Tantric Techniques by Jeffrey Hopkins

Author:Jeffrey Hopkins
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf
Tags: Body, Yoga, General, Religion, Buddhism, Rituals & Practice, Mind & Spirit, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Tibetan
ISBN: 9781559393201
Publisher: Snow Lion
Published: 2009-04-01T14:40:03+00:00

Abandonment of afflictive emotions: Afflictive emotions are naturally abandoned through pledges of color and shape and through treating all [phenomena] as special objects.

Unsurpassed contemplation: This is applied to exalted body, speech, and mind. Through applying unsurpassed contemplation to exalted body, four qualities are generated: (1) quickly overcoming predispositions for the proliferation of the ordinary, (2) quickly overcoming the fruition of karma, (3) engendering great collections of merit, and (4) naturally entering into the selflessness of phenomena. [To describe those four:]

1. Through overcoming conceptions of being ordinary and thereupon abiding in an exalted Buddha body, one overcomes conceptions of an [ordinary] body of beginningless time as well as name,' lineage, and so forth.

2. A divine body is the supreme path for [achieving] a union of calm abiding and special insight; hence, when that meditative stabilization [which is a union of calm abiding and special insight] is attained, the effects of earlier actions are quickly overcome. The Vairochandbhisambodhi Tantra says:b

[Through] the ripening here of fruitions The effects of karmas are attained. When adepthood is attained, Karmas are overcome.

Because the mind is without its own thingnessc And because the causes of effects have been abandoned, One is freed from karmic births. Births are like space.

3. Through mindfulness of Buddhas and having faith upon recognizing Buddhas and making offerings with resources, collections of merit are always produced. Also, when meditation of a divine body has become manifest, all phenomena are understood as just appearances of one's own mind, and moreover, understanding that even the mind is not established arises. Through this and since pristine wisdom is generated in the mental continuum of one with merit, such serves as a cause of pristine wisdom.

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