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| Poster: PTDT Reply Post Message Date: Fri Jun 29 23:47:02 2007 |
| Subject: Pho^? Hie^`n Bo^` Ta't / Gui ban Minh Phap va` Nghi Va^'n |
| Post No: 3889 |
Pho^? Hie^`n Bo^` Ta't represents great practice, great conduct, truth, and compassion. Hai ngu+o*`i having sex die^~n ta? dduoc nhu+~ng die^`u be^n tre^n va` mindfulness ma` kho^ng ca^`n pha?i du`ng ngo^n ngu+~ ru+o*`m ra`. Xin hai ba.n xem ba`i tri'ch sau da^y: Samantabhadra(Tibetan: Guntu Sangpo) Samantabhadra is the primordial Buddha associated with compassion and is known as a protector of the sutra. He is the antecedent of all and the expanse of reality. He holds sway over existence and quiescence in their entirety. He is naked and blue in color, and is most often pictured embracing his white consort Samantrabhhadri. They are another emanation of Adibuddha, the ever-present potential for Buddhahood, that has always been and always be. Yab-Yum (male&female in sexual position) If these ferocious, demonic figures are startling to the uninitated viewer, other tantric motifs and images seem even more shocking or bizarre. Tantric paintings and sculpture often depict a male and female deity locked in sexual embrace, an image known as "yab-yum," or father-mother. Seen without explanation, these images appear erotic and, if considered as devotional art, obscene and scandalous. Rather, the motif is to be understood as a visual symbol of a primary Buddhist teaching, as explained above: that enlightenment is obtained through the union of wisdom and compassion. The figures in a yab-yum image are thus symbolic, the male deity representing compassion, the female representing wisdom (insight), and their embrace is a visual metaphor for the rapture of union. Dualism, the illusory perception of independent existence and origination, is the source of egoism, ignorance, and suffering; union, the goal of the mystic, the fundamental objective of yoga, transcends polarity and leads to bliss. This is bodhicitta, the nonpolarized state, the recognition of indivisible, indestructible truth--enlightenment. Nam mo^ Dia Tang Vu+o*ng Bo^` Ta't. |