Thursday, May 20, 2021

Heart Sutra: Five Aggregates as “emptiness”


Compassion 7: Visualization practice on the nature of the Five Aggregates as “emptiness” in the Heart Sutra
Avalokiteshvara/Kwan Yin Bodhisattva
(Dudjom Buddhist 敦珠佛學會, April 25, 2021) Compassion Series (7): Pithy verbal instructions for the visualization practice on the “Nature of the Five Aggregates as Emptiness in the Heart Sutra.”

This is the seventh episode of a series on the “Visualization Practice of Compassion and Bodhicitta.”

For over 1,000 years people have misinterpreted and misunderstood the contents of both the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra.

They have also misunderstood the oral pith-instructions of the “Great Perfection” (Dzogchen) as well as “emptiness” (shunyata), resulting in psychological madness for many Dharma practitioners.

Some of the people who went astray down the wrong path slowly developed into a practice and tradition known as “Crazy Wisdom.” And many of their disciples have suffered great pains and abuses on account of it. The harm they have done is indeed immense.

What will be the consequences in misinterpreting the oral pith-instructions of the “Great Perfection”? This misguided idea of “Crazy Wisdom” has done great harm to both individual Buddhists and whole communities in the West and across the world.

How large, how broad, and how deep has the harm been to Buddhist communities around the world and to all sentient beings?

This entire series will teach how to practice the Dharma, especially using the Choying Dzod (“The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena,” one of the great masterpieces of Longchen Rabjampa) as the main focus on the teachings of the “Great Perfection” of Nyingmapa to synthesize the visualization practice of both compassion and bodhicitta (“enlightened mind”) in our everyday experience.

At the same time it will compare the Dharma practices of the “Great Perfection” with those of the underlying levels of secret meanings in the the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra. Doing so will help right the wrongs misinterpreting “emptiness” has done to many Dharma practitioners for over a millennium.

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