Fivefold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche SUMMARY Part 1 – Introduction 1 In the Bon Buddhist tradition, the goal of our life is to achieve full liberation, or Buddhahood. There are three principal pathways pathways to Liberation: Liberation: 1. Path Of Renunciation. Renunciation. You renounce your your negativities, renounce renounce your negative emotions, renounce your negative negative thoughts, renounce the five poisons poisons and ignorance. You are trying to throw away the poisons. This is more like a path of the Sutra. 2. Path Of Transformation, Transformation, a path of the Tantra. This is trying to work work with the five poisons, and transform those those energies into the five wisdoms. wisdoms. Transform poison into a medicine, and heal the sickness. 3. Path Of Dzogchen. Dzogchen. With any negative emotions, emotions, just leaving them as they are, where they are, and not following following them, not elaborating them - just just leaving all as it is. What happens is they just liberate by themselves - self-liberation.
Part 2 – Introduction 2, Overview of the Five-Fold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen: 1. Vision Is A Mind: Mind: What is Vision? Look at all those stories/sufferings stories/sufferings in your head. That is your vision. vision. It’s you you in your your head. ‘Vision is just my mind’. My mind has created these visions. You can see many layers of your fear right now, this very moment. 2. Mind Is Empty: Empty: What is a mind? mind? You search for mind internally internally and directly and clearly without analysis. When you do that you achieve achieve an inner experience - you don’t find anything. Mind is emptiness. emptiness. You find inner vastness, vastness, inner opening, inner awakening. awakening. 3. Emptiness is Clear Light: Light: What is this Emptiness? We just look at the space. It’s nothing, but you can be fully fully Aware of that nothingness. nothingness. You can be fully awakened awakened in that nothingness. Like a sun in the clear sky. You look through that that voidness, that space; you see the Awareness of the mind. 4. Clear Light Is Union: Union: What is this space space of pure Awareness? ‘Clear’ is referring to the aspect of Emptiness, and ‘Light’ is the aspect aspect of Awareness. Yes it is Empty, but you have to be Aware. Aware. Yes you have have to be Aware but not lose the connection to the Emptiness – the Base. Base. In Dzogchen the word ‘Inseparable’ ‘Inseparable’ is used more than the Tantric word ‘Union’. When you feel that Union, Union, when you feel that Inseparable state, that’s all that matters. 5. Union Is Great Bliss: Bliss: The Union of Emptiness Emptiness and Clarity – itit is Great Bliss. Bliss is inner awakening, inner joy. This spontaneous Bliss is spiritual awakening. awakening. It is coming from realization of the nature of mind. So you see that mental stories and sufferings can become Bliss, can become Awakening, when one follows these these five steps. So when you are in pain pain or fear, realize 1) the Vision Is A Mind, 2) Mind Is Empty, 3) Emptiness Is Clear Light, 4) Clear Light Is Union, then that painful vision has become become 5) a Great Bliss. So bottom line is - a pain can liberate into a Great Bliss, when following in the right order and having experience with each stage.
PRACTICE PART 1
(from video Part 3 – Vision Is Mind)
Sit in a comfortable position, position, close your eyes, and and look at your mental vision. vision. Just say “Vision “Vision Is My Mind”. Just look at those images. images. Vision Is My Mind. My vision vision of my [fear/suffering/anger etc], it’s just my mind. My mind is creating creating these visions. visions. Then you internally look closer closer to it – closer, closer, closer, closer. With nonconceptual Awareness, you are looking closer, closer, closer. closer. And the vision just dissipates dissipates because a powerful, subtle, wind of your Awareness is blowing it away. So at some point, you just just don’t see it. All these objects, objects, the stories, just disappear. disappear. And then what what is left? Simply the mind. The subject is left, without its object. Vision Is My Mind. I’m not finding what what I’m looking for, rather, I’m just finding who is looking at it. Now the object and story story of that fear has diminished diminished – dissolved. Your body, your spirit, your mind, your breathing, breathing, everything just became… became… much lighter. Rest in that lightness of the mind. So just simply repeat this exercise, and find that lightness, and sit there as long as you can, and repeat this again and again and again.
PRACTICE PART 2
(from video Part 4 – Mind Is Empty)
We found that 1) ‘Vision is is a Mind’, there’s nothing nothing solid to visions. So What Is A Mind? The answer is 2) ‘Mind Is Empty’. So what is my mind? Where is it coming from? Does it have a specific color, shape, location, any consistency? consistency? Just internally look as an observer – not with thought thought analyses. Look with your Nonconceptual Nonconceptual Awareness. Look closer, closer, closer, and it happens the the same - that fear, that pain, that that “I”, the I,I, the ego, dissipates. dissipates. You find another another big discovery of opening. opening. Openness. You nonconceptually observe. Without thoughts. Very much like how senses senses observe. In the first practice practice you are observing the vision, vision, now you observe the mind. You observe observe observe – it dissipates. dissipates. Do that, again and again, again, so you feel the full experience experience of Openness. You rest in that inner Openness. Openness. That inner vastness. Without elaborating elaborating anything. Without analyzing, analyzing, without judging it, just simply rest in that inner vastness where you are ar e feeling some sense of peace without your fear and pain. This is the medicine for pain and fear. This will not only help you to heal your own fear and pain, it will also also help you to heal collective collective pain. Any moment when when you feel Openness, it affects all who are connected to you. So the question is ‘What is is the Mind’. And experiencing that Mind Is Empty. Empty. So any given moment mind is always always clear. No matter how painful, painful, fearful, or confused you feel, if you look directly to your mind, those clouds will dissolve and you will find your inner peace, inner opening. You just have to look look the right direction, in the right right way.
PRACTICE PART 3
(from video Part 5 – Emptiness Is Clear Light)
First was Vision Is Mind, second was Mind Is Empty, now Emptiness Is Clear Light. The question is: What is Emptiness? Emptiness? First we looked looked at the fear, all the visions visions and suffering of the fear, and when we looked close we did not find anything as an object. Second we looked looked at the subject: subject: What Is The Mind? And we couldn’t couldn’t find any thing thing solid; there’s no inherent existence of mind. mind. Mind is simply simply Empty. So now we we ask, What What is Emptiness? Is it nothing? No. Emptiness Is Clear Light. Emptiness is the fullness. That Emptiness, that Openness, is the solution. That space is like the sky. sky. It’s our wakening wakening quality. So, in the practice, I don’t find anything. anything. There’s no ego. There’s no me. Just became like a space. space. Be aware of that. that. Look at Awareness. Feel Awareness. That Awareness is like sunshine. The inner Openness helps us to see see our Awareness like like inner luminosity. Can you see it? Can you feel it? Connect with that and continuously continuously become become familiar with that Awareness. Awareness. So that is the third third part of the practice.
PRACTICE PART 4
(from video Part 6 – Clear Light Is Union)
We started with 1) Vision Is A Mind, 2) Mind Is Empty, 3) Emptiness Is Clear Light, now 4) Clear Light Is Union, and the question is What Is Clear Light? The answer is Clear Light Is Union. ‘Clear’ referring to Emptiness, Emptiness, Openness, and ‘Light’ referring to Awareness, Luminosity. These two are not a separate separate quality and not a separate experience. experience. It’s just one experience. Watch out for mind to come back dull or overactive - simply because because it does not have the experiences experiences of this this Space. It does not not have connection to this Base. Base. Clear Light Is Union. When we sit in that inner space, we need to have a complete balance of that Openness and Awareness. A complete balance of Emptiness and that Clarity. Clarity. The inseparable state of that Emptiness and Clarity is very important. So first you are looking at objects of your fear, the visions, and you don’t see anything. Then you look to who is looking, you look for a subject, an ego; you don’t find anything. So you experience a full Spaciousness internally. And you’re you’re fully fully Aware. Aware. And that Awareness is no different different from that Openness. That Openness is not not different from that Awareness. There’s no separation. It’s an inseparable state. state. And you rest in that that inseparable state without elaborating, elaborating, without analyzing, judging, judging, anything - just simply rest in Openness and Awareness as clear and as long as you can, and repeat that, and become more familiar with that as much as possible.
PRACTICE PART 5
(from video Part 7 – Union Is Great Bliss)
Union Is Great Bliss. The Union is about the connection between the Openness and Awareness - when that connection is Awakened, when that connection is familiar, when that connection is absolutely balanced, then quality arises. If you’re resting in the inseparable state of Emptiness in a Clear Light, it will make you happy. When you feel connection connection to that inner Openness, connection connection to the Inner Light, and become familiar with that inseparable state, it will give birth to the four immeasurables – ten prajnaparamitras. It will give birth to all the countless enlightened qualities. When you have enough familiarity in that space of Union Of Openness And Awareness, the Bliss will come from that place. Union Is Great Bliss – it’s like a vast vast clear sky, and a luminous luminous warm sunshine. The Union of that luminous warm sunshine and the vast sky gives birth to inner joy.
Part 8 – Conclusion This is a very precious teaching. The Dakini will keep keep it secret except for for those who are meant to understand.
Video Part 1 http://www http://www.youtube.com/watch?v .youtube.com/watch?v=K47LDZ3xl2k&feature=relmfu =K47LDZ3xl2k&feature=relmfu Website https://www.ligmincha.org/
Fivefold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Part 1 – Introduction 1 This is a continuation of a Youtube teaching, and I know many of you have been following my last teachings teachings on Youtube, teachings teachings on Warrior Seed Syllable. And I have received a lot of wonderful feedback feedback from many people. people. And I am very happy to hear that, and that I decided to do more so as it’s continuously benefiting many people and this is clearly seems like a wonderful tool. The media is this wonderful wonderful tool, the technology technology is a wonderful tool, to break the boundaries of… many boundaries to able to do this – so that not me that I have to go to many people, or the people have to to come to me. This still is possible to communicate communicate some teachings so I’m I’m really happy to do this. this. And so those of you have been watching it and kind of really like seriously trying to follow practice, and I’m very happy you are doing that. But I also… if this this is very meaningful to you then I’m going to ask you if you can also let a lot of other people know, basically take a little initiative, to put together a bunch of addresses together, inform other people who might be benefited, friends of yours, and so on. So that will be… I’m I’m requesting especially those those who feel it’s a very beneficial thing for you, and so we can, that this is how we can share with more people. And this is, I will feel wonderful as I’m putting my effort and energy to do this, and also my students are giving me support to do this. In the Bon Buddhist tradition, the goal of our life is to achieve a full liberation, or Buddhahood. And the Buddha nature is in in every sentient beings, not only only human beings but every insects insects and any animals. We all have the same Buddha nature. And our life is, the meaning of this life, the important part of the meaning of this life is to achieve that. So Dharma – there are three principal pathways. One - it’s called A Path Of Renunciation. That basically you renounce renounce your negativities, your negative emotions, your negative thoughts whenever they are coming. So that you learn to control and renounce. That is more like a path of the Sutra.
The second path is the Path Path Of Transformation, a path of the Tantra. Basically it does not necessarily renounce the things, renounce the five poisons, and ignorance, but it’s trying to work with the five poisons, and transform those energies into into the five wisdoms. So basically this is the Path Of Transformation. And finally, The Path Of Liberation is the Path of Dogzchen. Dogzchen. Which is very much much like a… not to renouncing your five poisons, or your negative emotions, or not trying to work and transform and changing negative emotions; rather, leaving them as they are, where they are, and not following them, not elaborating them, just leaving leaving as it is. And when you leave these negative emotions emotions as it is, they do not have any… any… their own power power to continue. continue. What happens is they just liberate liberate by themselves. It’s called self-liberation. self-liberation. It’s like a… the metaphor metaphor is like an example of of a poison, a plant poison. The ordinary person cannot use it. If you eat it you will will die. Therefore the only thing you do is you are trying to renounce - you are trying trying to throw away. Put it away away somewhere somewhere the childrens cannot touch; nobody can touch – that’s the t he Path Of Renunciation. Or doctors who have skill and knowledge to transform them…. So doctor adds some other medicinal plants, and transforms that poison into a medicine, and heals the sickness. So that is like the Path Of Tantra and Path Of Transformation. And the peacock eats the the poison. And when peacock does not not need to renounce it, or trying to change it or transform it, peacock eats it as it is. And what the poison does to peacock – it enhances the the beauty and the color of the peacock’s peacock’s life. So that is like the approach of the Dzogchen. So these are the three principal methods of A Path To Liberation. They all are important - equally important.
Part 2 – Introduction 2 To introduce the Five-Fold teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen: Vision is a mind Mind Is Empty Emptiness is Clear Light Clear Light Is Union Union Is Great Bliss What does this means? This basically means… means… if your vision either either is internal or external vision – and particularly those internal visions, like a vision of fear, a vision of fearful pain, of fear-related sufferings, fear-related confusions, fear-related angers, and all the stories related to that fear. If you look at those all all are inner visions. visions. If you close close your eye it’s just in your head. It’s in your vision. Probably not much is ‘out there’. So look at that, all those things in your head. So that is your vision. So if you understand truly, that that is your inner vision. It’s you you in your head. Then what what happens? Then that’s how you understand that ‘vision is just my mind’. Just my mind has created a vision. And then the second second question comes: comes: What Is A Mind? So at that time, we do the second part of the practice. practice. A search of one’s mind. What Is A Mind. What is in my mind. Who am I. How does my mind look like. Where does it come from. Where does it stays, where is it going. Is it any place? place? You search for that internally and directly and clearly without analysis. analysis. When you do that you you achieve an inner experience. experience. Inner experience that you don’t find anything. Rather you find inner vastness, inner opening. Inner awakening experience you will have. When you have that, that you you cannot find any mind to pinpoint down, that is like an experience of the second part of the practice. So then, the question question is - Ok Ok I cannot find the mind. mind. Mind is, basically basically it’s empty. So what is this that Emptiness Emptiness is about? What is this this space is is about? What is this this nothingness about? What is this boundlessness boundlessness about? So you… you… it’s not… journey doesn’t doesn’t stops here, by not finding your mind. Journey continues. So the third step is to find what is this Emptiness? The reason why it is important to find, ask this question why, why, what is this
Emptiness, is because many time when people search for mind and not finding anything they fall into a nihilist nihilist experience. ‘Oh, there’s nothing there, so nothing nothing to worry about.’ One fell into nihilist, denial, and lack of Awareness in practice. So that is why you ask the question of what is this Emptiness? And that’s why it says ‘Emptiness ‘Emptiness is Clear Light’. So you ask this question, and then how you look – we just look at the, look at that space. It’s nothing, but you can be fully Aware Aware of that nothingness. nothingness. You can be fully fully awakened in that that nothingness. You can be fully fully alive in in that nothingness. Like a sun can be cloudlessly shining shining in the clear sky in that nothingness. nothingness. So the sunshine is a very important part of the empty space, empty sky. You look in that clear sky, you see the sunshine. You look through that voidness, voidness, through that opening, you see see the Awareness of the mind. That’s why it’s called, the third part it’s called ‘Emptiness ‘Emptiness is Clear Light’. So the fourth part now you are saying, what is it the Clear Light is? I look for the mind, I couldn’t find anything. It’s totally empty. I look I look into the Emptiness; I don’t see anything, I just see a pure Awareness. Awareness. Now what is there of pure pure Awareness? So that is the fourth question. Clear Light Is Union. That is the kind kind of answer of the fourth question. ‘Clear Light Is Union’ basically means…. It’s a two word, ‘Clear’ and ‘Light’, which both are Union. ‘Clear’ referring to the aspect of Emptiness, the ‘Light’ ‘Light’ referring to the aspect of of Awareness. Yes it is empty, but you have to be be Aware. Yes you have have to be Aware but not lose the connection to the Emptiness. Emptiness. That is what it say. So Clear Light Is Union. Of course sometime the word ‘Union’ is used more in the Tantra; in Dzogchen the word ‘Inseparable’ is used more. But in the true experience, experience, it doesn’t make so much different for our ordinary sense. Most important thing is is that in your experience, when you feel that Union, and when you feel that Inseparable state, that’s that’s all what it matters. matters. So the Clear Light Is Union; it is very important, because when people have experiences of Light, or people have experiences of Clarity, or qualities, like compassion, or love, sometime, it chances to lose the connection connection to the base – to the Emptiness. That’s why the Union Union aspect is very very very important. So if there is a Union, Union, then you just rest in that experience. That is the fruition of the fourth part of the practice.
Last part is the fifth part part of the practice. It also is a simple simple easy question saying, saying, so, Union Is Great Bliss. The Union of Emptiness and Clarity, it’s a Great Bliss. Bliss. So Great Bliss Bliss - Bliss is like inner awakening. awakening. Inner experience, like like inner joy. Of course we we can all have experience of joy in our ordinary or dinary life, just because the weather is beautiful, I am very happy today… those joys are not the same as when you have experience of ‘Union Is Great Bliss’. Union of Great Bliss - this Bliss is like a spiritual awakening. awakening. Because it is coming from that realization of inner quality, realization realization of nature of mind. Therefore it is like a true awakening, true Bliss. Bliss. Effortless Bliss, Bliss, a spontaneous spontaneous Bliss. So if you look that experience, experience, particular given experience like we were talking about working with the fear, and once all the mind which is related with the fear, all the negative emotions and pain and suffering, confusions related with the fear, you look at all those aspects of the mind can become this Bliss, can become this Awakening. When one followed followed these five principal sequence. So in a simple way to say will be, like you’re pain or fear, when you realize that is your vision, that is a vision, the vision is a mind, Mind Is Empty, Emptiness Is Clear Light, Clear Light Is Union, then that painful vision vision can become a Great Bliss. Bliss. So bottom line is, a pain can liberate into a Great Bliss. Bliss. But following in the right order and having experience with each stages.
Part 3 – Vision Is Mind (first part of practice) So first part of the practice of Dawa Gyaltsen, the Five-Fold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen, is the ‘Vision Is Mind’. So what is the vision? vision? Vision is something that we have in our mind; in our head. head. For example, the vision of fear. A vision of five five negative emotions, which which is related to the fear. The pains which are caused caused by these five poisons, poisons, and which is primarily primarily caused by fear – they all are our inner visions. And we have these experiences experiences because of many reasons. Because we have a foundation of something called called like a ‘conceptual karmic body’. Or we can sometime look look at that aspect of that as a pain body, so conceptual karmic body creates a conceptual pain body. And this conceptual karmic body is not only only individual, but sometime sometime it can be a collective. We have a conceptual karmic karmic body collective collective with our family members. So we have a pain body, a collective collective pain body with our our family members. We have a collective collective pain body with with the country we we are part of. So we share share these collectively collectively or individually. individually. So because of this, sometime all our fears are also not necessarily only part of your self - a part of a bigger collective situations. So if you look at either it’s a collective one or individual one, lets look at that vision. Look at it closely, at this very moment: my fear, my negative emotions, five poisons related to that fear. My pain and confusions related to that fear. My situations that are causing causing some pains to other people, which is also related to my inner fear. You can see many layers of your fear right now, now, this very moment. I’m not talking about the the past, I’m not talking about the future, I’m talking about this very moment in your life. So this is like inner vision. So if some moment, sometime if you look at it closely, closely, there’s nothing! This very moment moment you can be happy as you can be. You can be enthusiastic as you can be. be. You can be energetic energetic as much as possible. But somehow, your conditions, your habit, you choose to awake that fear, you choose to go into that fear,
and you choose to suffer through that fear. But we have to change that. By knowing knowing this is what happening to us, and this is what we are contributing to this to happen. So with the first part of the practice, just you sit in a comfortable position, you close your eye, you look at that that vision. Just say “Vision “Vision Is My Mind”. Just look at those images. images. Vision Is My Mind. My vision of my fear, it’s just my mind. My mind is creating these visions. So what do you do, you can just say it a few times, just to remind remind yourself, then you internally look closer to it – closer, closer, closer, as if you are looking at a flower, you are looking closer, your are looking looking closer, you are looking closer. closer. So through the sense you are looking closer. Internally, with nonconceptual nonconceptual Awareness, you are looking looking closer, closer, closer. So when you look closer closer like this, what happens, happens, is those vision just just dissipates. Like clouds just just dissipating in the sky. These clouds are dissipating because because a powerful, subtle, wind of your Awareness is blowing blowing it away. Therefore those visions are clearing. And you don’t see anything. At some some point, you just don’t see see it. All this is objects, the stories, stories, just disappears. An then what what is left? Simply the mind who is trying to find it! Trying to watch where they are, it’s only that mind is left, that Awareness Awareness has just left. So there’s nothing as object to find, but the subject is just just left without without its object. object. Then that’s what it means – Vision Is My Mind. I’m not finding what I’m looking for, rather, I’m just finding who is looking at it . In this experience experience – what happens? happens? You just feel like ... Like Like 40-50% of the fear, piece of your fear, is just kind of dissolved. dissolved. Then all the object object and story related with that fear fear has just kind of diminished diminished – dissolved. dissolved. Your body, your spirit, your mind, your breathing, everything everything just became… much lighter. And what do you do? You just rest in that lightness lightness of the mind. Do 5 minute, 10 minute, 15 15 minute, 1 hour, 2 hour, depends on your ability to sit in Awareness. But if you are used to sitting in Awareness, sit longer. But if you are not used to to sitting in Awareness sit short but clear. clear. There are many practitioners who sit long and unclear; it is better to sit short and clear. So even is a 5 minute, and that is a great beginning for you to develop. So, so what you can can do, is just simply repeat this exercise, and find that lightness, and sit there as long as you can, and repeat this again and again again and again. So that is the first first part of the practice. practice.
Part 4 – Mind Is Empty (second part of practice) So the second part of the Five-Fold Teaching of Dawa Gyaltsen, is ‘Mind Is Empty’. So basically the second line is called ‘Mind Is Empty’. Empty’. So basically, that is the answer of question: What is the Mind? Because first part was ‘Vision Is My Mind’; Mind’; then we found that ‘Vision is a Mind’, there’s nothing solid vision vision there, out there. But next question question is: What What Is A Mind? So therefore, the answer is ‘Mind ‘Mind Is Empty’. Empty’. So that is simply an intellectual question, an intellectual answer, but how does that question applies to myself in our life? How does that answer make sense in experience – on experiential level, to oneself, so that it becomes a foundation or cause cause for next development. So that is important to to be aware of, to know. So as an exercise, as a practice this will be – of course there’s no way to do the second part of the practice unless you did the first part of the practice. So those you haven’t done, strongly recommend to do the first part. Now, if you have done the first part already, which is saying vision of pain, vision of negative emotions, vision vision of fear, having that inner vision, vision, saying what is that? Clearly you realize nothing is solid there out there, it’s just my mind. Now, specifically, specifically, this moment, when you realize that you ask this: What is in my mind? Where is my mind? Where is it coming from? Where is it staying? Where it’s going? Does it have have a specific specific color, shape, location, any consistency, just just ask question. But not so much intellectual asking question question – just internally look as a senses observe – not thought thought analyzes. As senses observe. observe. Look with your Awareness. Nonconceptual Awareness. Look at it. Where is my mind? Where it’s coming from? from? Where it staying staying where it’s going? Just you look, look, look internally, internally, look closer, closer, closer, and it happens the same thing. That fear, that pain, that “I”, “I”, the I, the ego, dissipates. One after another, they all just just dissipates, again, same way way as before, like cloud dissipating, dissolving dissolving in the sky. Why these cloud are dissolving in the sky, because because here the subtle wind of your inner Awareness is blowing toward that ego – toward that fear, toward that pain. And because of that wind, these inner clouds of ego and pain pain are
dissipating in inner vast sky. Gradually, slowly they dissipate, dissipate, dissipate, and what do you find? You find another big discovery of opening. A new dimension. Openness. You experience internally. What do you feel? You feel just just so much like like a release, freedom, a peace, a possibility, possibility, in that space. Only way it’s going going to happen, when you learn how to directly observe. observe. In another word, how to nonconceptually nonconceptually observe. Without thoughts. thoughts. Very much like how senses senses observe. This case you are looking, looking, observing the mind, not the vision. In the second practice practice you observing the mind, not the vision. vision. In the first practice practice you observing the vision, not the mind. You observe observe observe observe – it dissipates. Now then it really feels like like a, like a complete like like 100% opening. Because the first practice practice when you did it feels like a the vision of fear has dissolved. Second observation, second part of the practice, it feels like the fear itself has dissolved. The pain itself itself has dissolved. dissolved. So the ability to do that, again and again, so so you feel the full experience of Openness. Openness. And what do you do in that that moment - same as before, you rest in that inner Openness. That inner vastness. Without elaborating anything. Without analyzing, without judging it, just simply rest in that inner vastness where you are ar e feeling some sense of peace without your fear and pain. And it’s not just a fear or pain, the fear and pain that you are having this particular moment in your life. And this is the medicine medicine for that pain and that fear. This will not only help you to heal your own fear and pain, it will also help you to heal collective pain. Collective fears that we share with our family members, that we share with our fellow friends, and then also in a sense of big, in a sense of country, a global sense of collective fear that we have, it will will help. For sure it may help people people that you are very emotion, very very tied to, it will help them too. Any moment when you feel Openness, it affecting all the others who are related to you. So this is… so the second part of the practice is very much… the question is ‘What is the Mind’. And experiencing that Mind Is Empty. So any given moment, any given given moment, mind is always always clear. So just think think about this for the last thing. No matter how how painful you
are, no matter how fearful you are, no matter how confusion you feel, just realize any given moment if you look directly to your mind, those cloud will dissolve and you will find your inner peace, inner opening. Any given moment they they are always there and you you have the door, you just have to look the right direction, in the right way.
Part 5 – Emptiness Is Clear Light (third part of practice) So the third part of the teaching teaching of Dawa Gyaltsen Gyaltsen is Emptiness Is Clear Clear Light. So because the first was Vision Is Mind, then the second part was Mind Is Empty, now Emptiness Is Clear Light. Light. That is like an answer. The question question is: is: What is Emptiness? Emptiness? In our experience of this practice, we were looking at the fear, all the visions and suffering of the fear, and when we looked looked close to that we did not find any thing as an object. object. Then we looked at the subject: How/What Is The Mind? And we couldn’t couldn’t find any thing solid, inherent existence, existence, of mind, either. Mind was simply empty. So what is Emptiness? Emptiness? So this this is the search that we wanted to do. So, in your experience, not finding anything of your fear either externally or internally, not finding that fear, ego, and it just, as you look closer and closer inward, it just completely dissolved, and and just becomes becomes nothing. Just basically basically you don’t find nothing. Nothing. Nothing. What does does that mean? Does that mean nothing nothing is there? As you you experience this nothing, you don’t find anything, anything, you don’t see anything, what what does that mean. Is it nothing? No. And that is exactly the the reason why the third question is very important. important. Because many time either philosophically (there are many tenet and doctrines) fell into that nihilist view. There are many a practitioner and experiences experiences fell into that denial. denial. Basically, there’s some some point when they are searching searching they don’t see nothing say ok ok there’s nothing. And they go also again the same way into a nothingness very deep; and that nothingness can also cause a depression. A rigidity. rigidity. Like a military. Stiffness in in your body and your breath. In your behaviour. That is very very important question. question. That is why we ask What Is That Emptiness? So Emptiness Emptiness Is Clear Light. Light. Emptiness is the fullness. That Emptiness Emptiness is the source of all the qualities. That Emptiness, that Openness, is is the solution. solution. That Openness is like the mother who gives the birth to child. That space is like earth which grows all the vegetations. That space is like the sky where all all the stars and planet exist. exist. The only way they can exist, to know, to its potentiality, and its luminosity, and its dynamic energy aspect of it, and that translate into very simple translation in our own this moment experience: It’s
just our wakening quality, our wakeness. Not nothingness. Our wakeness. Being aware of it. So, in the practice, as you, when you are looking into that, you ‘re looking for your mind, you don’t find anything. That is the place where we left our last last practice: I don’t find nothing. There’s no ego. There’s no me. There’s no my mind that I can pinpoint down in one place. place. Just became like a space. space. Be aware aware of that. Look at that Awareness. Feel that Awareness of that. that. That Awareness is like a sunshine. sunshine. If there is no cloud in in the sky, you you look through that clear sky, sky, in the sun, then you see the luminosity of sunshine. sunshine. The absence of cloud helps to see the sky; the presence of sky helps to see the luminosity of the sun. The absence of fear, as a vision, fear as a subject, helps to see our our Openness, inner Openness; the presence of inner Openness help us to see our Awareness like inner luminosity. Can you see it? Can you feel it? So it’s not just nothing – it’s it’s just a full awakening. Full sunshine. Just Be in that Alertness, Liveliness. Connect with that. So the more you connect with that Awareness, the less chance you will have falling into nihilist and denial. If you look at many times, people doing sitting practices, I have visited some places with groups, they are doing sitting practice, and I can see they are sitting quite good position in the first moment. And after ten minute later, later, they are all doing this position – what is that? That is not Awareness. Awareness. That is clearly a yoga of the sleeping position. position. They’re all falling asleep. And they think they are resting in the nature of mind or sitting in the Emptiness, which they are not. Why? Maybe in the beginning they had experience of Emptiness, Emptiness, and and then lack of their Clarity they fall into dullness and then the dullness put them into a deep sleep. There is no awakening. awakening. They are not even able to keep their head straight. That is a sign of lack of Awareness. So it’s very important to not only have the experiences of voidness in the third practice. To be aware of that voidness, to be in that state of Awareness and continuously become familiar familiar with that Awareness. Awareness. So that is the third third part of the practice.
Part 6 – Clear Light Is Union (fourth part of practice) pr actice) Part Four, the practice of Dawa Gyaltsen, which is ... we started with Vision Is A Mind, Mind Is Empty, Emptiness Is Clear Light, Clear Light Is Union, and Part Four is… so that Clear Light Is Union, that is like the answer, but the question is What Is Clear Light? And in our experience was, working with the fear, and the pains and emotions related with the fear, we looked at the the object of the fear, we couldn’t find anything - that that is our vision. So we just realize it’s just the mind is only left. Part One and Part Two we look at our What Is The Mind? We look at it closely, we couldn’t find find anything with with the mind. Mind is just just empty. And Part Three we we looked so What Is The Emptiness? Emptiness is not just just Emptiness is not just nothing. nothing. It’s just full of Life! Awareness! Emptiness is Clear Light. And then Part Four, What Is That Clear Light? The answer is Clear Light Is Union. So if you look at this line Clear Clear Light Is Union – so so there’s a two word Clear Clear and Light. Clear referring to Emptiness, Openness… Openness… Light referring to Awareness, Awareness, Luminosity. And these two are not a separate quality; quality; neither they are two separate separate experience. It’s just one experience. It’s like like a wisdom – single wisdom. A single sphere of totality. And it’s very important to understand that, because many time in our experiences, either you fall into nihilist, or you fall into into eternalist, as many doctrines doctrines do that. As many meditator meditator when you practice you do that. I’ll give a simple example: example: If you are meditating, abiding abiding in the nature of mind, abiding in that inner space, space, there’s two possible possible obstacles can happen. happen. One, you fall into nihilist. What does does that mean? That means you feel empty. And that Emptiness produces dullness. It produces lack of life force, Awareness, and and it puts you into sleep. sleep. That’s one possible so that’s that’s like you’re falling falling into nihilist. Or the other possibility is the moment you sit in the nature of mind, the moment you sit in the meditation of Emptiness, you become a most creative individual. All the work-related work-related work comes comes up, your creativity creativity comes up, your thoughts comes up, your - all the emotions comes up, just basically mind becomes active than before. Why, when you’re supposed to rest, why would your mind become so active? active? Simply because because it does not have the experiences of that space. It does not have connection to that that Base. It does not have that connection connection to that mother, inner
mother. Inner essence. Therefore, it is is feeling, facing with all this unenlighted thoughts and emotions. That is simply simply happens all the time in in our experience. Therefore that is exactly the reason why it says Clear Light Is Union. Clear Light Is Union. So not only philosophically they are union or inseparable, but experientially how… that is how one should experience. So in these stages of of development of our practices with the Five-Fold Teaching of Dawa Gyaltsen, Gyaltsen, we arrive fourth stage stage of experience. Where when we sit sit in that inner space, we need to have a complete balance of that Openness and Awareness. Of that Emptiness and that Clarity. So - inseparable state of that Emptiness and Clarity Clarity is very important. So very briefly, when you are looking - objects of your fear, the visions, you don’t see anything. Then you look to who is looking, you look at a subject, of ego, you don’t find anything. Then you look look – who who is observing? And there’s nothing either. So you experience a full spaciousness spaciousness internally. That’s full spaciousness. spaciousness. And you’re fully aware of that. And that Awareness Awareness is no different from that Openness. That Openness is not different from that Awareness. Awareness. There’s no separation. It’s inseparable inseparable state. And you rest in that inseparable state without elaborating, without analyzing, judging, anything just simply you rest in that inseparable state of Openness O penness and Awareness. Whenever visions are coming, you work with this like Part One’s practice - you watch the vision. Whenever the subject is kind of taking it over, you ask with with the Part Two practice, What Is The Mind? Mind? And then mind will dissolve. And the object object will dissolve, dissolve, and it will bring you back back into that same open Awareness. Awareness. Inseparable state of that Openness and Awareness. Just simply simply rest in in there. As I said earlier, rest for five minute… if you are used to sitting in practice for a longer time, rest for half an hour, one hour, but always remember that sitting short and clear is better than sitting long long and dull. And it’s important to become become familiar with that clear state. Because, imagine in our ordinary life, how much time we dwell into that stories of fear, that emotions of fear, how many hours? Consciously, unconsciously, unconsciously, times when when we are
aware of it, times when we are not even aware of it, what we still able to dwell into it. So ability to change habit from that place to resting in that pure inseparable state of Openness and Awareness, it will will require some time and familiarity. familiarity. So … so anyway the bottom line here is just simply trying to rest in that inseparable state of Openness and Awareness, as clear and as long as you can, and repeat that, and trying to become more familiar with that as much as possible.
Part 7 – Union Is Great Bliss (part 5 of practice) So this is our last part, the Five-Fold Teachings Of Dawa Gyaltsen; the line is The Union Is Great Bliss. And if you look look at in our life, and everyday in our life, it makes makes good sense. Anytime when we are able to connect, connect, it makes us feel feel good. When you are able to connect connect with yourself, it makes you you feel good. When you are able to connect connect with somebody, itit makes somebody else feels good, and it makes you feel good. People have a relationship – one of the main point about relationship is trying to make connection… on a physical level, on emotional level, on a spiritual level, anytime whatever level of connection that you are able to make, it makes you feel good. The deeper connection you are able to make, make, the better feelings are. Less dependent on outer circumstances is. So like many many times this this is, that’s that’s very true, if you are in a relationship if you are able to only a physical relationship it’s one thing. In a spiritual relationship, relationship, more heart relationship, it’s another experience. So connections are fundamental in in human life. Childrens cannot properly grow grow unless there is a connection of emotion with the parents, particularly connection of love. So, in the same way, Union Is Great Bliss. The Union is about the connection. So, with connection, through the connection, arises lot of experiences, lot of experiences. Beautiful experiences. So the connection between between the Openness and Awareness, when when that connection is Awakened, when that connection is familiar, that connection is absolutely balanced, then quality arises. Otherwise you can, you can can think about: well, well, I can rest in Emptiness, what’s itit going to do to me? How am I going to be happy just resting in Emptiness? Well just resting in Emptiness might not make you feel happy, but if you’re resting in inseparable state of Emptiness Emptiness in a Clear Light, Light, it will make you you happy. For example… the example will be when you feel nothing in your life… people feel lost, unacknowledged, unwanted, rejections, isolations, when you feel like that – what is feeling what are you feeling – your feeling feeling a disconnected. Your feeling disconnected disconnected with your family, you’re feeling disconnected with your colleagues, you’re feeling disconnected with
your friends, and you’re isolating yourself, and when that disconnection… when you become familiar with that disconnection, and when you dwell into it, that’s what - when you begin to feel pain and depression. In contrary, when you feel feel connection to that inner Openness, connection to the Inner Light, and become familiar with that inseparable state, it will give the birth to hope. hope. It will give the the birth to the four immeasurables immeasurables – ten prajnaparamitras. It will give the birth to all the countless enlightened qualities. So, in our own little experiences in meditation in these five parts – remember, we go back to the first part, we have been working with the fear. You didn’t find the object object of fear, you didn’t find the subject of the fear, you found a Openness, you found a light inside yourself. You became more familiar with that Openness and Light. And you continuously rest in that Union, that connection, what will will manifest from that place? Hope will manifest. Because you have been working working with the fear. You will manifest joy related to that hope, because you have been working working with the pains related with with that fear. It will naturally come. You just simply have to trust. And reason why I’m saying ‘trust’ was these these practices something that you have never heard of, you have never done in your life, and you don’t… you just have to trust a little bit before you have the the experience. And once you have the experiences you trust the experience itself, you don’t have to trust or rely on anybody else explanation. So simply, I think it is important here, to trust trust in that experience, and and rest in that experience again, experience of inseparable state of Openness and Awareness as much as possible, and gradually allow - this is the word here – not ‘make’, allow the hope, allow the joy, joy, allow your inner qualities. Because it.. you are ready to give a birth. You are ready to transform. You are ready to change. Because you have enough familiarity familiarity in that space of Union Of Openness And Awareness, and the Bliss will come from that place. So the example, example of Union Is Great Bliss – it’s like a, you know, a vast clear sky, and a luminous and warm sunshine. The Union of that luminous luminous and warm sunshine and the vast sky gives gives birth to a lot of elements. The earth, the water, the the fire, all the natural element come to exist. exist. And from this natural element then imagine like a… fruit trees – and imagine that clear sky, the warmth of sun, heating to that tree, heating to that fruits, and
gradually, because of that clear sky, because of warmth of the sun, it ripens those fruits. And then the fruit is the Bliss for those who needs it. So that is kind of the example example of it. So the joy, inner joy is the fruit which has ripened with the warmth of Awareness in that vast sky.
Part 8 – Conclusion So this is the last part, the conclusion of Five-Fold Teaching of Dawa Dawa Gyaltsen. As a… I hope that those of you have followed from the beginning till the end, it will make sense. Those of you just watching watching this one will will probably not make sense. So recommendation is just go back and watch watch Part One till the conclusion. conclusion. But do the practice as much as time it takes to feel comfortable and feel that you have some result of the practice before you move to the second part of the practice. So those of you have done the practice you can see, it’s a benefit of the practice, really like a feeling much more joy in one’s life, much more meaning in one’s life, and also finding some solution to come out of the situations that you don’t want to be in, when you are feeling like a total confused, or feeling a depressions or something like that, you know that you don’t have to sit there and you have some methods, some means to overcome. Think about this. Anytime you feel depressed and lost, confused, you just think about this. You do not you do not have to sit in that place for for hours. You don’t have to sit there for even for one hour. You don’t have have to sit there and go to sleep from that place. You don’t have to. Because you have a practice. And trust the practice. Pray, and do the practice. It might be harder sometime. But if you trust trust and keep on it will change change for sure. So, I strongly recommend to you know trust yourself, trust the practice. As part of the conclusion maybe I will just say a few words. words. You know we have been working with the fear, and all the negative emotions, pain and confusions related to the fear. Of course you don’t have to only work with the the fear. Fear is a fundamental emotion emotion which can underlying, the underlying emotion emotion to all the five poisons. poisons. But you can work work with any of the five poisons. poisons. For example, let’s let’s give example example of working with with anger. When you are really feeling anger, anger has clearly an object. And very often, often, it is some body. Some body who have disappointed you. you. So if you look at that that person… that is a vision. vision. And that is a person that is in your head. head. Whom you are angry. That person is in your head, that that
person is not out there. If that person is out there, then every single person person should hate that person. That’s not the case. case. Your enemy is the father father of somebody. A loving loving friend of somebody. And somebody who trusts that person. Somebody Somebody who cares about that person. Somebody who thinks great great about that person. Many other people have other kind of visions to that person. But you happen to have individual individual karmic vision of that person, and it’s in your head. So you look at that vision and just say “Vision is a mind.” “Vision is a mind.” And you internally look at that image. And just simply simply say “Vision “Vision is a mind.” Exactly the same way way we did with with the fear, repeat the same thing. thing. You realize that the person is not there. And it releases something probably in our mind in our brain in our body, that somehow releases some energy, that you feel much more lighter about that person. So any emotion is possible possible to work with. Whenever you work with with any emotion, when it clears the object of that emotion, it clears the subject of emotion, it clears the space, Openness, it clears Awareness, and it also… you are able to experience the Union of that Awareness and Openness, then the antidote of that emotion has a better chance to arise. ar ise. Like anger really, if it was anger that you were working on, then when you feel there is no object of anger, when you you feel there is no really a subject subject even who is angry, angry, and you feel there is a space outside, you feel there is Awareness inside, you feel that you have some familiarity and connection and realization of that Awareness, and naturally that’s going to give the birth to love. love. That means what? That means you will just feel more love. Not love that you are forcefully trying trying to have. But the love which which effortlessly manifests manifests in the right moment in the right situation because there’s no blockages there. So as a conclusion you know I just wanted to say that this is a very precious teaching. And of course some people people might say this is too much to do this in in a YouTube. But every language has limitations, every experience has limitations, and those who are meant to understand, will understand, those who are meant to not understand it, the Dakini will keep it secret, and will not understand it… it… doesn’t matter how much much you watch it. And those who are meant to understand I’m sure you will connect and you will have some realization and benefit from it. That’s my prayer. Thank you.
