Self Generation Flashcards
What are the three basic bodies?
What are the three bodies of the path?
1) Basic Truth Body is our clear light of sleep and clear light of death…they are the bases of the TB b/c they are similar in aspect to the TB and they are the bases that are brought into the path and transformed into the actual TB of a Buddha.
The basic enjoyment body is our dream body and our intermediate state body….they are similar in aspect to the EB, and b/c by bringing the dream body and the intermediate state body into the path we will eventually transform them into the actual EB of a Buddha.
The basic emanation body is our waking from sleep and our rebirth.
2) ultimate example clear light, which directly prevents ordinary death; the illusory body, which directly prevents ordinary intermediate state; and the gross Deity body that arises from the illusory body, which directly prevents ordinary death.
What are the three main functions of bringing death into the path of the Truth Body?
purifies ordinary death
causes the realization of clear light to ripen
increases our collection of wisdom
[when the BAM begins to dissolve in the first bringing] What are the stages of dissolution?
mirage like appearance - dissolution of the earth element
Head of BAM dissolves into the crescent moon > smoke-like appearance that arises due to the dissolution of water element.
Crescent moon into drop > sparkling fireflies-like appearance that arises due to the dissolution of the fire element.
Drop into the nada > candle flame-like appearance due to…wind element.
White appearance.
Lower nada into middle curve > red increase.
Middle curve into upper curve > black near-attainment.
Upper curve into emptiness > clear light.
After the dissolution of the BAM in the first bringing, what four recognitions should I have?
1) my mind of clear light has actually manifested and is experiencing great bliss
2) only emptiness appears to my mind
3) i identify this emptiness as the lack of IEP
4) I imagine i have attained the TB of a Buddha and think, ‘I am TB VY’
