A heart sutra meditation. A practice that will assist you in working with active compassion. In addition, an opportunity to explore your inner silence and see what is. By cultivating a regular meditation practice, you will have a deeper understanding and relationship with your soul and highest expression. This sutra in particular will assist the practitioner in moving being the ‘I’, suffering and duality. As inspired, take a few moments for you and nourish your heart, mind, body and soul.
“From now on the root text describes the practices on the paths of accumulation and preparation. These discussions are based on the fact that we have already generated bodhicitta and we are training in an understanding of emptiness.
The Heart Sutra tells us how we should first understand the importance of having a realization of emptiness, and then generate bodhicitta. This is necessary because initially we meditate on the seven instructions of cause and effect to generate bodhicitta. We start to recognize that all sentient beings are our mother and by remembering this kindness, we then want to repay that love, compassion and that extraordinary attitude.
When we generate this extraordinary attitude, the unusual thought of leading all sentient beings to the state of everlasting happiness by ourselves alone is generated. At this time, we then investigate whether it is possible to achieve the state of enlightenment. The reason for doing this is so that we, alone, can lead others out of the state of suffering. But first of all we must be freed from that state ourselves.
Then we investigate whether or not it is possible to be completely freed from all suffering. We need to come to the understanding that when we are able to remove all defilements and delusions from our mental continuum, it is possible to get out of cyclic existence, the state of suffering.
Delusions are caused by the self-grasping attitude. When we realize that we can eliminate this self-grasping attitude, we can get out of the state of suffering. We then come to know that defilements are removable and that the state of liberation or enlightenment is attainable.”
“By this mantra alone, the most intelligent ones can understand the entire practice:
TADYATHA OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA.
TADYATHA is “thus” or “it is like this”.
GATE GATE means “go, go”. So, go to the path of accumulation, go to the path of preparation. This refers to the two initial paths.
PARAGATE refers to going to the path of seeing.
PARASAMGATE refers to the path of meditation.
BODHI refers to the Buddha. It means going towards buddhahood.
“Go, go to the path of accumulation, to the path of preparation, to the path of seeing, to the path of meditation—go towards buddhahood (aka your divinity, highest expression).””
~ By Geshe Lama Konchog Read More (Click Here)
BeSimply Radio Broadcasting on Itunes (Click Here)
Here are some Additional Articles that might interest you…
BeSimply…NO Doubt {LoveSelf}
BeSimply…SoHUM {SoundSilence}
3 Cups of Tea and 3 Questions with ‘She’
Connect with Upcoming Meditations, Retreats and Workshops!
Want to align, create and actualize your vision?
…Moving through a Transition ?
