Univ of Vienna Professor Klaus-Dieter Mathes "Meditation Tradition of Interpreting Maitreya-Works

This lecture, "The Meditation Tradition of Interpreting the Maitreya Works: Taking Yogacara and Buddah Nature as a Basis of Mahamudra Pith Instructions"  was of inestimable value and the professor's talk was "luminous"...
I met his wife Dagmar  at tea.  She is a painter.  She concentrates on Nature:  rocks and water. They met twenty years ago.   They climbed Strawberry hill today and had a long hike.   They will tour in SF on the weekend.  Her website : Dagmar_de.com
 
 
 
 



Some points: 
 
 The  Sutra Path has direct perception of the true reality of mind. Fundamental transformation is the goal of the Path.  The Essence is "Sara". 
 
Luminosity is free from all mental  fabrication:  NIRVANA.  The result is not a momentary mind stream(duality) , but something Selfless and  "Ultimate".  
 
  Analyzing insights burns the very mental faculty it has arisen from.   Just as the fire kindled by two sticks will go out, so the analyzing insight itself disappears.
 
  Emptiness permits transformation.  Emptiness exists as "LIGHT". Emptiness is the absence of duality.  Emptiness is The Perfect Nature..   Meditating on emptiness can realize the Buddah potential. 
 
One cannot cling to "illusions" and "appearance" which is the root of all suffering. Attachment to the "imagined" or duality destroys the Object's Wisdom.  A false imagining or a dependent nature exists only on the level of "relative truth" . 
 
  Confused thoughts are not true.  The True Mind has special imitations.  The Perfect Nature contains the Truth of the path, on which one will be unmistaken with regard to what can be known. The Truth of the Path is not entirely "unconditioned", but must be produced through merit and vision. 
 
 Certain aspects of "Buddahood need to be discovered. The Buddah is "blissful and pure".  The Buddah is Subtle.   
 

Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes employs the Tibetan doctrine, the Maitreya Yogacara  and the  sources of original verses, commentary verses, and Prose commentary.   He has spent considerable time in Nepal.

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