Liberation Through Seeing
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འ༔ ཨ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔ ཧ༔
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔ ཧ༔
Is it Tibetan words?
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Yup
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
Yup
I can see it now. Had just installed Tibetan fonts in the system.
What does it mean, would u kindly share?
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I am not exactly sure... copied this from http://www.atikosha.org/2011/01/liberation-through-seeing.html
Also, found this from another site:
What is Liberation?
The Bardo Thotrol is one of a series of instructions on six types of liberation: liberation through hearing, liberation through wearing, liberation through seeing, liberation through remembering, liberation through tasting, and liberation through touching. They were composed by Padmasambhava and written down by his wife, Yeshe Tsogyal, along with the sadhana of the two mandalas of forty-two peaceful and fifty-eight wrathful deities.
Padmasambhava buried these texts in the Gampo hills in central Tibet, where later the great teacher Gampopa established his monastery. Many other texts and sacred objects were buried in this way in different places throughout Tibet, and are known as terma, 'hidden treasures.' Padmasambhava gave the transmission of power to discover the termas to his twenty-five chief disciples. The Bardo texts were later discovered by Karma-Lingpa, who was an incarnation of one of these disciples.
Liberation, in this case, means that whoever comes into contact with this teaching--even in the form of doubt, or with an open mind--receives a sudden glimpse of enlightenment through the power of the transmission contained in these treasures. (p. xi)
There is liberation by hearing, seeing, touching etc existing. How this function, to get an idea of it , for this I am sending you something from Khenpho Kathar Rinpoche. He talkes about the mantra KARMAPA CHENNO how it can liberate just by hearing it.
Same must be with OM MANI PEME HUNG. I know also about texts which can cause liberation just by wearing it, reading it etc.
I think we have to understand this as an gradual process. I could also imagine that to see, hear such things could as well cause an instant moment of liberations, JUST for persons who already practiced a lot in past lifes.
Many of us hear Mahamudra teachings 10-30 times, but are still not liberated, and there are people, whom we know from stories who were quite innocent/ ignorant about dharma and just once heared teachings on mahamudra and became enlightened just by hearing the teachings........
I think the reliques of the Buddha and the other masters can have the same effect: getting liberated just by seeing, getting touched by it. And I think the more we believe in this the more we speed up our on progress, the more blessing can enter us.
With all my best wishes
Csillag
Chenno is actually honorific. „Chen“ is meant as an honorific, and the ending“no“ emphasizes that. It is really an honorific for saying „Listen to me.“ It is clear that when we are talking to someone and say „Please listen to me,“ we mean for them to listen using the ears.
However, we are not particularly saying to the teacher to listen with ears, but rather to listen from the heart or mind to what we are saying.
„Please know and understand what I am saying.“ Something like that. In a very respectful way,we are saying, „ Listen to me, listen to me.“ We have to know, when we are saying Karmapa Chenno, it does not simply mean pay attention.There is also a feeling of a request to grant blessings. So we are requesting him to grant blessings and we are praying to him.
When we speak of the ability to libearate through hearing, we have often said that an individual like the Karmapa is able to liberate beings through hearing, touching, and then reflecting.
If someone has never seen someone like the Karmapa, and if another person with some sense of compassion recites the name „Karmapa“ or „Karmapa Chenno,“ and if the words are heared by that sentient being, a virtuous seed is cultivated in the mind of the hearer.
This is because of the compassion and strength or power of someone like the Karmapa.
In the end, the person or being who has heard the name of Karmapa or Karmapa Chenno will not have to experience lower births; from then onward, he or she will always develop or cultivate that seed of virtue.
That is one example of how someone like the Karmapa can liberate through hearing.
Now if we start to recite Karmapa Chenno loudly in the city, people may think we are crazy and the police might come; so do not do this in the city.
That is the main reason why we used mountains and ocean; we are free to shout there.
By reciting that mantra and animals hearing it, they are helped because they do not need to take rebirth in the lower realms after they die. Therefore, what happens is that these animals and other beings take rebirth in a higher realm such as the human realm; they do not obtain liberation necessarily, but because of the cultivation of that connection, they have the motivation to practice the buddhadharma after that, and by eventually practicing the path of the dharma, they can be liberated in the Western pure land realm of Dewachen.
But by the same token, if the sentient beings, the animals, birds or whatever they are, do not have some karma, the mantra alone cannot be beneficial. If that alone were beneficial, Buddha would have had complete power; since Buddha is all-compassionate, he would have done that.
All we have to do is just try to recite it and those who have karma will be able to benefit from it. We do not know who does or does not have the karma, but they will eventually build the karma to connect to it some day.
An individual definitely must have tremendous realization in order for the sound of his or her name to cultivate the seed of virtue in beings.
That is why many practitioners who are genuine and compassionate receite names such as „Karmapa“ or phrases such as Karmapa Chenno when they are in the mountains or near a river, so that even the fish, animals and birds in the forest are able to cultivate such virtuous seeds because of having heared the oractitioner`s use of these names and words.
This way of benefitting is really beyond our imagination.
There is also the possibility of liberation through reflecting or thinking about such beings. Even if we have not met someone like the Karmapa, but we have read his biography, that biography alone can cultivate vitous seeds that will not let us fall into the lower realms even though we may not have met him or her.
After learning about this person and being inspired by them, if we simply think about or reflect on them at the moment of death, for example, it is certain that we will be freed from all the suffering and pain of the lower realms even though we have not met them.
We will then experience a better birth where all the possibilities of developing our spiritual path are already cultivated within ourselves.
This is liberation through simply reflecting. -
Something similar:
Liberation Upon Seeing
They even make bumperstickers of these, which may or may not be what the terton Migyur Dorje had in mind, but who knows? Isn't the objective to get this in front of the largest number of people? Suppose we rent billboards for this image? In any event, the promise is as follows:
"Those who see this script will not experience the three lower realms and will be liberated from the fear of falling into the lower realms; will be purified of the five poisons and will be freed from the results of one's karma; will be freed from the fear of remaining in samsara."
