Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra
By Master Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by Cheng Yew Chung, Edited by Dance Smith
Translated by Cheng Yew Chung, Edited by Dance Smith
This was translated from Grandmaster Lu's 51st book, 無上密與大手印.
What really is the Highest Yoga Tantra?
Since there is no secret greater than the secret of this tantra, this spells the Highest Yoga Tantra.
Therefore, it is Truth itself.
What then is Mahamudra? It is the True Reality itself.
The approach which completely elucidates and reveals the true reality of truth is known as the teaching of Mahamudra.
I am a vajra master who has practised the Meditative Absorption of Mahamudra seriously, step by step.
This book on the Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra can truly be considered the essence of my realization.
I feel that I have disclosed many things in detail in this book.
However, I know that there will be some people who will find this book incomprehensible.
Well, it is not surprising that they do not understand this work, as this is, after all, the Highest Yoga Tantra.
Those who do not understand this book should seek guidance from a vajra master to clarify the text. Those who wish to practice it should request the appropriate empowerment from a master, and practise accordingly in stages.
If there is any area or step which is unclear, the practitioner should seek clarification from a master.
Anyone who gains accomplishment with the Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra will certainly attain buddhahood.
Hence, within the pages of this book lies the great secret to attaining buddhahood.
One who receives this book is truly blessed with great affinity.
More and more people in this world are taking up the cultivation of Tantric practice.
The reason lies embedded in our subconscious where we are instilled with the joy of inclining towards the light.
However, this supreme teaching of the Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra is usually hidden in secrecy.
Some masters would never disclose their heart essence of realization and regard their realization as a celestial secret, guarding this secret as their own private treasure.
Today, I have revealed my realized heart essence to the world.
I do this out of my great compassion, baring the risk of disclosing the celestial secrets, and have completely revealed the Highest Yoga Tantra.
I am truly a person who is willing to sacrifice for truth`s sake.
I want to share with you the true meaning of life.
A person must cultivate with the intention to leave material desire behind, thus achieving purification of the self.
Otherwise, he will never be able to perceive the true face of Truth, no matter how hard he practises and how hard he seeks to learn.
I am deeply aware of the fact that human beings are the most fortunate of all living things, for they are governed by the mind and spirit.
Only human beings are endowed with the blessings of the Supreme Consciousness; Only they receive the most and biggest blessings above all others, for humans are given the ability and authority to cultivate.
Only by way of cultivation can human beings hope to experience the dharma nature of Truth itself.
These relationships are explained here:
Human being - Given special permission to return to earth for cultivation (the true meaning of life)
Earth - The training ground for the cultivation of human beings to return to truth.
Truth - Another name for the supreme cosmic consciousness, which can be called `buddha`.
The nature of joy - The quality which moves one towards the light.
The nature of lassitude - The quality which makes one descend towards darkness.
The teachings of Mahamudra - The highest cultivation practices which help one realize and attain buddhahood.
Now that I have clarified these relationships, those who are submerged in desire should wake up quickly!
Why waste time indulging yourself in gambling, sex, wealth, fame, wine, fortune or status?
Do not become one who is lazy in practice.
Besides going about your daily routine, you must find some time for cultivation.
Do not despair and do not mull over the past.
We must strive to enrich ourselves every day.
Time does fly, flashing past like lightning and sparks.
In no time we will become old.
Just like lightning and thunder, like a flame that burns, all phenomena are extinguished as soon as they are created, and upon elimination, being created again.
There are many distractions along the path to Truth.
We must take the path of refinement of spirit rather than the route which dulls it.
What appears to be cultivation on the surface, such as establishing temples, functioning as a spiritual medium, performing superficial prostrations, establishing distorted religious teachings, and indulging in physical pleasures are only `mirages`.
Thus, the most important thing to do is to truly establish the inner strength of light within ourselves. We incline towards cultivation as a means to reach truth.
However, along the way we need to differentiate between what is good and what is evil.
We may have to experience and taste countless setbacks and disappointments along the way before we finally arrive at the realm of truth where buddhahood lies.
Why do I name my school True Buddha School?
Because I have seen all too many religious sects with principles that do not live up to expectations. Some sects speak only about faith, while others only perform rituals.
There are teachings whose emphasis varies from preaching kindness, reciting the buddha`s name, making prostrations, and resolving calamities to bardo deliverance.
There are some religious sects which offer nothing except deception.
They cheat people out of their wealth and chastity.
It is for this reason that I decided to gather the strong areas of various religious schools into one focus, and perfect it.
Since I combined the best practices of other religious schools into one, and added to them the cultivation of the Meditative Absorption of Mahamudra, cultivators will be able to merge into oneness with the Supreme Cosmic Consciousness.
When absorbed in this perfect meditative state, one reaches Truth.
True - As in the supreme, the combination of all religious sects.
The revelation of self nature, and its merging with the supreme.
Buddha - Which means perfect enlightenment, the highest samadhi state of realization and liberation which constitutes the heart of heart essence of Tantric Buddhism.
Thus, once the disciples of True Buddha School recognize where they are going, they commit themselves to practice and find the supreme perfect realization gradually radiating from within.
True Buddha School begins with faith, and reaches towards the highest, unexcelled level of accomplishment.
Frankly speaking, the Holy Red Crown Vajra Guru is eternal, a master who exists without beginning and without end.
This is because he has merged with the Supreme Truth itself, and truly has attained enlightenment.
Truth is infinite, so is the Holy Red Crown Vajra Guru, the perfect master.
I am beyond the confines of man, the confines of gods, and the confines of time and space.
These three confinements are unable to control me, for I have truly attained spiritual freedom as soul. Thus I am `infinite`.
The heart essence which I have realized is the Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra.
All the traits of lassitude from the past cannot bind me; neither can all the past desires hold me.
My spirit has touched infinity through spiritual liberation, and I have become one with truth itself.
The Holy Red Crown Vajra Guru Tantric Master Sheng-yen Lu has finally completed the writing of The Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra.
Master Sheng-yen Lu is filled with the vibrancy of love, and the fearlessness of the vajra heart.
His great compassion in delivering sentient beings and his diligence in practice have made the road ahead of him shine ever brighter.
His mind and spirit have entered into the supreme state of joy and bliss, and charged with such great mental power, he shall continue to pave the way, turning himself into the victorious lion king.
All disciples of True Buddha School must maintain a state of mental stability and take note of the dharma taste being transmitted.
Continue the routine of daily practice, and be grateful to the universal light radiating from the Supreme Soul.
It is this Supreme Light which continuously bestows its great compassion upon us human beings.
I am most grateful to Vajradhara (the main name of the Supreme Being).
I am most grateful to Noble Tilopa (the first lineage guru of Kagyupa).
I am most grateful to Noble Naropa (the second lineage guru of Kagyupa).
I am most grateful to Noble Marpa (the third lineage guru of Kagyupa).
I am most grateful to Noble Milarepa (the fourth lineage guru of Kagyupa).
......(and to the other lineage holders of Kagyupa).
I thank the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the Spontaneously-manifested Omniscient Vajra, who is the guru of Holy Red Crown Vajra Guru.
I would also like to thank the many other masters who have taught me.
The lineage of the Meditative Absorption of Mahamudra Practice is supreme.
In our daily life, cultivation helps remove the gross level of materialism and refines our self-nature so that it may radiate light and draw the lineage holders unto us through the crown.
By this approach the individual self is transformed into the universal self and completely merges as one with the universe.
Holy Red Crown Vajra Guru has made the Meditative Absorption of Mahamudra shine in its brilliance in this historical moment, radiating its infinite light through eternity as the Tantric teaching is destined to be transmitted to the west.
In future times, the teaching of Mahamudra shall help the Tantric teachings flourish, allowing every sentient being the opportunity to be delivered, so that everyone shall attain buddhahood.
May all endeavors be auspicious.
Amituofo
Lotuschef
Pure Karma
True Buddha School
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