Buddha encouraged his students to be skeptical, inviting them to thoroughly check for themselves whether his teachings were dogmatic or truly liberating.
What is the Vajrayana or Diamond Way?
Guru Yoga, the most practiced method in the West today, contains the broadest approach to enlightenment, if one’s teacher is reliable. Although not everybody finds this way suitable, mind is best recognized in daily life through identification with a compassionate Lama who is beyond fear. If one can rest in such a teacher’s mind-space until one develops all one’s inherent qualities, there will be an amazing growth.
What is enlightenment?
What is the meaning of the teacher ?
The highest level of teaching cannot be properly understood or maintained without a teacher. If the communication is missing which neutralizes pride, sentimentality and superficiality, one may become lonely or useless in daily life. The lama employs methods for developing his or her students” potential, allowing them to push through layers of habitual behavior. It is the Lama’s job to make students independent, compassionate and strong. On the highest level, the lama lets the students enter the fearless mirror cabinet of his or her mind. When they discover that they are of that same nature, nothing more remains to be found.
Why are Buddhists working with their mind?
Ultimately, it becomes clear that the fact that mind can be aware is more important than what it is aware of. One realizes that the pictures in the mirror are less important than the mirror’s radiance.
How does rebirth work?
One’s body and mind experiences a series of constantly changing sensory and subconscious impressions, one superseded by the next, where nothing permanent in our body, feelings or thoughts can be found. At death, this stream is cut off from the sensory experiences of the body. Mind’s strongest tendencies will then mature and connect one with one’s next body, physical or mental.
What is Karma?
Used in the right way, the understanding of karma therefore means freedom. In every situation it gives beings the freedom to decide their future. The Diamond Way offers especially effective methods for removing the impressions of negative, harmful actions from mind. By this we can get rid of what would ripen as difficult states and situations in the future. Through Buddhist meditation, we can overcome the whole process of cause and effect. However, if we don’t choose to work with our mind, we will have no control at all and simply be the victim of our own actions.
What is the symbolic meaning of the male and female principles in Diamond Way Buddhism?
In the Tantras of immediate experience, women and men are essentially space and joy. Space and joy are regarded as inseparable. This is why the highest levels of Buddhist tantra are represented by unified Buddha forms. Our goal is the perfection of all inner and secret possibilities of the mind. Therefore, women and men should use their relationship to learn from each other. Then, women will soon accomplish also the male qualities like joy and energy, and intuitive wisdom and space will develop for men.
