07-21-2010, 12:05 AM
Within Mahāyāna literature, the teachings of the historical Buddha Śākyamuni are categorized according to three distinct sets of sūtra discourses.[1] These sets of teachings are not determined by location or by the timing of their delivery but rather by their content and their intended audience. Utilizing the early Buddhist metaphor of a “dharma wheel,” each set is described as a "turning," "cycle," or perhaps more accurately as a "revolution."
As a schema for classifying the sūtras, these three turnings provide a conceptual framework for understanding the progressive unfolding of Buddhist philosophical schools of thought in India as well as for interpreting the vast body of literature attributed to the Buddha. Summarizing these three turnings, Tāranātha writes,
Nevertheless, the initial Wheel of Dharma comprises the set of sūtra discourses on the ordinary śrāvaka that teach about phenomena within relative reality. The middle Wheel of Dharma comprises the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras that teach how the intrinsic essence of all phenomena from form up through omniscience cannot be established, and how existence is said to be not even slightly existent. The final Wheel of Dharma teaches how one's own nature is regarded as exalted pristine awareness, the ultimate truth that is space and awareness indivisible.[2]
This ultimate nature of the 3rd revolution is often referred to as, "buddhanature" or tathāgatagarbha. Its understood to be an enlightened essence that is everlasting, stable, constant and insubstantial. It is said to encompass all of the tangibles, that which are known to the ordinary sense faculties and by the states of mind. Finally, it is explained as an expression of ultimate emptiness, a nature which has not arisen from the beginning of time and that appears "like reflected forms in a mirror."[3]
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3rd revolution
Matrix Revolutions (3rd in Trilogy)
"This ultimate nature of the 3rd revolution is often referred to as, "buddhanature" or tathāgatagarbha."
"the initial Wheel of Dharma comprises the set of sūtra discourses on the
ordinary śrāvaka that teach about phenomena within relative reality.
The middle Wheel of Dharma comprises the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras that
teach how the intrinsic essence of all phenomena from form up through
omniscience cannot be established, and how existence is said to be not
even slightly existent. "
The first two revolutions could be interpreted in the first two Matrix's as well. What is real? And how it can't be substantiated, and to try to only creates doubts.
As a schema for classifying the sūtras, these three turnings provide a conceptual framework for understanding the progressive unfolding of Buddhist philosophical schools of thought in India as well as for interpreting the vast body of literature attributed to the Buddha. Summarizing these three turnings, Tāranātha writes,
Nevertheless, the initial Wheel of Dharma comprises the set of sūtra discourses on the ordinary śrāvaka that teach about phenomena within relative reality. The middle Wheel of Dharma comprises the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras that teach how the intrinsic essence of all phenomena from form up through omniscience cannot be established, and how existence is said to be not even slightly existent. The final Wheel of Dharma teaches how one's own nature is regarded as exalted pristine awareness, the ultimate truth that is space and awareness indivisible.[2]
This ultimate nature of the 3rd revolution is often referred to as, "buddhanature" or tathāgatagarbha. Its understood to be an enlightened essence that is everlasting, stable, constant and insubstantial. It is said to encompass all of the tangibles, that which are known to the ordinary sense faculties and by the states of mind. Finally, it is explained as an expression of ultimate emptiness, a nature which has not arisen from the beginning of time and that appears "like reflected forms in a mirror."[3]
http://www.jonangpa.com/node/1325
3rd revolution
Matrix Revolutions (3rd in Trilogy)
"This ultimate nature of the 3rd revolution is often referred to as, "buddhanature" or tathāgatagarbha."
"the initial Wheel of Dharma comprises the set of sūtra discourses on the
ordinary śrāvaka that teach about phenomena within relative reality.
The middle Wheel of Dharma comprises the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras that
teach how the intrinsic essence of all phenomena from form up through
omniscience cannot be established, and how existence is said to be not
even slightly existent. "
The first two revolutions could be interpreted in the first two Matrix's as well. What is real? And how it can't be substantiated, and to try to only creates doubts.

