachers, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, said, “Since you are all making movies, make a good one!”
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