Stages of Meditation by Dalai Lama & Geshe Lobsang Jordhen & Losang Choephel Ganchenpa & Jeremy Russell

Author:Dalai Lama & Geshe Lobsang Jordhen & Losang Choephel Ganchenpa & Jeremy Russell
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781559391979
Publisher: Snow Lion
Published: 2003-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

In order to accomplish the purposes of both others and ourselves, all obscurations should be eliminated. Those who intend to realize transcendent wisdom in such a way should initially practice calm abiding meditation. A practitioner who has the ability to analyze phenomena with the wisdom realizing suchness while engaging in calm abiding meditation can generate special insight.

In terms of practice, the three trainings are presented in a definite sequence. Let me elaborate. The text reads, “Wisdom helps you to attain a pure pristine awareness.” A perfectly transcendent wisdom has the ability to eradicate the obscurations along with their seeds. Wisdom realizing conventional truth, however powerful, does not have that ability. Therefore we can conclude that to do so, it must be a wisdom realizing the ultimate truth. In this context, perfectly transcendental wisdom refers to omniscience. And in order to attain omniscience, obscurations to liberation, or disturbing emotions, and obscurations to knowledge, must be eliminated. Wisdom alone is the direct opponent that enables us to eradicate the two obscurations and their seeds or latent potencies. Neither ethical discipline nor single-pointed concentration can confront them directly. Wisdom here refers to the wisdom derived from meditation, not that derived from listening and contemplation. Therefore, to actualize that special insight realizing ultimate reality, you must first become proficient in calm abiding meditation. Since this single-pointed concentration is a positive thought, subtle mental dullness and excitement must be abandoned. In order to abandon these faults, you must first train in practices of ethical discipline.

The Meditation on Faith in the Mahayana Sutra says: “O child of noble family, if you do not abide by wisdom, I cannot say how you will have faith in the Mahayana of the Bodhisattvas, or how you will set forth in the Mahayana.”

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