Salvation through Complete Reviance on the Power of True Victor
3.Perfect Realoization Endows Perfect Enlightment.
Brain Waves Reveal the Complete Process of Meditation
Every Ordinary Being Is Realization
Multiple Realizations and Perfect Realization.
When I went to India 9years ago, I met many saints. Later, met many Tibetan saints in Dharamsala, India, and fortunalety, was diven a chanse to meet and speak with His Holiness the Dalai Lama .The essence of their teachings and my teachings were in perfect agreement and I gained the understanding of the meaning of perfect realization, the meaning of perfect enlightenment.
Why is it called perfect realization? In Zen or other Japanese Buddhist systems, the word �Satori� (realization) is used as if it means everything about spiritual realization. The truth is however, there are many kinds of realizations. Many realizations mean many discoveries. The meaning of realization is that you have shifted from the wrong view to correct view.
What are the wrong and correct views? The wrong view is any thinking process based on attachment, hatred and obscuration. The correct view is calm abiding and faultless insight.
Calm Abiding and Faultless Insight � The Correct View
As mentioned in Chapter 2, calm abiding and faultless insight means to observe things correctly in the state of perfect cessation of afflictive desires and to understand by that observation what needs to be done to gain true benefit. In other words, we are all mentally sick until we attain realization. This mental sickness binds us to the world of desire and make us suffer. Theses psychotic stats is expressed as beta, gamma, medium-fast, alpha, theta and delta brain waves (rhythms).In these states, the mind does not know any cessation of afflictive yet. It is still a slave to motion.
As our practice progresses, however, gross gamma waves die out, beta waves out, alpha waves die out, theta waves die out and delta waves die out. This is what is known as �calm abiding�, the state of perfect cessation of afflictive desires. By observing things in this state, we will make many new discoveries. These discoveries are what is known as realization (Satori), and its final state is the stage called self-realization.
Self-Realization
Self � Realization.
Self �Realization means that we have attained a complete understanding of our selves, or egos. When we have attained the complete understanding of the self, we free attachment, hatred and obscuration, or desire, anger and ignorance. Freed from attachment, hatred and obscuration, we will reach the threshold of what is called emptiness in Mahayana Buddhism, or the true self in Yoga.
Four Stages in Theravada Buddhism � Demonstrative Knowledge, Abandonment, Demonstration and Manifestation, and Meditative Cultivation.
How is this state defined in Theravada texts? It is defined as the Four Stages. The Four Stages are: Demonstrative Knowledge (Skt. Abhijna), and Meditative Cultivation (Skt. Bhavana).Demonstrative Knowlenge is explained as and understanding that the constituents of body, senses, images, accumulated experience and discrimination are all based on attachment hatred and obscuration, and are thus nothing but suffering.
They constitute an interrupted state of consciousness that is birth and death. Therefore, we must have a good understanding of these five constituents and develop repulsion to them by practicing the meditation of denial. Or we abandon them by deliberation and examination.When we have abandoned them our suffering stops. And when suffering has stopped we manifest ourselves as saints. In other words, we demonstrate and manifest mystic power.
What is mystic power? Typically, mystic power includes six divine, supernatural powers. In short, this is a state in which we constantly see light, and we can observe many things by this light. Through this observation we realize everything. We repeat it many times and reach higher realizations, and finally attain enlightenment.
| Meditative Cultivation |
| Abandonment |
| Demonstration and Manifestation |
| Demonstrative Knowledge |
The Four Stages of Theravada Buddhism
Demonstrative Knowledge,
Abandonment,
Demonstration and Manifestation
and Meditative Cultivation.
In order to attain enlightenment we need meditative cultivation, the fourth stage of Theravada path. What is meditative cultivation? It is stopping the workings of the mind, a meditation on peace. In other word, cultivating the state of calm abiding. We observe things correctly in this state. We observe each Phenomenon according to the law in a state completely detached from attachment, hatred and obscuration. It is a state of complete cessation of afflictive desires. By meditative cultivation, we are able to uproot out suffering completely. Then by practicing the four great states of the enlightenment mind, (Divine Loving Kindness, Divine Pity, Divine Praise, and Divine Detachment), we will change our five constituents info accumulation made up only of joy.
Wrong View Equal Mental Sickness
The reason why I presented in this book how brain waves reflect mental illness and how they disappear is because I wanted to prove that every being has some kind of mental sickness and that it can be healed. I described the process from wrong view to realization using brain waves. And enlightenment is expressed as a flat EEG (brain waves).If you understand my intention when you look at these EEGs, you will be convinced that what I am saying is true.
The trut must be constantly verified in this manner.