Lesson 4 from A Comprehensive Commentary on the Words of My Perfect Teacher completes the teaching on proper listening by turning from bodhicitta to the Vajrayana attitude of pure perception.
The teacher explains Vajrayana's four distinguishing features — clarity of view, ease of method, richness of skillful means, and suitability for those of sharp faculties — and argues these are not sectarian claims but objective truths confirmed by both tantric and sutra sources. The Vimalakirti Sutra story of Brahma Sikhin and Shariputra illustrates the central point: the world is primordially pure; only the obscured mind fails to see it. The lesson then introduces the five perfections as the correct Vajrayana frame for listening to any teaching — perfect place, teacher, assembly, time, and Dharma — offering several visualisation options from the Deer Park to Akanistha to the Copper-coloured Mountain.
It closes with the tantric principle of the "ever-revolving wheel of eternity": unlike Sutrayana, Vajrayana holds that the Buddha never entered parinirvana and the Dharma never disappears — a view the teacher illustrates with His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche's words at Vulture Peak.
