The Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance Outline by Lord Rangjung Dorje
The Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance Outline by Lord Rangjung Dorje
Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom {54}
There are three parts to this Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance of Evil:
I. Introduction
- A. The Homage (beginning with “unspeakable”)
- B. Presentation of the Name (Severance)
- C. Brief Explanation (a few)
II. The Source Text
- A. Brief Presentation (devils)
- B. Extensive Explanation
- 1. The Particular Four Devils
- a. Tangible Devil
- i. Identifying that Devils Come from Oneself (tangible)
- ii. Ascertaining their Essential Emptiness (form)
- b. Intangible Devil
- i. Identifying the Sensations (intangible)
- ii. Natural Liberation as Realization Dawns (realm of phenomena)
- c. Devil of Exaltation
- i. Brief Presentation (exaltation)
- ii. Extensive Explanation {55}
- I) Common
- A) If Attached to Qualities it is a Path Devil (haunted places, demons)
- B) Taught to be Like a Dream (qualities)
- II) Supreme
- A) The Path as Devil if Not Understood
- 1) Identifying the Devil
- a) Brief Presentation (supreme)
- b) Extensive Explanation (free from elaboration)
- 2) Liberation if Understood as Symbolic
- a) No View or Viewed in the Self-Arisen (view and meditation)
- 1) Identifying the Devil
- A) The Path as Devil if Not Understood
- I) Common
- a. Tangible Devil
- 1. The Particular Four Devils
Notes
- ↑ gCod bka’ tshoms chen mo’i sa bcad, DNZ, vol. 14, pp. 53-79 (including commentary). Second source: Collected Works of Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, vol. 11, pp. 265-298.