【盧勝彥尊者10月20日開示新聞】修證大圓滿法的四種涅槃境界

【20 October 2013 Dharma Talk by His Holiness Sheng-Yen Lu】 The Four Types of Nirvana State of the Cultivation Attaintment of Great Perfection Dharma.

On 20th October 2013 (Sunday), His Holiness Lian-Sheng Living Buddha Sheng-Yen Lu accepted the invitation of America Seattle Rainbow Temple to preside over the "Hevajra Fire Offering Ceremony".

After the fire offering ceremony, Grand Master introduced the following week's Homa (fire offering) Yidam (deity), Mahamayuri.

Grand Master said: " Mahamayuri is revered as the progenitor of detoxication. Because the more poisonous things Mahamayuri consume, the feather is more beautiful, Mahamayuri is the most beautiful among all of the Vidyaraja (Wisdom Kings), because she belongs to the main Yidam in female line.

Poison can be cleared after practicing this sadhana, have great longevity, easy life and health. Peacock is the only one that can eat poisonous animal, peacock's main objective is to save sentient beings whose body contain toxins.

Grand Master continue to introduce today's main Yidam, Hevajra: Hevajra has the ability of subduing four maras, Mara of Afflictions (Klesa Mara), Mara of Death (Mrtyu Mara), Mara of Five Aggregates (Skandha Mara) and Mara of the Son of the deva (Devaputra Mara). Grand Master has also written a book that expound on Hevajra, the book name is "Emptiness with Great Bliss", the book details the Hevajra Sadhana, Hevajra can cure all illness, defeat all evil beasts, bestow wealth, attainment of the Eight Great Self Masteries (command of eight spiritual displays / eight kinds of great unimpeded subjectivity), command over heaven and earth, sun and moon. Grand Master has expounded the book of Hevajra for about 5 years, therefore Grand Master did not bring it up again on the day.

While giving the dharma talk of "The Nine Stages Dharma of Great Perfection (Dzogchen), Grand Master talked about the Tantric cultivator's concept of life and death:
Buddha has preached a lot on the phenomenon of being transcendent of death, because death is more important the birth, the fairest in this world is death, material possession is possible but not necessarily be able to have a life. Grand Master do not think of past, present or future, do not think of anything, because regardless how big the house or the car is, they would still be broken one day, including human's body; no matter whether one is noble, beautiful or ugly, death is inevitable, all are equal. Grand Master's true temple is in the sky, not in the human realm, human realm will not have temple, True Buddha School, Sheng-Yen Lu forever... Therefore, Grand Master accepts any circumstances and make the best of it, including the unpleasant fact or situation, and the Mara of Afflictions (Klesa Mara) is eliminated due to such attitude!

Grand Mater view death as a relief and deliverance. The fairest in this world is death, everyone must go through it, therefore sentient beings should not be afraid of Mrtyu Mara (Mara of Death), as long as the cultivator's heart/mind does not change under any circumstances and have faith,  there is nothing to be afraid of, there will be Root Guru and Yidam to guide you naturally at such time, cultivator will definitely have great attainment.

Grand Master then disclosed the four types of Nivana State attained by Dzogchen sadhana achiever:

1. The first state of Nirvana: Raise the inner fire (tummo / Kundalini fire), increase the temperature of the inner fire that was originally cooled to a temperature that could melt gold, silver and bronze,  the whole body was burnt and does not have any remains at all. At this point, the internal buddhahood will unite with the universe's buddhahood. This is Great Perfection's (Dzogchen) death, and is referred as birth and death controlled by own self.
2. The second state of Nirvana: Transform all of the elements of earth, wind, water and fire of ours into light, and transform into blue light after seeing own Buddhahood, then emit the light to all of the pores of the body... and overflowed from every pore of the body. The main Buddhahood light that was in the middle flew like an arrow that was fired into the boundless sky, your buddhahood dash out of your fontanelle (crown of head) and fly to the Buddha Pure Land to become Buddha, and leave a body that is full of sarira.
   Great Perfection Dharma (Dzogchen) enable one to see own Buddhahood because the Pancha Chakra / five wheels  (five focal points of psychic energy / five energy centers) are all opened, Buddhahood is situated in the central of heart chakra (anahata), a blue light that is as long as a finger transform into an arrow and fly to the sky from the central channel. Such as: the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, Zen Master Shitou Xiqian are the examples.
3. The third state of Nirvana: Use own body's light. Inside of the body will glow, ground has the light of ground (yellow), water has the light of water (green), fire has the light of fire (red), wind has the light of wind (blue), and also the light of consciousness,  all the lights joined together and become a five-coloured light that is shining in your body. When you meditate at this time, those light is still glowing continuously, the light is like filled up with oil ~ the light is even shinier...... your body is very shinny. Great Perfection Cultivation has a cause and effect, because earth, water, fire, and wind cultivation will enable one to glow in future, therefore when light appear when one passed away, this means you have attained enlightenment.
4. Turned into a rainbow light — Rainbow light originated from earth, water, fire, wind and Sunyata (emptiness, voidness), and also the karma / substance / habit in the body. Everyone has their own habit and karma from the past lives. Transform all of the five aggregates (skandha) into five types of light, then transform own karma accumulated from past lives and habits into rainbow light, the rainbow will then appear in the sky at such time. The patriarch of Vajrayana Great Perfection (Dzogchen) (like: Padmasambhava, Sri Simha, Manjushrimitra) transformed themselves into rainbow light and ascended to the sky.

If sariras (relics) are being left behind, that means he/she will come back to the human realm to enlighten and save sentient beings.

Great Perfection Dharma (Dzogchen) is able to transform all of the current and past lives' karma and five aggregates (skandha) into rainbow light, and conduct out-of-body manifestation, take some part from the body and manifest into another form, to enlighten and save sentient beings. Similar to all of the deities that we pray to, all of them manifest innumerable varieties of forms.

One will understand the pinnacle of the achievement of Tantric Great Perfection after understading the Nirvana of Tantric Great Perfection (Dzogchen). These few types of achiever's death is also the highest culmination of all peaks. The death of a Mahasiddha (Great achiever) is controlled by themselves and is eternal.

Credits to dharma sister, Vivien for summarising Grand Master's dharma talk.

Chinese Version （華文版）:

2013年10月20日，聖尊蓮生活佛盧勝彥應邀於美国西雅图彩虹雷藏寺，主持喜金剛護摩大法會。

而於法會後，聖尊介绍下星期的護摩主尊是孔雀明王。

聖尊表示: 孔雀明王是排毒的老祖宗。因为孔雀越吃毒的东西，羽毛就会越漂亮，是所有明王中最漂亮最美丽的，因为祂是属于母系主尊。

修了这个法可以排毒，长寿自在与健康。孔雀是唯一可以吃毒的动物，祂主要救身上有毒的眾生。

接下來聖尊介绍今天的主尊喜金刚: 喜金刚有降伏四魔的能力，也就是煩惱魔，死魔，病魔跟天魔。聖尊亦曾写了一本喜金刚講義的書(亦即《大樂中的空性》)，其中提到很多有關喜金刚的修法奧 義，祂可以除一切的病，镇一切的惡獸，施一切的财宝，镇八大自在,掌管天地跟日月。这本喜金刚的书聖尊已讲了五年，因此是日於法會上就不再重提了。

而於《大圓滿九次第法》開示中，聖尊提到密教行者的生死觀:
佛陀讲了很多关于死亡的超越，因为死比生还重要，天下第一公平的事情就是死，物质的东西可以擁有但不一定可以擁有生命。師尊不去想过去，现在，末来，什么 都不去想,因为再大的房子车子也都会坏掉何况是人的身体；不管是何等尊卑美醜身份者，臨終都難免一死，這一切都是平等的。師尊真正的雷藏寺是在天上，不是 在世俗人间, 人间没有永恒的雷藏寺，真佛宗，卢胜彦... 所以师尊看得非常开通通都好，这样烦恼魔就消除了!

师尊看死其实是一种解脱。天下最平等的事就是死，每一个人都要经过，所以众生不要怕死魔，只要本身道心坚固什么都不要害怕，到时自然有你的本尊上师護法来接引你，一定会有成就的。

接著，聖尊闡釋大圆满成就者的四种涅槃境界：

1）第一等的死 - 把拙火升起，把本来淸凉的火高升到非常火热的火到達能把金銀铜铁融化的程度，整个身体就全部烧光，一点都不留。这时里面的彿性跟虚空中的佛性就交融在一起。这个就是大圆满的死，才叫做自主生死。

2）第二等的死 - 把自己的地水火风全部变成光，已经看到自己的佛性变成蓝色的光，然后把自己的光放射到身体所有的毛细孔...然后从毛细孔溢出來。中间主要的佛性光就像一 支箭般射向無窮盡的虛空裡，你的佛性直接衝出自己頂竅而飛到佛国淨土直接成佛去，然后留下全身舍利。

大圓滿法能夠看到自己的佛性因為五轮全部打開，佛性就在心轮的中央，像一个指头长藍色的光变成一支箭从中脈衝上虛空。如:六祖慧能. 石頭希遷禪師即是。

3）第三等的死 - 用自己本身的光。身体裡面都会发光的，地有地的光(黃色)，水有水的光(綠色)，火有火的光(紅色)，风有风的光(藍色)，还有神识的光，一起成為五彩光 在你身体上闪耀着。这时你靜坐，那时光一直闪耀着，那光就像加滿油~灯光就更闪耀的.... 非常闪亮在你身上。修大圆滿法是有因果的，因为修地水火风將来都会发光的，所以圆寂时会有光出现这表示你已经证道了。

4）化虹—虹光从地水火风空来，还有身上的业障/物质/习性。每个人都有每个人的習性及累世的业障。把所有的五蕴（色受想形识）变成五种光，再把累世的业 障加上自己本身的習性变成彩虹光，这时彩虹在虚空中出现。我们密教大圆满的祖师爺(如:蓮師，吉祥師子，妙吉祥友)都是化为虹光然后上升天上。

如果有留下舍利，就表示将来还要回来人间渡化众生。

大圓滿法能把累世的业障及五蕴通通化为虹光，而且能夠身外化身，从自己身體裡拿部分出来变化成另一个，去渡化众生。像我们所修的诸尊，都是变化来变化去的。

了解了密教大圆满的涅槃，就明白密教大圓滿的成就有多么的巅峰。这几种成就者的死也是巅峰之巅峰。大成就者的死是自主自在而且是永恒的。

感謝Viven師姊整理，功德無量。

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