8/13/2019 Lake of Lotus (5)-His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche on the
Three Yanas-By His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche-Dudjom Bu
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Drawing ana n a l o g y w h i c hI w a s o f t e n t omeet again
later,Dudjom Rinpocheanswered: All theseobstacles ca l lthem sins
if you like can be thoughtof in three ways.T h i n k o f t h e m
,for example, as apoisonous plant.There are three
possible attitudesto adopt before apoisonous plant.
F i rst o f a l l ,fear and caution.
That is a poison: I shall not touch it, I shall not even lookat
it; I shall turn away from it. This, Dudjom Rinpochewent on, is the
attitude of Hinayana, with its rules andmonastic disciplines,
chattering is a stone of stumbling,so I keep silent; money is a
stone of stumbling, so I say
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche on the
Three Yanas
no to it, I refuse to touch it; sex is a stone of stumbling,so I
have nothing to do with women, I do not even lookat them
The second attitudeis that of Mahayana, of theMadhyamika
teaching of Nagarjuna: I can approach thispoisonous plant, and even
eat the fruit of it, because Iknow the antidote. The antidote is
experience of unreality,of the Void. The Mahayanist knows how to
wipe outKarma how to make it disappear by ones experience ofthe
non-reality, the insubstantiality of everything; for thiscan
dissolve like snowakes falling into boiling water.Whatever comes,
nothing comes. Whatever happens,nothing happens.
And then, Dudjom Rinpoche told me, there is a thirdattitude,
that of Tantrayana, founded on the total absenceof fear, which
consists in deliberately eating the fruit ofthe poisonous plant,
because one knows how to digest it,without its doing the slightest
harm, because one knowshow to transform it, assimilate it,
eliminate it. Where theway is concerned, it is this idea of
transformation whichis fundamental.
(This is a short excerpt from Mr. Arnaud Desjardinsbook of The
Message of The Tibetans, 1966.)
By H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche
Recorded by Arnaud Desjardins
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
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