Teaching: Meditating on Illusion while Living in the City
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Teaching on Meditating on Illusion while Living in the City
by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
on 2 March 2006 (Thursday), 7.30-9.30pm
This is a very excellent topic taught by a very excellent teacher. It's a very precious opportunity as Khenpo Tsultrim had been coming to Singapore every year but seldom gave public teaching. Do go to the teaching if you are able to make it.
Venue:
Karma Choying Kunkyab Ling
Yeo's Building, 2nd Floor
2, Telok Blangah Street 31,
Singapore 108942
Tel: 6274 7800
Website:
http://www.karmachoying.org (check out "events")
http://www.ktgrinpoche.org/biography.html (information on Khenpo Tsultrim and his teachings)
Brief Intro of Khenpo Tsultrim:
The Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche is one of the most erudite scholars and accomplished yogis of the Karma Kaygyu lineage. He is especially well-known for his breadth of vision and the clarity of his Dharma expositions. -
thanks for that webby!
thought i was crazy to take daily life as meditating "with eyes open" that is.
just like in mind thoughts & images come & go when meditating, so when we are waking with eyes open going thru the daily activities, to me its like meditating also.
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Do attend if you can
It's not often to get a good teacher giving teaching on this topic. -
thanks, learned something that evening.
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Did you went?Originally posted by paperflower:thanks, learned something that evening.
how was it? what did you learned? it was in tibetan wasnt it -
Basically Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche selected some suttas to teach us how to meditate on the illusory nature of all appearances in our lives. He explained about the quotes and then got us to sing in English and Mandarin. It is important to apply these to all the various circumstances in our lives, so as to gain certainty in the illusory nature of all appearances.
From the Sutra of the Noble Collection:
Know the five skandhas are like an illusion
Don't separate the illusion from the skandhas
Free of thinking that anything is real -
This is perfect wisdom's conduct at its best!
From the King of Samadhi Sutra:
All the images conjured by a magician
The horses, elephants and chariots in his illusions
Whatever may appear there, know that none of it is real
And it's just like that with everything there is!
From Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way:
Like a dream, like an illusion,
Like a city of gandharvas,
That's how birth, and that's living,
That's how dying are taught to be.
From Chandrakirti's Entering the Middle Way:
There are two ways of seeing every thing,
The perfect way and the false way,
So each and every thing that can ever be found
Holds two natures within.
And what does perfect seeing see?
It sees the suchness of all things.
And false seeing sees the relative truth -
This is what the perfect Buddha said.
From Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Conduct:
THen wanderers, these dream-like beings, what are they?
If analyzed, they're a banana tree.
One cannot make definitive distinctions
Between transcending misery and not. -
If I remember correctly, he did end with a song on the luminosity aspect of our eminent nature.
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I also took down some notes as much as I could from what I heard during the talk.
ok I learnt....
a certainty that skandhas are appearances of emptiness.
...to be free from thinking that anything is real.
appearance of dreams are also emptiness.
arising, abiding, ceasing - illusions - emptiness.
nothing truly existent about them at all.
knowing that we're dreaming when we're are dreaming is recognising that all is emptiness - illusions.
mind is described as luminous clarity.
mind is not described as a banana tree.
sentient being's body is like a banana tree.
mind of sentient being is beyond conceptual truth
nature.
relative truth is product of confused thoughts.
genuine truth is using wisdom to see.