Translation Memory:007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar/286

007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar/286 ID: 007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar <br> Date: 22 March 2024 <br> Creator: Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation

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English	If one objects that the situation is not so, and asserts that in the mind in which dualistic appearance has vanished, there are nevertheless aspects[p.265]The Wisdom Chapter Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva." Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017. of both object and subject, what has happened to the absence of dualistic appearance? If this just means that the duality is not perceived, even though it is in fact there, it follows that the mind will not realize the nature of its object as it really is, for there will be no correspondence between the way the thing really is and the way it is perceived.165The essential weakness in Drakar’s position, according to Mipham, is the failure to distinguish between the ordinary mind of unrealized beings, which necessarily cognizes objects in a state of subject–object duality, and the nondual wisdom of the Āryas in meditation, which transcends this duality and which can therefore cognize (for it is of the same nature) the ultimate truth beyond all ontological extremes. Drakar insists that the ultimate is the object of the mind, in other words that, even when it is realized, it remains the object of a cognizing subject. But if a subject–object duality persists, it follows, according to Mipham, that the mind is at odds with (and therefore cannot cognize) what it is attempting to identify. For, in Mipham’s view, the ultimate transcends the four extremes and cannot be an object of cognition in the ordinary sense. If the mind that cognizes the ultimate truth does so within the mechanism of subject–object duality (a characteristic of the mental functioning of ordinary beings), the “ultimate” in question can only be, according to Mipham, a mental image (a mere idea of the ultimate, and not the thing itself) cognized dualistically on the conventional level. Such an understanding of the so-called figurative ultimate (rnam grangs pa’i don dam) does indeed have its uses, and is indeed as much as the mind can manage while still on the paths of accumulation and joining. But to emphasize it, clinging to a notion of conventionally valid cognition, is characteristic of the Svātantrika, not Prāsaṅgika, approach.
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SourceSegmentOrder	286
Tibetan	དེ་ལྟར་མིན་པར་གཉིས་སྣང་ནུབ་བཞིན་པའི་བློ་རང་ངོར་ཡང་ཡུལ་དང་བློའི་རྣམ་པ་ཡོད་པར་འདོད་ན་གཉིས་སྣང་མེད་པར་ཡང་ཇི་ལྟར་འགྱུར། དོན་ལ་གཉིས་སུ་ཡོད་ཀྱང་དེར་མ་སྣང་བ་ཙམ་ཡིན་ན་ནི་དོན་གྱི་གནས་ཚུལ་ཇི་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན་རྟོགས་པའི་བློར་མི་འགྱུར་ཏེ་གནས་སྣང་མི་མཐུན་པའི་ཕྱིར་རོ། །
TranslationChapter	LDS - Question 6
TranslationPageNumber	264
Wylie	de ltar min par gnyis snang nub bzhin pa'i blo rang ngor yang yul dang blo'i rnam pa yod par 'dod na gnyis snang med par yang ji ltar 'gyur/_don la gnyis su yod kyang der ma snang ba tsam yin na ni don gyi gnas tshul ji lta ba bzhin rtogs pa'i blor mi 'gyur te gnas snang mi mthun pa'i phyir ro/_/
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AuthorLabel	Mipam Gyatso 1846 - 1912
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RootSourceTransMem	001-Tsadra-BCA-Root-Padmakara
RootTextWikiPage	Bodhicaryāvatāra
ShortTitle	Light of the Day Star (2017)
SourceAuthor	People/Mi pham rgya mtsho
SourceTitleTibetan	བརྒལ་ལན་ཉིན་བྱེད་སྣང་བ།
SourceTitleWylie	brgal lan nyin byed snang ba
SourceVersionLabel	Mipam Gyatso (1846 - 1912)
SourceWikiPage	Texts/Brgal lan nyin byed snang ba
TranslationCitation	Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva." Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
TranslationPublishedYear	2017
TranslationWikiPage	Books/The Wisdom Chapter
Translator	People/Blankleder, H.;People/Fletcher, W.;People/Padmakara Translation Group
TransMemCreator	Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi
TransMemDate	22 March 2024
TransMemID	007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar
TransMemNum	007
TransMemOrigin	Tsadra Foundation
TransMemType	Commentary