Dharmakāya

Might be a long time, eons upon eons.

But since you cannot separate the potential from the actualization or the space in which it actualizes, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya, Dharmakaya, You cannot in any way simply achieve nirvana and think you can keep it.

In Mahayana, we swear the obvious, not to achieve individual enlightenment, but to work for the enlightenment of all beings until the end of time.

This will happen whether you swear it or not due to the fact that there's no such thing as an individual.

Stick your head over there and your legs over there and your limbs over there and the torso in another place.

There's no you left, but there is awareness, awakeness, perceiver, which cannot be located or grasped, for it is infinitely empty.

often referred to as Dharmakaya nature of mind.

Vast, open, utterly free without boundaries.

So don't make them something highfaluted.

We simply call that infinite vastness of natural mind, Dharmakaya, Chuku.

And the vitality of it, its awareness, its ability, the lucidity, which we euphemistically call the clear light nature of the Dharmakaya, which is intrinsic to that emptiness is that it is awake and aware.

We call that longku, which is sambhogakaya.

You see how sambhogakaya is simply an intrinsic aspect of dharmakaya? It is the ability to think, feel.

Well, yeah, because I need to send someone over there to get some gifts for people.

Ah.

Can you please explain how we experience the Dharmakaya?

Those that weren't happening in the moment, I could still imagine and want them to happen and go to a different leaf that I thought would taste better.

So we've all got the awareness We've all got the katha, primordial purity, Buddha nature, the vast openness of Dharmakaya nature of mind with its clear light nature, which is vital and alive, lucid and luminous, Sambhogakaya nature of mind.

And because it is light, It sparkles.

Awareness may be seen as light.

Humans can remember three things at once.

Everything else needs notes or active memorization.

Dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, nirmanakaya.

Within this intrinsic awareness, this natural state, the three jewels, dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, nirmanakaya, are inseparable and fully present as one.

previous chapter, and the one before it, and the one before that, was introducing you to your own true nature.

Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya, Chukulonku and Truku.

Since it is empty and not created anywhere, it is the Dharmakaya.

Since its luminous clarity represents the inherent transparent radiance of emptiness, it is the Sambhogakaya.

Since its arising is nowhere obstructed or interrupted, it is the nirmanakaya.

You are empty of independent existence.

You and your beasties need to notice this.

Dharmakaya, nature of mind.

And I think it's because I've been looking at the three bodies of belonging, you know, like, so I think, I hope it's okay to, introduced that.

So I've been looking at that quite a lot in depth, the Namanakaya, the Sambhogakaya, the Dharmakaya.

So rather than looking at two things, it's kind of like looking at three really.

And looking at the Sambhogakaya or the bridge between the body in the world and the total absolute um you know looking at like the the activity of of enlightenment you know or the activity of a compassionate buddha-like approach and yeah and it just struck me whilst you know whilst um people were talking that you know is that one way of of helping you know in the way that you described without i mean i don't do it much, but when I can, you know, when I'm in a good place, and I'm in a pretty good place at the moment, actually, the last couple of days through practice and stuff, you know, there is a sense of kind of love for activity that I can do within my sphere, within my realm, you know, in a very open way, without holding on, without grasping on And I kind of like understanding, you know, I can feel it slipping away like all the time.

Thank you.

Yeah, just in case there's anybody here who has no idea what those words mean.

mean and i don't have a i'm not a i haven't studied them a lot but like so this is just one another one of those teachings with a list and so there's the three bodies of buddha and nirmanakaya is like kind of the relative like this this tangible existence and in that sense it was like shakyamuni buddha or you know And then the Dharmakaya on the other end of the spectrum is like just the absolute can't be described thusness.

And some, but then there's some Vogakaya, which is like the emanation body or the like, it's kind of mysterious, but the way that I, I've kind of thought about it and I recall Kyogen talking about it.

The peaceful and wrathful deities are, we say, emanations of the Sambhogakaya.

This intrinsic awareness is Dharmakaya nature of mind, the dance of creativity, the ability to create, which to be fierce, to be peaceful, to feel, to think, just the ability, not the thoughts themselves, not the feelings themselves, but the ability to is what is symbolized by Sambhogakaya nature of mind, which is drawn, image read, as all the peaceful and fierce archetypes of the three times.

What is created, the multiple dancers, your little mind, your thoughts, your feelings, your stuff, that's nirmanakaya.

And they're not separate.

It's right here, right now.

And it ain't going nowhere.

Dharmakaya nature of mind.

which is what awareness is when it's stripped naked of its creations, its froufrous, its perceptions, phenomena.

Say the rest of it.

The question is, is it the Dharmakaya personality? Who looks through my eyes?

The seer.

Rigpa.

Dharmakaya is emptiness.

However, innate to it is clear light nature of Dharmakaya.

This itself is the Sambhogakaya.

This is the vitality, the aliveness of the universe.

All of these words and instructions for a Dzogchenpa become a trap.

You have to step past even space, infinite openness of awareness, space, Dharmakaya nature of mind.

Step through it into the ineffable, indescribable on the other side.

And with respect to the real meaning of non-duality, Since they divide these space and awareness into two, they're having an oops.