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| Book Review: "Parting from the Four Attachments: A Commentary on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience on Mind and the Training of View" | ||
| 作者 | MacDonald, Gloria |
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| 出處題名 | The Middle Way: Journal of the Buddhist Society |
| 卷期 | v.79 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2004.05 |
| 頁次 | 53 - 54 |
| 出版者 | The Buddhist Society |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/ |
| 出版地 | London, England, UK [倫敦, 英格蘭, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | PARTING FROM THE FOUR ATTACHMENTS: A Commentary on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience on Mind and the Training of View, translated orally by Thubten Choedak at the time of Chogye Trichen Rinpoche's six sets of teachings, transcribed, compiled and edited by John Deweese, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca NY, 2003, ISBN 1 55939 193 6, pp. 192, ￡10.95. |
| 摘要 | Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147-1216) offered practical advice as one who has realized the truth of the Buddha's teachings through the practice of deep meditation. These teachings have come down in an unbroken lineage through the Sakya school and are known as Lamdre. The teachings contain instructions and practices covering both sutra and tantra the essence of which is knowledge of the inseparability of Samsara and Nirvana, i.e. there is no abandoning of Samsara to achieve Nirvana, as the mind is the root of both. The present Chogye Trichen Rinpoche is the eldest lama of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He has produced a commentary on Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience, which is based on Manjushri's succinct four-line teaching on parting from the four objects of attachment: this life, the world of existence, one's own purpose and grasping. The commentary says that Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen wishes us to understand for ourselves that there are two possible approaches to meditation, the superficial (where there may be temporary concerns related to this life) and the genuine. With mindfulness and attentiveness, we can make it a priority to practise sincerely and to shun any self-seeking pretence. Mindfulness and watchfulness awaken intelligence, and with this foundation there is the possibility of eliminating negativity. It also provides clarity, renewed energy and a freshened perspective. The aim of these teachings is to generate an urgent necessity to renounce attachments and seek liberation. He asks, 'What is the benefit of gaining the bliss of Nirvana for oneself alone?' A re-examination of motivation is encouraged at this stage until we become saddened or ashamed at the thought of exclusively seeking our own liberation. Drakpa Gyaltsen goes on to reveal the importance of cultivating altruism, the intention to benefit sentient beings. He teaches the importance of developing bodhicitta, the wish to attain Enlightenment for the sake of others, implicitly indicating how this is developed by meditations on loving kindness and compassion and explicitly teaching the importance of exchanging self for others. Drakpa Gyaltsen then reminds us that it is necessary to dedicate all the virtue we accumulate to all other sentient beings, our own kind mothers. The ability to discern all appearances as mind is explained in the Lamdre teachings of the Sakya school and a line of meditative enquiry is laid out. The study of the arising, abiding and ceasing of mind, in order to become established in emptiness, is covered in the latter section of the commentary. The teachings presented in the commentary are grounded throughout in the basic tenets as transmitted by the Buddha Sakyamuni in order to realize the Middle Way. They are supported by reference to the masters who have made significant contributions and exemplify the teaching of Drakpa Gyaltsen, and this teaching returns to the deep study and contemplation of Manjushri's four lines. |
| ISSN | 00263214 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 610 |
| 建檔日期 | 2009.09.30 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.11.05 |
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