Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

The great Madhayamika Prasangika view is so marvelous that even rough and common folks cannot refute how it regards ordinary appearances. Concisely, things are as they appear to be in conventional reality without confusion or mental gymnastics, whereas other views achieve consonance by the incongruity of believing that things are not here at all! Another incongruity of another view is that things appear by my mind alone when in fact, things will continue to appear even when I am away from them! Madhayamika Prasangika views existence with a cultivated common sense, all things function coming from causes and conditions. The view affirms that yes, things are here but not in the way we think they are; their deep appearance and nature is not that. Everything remains in place, we do not need to leave to go to a transcendent place such as a heaven realm, but we emerge from the perceptual suffering state. In addition, we do not damage the delicate process by confusing others or ourselves whi...

part two of a series The innate view is part of a perceptual story bonded to a living being such as a human being and connected to a particular subtle inner mind. The innate view, or taking what is transitory and impermanent to be permanent is reinforced by society as well as personal experiences of seeing the world as solid and unchanging. This complex set of instructions is bonded in order to help you to be alive in this perceptual realm. You are only alive here by your perceptions. If you do not have an innate view, you are not here! This continues until the correct view replaces it. Even the inner bases, the more subtle minds that hold various relationships to human life and inner life are illusory, as they are even more fully hypnotized into taking the transitory to be real, and rightly so! Otherwise, you would not be here. You would not have this wonderful opportunity as a human being unless you were capable of receiving these various cascading effects toward the gross mind ...