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The Staging Ground for Ultimate Reality

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In higher standards, we will be judged by how well we learned to along with others and how we improved our compassionate nature. This is the value of a life well lived! ~DGR ~~~ Regarding the four Buddha bodies. Usually, we talk about Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Nirmanakaya as the three bodies, but sometimes we see adding Svabhavakaya body, which is an important element in the teachings of the higher being. Svabhavakaya body is not actually a body, but a highly developed preactive mental state preparing f or a neutral entry into Dharmakaya: the absolute truth body. The Svabhavakaya referred to in classic texts translates into English as the emptiness of emptiness. This is emptiness devoid of all phenomena, even devoid of its own perception of the state of emptiness. This advanced state is a staging area, leaving all perceptions to enter into Dharmakaya. The Svabhavakaya is the state of neutral without phenomena arising, or the mind moving. It is not only the state of ...