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💙🤍💙Beautiful presentation🙏🦚I feel it's appropriately most accurate to say that the Blue Herukas / Herukinis etc and Akshobya are Blue because of VajraDhara / Shiva / Radhakrsna out of which the 5 Dhyani Buddhas arise🙏💙💙💙🌈⚡.....additionally, if mentioning the Vajra / Dorje, it's appropriate to include presenting the Torus geometry, since it is one of the clearest models for comprehending the Vajra / Dorje meaning, in terms of a symbol arising out of the innate karuna of Inphinity - Ananta Ananda Adrsta Achintya ❤🤍💙
🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏 You make a good point although Jeff Watt is also correct (there's no contradiction). All Enlightened Herukas (or rather, Highest Yoga deities, since some are not Herukas) of every family certainly arise from the Dharmakaya -- in some lineages Vajradhara (not every lineage), Samantabhadra Buddha or Maha Vairochana in other lineages (same essence). These Highest Yoga Emanations are certainly Sambhogakayas but they do belong to their respective families (signifying the focus of the practice). So, your'e totally right about the Dharmakaya aspect, but there's also no contradiction for Jeff Watt to say the blue Highest Yoga Tantra Enlightened ones arise from Akshobhya (he's totally right, too) The red Highest Yoga Heruka emanations likewise emanate from Amitabha (Hayagriva, Vajravarahi, and so on). This is illustrated nicely in the Wangdu practice, where you have Amitabha as Dharmakaya, Hayagriva and Red Avalokiteshvara as Sambhogakayas, etc. All of these emanate from the Dharamakaya essence by whatever name we use, but they are within their respective families to accomplish the wisdom of that family. Thanks for the information on vajras. We do have a sepearate video on vajras, although I'm sure we didn't mention Torus geometry. Thanks for your detailed info. In kindness, BW 🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙🙏💙🙏
Thank You!!! I have been waiting for this! and I was gonna ask if the Medicine Buddha was related to the Vajra Family and this did answer that question, so Thank You So Much. I have been chanting the Dharani for all the people who have died due to genosides/wars/oppression, but the progress has been very slow =_=" NAMO RATNA TRAYAYA OM KAMKANI KAMKANI ROCHANI ROCHANI TROTANI TROTANI TRASANI TRASANI PRATIHANA PRATIHANA SARVA KARMA PARAM PARA NI ME SARVA SATTVA NANCHA SVAHA.
Purelands are more the Pure Mind Essence of perfection of the Buddhas, although depending on our understanding, we could perceive them certainly as magical places -- if our mind understands in images, this could be how it manifests to us in our minds.Patriarch Ou-I wrote: “The true essence of all the Great Vehicle (Mahayana) scriptures is Absolute Reality itself. What is Absolute Reality? It is the Pure Mind of sentient Beings. This mind is not inside, not outside, and not in between. It is not past, not present, and not future.” (From our longer story on the Amitabha pureland: buddhaweekly.com/?p=8772 ) There is a saying: "If you are looking for the Pure Land, don't look for it out there. You'll find it in your heart." - paraphrasing Professor Takamaro Shigaraki. Certainly, they are also "places" in relative terms, but not as we understand our physical reality, so it's a big topic. There are different ways we understand Purelands (ultimate and relative). This is from our feature called "A Travel Guide to Various Buddha Purelands" -- meant as a quick tour (light hearted -- not a heavy study of the Purelands): buddhaweekly.com/?p=23328 "The Purelands of the Buddhas are, from a modern perspective, thought of as the “pure mind” of the Buddha. By purifying our own mindstream, it is possible, in this way, to at least glimpse the essence of the Purelands. By removing all attachments, ego, and negative karma imprints, we become One with the Enlightened Mind. In other views in Buddhist teachings, the Purelands are actual places, albeit transcendent domains. In this way of thinking, we are endlessly reborn into the six realms (collectively the desire realms and form realms) or into the “formless realm” until we aspire to, and attain the Pureland, which is the “realm” that transcends all of these. The Purelands of all Five Buddhas (more detail below in chart) are: ‘Manifest Joy’ (Skt. Abhirati; Tib. མངོན་པར་དགའ་བ་, Ngönpar Gawa, Wyl. mngon par dga’ ba), presided over by Akṣobhya (Vajra family-East). ‘The Magnificent’ (Skt. Śrīmat; Tib. དཔལ་དང་ལྡན་པ་, Paldangdenpa, Wyl. dpal dang ldan pa), presided over by Ratnasambhava (Ratna family-South). ‘The Blissful Realm’ (Skt. Sukhāvatī; Tib. བདེ་བ་ཅན་, Dewachen; Wyl. bde ba can) or ‘Lotus Mound’ (Tib. Pema Tsekpa), presided over by Amitābha (Padma family-West). ‘Accomplishing Perfect Action’ (Skt. Karmaprasiddhi; Tib. ལས་རབ་གྲུབ་པ་, Lerab Drubpa, Wyl. las rab grub pa) (Karma family-North), presided over by Amoghasiddhi. ‘The Highest’ (Skt. Akaniṣṭha; Tib. འོག་མིན་, Omin, Wyl. ‘og min) or ‘Blazing Mountain’ (Tib. མེ་རི་འབར་བ་, Meri Barwa, Wyl. me ri ‘bar ba), presided over by Vairocana (Buddha family-Centre). There are others. Each Yidam might have a Pureland, which is none other than the Purified Mind of the Enlightened Buddha. In addition Shakayamuni Buddha has a Pureland called “Unsurpassable.” There are others, as well, notably Shambala (from Kalachakra teachings, Tushita Heaven, Dhagpa Khadro of Vajrayogini, and Zangdok Palri (Copper-coloured mountain) of Padmasambhava. This is only scratching the surface. We have a lot of features on BuddhaWeekly.com on Purelands if you'd like to explore deeper. In kindness, BW 🙏❤🙏
Thank you as always 🙏 Some suggestions for future videos (all from the Japanese tradition), if I may: - "Oṃ ha ha ha viśmaye svāhā" (Ksitigarbha) - "Oṃ mahākaruṇika svāhā" / "Oṃ lokeśvara hrīḥ" (Eleven-Faced (Ekadasamukha) Avalokitesvara) - "Oṃ amṛtodbhava hūṃ phaṭ svāhā" (Hayagriva) - "Oṃ ārolik svāhā" (Avalokitesvara)
I love the Video! I wonder what family comes next? Hopefully the Ratna family! I have the feeling that Amoghasiddhi and Ratnasambhava are the most unknown and underrated Buddhas from the five.
You are so right! The next is Ratna Family, already recorded in editing now. The other release, coming slightly earlier, is the mantra video for Akshobhya Buddha with some new images and animations! Thank you for your generosity! Your support means a lot to our volunteers! 🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏💛💛💛🙏💛🙏🙏🙏💛🙏💛🙏
@@BuddhaWeekly I wanna praise your really good editing of the Videos! They are so good! A lot of other Buddhist videos look like they have been edited in Microsoft Paint. Btw. Who do you think is the most underrated of the Five?
Thank you again. So nice to hear! Hmmm, the Buddha of the five who tends to be less often presented as an actual stand-alone practice would probably be Ratnasambhava. (Just speaking casually or lightly -- all of them are important practices, because all five wisdoms are very important.) So speaking light-heartedly on the popularity: Amitabha's basically the star in popularity, Akshobhya certainly is close. Amoghasiddhi tends to be a little eclipsed by the giant star of the family, Tara (in terms of popularity.). Vairochana, in some areas, is one of the most popular in esoteric lineages and Zen/Chan. Ratnasambhava is part of every practice-- including highest Yoga Anuttara practices -- but usually as part of the mandala with the other four Buddha families. As a stand alone, two members of his family tend to be the more popular (Yellow Jambhala and Vasudhara Yellow Tara). Personally, I think we need to hear a lot more about Ratnasambhava, as his is the wisdom of Equality, which is so important. In kindness BW 🙏🙏🙏💛💛💛🙏🙏🙏
Thank you 🙏 I was meditating and chanting a Shakyamuni Buddha chant before and I went to a place in my mind that was all blue crystal. It was so beautiful all smooth pure blue crystal and there was a giant blue crystal Buddha as part of the surroundings.
Tashi Delek. 🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏 You beat me to posting the link about the gallery update. We added a Gallery on our main website where we're adding images we create for our videos. Akshobhya's images were just added yesterday. You'll find them here (click on the Akshobhya picture to go to his gallery -- it's pretty gigagntic, a lot of images in there!) : buddhaweekly.com/downloads/
Thank you we certainly will, and thank you for the suggestion. We also have an Amitabha video coming in this series (we're going around the mandala. We've done Amoghasiddhi and Akshobhya, which will be followed soon by Ratnasambhava in the south and Amitabha in the west.). In the meantime, I'm not sure if you've seen our beautiful chanting of the Pure Land Rebirth Dhāraṇī (Chinese: 往生淨土神咒; Wang Sheng Jing Tu Shen Zhou), or Rebirth Mantra (Chinese: 往生咒; Wang Sheng Zhou) in our video Amitabha Dharani 1 Hour for peace joy and removal of obstacles; beautiful Sanksrit Chanting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U9rU2a01tvo.html&t. Thanks again for the suggestion! Coming in future. 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 In kindness, BW
