The reason we call it the path of fruition is that fruition is the absolute truth of Buddha Nature, and it is crucial to understand that in the present, the ground and result are inseparable and of the same nature. [...] 15 Proceedings of the Fourth Vajrayāna Conference, 2022 flame, the moon, the sun, darkness, a digit of the moon,3 and the great drop, in which there is a clear reflection of everything.4 These signs emerge from space during the initial practice of complete sense deprivation in Kālacakra’s ṣaḍaṅgayoga when the yogin’s non- conceptual wisdom has first contact with a tiny part of the dharmatā. [...] By the power of having reached [the state of a] bodhisattva, he sees with the eye of insight; and after that with the eye of wisdom, he sees by the power of having reached [the level of] the perfect Buddha, beyond any limitations.74 Thus eyes of flesh and the rest are called the five eyes of a Tathāgata75 with regard to the vision of emptiness.76 It should be noted that the direct perception of th. [...] This is the uninterrupted (prabandhena) flow of the self-aware mind of the yogin, which has the nature of the appearance of the three times and three realms. [...] The vision of the reflections through the divine eye, which is the tantric direct cognition through mental consciousness, corresponds to vital breath control (prāṇāyāma) and retention (dhāraṇā).85 The remaining three of the five eyes of a Tathāgata are not related to the remaining two direct cognitions and two branches of yoga (i.e., anusmṛti and samādhi).
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