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From Buddha-Nature
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the dualistic conception of object and subject +
literally, "awakened mind"; denotes the "refining away" (''jang'') of all flaws and distortions; consummate "mastery" (''chhub'') of all qualities of the kayas, pristine awareness, the path and the goal; and "mind" (''sem'') as the ground for the arising of everything in equal purity [heart of enlightened essence (DZP); thrust/intent toward pellucidity and consummation of the whole cognitive domain (FRC); inner potential for limpid clearness and consummate perspicacity (KB); mind of enlightenment (NGP); (primordial) state of pure and total presence (PE); Primordial State of the individual (SL)] +
denotes the ground of being as the essential nature of all samsara and nirvana, and the one taste of everything in that nature +
literally, "Endowed with Glory"; the pure realm associated with the buddha Ratnasambhava and the southern direction +
a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena +
one of the five basic emotional "poisons" that obscure the true nature of mind +
specifically the sphere of intrinsic awareness abiding as the distilled essence of all phenomena [the heart of (BM); evolutionary dynamics, thrust toward it(self), the total system's energy (FRC); embryo (GL); nucleus (NS); energy pulse, core (PE); heart essence (PT); heart/essence (VH)] +
emptiness as the dharmakaya aspect of the nature of mind [essence (BM, DZP, GL, PC, PT, VH); (open-ended) facticity (of Being) (KB, FRC); nature (MW); what it comes down to, at bottom, in fact (PE)] +
one of the seven vajra attributes of space and the true nature of being +
the fourth of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school; the approach in which all phenomena are viewed as the inseparability of the two levels of truth, pure from the very beginning in supreme dharmakaya +
the category of vast expanse of being; the second of the three categories of teachings in atiyoga, or Great Perfection [category of expanse (PT)] +
rudimentary consciousness caused by the subtle energy of karma being aroused due to the nonrecognition of intrinsic awareness [all-ground consciousness (cs); store consciousness (GL); stratum-bound perceptivity (KB); fundamental consciousness (MW); consciousness of the all-pervasive ground (NJ, PC); consciousness of the ground of all (NS)] +
all-accomplishing pristine awareness; one of the five aspects of pristine awareness (''see ye-shey nga''); awareness of the natural accomplishment of activities in the purity and freedom of all phenomena [primordial wisdom of accomplishment of actions (BM); All-accomplishing Awareness (MK); Pristine Wisdom of accomplishing aims (MW); timeless awareness of spontaneous accomplishment (PPTC); wisdom that accomplishes all actions (RW); all-accomplishing wisdom (SGK, WPT)] +
literally, "one who hears or listens"; a practitioner of the hinayana path who realizes the nonexistence of the self of the individual personality but still holds phenomena to have ultimate self-nature; the shravaka path leads to the realization of an arhat, one who has "conquered the inner foe" of afflictive emotions and no longer accumulates karma or experiences suffering as a result +
literally, "consuming demon"; a personification of the erroneous investment of one's body with true existence, since efforts made for the sake of the body eat away at, or undermine, the fruit of omniscience that results from spiritual attainment +
one who has gained siddhi, or spiritual accomplishment; a term for a realized saint of the vajrayana path +
a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena +
literally, "cutter of life force"; a personification of the erroneous investment of one's body with true existence, since one is driven to seek happiness for the sake of the body, thus severing the lifeline of liberation by fixation upon attachment and aversion +
the direct experience of basic space as original purity, free of conceptual limitations +
literally, "unchanging vajra kaya"; the fifth kaya, explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Manjushri Vadisimha [body of indestructible reality (NS)] +
