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The Awareness Issue, Essays

Meditation as Bodhicitta 15 v1

By Rudolph Bauer, Phd Mon, Dec 27, 2010

Rudolph Bauer,Ph.D. Author, Mimi Malfitano Editor

1. In meditation we become aware of awareness..suspending the mind, we freeawareness to experience within its own self its own self.within awareness weexperience the nature of awareness..we experience the qualities ofawareness: Spaciousness, energy, light, the purity, the onenessand arising out ofoneness is the true affection, the true compassion.

2. This awareness is a field, a multidimensional field, vast and infinite in itshorizons. The dharmakaya is the very base of our awareness, the pure beingness ofbeing.Pure openness, pure potential out of which everything manifests andappears. The very nature of dharmakaya is love, creative lovethat is why it is oftendescribed as the mother, the dakini. Arising out of dharmakaya is the sambhogakayadimension: Clear light, luminosity of the primordial qualities taking form, thearchetypical dimension of our own being, the deities, the dakinis, the devasinherentwithin all beings. And then, arising out of sambhogakaya is nirmanakaya: The earthelement, the human dimension, the manifesting of us, embodied luminousflesh. Everything, all experience, is the manifestation of the fieldthis field ofbeing. Through our awareness within us we experience the beingness of our own

being, and through the experience of our own awareness we can experience thebeingness of being of others. It is the same beingness of beingwhich is love.

3. Mantras are most useful in the fieldactually, mantras are manifestations of thefield; so mantras configure and are configurations of the field of innate awareness,which can be both articulated and non-articulated. Mantras can be spoken or simplyfelt. The more subtle the mantra, the more deeply experienced within the field.withinthe innermost field, the more mantra actually brings forth the experience of the qualitiesof the fieldof consciousness. The mantras begin as words and sounds, and then

becoming more and more subtle, as subtle as gnosis, direct perception, then the mantrabecomes what it isthe subtle reality of beingness.

4. A wonderful mantra is the bodhi mantra

OM AH HUNG, BODHICITTA MAHA SUKHA JNANA DHATU AH.

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[Bodhi is both a Pali and Sanskrit word usually translated as enlightenment, but moreaccurately translated as awakening.]

OM opens up for us the nirmanakaya dimension.

AH opens up for us the sambhogakaya dimension.

HUNG opens up for us the dharmakaya dimension.

BODHICITTA means the aspiration for realization, which is realization itselfbodhicittais the love of realization for ourselves and othersbodhicitta is the very nature ofawareness itself as love, pure love, creative lovebodhicitta brings forth love.

MAHA SUKHA means the great vast sweetness, the great bliss of awareness, the blissof oneness.

JNANA means direct perception, knowingness, gnosis.

DHATU AH means in every situation.

6. So this mantra brings forth the experience of bodhicitta of awareness of pure love, ofgnosis, of knowing oneness in every situationIt is the mantra of pure love.

7. This is also a mantra of deathlessness.

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As you enter the doorway of death, and the body begins to drop away, and the mindbegins to drop away, what remains is your awareness. What remains is the bodhichitta,and so your pure awareness enters into the pure awareness of being itself; the lightmeets the light, and the beingness of your being enters the beingness of beingitself. Your awareness is love, and through love you will becomethe

dharmakayawhich is vast love. This love of awareness does not depend on yourmind or the qualities of your mindwhether you are nuts or not, does not matterthenature of awareness is love, is bodhichitta. To know this is to become fearlessand sothis is the mantra of fearlessness. It is unbound, and it takes one beyond the polarities,takes one beyond causality, take one beyond judgments.

8. The great bodhi mantra allows us to hold love and fear, to hold love and terror, tohold love and hatethe bodhi mantra which brings forth bodhichitta dissolves fear,dissolves terror, and dissolves hatred.

9. Through love, the beingness of being is felt though a beingthrough love of a being,the beingness of being is felt. Of course, with the loss of a being, the beingness ofbeing is never lost. The loss of the being who was the vehicle for the beingness ofbeing is unbearably sadand so sadness and bodhichitta exist together, and thebodhichitta absorbs and dissolves all sadness. Through all of the various affects, thebeingness of being can manifest itself when held in the bodhichitta.

10. There is even a more subtle meaning to the bodhichitta, which is the releasing oflight, which is the releasing of the bodhichittabodhichitta is actually the light of love orthe love of the lightthe heart essence is lightthe innermost lightwhich actually attimes manifests as a dropthe heart drop of dharmakayathis heart drop can bereleased into the field and can be released into a human beingand so one cultivatesthe heart essence, one cultivates the heart drop, and one can release this blessing, thisliquid-like light.