Opening to Our Primordial Nature by Khenchen Palden Sherab & Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal

Author:Khenchen Palden Sherab & Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 1559392495
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 2006-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

It is said that a healthy adult breathes twelve times a minute, counting the inhalation and exhalation as one breath. Adding it up, we find that people breathe many thousands of times every day. Most of the winds are connected with the emotions, but about every two hundred breaths there is a breath of wisdom wind. If you know about the wind energy, you can calculate the wisdom wind perfectly. By recognizing the wisdom wind, you can linger in that moment or use that wisdom wind to transform the rest of your emotional winds into the wisdom wind.

There are many vajrayana techniques connected with the wind energy, such as the bum chen, the big vase practice, and the bum chung, the small vase practice. These bring extraordinary physical powers. For example, experts on the wind energy can travel long distances very quickly. If it normally takes one week to walk somewhere, they can walk that far in one day. Through controlling their winds, they can levitate and fly in the sky, and their bodies become younger and more healthy, with less wrinkles and gray hair.

The dzogchen tradition teaches the importance of four levels of straightness: when the body becomes straight, then the channels become straight. When the channels become straight, then the wind energy becomes straight. When the wind element becomes straight, then the mind becomes straight and primordial wisdom shines out.

However, samsara is not really straight; it is always circling back on itself. In the vajrayana tradition there is an illustration called the "wheel of life," which depicts samsara. In the center of the wheel of life there are three animals - a pig, a rooster, and a snake, which are coming out of each others' mouths and circling around. These animals represent the three poisons. The pig is a symbol of ignorance, the source of samsara. Ignorance gives birth to attachment, which is symbolized by the rooster. Anger develops from attachment, in that whatever prevents the fulfillment of desire becomes an object of anger. Anger is symbolized by the snake. The interconnection of these three shows ignorance as the root of samsaric existence, giving rise again and again to confused emotions and actions.

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