Tibetan Phenomenology

All phenomena are primordially pure; they cannot be located and are empty;
Empty though they are, like a magic show they clearly appear to our perception;
What appears to our perception, when we look into its nature for something identifiable, is nonexistent.
Nonexistent though it is, it can give rise to the experience of all happiness and suffering. *
*(Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682))

Monday, August 11, 2014

Buddhafields

Buddhafields

Buddhakshetra


In the sutras we can read how, on their eve of their attaining enlightenment, bodhisattvas such as Amitabha would make profound prayers and tremendous offerings to all the buddhas. They prayed that they might manifest a buddha field and then emanate themselves within that buddha field, so as to bring the greatest possible benefit to all sentient beings.
From the Vajrayana perspective, however, the understanding of buddha fields is a deeper one. The root of the Vajrayana is "pure vision", or the perception of the perfect purity of all phenomena. To enact this purity of perception, we do not perceive the place where we are now as just an ordinary place; we imagine it to be a celestial buddha field."[1]

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