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Kindly Bent to Ease Us [III]: Wonderment (Longchenpa's Finding Comfort and Ease)
Author Longchen Rabjam (著)=Longchenpa (au.)
Date1976
PublisherDharma Publishing
Publisher Url http://www.dharmapublishing.com/
LocationBerkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
Keyword信心=Belief=Faith; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 涅槃=Parinibbana=Nibbana=Nirvana; 靜坐=Meditation; 龍欽巴=Longchenpa=Longchen Rabjam; 龍欽巴=龍青巴=Longchen; 禪修=Meditation; 轉世=輪迴=Samsara=Rebirth=Reincarnation
AbstractThe third volume of Longchenpa's Trilogy shows the practitioner how to transcend ordinary limited perspectives

using eight classic and evocative images that reveal the open nature of reality: dreams, wizardry, illusion, mirage,

reflections, echoes, cloud lands, and phantoms. A chapter on each image gives clear instructions for meditation and post-

meditation practice to awaken us to the magic of Being in its two forms – the enchantment of samsara and the wonderment of

nirvana, where the mind finds comfort and ease. Can be read independently of Parts One and Two. Priceless practice

instructions for serious Dharma students. Translated by H.V. Guenther with extensive notes.
From the chapter "The Reflection of the Moon in Water,": Again I shall explicate the Victorious One's statement that (all

that is) is like the reflection of the moon in water in order that this might be experienced. In the center of the deep and

glistening ocean of Mind-as-such there resides (its) spontaneity (that is) the images that have displayed themselves since

(their) very beginning; but it is owing to contamination by the turbid waves of subject and object that it does not shine

brightly and is lashed by the wind of divisive concepts. Since the delusion of the world has sprung from the belief in (it

as) a Self, pristine cognitiveness has lost its shining quality, has become non-cognitive and has turned into emotionality,

and (so) has submerged in Samsara, that has neither beginning nor end. In the same way as the reflection of the stars in

clear water glistens steadily (as the paradox of) there being nothing and yet there being a presence, so also the images of

the mistaken presence (of the world), arising in the water of the mind (in this paradox of) there being nothing and yet

there being a presence, wear out sentient beings. Since this (presence) is nothing substantial, it cannot be grasped. Since

this (presence) is nothing qualitative, it cannot be characterized. (Since) it is neither something existent nor non-

existent, it is beyond the limits of true and false; this is what is meant by speaking of 'images'.
ISBN0913546445
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Modified date2013.12.16



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