The Secret Key of Tantrayana: I am the Buddha
In some monasteries where the monks practice asceticism very seriously, people have witnessed that, when the monks sit down to meditate, their heads start to drop and saliva trickles out of the corners of their mouths. [audience laughter] Amitabha! How could this be entering into Samadhi? It is entering into Slumberland!
Tantric rules are very strict. When one sits down to practice and enter into Samadhi, one has to assume and maintain the correct and dignified postures. One should not sit in a lopsided manner, lean against a wall, or snooze off with head aslant. I don't know how hard they immerse themselves in their practice, but do their masters teach them the Nine Round Buddha Breath Exercise, the merging of the Personal Deity and self, the dual employment of Chih and Kuan, and the Breath Counting Exercise? They probably engage in the breath counting practice, as breath counting is, generally speaking, a quite prevalent and excellent method to achieve "non-thought." However, Tantrayana also teaches the Nine Round Buddha Breath Exercise and the merging of self and the Personal Deity, which are not taught in Sutric schools. In fact, many exoteric practitioners find the visualization of the Buddha entering into their bodies to be preposterous. It would be a breaking of the precepts! They consider themselves defiled in comparison to the holy being of the Buddha, so how could the two become one? It would be an insult to the Buddha!
But one must not engage in this kind of thinking We have to think of ourselves as the Buddha and consider ourselves as pure. The greatest secret in Tantrayana is — I am the Buddha. Who is the Buddha? I am! This is the greatest secret of Tantrayana. The Buddha and Tare one and indivisible. Therefore these three visualizations: the Nine Round Buddha Breath Exercise, the entering of the Personal Deity into self and vice versa, and the Breath Counting Exercise are the correct ways to achieve Samadhi.
Some masters talk about sitting meditation but, when students ask them how this is done, they reply, "You don't know how to do sitting meditation? It is just sitting there!" Just sitting there leads to drooling. [audience laughter] Meditation is not sitting there every day in boredom; it requires certain techniques! And Tantrayana does offer specific techniques that can help one to enter into Samadhi.
Basics [27]. More to come.....
Readers can write to purekarmaservices@gmail.com for a .pdf or .doc copy of this book.
Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef
In some monasteries where the monks practice asceticism very seriously, people have witnessed that, when the monks sit down to meditate, their heads start to drop and saliva trickles out of the corners of their mouths. [audience laughter] Amitabha! How could this be entering into Samadhi? It is entering into Slumberland!
Tantric rules are very strict. When one sits down to practice and enter into Samadhi, one has to assume and maintain the correct and dignified postures. One should not sit in a lopsided manner, lean against a wall, or snooze off with head aslant. I don't know how hard they immerse themselves in their practice, but do their masters teach them the Nine Round Buddha Breath Exercise, the merging of the Personal Deity and self, the dual employment of Chih and Kuan, and the Breath Counting Exercise? They probably engage in the breath counting practice, as breath counting is, generally speaking, a quite prevalent and excellent method to achieve "non-thought." However, Tantrayana also teaches the Nine Round Buddha Breath Exercise and the merging of self and the Personal Deity, which are not taught in Sutric schools. In fact, many exoteric practitioners find the visualization of the Buddha entering into their bodies to be preposterous. It would be a breaking of the precepts! They consider themselves defiled in comparison to the holy being of the Buddha, so how could the two become one? It would be an insult to the Buddha!
But one must not engage in this kind of thinking We have to think of ourselves as the Buddha and consider ourselves as pure. The greatest secret in Tantrayana is — I am the Buddha. Who is the Buddha? I am! This is the greatest secret of Tantrayana. The Buddha and Tare one and indivisible. Therefore these three visualizations: the Nine Round Buddha Breath Exercise, the entering of the Personal Deity into self and vice versa, and the Breath Counting Exercise are the correct ways to achieve Samadhi.
Some masters talk about sitting meditation but, when students ask them how this is done, they reply, "You don't know how to do sitting meditation? It is just sitting there!" Just sitting there leads to drooling. [audience laughter] Meditation is not sitting there every day in boredom; it requires certain techniques! And Tantrayana does offer specific techniques that can help one to enter into Samadhi.
Basics [27]. More to come.....
Readers can write to purekarmaservices@gmail.com for a .pdf or .doc copy of this book.
Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef
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