![]() ![]() Mahayana Teachers say that though it's liberation from delusions, imprints of delusions remain (obstacles to omniscience). Probably it's the same as the Stream Entry. It is the first of Ten Bhumis of Bodhisattva. Therefore some people think it's a permanent change (sometimes it happens so), some people think it's a transitory experience that comes and goes. That experience of seeing may be impermanent, because of our deeply rooted habits. They still can appear in the mental continuum, but they do not enslave in that absolute way as it was before. I think it can be called "liberation" because the illusory nature of delusions is revealed. The first one is the experience of "seeing the true nature". Awakening as liberation from delusions.Mahayana Teachers speak of awakening or enlightenment in two meanings: Realization is like seeing the first rays of sunshine on the horizon - you know that the sun is in the sky. Means that you have just touched on the possibility of liberation. So realization does not mean you are liberated it Realize something, you have to practice that realization, and then youĪre liberated. Think realization is liberation, but in our case, it is not. You have to follow it up you have to become liberated. Having received transmission and having had some kind of realization, (from Secrets on Cultivating the Mind by Bojo Jinul) It is only after many months and years that ![]() With all the sense organs just like everyone else, but its strength is From the day of its birth, a baby is endowed Sacred embryo, and after a long time he becomes a saint. Permeation, his endeavors reach completion. In Zen this is known as "sudden awakening, gradual cultivation":Īlthough he has awakened to the fact that his original nature is noĭifferent from that of the Buddhas, the beginningless habit‐energiesĪre extremely difficult to remove suddenly and so he must continue toĬultivate while relying on this awakening. Hair's breadth different from that of all the Buddhas.įrom this moment on, one's practice stops being guesswork or imitation and becomes informed by real understanding. Originally endowed with the non‐outflow wisdom‐nature which is not a Nature is innately free of defilement, and that he himself is Seeing his own original nature, he discovers that the ground of this No, satori is not complete enlightenment, it is an a-ha moment when the practitioner finally realizes "how things are": ![]()
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