Eva Natanya, 21 Apr 2020
Eva (Yangchen) starts the session with a story about her permission (empowerment) to read, translate, and transmit the Düdjom Tersar, and about the lineages through which she received particularly the Vajrasattva practice. She then talks about the meaning of a distinct enlightened being, within the same essential nature of all the Buddhas. Each one of these distinctions emphasizes some aspects of pristine awareness. This takes her to talk about Vajrayana practice and the depictions of the Buddhas we go through for this type of practice. When we visualize the Sambhogakaya we are visualizing the sublime nature of what human beings can become, so the images serve as an access to our buddha nature; but we shouldn’t get attached to the association between a name and a form.
After this, Yangchen comments on some details of the Vajrasattva practice. Vajrasattva is the first practice with which one transforms their own body into a body of light, she affirms. She then speaks concretely of the four remedial powers: the visualization (foundational remedial power), and in this context she makes a detailed description of the adornments of the male and female figures; the confession (power that rips out bad deeds) as a way to recognize the problems in our mindstream in order to heal them; the promise to turn away from the actions to purify (power of restraint); and performing the practice itself (power of practicing the remedy), which we now do on meditation, without mantra on this occasion.
Meditation starts at 46:00
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