MAHAYANA SUTRA

The ninth lecture - "What is Attainment? The Proof for its Rightiousness"


To cut off the reason for suffering - The Attainment of Jnana yoga

After the attainment and the perfection of Kundalini Yoga, I told you that the Jnana Yoga will come. Maitreya-Taishi might soon obtain the self realization which is the attainement of Jnana Yoga. Khema-Taishi as well as Brafmani-Taishi also has a chance.

Some of you may not understand about their "attainment" of Kundalini Yoga. The attainment means that they had the qualification for the perfection of Kundalini Yoga. It is not the perfection. It takes time from the attainment to the perfection. So one should keep practicing after the attainment so as to make the perfection.

But one can go into the process of Jnana Yoga while doing the practice to make the perfection of Kundalini Yoga. So it is natural that their attainment of Jnana Yoga is close.

Now, let me tell you in brief about the self realization which they may attain soon. It is to notice, - everything is the succession of reason and result - And when one could see through the reason and result of suffering, and could completely shut off the reason, it is the attainment of Jnana Yoga.

Brafmani-Taishi, though she hasn't attained Jnana Yoga yet, said, "The reason creates the result. The mind becomes lighter if they are washed off.". The attainment of Jnana Yoga is the state when one can immediately change one's mind by solving every problem at once.

The mind of equality which is cultivated by Jnana yoga

After the attainment, the mind of equality will be cultivated on its way to the perfection of Jnana Yoga. This midn of equality will be the basement of Mahayana Yoga which comes afterward. I need to explain how the mind of equality be cultivated. Let's take a simple example of the affection between parents and children.

Here is a father. He really loves his son. Let's say that only his own son was important for him. In this situation, other kids doesn't matter for him. No matter other children may cry or get injured, he is not interested in them. This is the typical case of the partial love, or the love without the mind of equality.

However, let's say that this son in fact was not his real son, though this father didn't know about it. In other words, let's say that this son was a son of the mother's boyfriend. And let's say that this man was the person which this father mostly hate. What he is doing is to give the love as a father to the child of a man who he mostly hate.

I heard that there are many cases as such. One gynecologist told me that there are not a few babies with the blood type which is impossible from the blood type of the official parents.

Let's go back to the main story. It is not the truth if a person loved his son believing that he is the real son of his. Because the truth is something which can never change in any condition. In this case, the hatred toward this son may occur when the father recognizes that he is not his real son.

But if we look into this son himself, he didn't change at all. Only the condition made the change to the emotion of the father.

In Jnana Yoga, one recognizes that we are controlled by conditions. And he can cut off the karma to be controlled by conditions. And when he could cut off the condition, he can see people equally. This is the perfection of the mind of equality.

The perfection of the mind of Buddha - The Attainment of Mahayana yoga

As I had mentioned, one goes on to Mahayana Yoga based on the mind of equality.

Such changes may occur at the time of this Yoga. He can respond to the working of mind of everyone. For example, if other has sexual desire, he will also feel sexual desire. If other has sorrow, he will also feel sorrow. If other has pleasure, he will also feel pleasure. If other has pain, he will also feel pain.

When a person comes to this state, heisv ery close to the attainment of Mahayana Yoga. I said "close" because there are some people who loses this chance of the attainment being caught to others' emotions. For example, even though one is only responding to other's sexual desire, he may misunderstand that it is his own desire, and actually come to its act. Or by misunderstandting other's suffering as his own suffering, he may keep suffering even after this suffering person went away.

However, such things disappear when he could get this attainment. He will be able to understand, "This is not my suffering.", or "This is not my sorrow." thought he corresponds to others as if he is equal to others.

If he goes on with his practice, in the end he understands one thing; No matter if it is other's suffering or the suffering which occured within himself, "This sufferingi is not mine.". I spoke about this process on the fifth day of this seminar. It is the perfection of Mahayana Yoga when one could correspond with various people, giving kindness to various people, and realize that the suffering in this life is not the suffering of oneself. This is equal to the perfection of the mind of Buddha.

From Astral yoga to Mahayana

Next, one goes on to Astral Yoga. He uses his power of will so as to clarify the world of image called the Astral world. If he suceeds in this, he goes on to Causal Yoga. The perfection of Causal Yoga is the true enlightenment. This is the entrance for Mahayana. In the end comes Mahayana, or the ultimate enlightenment.

Soon there will be one, two, or three attainers of Jnana Yoga, or the ones who had made the perfection of Jnana Yoga. My activity will be much easy, since those attainers can give lectures which can solve everything as it is in my lecture. Well, I am saying this because I believe my lecture is clear enough. But it is you who should decide this.

When they went on to Mahayana Yoga, each one of them can be the center of one salvation activity, detaching from me, acting freely. When they went on to Astral Yoga, they can freely contact with the Great Lord Shiva, or freely contac with my body of reward, and do the salvation activity based on the right information which he obtained. If they attained Causal Yoga, he can understand all the reason and result, exchange all the information, and become the person who had made the perfection of Mahayana. It is the birth of Buddha.

Wonderful karma to select one out of two

There will be the long way for you to go. At least you are not in the state of the person who is trying to entered the stream of the truth. You are already trying to practice as a spiritual practitioner. If you want to attain enlightenment inthis life, you should become the true spiritual pratitioner as soon as possible. If you haven't thought about practicing as such, you should practice as lay practitioners, the people who support the truth. You should reincarnate into the fourth heaven by accumulate great amount of merit.

You have the wonderful karma to select one out of these two paths. It is up to you which you may decide.