TAWA

Tawa, or “The View” as it is sometimes translated into English, is the whole point of dharma and determines our M.O., our modus operandi as practitioners. In other words our meditation and conduct flow from the view. The view is not an object to be seen; the view is what you are in your real nature and what everything and everyone is in reality. In Vajrayana training, the view is to see everything as PURE. Pure in this context means empty, clear, as it is. Body is pure, speech is pure and mind is pure and inconceivable, free of labels. When the turbulent muddy waters of mind settle down for a minute on the out breath, then the mind water becomes clear, crystal and transparent and mirror-like. The nature of mind is the view, which is open vastness. The real conduct that flows from this view which has perfect knowledge of the interdependence of all phenomena is extremely refined, subtle and purely virtuous. The view has been transmitted from awakened teacher to disciple over millennia and if one has not already, earnestly praying to receive this, one can most powerfully receive this transmission from a realized master. This simple formula of view, meditation, conduct provides the key points:

The view is Vast Expance

The meditation is Bodhicitta (Awakening Mind)

The conduct is Bodhisattva (Six Paramitas)