Becoming Vajrasattva: The Tantric Path of Purification by Lama Thubten Yeshe & Nicholas Ribush & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Author:Lama Thubten Yeshe & Nicholas Ribush & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780861719020
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2012-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Q: We are supposed to see others as Heruka Vajrasattva, but what happens when we see someone doing something negative?

A: You mean, should you try to stop them? Well, remember the story about the monk who was visualizing himself as Yamantaka? It’s similar. If you see someone doing something wrong, you can say, “Hey, what’s going on?” The thing is, however, that you still have to see Heruka Vajrasattva somewhere within him. It’s just that he’s forgotten who he really is and is acting under the influence of his chicken or snake mind. So you can say, “Excuse me, your chicken is showing!” Something like that!

My experience is that it’s difficult to visualize women as, say, the male deities Vajrasattva or Vajrapani. But I try to see that somewhere within the atmosphere of the female body is the crystal, clean-clear psychic body of Vajrasattva or Vajrapani. You can understand that. Each of us does have Vajrasattva quality, Vajrapani quality within us, so we can visualize the divine body co-existing with us.

Q: Sometimes when I meditate I see a kind of blue light in front of me. Is it real or imaginary, and what does it mean?

A: It depends a bit on how you feel when you see it—whether you feel relaxed or irritated. But it’s not necessarily just a mental projection. Sometimes when your mind has developed in a certain way, you can see light physically, with your eye sense. I think it’s very good if someone has this kind of natural vision of light. Normally, when we meditate we don’t see any light at all; only darkness. If I see green or blue light, even in my imagination, I feel happy. Blue light is somehow related to infinity; seeing blue light suggests a mind that’s very expansive, not narrow.

Q: How big should you visualize Vajrasattva?

A: It varies with the person. Some people like to visualize him big, others small. He shouldn’t be too big; most people tend to favor something similar to their own proportions. Also, he should not be heavy or physical, and he shouldn’t touch your head. You don’t have to force the visualization, either. He simply manifests in the space above your head, appearing spontaneously. Out of Heruka Vajrasattva’s divine omnipresent wisdom his energy appears without effort, like a reflection in a mirror. If you don’t have some understanding of shunyata, then he seems really heavy: “Oh, Vajrasattva is too heavy for me. This retreat’s too heavy, and he’s too heavy!” That shows you don’t really understand the wisdom of nonduality.

Anyway, visualize Vajrasattva as whatever size feels comfortable but clean-clear, crystal, like a rainbow, so that just looking at him energizes a clean, blissful kundalini experience. Sometimes these experiences can feel like an orgasm, but they are not physical reactions. If you are meditating with intensive awareness, there’s no problem, but if you don’t have some understanding of nonduality, then things become too physical and that can be dangerous.

Q: Please would you say something about the quality of Heruka Vajrasattva.

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