Buddha gave 3 wheel of teaching

1)Based on four noble truths

Suffering yo be recognized

See cause of suffering

Way out of suffering

The path

2)loving kindness compassion and buddhicitta

Intention

Practice – wisdom and method

5 methods: 5 paramitas: generosity discipline patience effort meditation

3)buddha nature : enlightened goodness inherent in us: all of us are perfect

The original purity

Dharmakhaya

Pristine awareness

Clarity

Luminosity

All of us has great quality has awareness love compassion powers

We need to recognize and discover

If we have ten qualities

We always see or exaggerate the one negative qualities even if we have nine good qualities

How to experience and recognize our innate quality our pure awareness

Buddha: You all are Buddha and have enlightened nature. How to recognize this?

It is as if you have a house and the land, beneath house is a treasure. But you don’t know. You struggle to live your life.

But actually you are a v rich person

One day you met a treasure hunter and recognize that you are a rich person.

You might be surprised because you struggled to survive. All this while.

Treasure hunter says you have treasure under your house and discover with you the treasure underneath

And exchanged some for luxury

Who is richer

The person who don’t recognize he has treasure

The person who recognized he has Treaure and exchanged some for luxury house

Both same rich

Problem is he don’t recognize he has treasure

We all have treasure within ourselves

Basic innate goodness wisdom skills potential —- your true nature is Buddha but you don’t recognize or not yet discover this enlightened quality within ourselves

As we recognize more, we become more free

We create our suffering and reality based on our ignorance and the reality becomes solid and we trap ourselves with our kind speech etc

Samsara is nirvana

Suffering doesn’t exist

We are perfect

But in the reality of suffering we create we can’t go beyond time impure body speech mind environment or obscurations

How to discover our treasure our Buddha nature within ourselves

In vajrayana tradition there are three ways to discover the enlightened nature within ourselves

⁃ developmental stage : we use imagination as path. With imagination which is v powerful form shape colour ie working with body

⁃ Completion stage with concept : working with subtle body working with speech the essence is breath or energy which exist thru body. Nerves nadi or channels : things loving inside nadi is cells or essence of energy bindu. Rhythm of moving and change is prana

⁃ Path of liberation: completion without concept : 5 levels in Tergar : working directly with mind and awareness with thinking feeling habitual and essence (or true nature of ) mind

Focus on developmental stage

Using imagination

Whatever we do in our life we have to use imagination

There’s some kind of image speech sensation belief in imagination

These four constitute imagination

Olympic athletes use imagination in training

Grow muscles by imagination- imagination running

Some pple can’t raise hand, imagine can raise hand and really can raise hand

Imagination can come true and become reality! Power of imagination!!!

In developmental stage, use imagination as path

Use enlightened qualities with imagination

We all are Buddha have immeasurable wisdom skills potential compassion all with you but none of them are manifesting with the way we look and manage our problems

All problems or obscurations are temporary so don’t worry!!!!!

Maybe you don’t have wisdom skills potential compassion now but you can IMAGINE! And become Buddha like!!! What Buddha see do feel!

Look at all beings with the eyes of a Buddha , with wisdom beyond concept

Imagine white Tara – wisdom

Fake it till you make it

Use concept to go beyond concept

Actually not totally faking because at essence level you are Buddha

In practice imagine you are Tara and share the light to heal and purify all beings

When you imagine deity, it’s like moon reflection in lake is empty form

Ie emptiness but emptiness doesn’t mean nothing

Emptiness is fullness or potential

You get refuge

Real refuge is connecting with the Buddha within ourselves

Taking fruition as path ie just thinking that I m enlightened

Awareness: because without this you can’t concentrate on the deity and his qualities