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Training in Wisdom: Three Visions and 22 Indriyas

We can divide the spectrum of experience in various ways. In this samsaric world, there is mostly the Impure Vision, the distorted world of suffering and impermanence and subjectivity. For those fortunate ones who have found a spiritual practice, this is intermixed with the Vision of Experience, the Vision of the Path, where the perspective has shifted, and one no longer looks for the permanent in what is intrinsically impermanent. Nor does one seek happiness in what is intrinsically suffering, purity in what is intrinsically impure, or a sense of self in impersonal forces and structures, which have no self. As these 4 “upside down views” are abandoned, one approaches the Pure Vision, which sees things as they really are. Only awakened ones have pure vision. If we consider the 22“Indriyas”, the ‘functions’, ‘organs’, or ‘roots’, we find the first 13 items are associated with the Impure Vision. The first 5 of these are the 5 sense organs. (The 6th sense organ is the dualistic mind, the vijnana indriya, which perceives thoughts and sense contacts. digression about Marshall McLuhan and the 5 senses Items 7 and 8 are Female Gender and Male Gender. The next 5 have to do with the emotional nature. 9. Misery, Pain - duhkha 10. Pleasure - sukha 11. Joyful Mind - saumanasya 12. Unhappy Mind - daurmanasya 13. Indifference – upeksha The Vision of Experience transforms the ordinary samsaric perspective: we now see that things are impermanent and transient; devoid of any inherent nature of their own; and lacking in purity. In the Vision of Experience, the Vision on the Path, one encounters the 5 Roots: 14. Faith – (shraddha)- controls doubt 15. Vigor, Effort - (virya)- controls laziness 16. Mindfulness – (smriti)- controls heedlessness 17. Concentration – (samadhi)- controls distraction 18. Wisdom – (prajna)- controls ignorance When perfected, these become the 5 powers. They must be perfectly balanced: mindfulness | faith | wisdom ---------------+----------------- effort | concentration | mindfulness Faith in excess leads to stupidity. Too little faith leads to doubt. Wisdom in excess is cold and cunning. Too little wisdom is stupidity. Effort in excess leads to restlessness, too little effort leads to laziness. Concentration in excess is static; too little concentration leads to distraction. There is no such thing as too much mindfulness. The 5 powers cover much the same ground as the 6 perfections and the 8 fold path. They should be tuned like the strings of a musical instrument. ‘The final or Pure Vision occurs when the practitioner has attained spiritual liberation, that is, Buddhahood. At this point the vision is no longer obscured by emotive habits, such as attachment and aversion or the ignorance that proceeds from the mistaken belief in subject and object. This direct perception of things as they are is called the “non-duality of clarity and emptiness.”’ (Deshung Rinpoche ) The next 3 items belong to the Pure Vision: 19. Will to know the unknown ( the cause ) 20. What is unknown ( the object) 21. Possessing all-knowingness ( the result ) 22. Life: physical life force (jivit indriya) There is also a Life organ/Life function. It has influence over the arising of a sentient being, and the length of life. Prepared for Nalanda Institute by Bob Harris