Buddhahood in This Life by Malcolm Smith

Author:Malcolm Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Liberating Oral Instructions

2.1.1.8.2 The Self-Arisen Vidyā Tantra states:

Having perfected the maṇḍala of conferring the empowerment,

one should explain the instructions extensively.

Now, there are two subjects in the practice of the liberating oral instructions: the practice according to how the person behaves and the actual methods of practicing those instructions.

The Two Kinds of Practitioners

2.1.1.8.2.1 Two kinds of practitioners practice the guru’s instructions: people who practice like beggars and people who practice like deer. The former are disguised as commoners in a land they do not know, practicing unknown and alone.175 Not boasting about one’s qualities to people is a sign of absence of grasping. Not asking about or relying176 on the signs of the amazing accomplishments of others [53b] is a sign of confidence in one’s own intimate instructions. The Intimate Instruction Tantra177 states:178

Stay like a beggar

in a place without friends or enemies.

Practicing in the manner of a deer means going to a charnel ground or a place without negative conditions, such as a mountain cave or an empty valley. Having given up the three activities, practice. Further, first, since one gives up the activities of the body, including work, farming, and so on, the body is relaxed, and in turn the nāḍīs are relaxed. Since the nāḍīs are relaxed, the vāyus arise in their own condition. Since the vāyus arise in their own condition, concepts will not arise. For the voice, one should not engage in much conversation. Since one stops talking, the meaning of inexpressibility arises in one’s mind. One should give up activities of the mind with its many different concepts and practice. The Realms and Transformations of Sound Tantra states:

The faithful one, free of thoughts of saṃsāra,

should make offerings to the guru, give up activities,

abandon all connection with saṃsāra,

and reside alone without companions.

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