Mastering Meditation by His Eminence Chöden Rinpoché

Author:His Eminence Chöden Rinpoché
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisdom Publications

THE METHOD FOR CAUSING THE WIND TO ABIDE IN THE CENTRAL CHANNEL

Although we mainly need to cause the winds to enter, abide, and dissolve in the indestructible drop at the center of the mantra wheel at the heart, if right away we meditate observing the heart, there is a danger that we will be unable to gather the winds and that “heart wind” — that is, a disorder of the heart energy — will arise.227 For that reason, initially we should meditate observing another vital point of the body. If our ultimate goal is to make effort at a method for generating realizations of the completion stage, first we need a stable realization of the generation stage. Take as an illustration first meditating on isolation of body. [148] Before that, we have to recite the hundred-syllable mantra in conjunction with the meditation recitation of Vajrasattva. We then meditate on guru yoga, visualize the channels of the body, and purify them.

Request to the lama, making the request “Please bless me to generate an unmistaken realization of the completion stage.” If your guru yoga practice is Lama Chöpa, request with this verse:

Requested thence, my lama supreme:

to bless, with joy alight on my crown.228

If it is the six-session guru yoga, then meditate up until “alights on my crown, samāja.”229 Then request to the lama, “Please bless me to generate in my continuum the realization of isolation of body.” Initially visualize the channels, and then request that the channels may appear clearly and that blockages in the channels and winds may not arise. After that, if you meditate on isolation of body from the space of clear appearance of yourself as the deity, it is said that realizations of isolation of body will arise. After that, the lama abides on your crown, or the lama abides at your heart, according to some texts. Wherever you visualize him, the main thing is to make your mind inseparable from the lama yidam and then generate the visualization of your mind entering into either a drop, a hūṃ syllable, or something like that. [149] Initially cause the hūṃ syllable to descend either to the channel wheel at the navel or to the tip of the jewel [sexual organ] at the secret place. If you meditate in that way, then the winds will gather wherever you place your visualization. Since the wind and mind exist together and travel together, then wherever you place your mind, the wind will gather there. If you place your observation as explained above, it will be easy to gather the winds. Imagine that rays of light emanate from your heart or from the syllable there and purify the faults of the whole world and its beings. All worlds, in the form of celestial palaces, and all beings, in the form of gods and goddesses, melt into light. All worlds melt into light and dissolve into the beings, and those beings also dissolve into your body. You also melt into light from top and bottom, and then imagine dissolving into the drop.

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