Saga Dawa Duchen falls on June 14, the full moon day. On this auspicious day, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche gave a teaching on the Essence of Development Stage of Vajrayana and oral transmission of mantras of Vajrasattva (purification), Buddha Medicine (health), Tara mantras (developing wisdom), Longevity mantras (long life) and Amitabha (pure land).

It is always a joy and a blessing to listen to Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. My root teacher in a way.

The key points of the teaching below:

Taking fruition as path

Fruition = Enlightenment quality – we have right now right here by nature 

Three wisdom or kaya

Wisdom of recognizing ultimate truth

Wisdom of knowing relative phenomena 

Always here with us 

Three practice of vajrayana

• path of liberation: the most profound of vajrayana
• Completion : working with body prana bindu
• Developmental: working with imagination visualization and concept: using concept as path

Taking course as path

Taking fruition as path

• fruit already there
• But obscuration present so
• Remove all obscuration

Ie we all already Buddha but just don’t see or know it yet so remove all obscuration 

So possible to become Buddha in one lifetime 

Qns- why do we have obscuration why do we not see the truth

Answ we cannot find the answer

When we want to find something that is beginning or the end 

It’s not possible 

Because time is an illusion time is emptiness 

When this samsara comes ?

Where is the beginning

There is no beginning 

So we look at now and present

Samsara is emptiness and what we are experiencing now with kind body environment is just an illusion

There is no samsara

Emptiness and clarity 

So we are all Buddha

But we can’t see it because we have habit of perceiving the samsara

Developmental: imagination of Buddha deity 

What is imagination 

Imagination has image voice sensation based on belief

Together they form imagination 

Imagination or visualization – v powerful eg on sportsman : when they don’t move and only visualize they are running : they grow muscles 

Some people who can’t raise hand: just imagine raising hands and they can raise hands 

Is imagination to plan the future 

Imagine Fruit in hand and saliva in mouth increase

• because when kind has fruit, nerves, prana, bindu all create saliva 
• If we use imagination rightly for our practice on our path 

Practice imagination with 5 Buddha 

Vajrasattva 

Medicine Buddha

Tara

White Tara 

Amitabha 

Image or Buddha is like a reflection of moon in water, like in a rainbow in sky or a pizza in dream- beyond time and space

Practice:

Take refuge and bodhicitta 

Buddha in front of you

Pray to Buddha 

Chant mantra

Light from Buddha heart goes into you and all beings

Buddha dissolve into light and enters you and all beings

Advantages of above practice 

When you imagine, you need mindfulness and awareness and concentration 

• so actually we are doing samadhi meditation with Buddha image 
• Become emptiness or vipassana practice when you see image dream like or moon reflection in water it’s like not real but so real so appear as Buddha but like emptiness 
• Become refuge: you are praying to Buddha : refuge practice comes automatically 
• Become bodhicitta: imagine the light that comes to you touch all beings and they become Buddha 
• Taking fruition as path: prana bindu nadi changing helps us discover Buddha in us

Dedication 

Purify obstacles and fully recognize Buddha within and all beings