⛩️

LESSON 8 - The Dharmakaya

PART ONE

Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only

Review of Verse 28 & 29 - The ‘Transformation of the Base’

28. Dwelling in ‘consciousness only’ - Free of the two-fold grasping: ‘subject / object

29. Unattainable, inconceivable, knowledge transcending the world, - For having relinquished the two coarse heavinesses: the physical body and characteristics - Attaining the (r)evolution of the base (āśraya-paravṛtti) - ‘overturning dependence’

Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only Verse 30

此即無漏界,   不思議善常, 安樂解脫身,   大牟尼名法。」

This, then, is the realm of no outflows (anāsrava-dhātu), Inconceivable, virtuous, and eternal, The blissful body of liberation, Which the Great Muni called Dharmakaya.

PART TWO

The Three ‘bodies’ of the Buddha

  • Nirmāṇakāya - ‘Transformation’ body
  • Saṃbhogakāya - ‘Subtle Form’ body
  • Dharmakāya - ‘Dharma’ body

PART THREE

From the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, Ch 7

The Ten Bodhisattva Stages (bhūmi)

- “The tenth stage is termed the stage of Dharma Cloud because in it, just as a great cloud is able to cover over the sky, this body of coarse weakness [麁重之身] is encompassed by the Dharma Body [法身].”