Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya's Madhyantavibhanga With Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham

Author:Dharmachakra Translation Committee
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 2007-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

Generally, what we call knowing fact from non-fact has an extremely broad relevance. It involves knowing which causes produce which effects and which effects are based on which causes. It entails understanding what is possible and what is not, what is fact and what isn't. Such insight enables one to engage the coarse and subtle aspects of all the positive factors associated with the transcendence of suffering, and also to avoid the coarse and subtle aspects of the negative factors linked with cyclic existence.

In this context, the necessity of knowing fact and non-fact in all their aspects is taught via a presentation of seven dependencies. What are these seven? The dependency of the undesired is when, for example, one does not wish to go to the lower realms, but goes there anyway as a result of the karma accumulated while engaging in negative conduct. The dependency of the desired is exemplified by someone who engages in positive actions and, consequently, is reborn in the higher realms as desired. The dependency of purity is exemplified by the fact that there can be no attainment of purity without training on the path and eliminating the obscurations. The dependency of co-occurrence is, for example, that two Buddhas or universal emperors are not found simultaneously within a single world system. This is due to their having accumulated unrivaled karma. The dependency of control is typified by the fact that with the physical support of a woman's body, one lacks the capacity to take control of the precious wheel and the rest of the seven [possessions of a universal emperor]. The dependency of attainment is exemplified by the fact that one can neither attain the level of a Self-realized Buddha nor buddhahood itself with the physical support of a woman's body. The dependency of behavior is, for example, the fact that a noble being will not kill and so forth.

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