So therefore, to recognize the reality of phenomena, reality of things, we need to take some training first, to exercise first. It’s not too visible – actually you cannot see that through your physical eye. It is not something that really understood by your mind sometimes.
Emptiness is the nature of the mind. Emptiness is in everything. That’s the main nature of the things. That emptiness is very pure, because there’s no stain in that emptiness. It is not obscured. There is no obscuration for that emptiness because it doesn’t contain any stain, any obscuration…
So the great Dharma practitioners like Jigme Lingpa was able to use his inner library. That’s true. Therefore, He doesn’t need to go somewhere to look for a teacher, but he was able to use his own library, his own computer, for that. Naturally, He became a big scholar.
Reading books, learning, or hearing different teachings are good. But they’re useful only when you apply, when you are really using that to meditate. If you don’t use that way, you don’t use what you have learned, what do you have heard, what do you have read, then they’re not really useful, because that kind of knowledge is not very useful in samsara.
Reading, hearing different commentaries, different teachings is also very important. But the purpose of doing that, purpose for us to read to listen to study is to know what to be able to meditate, to be able to get the essence of that teaching, to really have experience from that teaching.
Generally speaking, there are two principal qualities of the mind. The first one is emptiness. And the second is clarity. And in order for Buddha to teach people to realize these qualities of the mind He taught the teachings on The Four Noble Truths – the First Turning of the Dharma Wheel. The First Dharma Wheel is basically for the foundation, for the realization of the meanings that were taught in the Second Wheel Dharma and the last, the Third Wheel Dharma.
Bless me so that illusory appearances will arise as wisdom.
The instructions of Dzogchen Teaching gives a way to [reach] the nature, to that purity, very directly. And the liberation is not something far from oneself but within oneself.
Buddha’s wisdom is inconceivable. Therefore, Buddha sees everything, Buddha knows everything. Buddha knows what brings happiness exactly to one’s life and Buddha knows what can cause liberation, so the Buddha’s teaching is most valuable, very very valuable.
The second one is also knowledge. One should be intelligent to understand the qualities of Dharma teachers.
