ABSTRACT
At the time when Shakyamuni Buddha, whilst in the Fourth Region of the Meditational Heavens, was residing in the palace of the deva king Maheshvara along with the immeasurably great deva king Brahma and millions upon millions of Bodhisattvas, He spoke of the various aspects of the Dharma regarding the Foundations of Training which Vairochana proclaims whilst enthroned upon His lotus pedestal which contains all worlds within it. The universe on each petal contains, in turn, ten billion Mount Sumerus, ten billion suns and moons, ten billion sets of four continents including ten billion Jambudvipas, each with its Shakya Bodhisattva seated beneath a Bodhi tree. Each Buddha on the thousand petals is a transformation of Myself whilst the ten billion Shakyamunis are, in turn, transformations of these thousand Buddhas. When the mind is completely free of its bonds, that mind is the functioning of Original Nature, and all is seen as eternal bliss and immaculacy.
