The Four Great Reliances: Criteria for the Spiritual Life
Sangharakshita ( 1979 )
Part of the series The Inconceivable Emancipation - Themes from the Vimalakirti Nirdesha
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- 1 Stupa worship 10:26
- 2 General context: reincarnations 07:07
- 3 Seeing the Tathagatha 05:11
- 4 The story of Bhaisajyaraja 04:31
- 5 Dharma worship 06:01
- 6 Criteria for the spiritual life 06:52
- 7 The Four Great Reliances 02:14
- 8 i. On the Dharma, not on any person 10:30
- 9 ii. On the meaning, not the expression 05:59
- 10 iii. On discourses of explicit rather than implicit meaning 07:15
- 11 iv. On Transcendental awareness, not discriminative consciousness 03:46
- 12 Conclusion 03:20
Talk Details
Concluding his exposition of the Sutra, Sangharakshita explains that traditionally one should rely on: i. the Dharma, and not on any person; ii. the meaning, not the expression; iii. the discourses of explicit, not implicit meaning; iv. Transcendental Awareness, not discriminative consciousness.
Talk given in 1979.
