The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 3 by The Dalai Lama

Author:The Dalai Lama
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2017-05-02T04:00:00+00:00

How to Perform Diffusion, Gathering, and So Forth Once Stability Is Attained

The first section of the Compendium of Principles Tantra says:*17

When the sign of blissful touch

Of the subtle vajra arises,

Wherever the sign is extended

The mind is to be extended.

Extending the mind as you wish,

Extend it even through the three realms.

Ᾱnandagarbha’s commentary on the first part of the Compendium of Principles says68 that when, through the force of having meditated on the form of the subtle vajra, your body is seen as entirely pervaded [by tiny vajras], then if you wish to increase [the sphere of the vajras], you diffuse them through the town, and so forth, and then through the three realms.

With respect to how to diffuse [the tiny vajras], Buddhaguhya’s Introduction to the Meaning of the Tantra69 explains that saying*18 spharavajra [“diffuse vajras”],*19 you scatter many vajras like a whirlwind blowing on dust, whereby they become pervasive by degrees. Having done contemplation in that way for a long time, say saṃharaṇavajra70 [“gather vajras”], and while experiencing the touch of withdrawing wind [that is, breath] inside, withdraw the vajras to the tip of the nose, whereupon they become one vajra, and meditate on it. The first section of the Compendium of Principles Tantra says:*20

Then upon having gathered them back,

It dwells at the tip of the nose.

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