This is a document by one of Bodo’s Students, designed to be a handy resource to understand the Esoteric Approach to the Teachings of the Buddha Dharma.
Link: https://www.universaldharma.com/2021/an-esoteric-approach-to-the-buddha-dharma/
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Table of Contents (A series of questions)
Exoteric And Esoteric
- Question One: Tantra
- Question Two: Linages and its esoteric essence
- Question Three: The content of A treatise on Mind
- Question four: Levels of teachings
- Question five: “ear whispered truth”
- Question six: exoteric/esoteric
- Question seven: higher terms and concepts
- Question eight: enlightenment
- Question nine: limitations in views
The Initiation Path, Karma And Enlightenment
- Question ten: Karma, evolution and enlightenment
- Question eleven: towards Buddhahood
- Question twelve: stages of enlightenment
- Question thirteen: Bodhisattva bhūmis
- Question fourteen: rebirth, evolution and bodhicitta
- Question fifteen, sixteen and seventeen: Initiation and Buddhist schools
- Question eighteen: Third initiation briefly commented
- Question nineteen: Fourth initiation briefly commented
Meditation, The Training Of The Higher Abstract Mind
- Question twenty: getting in touch with the higher domains of Mind
- Question twenty- one: Zen Mind
- Question twenty-two: being meditative throughout the day
Analysies of Zen, Yogācārya and esoteric Buddhism
- Question twenty-three: Explaining Dharma Doors of enlightenment
- Question twenty -four: emptiness explained
- Question twenty-five: differences between Yogācāra and esoteric teachings
- Question twenty-six: example of the karma and service work of high initiates
- Question twenty-seven: Tathāgatagarbha or Soul Form