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    Recognizing the False I eBook
    Recognizing the False I eBook
    Recognizing the False I eBook
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    Recognizing the False I eBook

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    "Recognizing the False I", written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, is a commentary on and set of simple meditation techniques for identifying the object to be refute— what Rinpoche calls “the false I”—during reflections on emptiness.

    The text was specifically composed for students engaging in the self-generation portion—often called “the ultimate deity”—of kriya yoga tantric practices, such as nyung nas. The meditations can also be used by students during retreats on the Heart Sutra or any other retreat focused on emptiness.

    Additionally, Rinpoche offers these techniques to all students in general to help them meditate on emptiness correctly during their daily practices

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFPMT
    Release dateFeb 21, 2019
    ISBN9780463947548
    Recognizing the False I eBook
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    FPMT

    The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe and our spiritual director, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

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      Recognizing the False I

      The shortest meditation on emptiness is the analyses of the four vital points:

      The vital point of recognizing the object to be refuted,

      The vital point of understanding the pervasion,

      The vital point of understanding not being one,

      The vital point of definite ascertainment of not existing separately.

      The vital point of recognizing the object to be refuted

      This is the most important analysis. Once you recognize this, all the rest of the analyses are easy and make sense. Otherwise, of the two extremes - eternalism and nihilism - there's a great danger of falling into nihilism. This means that, even though you went through the analysis, you did it incorrectly. You fall into either eternalism or nihilism.

      It's like wanting to milk your cow (or whatever else you want to do with it), but looking for the cow on the eastern side of the mountain, where there's no cow. Since your cow is on the southern side of the mountain, if you look for it in the east, you cannot find it.

      Or it's like wanting to shoot your enemy, all the time, day and night, but you are regarding your enemy as your best friend. And instead you shoot another person, someone who is guarding you, protecting you, and giving you sincere advice. You see that person as your enemy and shoot them, but the situation is the total opposite of what you believe.

      If you don't recognize the real thief but think of them as your closest friend, you are cheated all the time. You think that the real thief is something outside, something other than that. This is what you do. Actually, there is no thief separate from that person you regard as your best friend, the one that you love and cherish most, the one that is kind and always your best helper. But it is all hallucination.

      You think your enemy is your best friend, your best helper, someone who never harms you, and that the real enemy is outside. In reality, it doesn't exist. That wrong thought totally cheats you.

      Like that, recognizing the object to be refuted is so important. If you don't recognize this false I, the object to be refuted, if you have power, you then become a strong

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