Buddhahood!
Will We Ever Get There!?!?
I
took a long break of bhumi readings and therefore it seems discussion
about bhumis has been very little during the past year or so. Let's
bring it back! Nevertheless, people have been practicing diligently
and making excellent progress. We have a number of sangha members who
have opened all their bhumis and made significant progress in
perfections which is also unique. One of the reasons why I took that
break is that I wanted to have unoccupied time and space for my own
practice to better understand the process of karmic purification in
terms of the 13 bhumi model. Based on this, I gave specific
instructions for perfection stage practice of Rainbow
Body Yoga that are now available to all sangha members.
I
cannot convey to you the joy and satisfaction I feel for being able
to do this because what we are looking here are very precise and
detailed instructions for purification of the whole karmic body, one
layer or one bhumi after the other, until it is entirely dealt with.
Together with genuine concern for the liberation of all sentient
beings (bodhicitta), this is a purely mechanical and logical
procession of tantric vipashyana leading to full enlightenment or
buddhahood. I could not have done it without my gurus so my gratitude
goes out to them again and again and again!
The thought of
*our sangha members* attaining buddhahood is something that I've
intentionally brought up many times in my talks since 1-2 years ago.
Last time I did this was on the last retreat when I
read a bit from Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who said that in his
lifetime he met "many men and women" who had attained
buddhahood, that it is "not a fable or a fairytale" and
that it is possible indeed for people "world over". These
words can be found from his book Repeating the Words of the Buddha.
By talking and discussing this topic among our sangha I've
wanted to bring the big, bad, great and unreachable "buddhahood"
closer to us, to pop some of the imaginary bubbles we might have
about it. There is so much fluff about it that I think this kind of
demystifying discussion is very necessary. Just like we have absorbed
values and views from christianity that we might not even be aware
of, in the same way, and I think I can speak for all those who have
been exposed to buddhist culture, we have absorbed ideas and
limitations from it. The most harmful of them being the subconscious
idea that buddhahood cannot *actually* be attained by any of us
little people and that buddhahood is the property of only the most
excellent practitioners living in the holy caves of the East. Even if
masters such as Tulku Urgyen repeatedly tell to us that it is indeed
possible, I don't think I've ever met anyone who would have really
taken this seriously. Oh gosh... This brings back (limiting and
absurd) memories! It's time to put an end to false views and
ineffective and unsuitable practices.
So... We have the exact
knowhow of purfying each karmic layer after the other... When will we
get there then!?
Sivakami, who passed away 10 years ago this
month, taught me many useful things and one of those was couple of
different kinds of divination. I've used, should I call it perhaps
"mahasiddha divination" many times over my career of
practice on various things. I have for example used it for finding
out when I or my students would reach a certain stage of practice.
For example, when my first bhumi opened in 11/2011, I did a
divination the same day finding out when the 6th would open. The
result of the divination was July of 2013, about 2½ years after the
first opening. It turned out correct 2½ years later.
Earlier
this week I sent instruction of this type of divination to 11 sangha
members who are in the process of perfecting bhumis. The nature of
this exercise is to get an answer when one would reach buddhahood,
coming up with a date for it. Half of the people haven't yet replied
to me and couple of the answers I didn't feel were correct. However,
5 of them did. Based on this it looks like there will be 5 people
reaching buddhahood during the next 5½ years, until the Summer of
2026. Three of those before the end of 2022.
One saying that
I like is, "This life is not a rehearsal". To put it in
this context, our practice is not a rehearsal. It is inevitable that
all this stabilising of the natural state, that has been happening
since 4 years ago, and quick progress of purification results in
complete purification.
I guess we'll see when the time
arrives.
May the sun of dharma shine on you, for the sake of
all sentient beings.
Kim
Rinpoche, 22.11.2020
Pemako Buddhism
