Kalu Rinpoche | Illusory Body and Mind – no illusion of self-made cage

So now in this session you are going to receive a teaching of “Illusory body and mind”.

So I must make a very clear distinction that, whether you understand everything or whether you don’t understand anything, in this session or this afternoon session, but one thing must be very clear, that you must get the point and that is “Illusionary practice” , “Illusionary body and mind” is not a delusional state of mind. Such as saying “Oh, what is the meaning of samaya? Meaningless. What is the meaning of precepts, vows? It is meaningless. Ah, what is the meaning and purpose of the practice? It is meaningless, no point” Okay? So that is called delusional. Okay?

By practicing “Illusory body and mind” you generate even more compassion. Because there is no illusion of self-made cage anymore. Do you understand? Do you understand that point?

So if you understand that, then there is a purpose of me sharing the visualisation and explanation, the boring stuff.

So therefore we need to understand in that way. Because I’ve seen and I travel a lot and I’ve seen some so called individual who talk about emptiness a lot and who have no wisdom. They don’t give the importance on compassion, “Jampa dang Nyingjé” [Tib: loving kindness & compassion], the loving kindness, not at all. It is just very dry emptiness.