Sky Dancer: The Secret Life & Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel by Keith Dowman

Author:Keith Dowman
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 1984-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: Meditation, Austerity and Spiritual Accomplishment

I 'Phrin-las: the Guru's transformative karmas performed by the Dakini, internally and externally, upon herself and others, are pacification, enrichment, control and destruction. Motivated by the loving desire to give the pure pleasure of ultimate siddhi, karmic energies subsided, with utter detachment, and perfect control over the subtle energies of the body-mind, their structure and direction, the Dakini performs her tranformative activity.

2 This paragraph describes the results of Tsogyel's meditation upon the three roots. The Dakini is understood as structural patterns of energy (rtsa), the dynamic energies that play within that structure (rlung), and ultimate non-dual awareness (thig-le). The Yidam's visitation is a projection and reification of divine qualities; the meaning of his symbolic values are existentially realised. The nature of 'own mind' (rang-sems), which is the seed-essence of non-dual awareness, is seen as the Lama's dance (bla-ma'i rol-pa) in which his pure-lands (bla-ma'i rnal-'byor) are the visual appearances of his Body, all sound his Speech and all consciousness his Mind. The external mandala, is that of Mahavajradhara in the Vase Initiation.

3 In this nirmanakaya mandala vision, the symbols of death indicate Emptiness, the skull and bones of existential being. Death is immortality and life on the wheel of existence is a series of deaths from moment to moment. When the wheel accelerates there is an illusion of continuity; when the wheel slows the bar-do is endured at the conclusion of every micro- and macro-cycle. Release from the wheel is immortality in a continuum of metamorphosing illusion.

4 mTshan-ldan bla-ma dam-pa. Sympathy, lack of prejudice, equanimity, knowledge and power are some of the hall-marks of a good Lama; but 'instantaneous compassion' and absolute non-discrimination are the qualities of a 'real Lama', the 'root' Lama, who will become the unconditioned Lama, a ubiquitous reality inseparable from the yogin's mind.

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