Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 17-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering draws a striking parallel between completion-stage meditation and the dying process. He explains how the bodhicitta drop, as it melts and descends, gives rise to four descending and four ascending joys — and how this closely mirrors what happens at death, when coarse consciousness dissolves and a very subtle consciousness emerges. The meditator in completion stage deliberately blocks that coarser mind, allowing the very subtle consciousness to arise, then uses it to meditate on emptiness — with the same inner signs appearing in both contexts. Suited to practitioners already engaged with Vajrayāna completion-stage practice and familiar with the broader Grounds and Paths framework.
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File: 32 2006 03 30 G and P (2).mp3
Teacher: Geshe Pema Tsering
Collection: Grounds & Paths (Geshe Pema Tsering)
Date: 2006-03-30
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~335
And then And then and then one one and then the the bodhicitta or this drop, which is this drop melts, starts melting. So then how to say? And by how do you say, by trickling down of the bodhicitta, then how do you say, the the descending and the ascending how do say? Four the four descending and the four ascending joys are given rise to or are born. Is that okay?
So we we start here today. Okay? Yes. So you’re in the four m places? Yeah.
He says that the signs are the same. The signs are the same. So then he’s saying that So this is a this this meditation on on the on the four this this four The the it’s it’s like meditating on the same it’s it’s like meditating on the same process of So then I’ll explain that it is when we’re meditating relation to these four instances, it is it has many similar aspects to the process of death. It’s like when we are dying, the same way that we are dying, then the coarse consciousness ceases and a very subtle consciousness arises, and then you have these signs that are similar. So in the same way, one is practicing this completion stage.
Then again, one blocks this coarse consciousness. And then with this very subtle consciousness, one meditation how do you say? Meditating on emptiness and this very subtle emptinesses. And and the signs arise or the same signs arise. Is that yeah.
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