Eva Natanya, 17 Apr 2020
Today’s session starts with a meditation based on the preliminary practices until bodhicitta. Meditation starts at 2:50
After meditation Eva (Yangchen) continues teaching on the six perfections. She comments that these are explicitly written in this text, and extensively in Thinley Norbu’s commentary, basically to give us a way to train once we have taken bodhisattva vows. In this context she talks about the possibility to take bodhisattva vows from an image of the buddha, or even from a visualization of the merit field. Eva starts with the perfection of patience, and its relation with developing fortitude and endurance through difficult situations. She comments also on the meaning of ascetical hardships, and what does ‘putting up with them’ entail. She goes on to the perfection of enthusiasm, of meditation, and of wisdom, elaborating a little on the teachings on the text.
Yangchen highlights that the instructions on the perfection of meditation and of wisdom given here, seem to summarize all of the teachings on shamatha and vipashyana that appear throughout Düdjom Lingpa’s revelations; which at this point were yet to be revealed. She finishes the session with the triad of view, meditation, and conduct, which constitute the wisdom of meditation.
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