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At Buddhas' enlightenment place, Bodhgaya, India,
Prostrating before the great Stupa, ( a symbol of fully enlightened mind), this vajrayana monk places his hands above his head offering his body, then at the throat area offering his speech, then heart area to offer his mind. The practitioner aspires to, (through cultivation of appropriate skilful means and loving-kindness), dissolve their habitual clouds, (of naive views of reality and conflicting emotions), in order to reveal/realize the sun, (of already existing, full and permanent enlightenment - Buddhahood), so that they might effect the benefit of all sentient beings in the way most appropriate to each one, bringing them too toward that same realization.
The Buddha taught that, from the relative perspective, wisdom and ignorance are co-emergent and have arisen for sentient beings in that manner since, literally, beginningless time. Although this ignorance has always been with us and is therefore exceedingly, habitually tenacious there is the possibility of an end to it. We can wake up.
At Buddhas' enlightenment place, Bodhgaya, India,
Prostrating before the great Stupa, ( a symbol of fully enlightened mind), this vajrayana monk places his hands above his head offering his body, then at the throat area offering his speech, then heart area to offer his mind. The practitioner aspires to, (through cultivation of appropriate skilful means and loving-kindness), dissolve their habitual clouds, (of naive views of reality and conflicting emotions), in order to reveal/realize the sun, (of already existing, full and permanent enlightenment - Buddhahood), so that they might effect the benefit of all sentient beings in the way most appropriate to each one, bringing them too toward that same realization.
The Buddha taught that, from the relative perspective, wisdom and ignorance are co-emergent and have arisen for sentient beings in that manner since, literally, beginningless time. Although this ignorance has always been with us and is therefore exceedingly, habitually tenacious there is the possibility of an end to it. We can wake up.