Longchenpa

-- Tibetan master Longchenpa, fourteenth century Tibet

Who and What Is Buddha, Really? 2010

-- Tibetan master Longchenpa, fourteenth century Tibet

Lama Surya Das: Who and What Is Buddha, Really? 2010

Here is how the great Tibetan Buddhist master from centuries ago, Longchenpa, put it, as translated by Kennard Lipman and Merrill Peterson:

Mitra Bishop-sensei - A Reply to Chip Brown’s “Enlightenment Therapy” William Harryman 2009

Longchenpa did not teach the denial of these emotions nor did he teach that we should get rid of them.

Mitra Bishop-sensei - A Reply to Chip Brown’s “Enlightenment Therapy” William Harryman 2009

In the formulations of the Nyingma masters Longchenpa and Peltrul, however, the impartial state of mind that is free of the notions of friend, enemy, and stranger is required before, not after developing immeasurable love, compassion, and joy, in order to extend the three attitudes equally to all others.

The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005

Here, Longchenpa presents immeasurable love as far more than the wish for others to have physical happiness, as Vasubandhu asserts.

The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005

In accord with the dzogchen teachings, (rdzogs-chen, great completeness), Longchenpa also explains that each of the four immeasurable attitudes has two forms.

The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005

Longchenpa also connects meditation on the four immeasurable attitudes with the practices for dissolving the five disturbing emotions into their underlying forms of deep awareness:

The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005

After meditating on the aimed and unaimed forms of the four immeasurable attitudes in the order that begins with equanimity, Longchenpa outlines further meditation on the four, but now starting with love.

The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005

Thus, Longchenpa presents both types of equanimity mentioned by Tsongkhapa: an even-minded attitude toward all others and the wish that all others likewise have such an attitude.

The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005