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Obstacles - 2

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Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was experiencing obstacles.


These are the five sutras that you need to recite (or have someone else recite):

1) Heart Sutra, the sutra of right view

2) Transcendental Wisdom Passing Away

3) The sutra of pure conduct, the meditation—the King of Prayers

4) The sutra of washing (Dorje Namjom)


5) One syllable Heart of the Sutra—AH. You just recite AH and meditate on the meaning of AH—that the “I,” action, and the object—no phenomena—have true existence. Meditate on emptiness—that is the meaning of AH. Recite AH then meditate on that meaning, looking at everything, all phenomena, the “I,” action, and the object, everything, as empty.

As Shantideva mentioned in the Bodhicaryavatara, the Buddha has taught all the branches of teachings to actualize wisdom. This means the 84,000 teachings are to actualize wisdom. The heart of these 84,000 is wisdom gone beyond the perfection of wisdom, which has 100,000 stanzas; the twelve volumes have 20,000 stanzas; the three volumes are shorter than that and have 8,000 stanzas; the heart of all those teachings is the perfection of wisdom, the heart of wisdom, the heart sutra, and even more condensed than that is a few syllables of the perfection of wisdom.

Now even more condensed than this is all the Prajnaparamita teachings embodied in one syllable, which is AH. When Lama Atisha recited the Heart Sutra, when it says “no I, no aggregate, no form,” Lama Atisha used AH in place of “no.” AH negates the inherent existence that is projected on the “I,” action, the object, all phenomena, that are merely imputed by the mind, projected by one’s own ignorance, the concept of true existence, and grasping at true existence.


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