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From Buddha-Nature
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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)] +
denotes the "field" (''zhing'') of basic space as the "fundamental constituent" (''kham'') of being from which there is no wavering +
literally, "Bearer of the Vajra"; the dharmakaya buddha embodying the ultimate nature of mind; the form manifested by Shakyamuni when teaching tantra +
one of the five buddha families, denoting the ground of being unsullied by flaws +
desire-attachment; one of the five basic afflictive emotions +
literally, in Tibetan, "center and circumference"; the symbolic configuration depicting a pure realm with deities dwelling therein, expressing the totality of the enlightened state of being [immeasurable existence and wisdom energy (ws)] +
literally, "family"; a schema for describing deities in terms that correspond to the fixation of living beings on their species; five such families are usually enumerated (''see dor-je, lay, pad-ma, rin-chhen'' and ''sang-gyay'') +
a karmically neutral state resulting from a nonrecognition of intrinsic awareness and functioning as the ground (''zhi'') of all (''kun'') cyclic existence [all ground (cs); stratum of all things (KB); basis of all (NJ); fundamental structuring of all experience (PE); basis of samsara and nirvana, which is not unobscured (ws)] +
literally, "all-embracing consummation of samsara and nirvana," since all phenomena of samsara and nirvana (''khor-day'') are subsumed within the embrace (''ub'') of the sphere of buddha nature and are in a state of consummation (''chhub'') therein; the sixth of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati +
pure vision [pure perception (DZP, PC, WPT); pure thereness (KB); sacred outlook (RW); pure phenomena (ws)] +
there are two aspects of this secrecy: "concealment" (Tib. ''bay-pai sang-wa'' [སྦས་པའི་གསང་བ་], in that vajrayana teachings are kept very private and imparted only under certain conditions, and "self-secrecy" (Tib. ''gab-pai sang-wa'' [གབ་པའི་གསང་བ་]), in that such teachings cannot be comprehended without preparation and personal instruction +
