Solitary Yamantaka Teachings on the Generation Stage

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2 CONTENTS 4 I INTRODUCTION 6 Basic Lam Rim overview 6 {I} BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TEA 9 {II} ELABORATED EXPLANATION OF THIS PRACTICE 11 {1} The origination of this teaching with an account of the 11 {i} How Buddha taught tantra 12 {ii} How Mahasiddha Lalita revealed this teaching by obtaini 13 {iii} How that line of teaching came unbroken to the Land of 16 Je Tsongkhapa 21 {2} The explanation of the merits of the teaching in order t 25 Five qualities of the Solitary Hero Yamantaka practice 26 The story of Yamantaka 30 Praise of Manjushri 31 {3} How to listen and explain such a teaching as this 37 {i} Qualities of such a teacher 37 {ii} Qualities of the disciples receiving the teaching 39 {iii} Actual manner of giving and receiving the teaching 42 {4} How to guide the disciples by the actual teaching 42 {i} The aptitude of the person who will practice 43 {ii} Place where the practice will be done 43 {iii} Manner of collecting at that place the necessities of 47 {iv} Method of the actual practice 48 II PRELIMINARIES 50 [i] Yoga of the Sessions: 50 Beginning of the session – Preliminaries 50 Entreaty to the Lineage 51 The initiation lineage 51 How Gyeltsab Je and Khedrub Je met Je Tsongkhapa. 54 The First Panchen Lama and Segyu Könchog Gyeltsen 58 The Sixth Dalai Lama 60 How Changya Rolpai Dorje landed in China 62 How to practice the lineage prayer 66 The teaching lineage 69 Instant generation 71 Why instant generation? 71 The three-kaya practice 72 Dharmakaya 72 Sambogakaya 75 Nirmanakaya 75 Review instant generation 76 The physical appearance of Yamantaka 79 Yamantaka’s six ornaments 80 Visualizing oneself as the deity 81 Consecration of Vajra and Bell 82 Symbolism of vajra and bell 83 Outer vajra and bell 83 Inner vajra and bell 85 Secret or sacred vajra and bell 85 The way vajra and bell are blessed 87 Consecration of the inner offering 88 The material 88 Using the right nectar pill 88 Clearing the obstacles 89 Purification in terms of emptiness 91 Generation of the inner offering 92 Consecration or blessing of the inner offering 96 Consecration of the preliminary offering and torma 99 Consecration or blessing or of the outer offerings 99 The skullcup 101 Consecration or blessing of the torma 102 Correspondences of om ah hung 105 Offering the preliminary torma 107 Invocation of the direction protectors and inner guests 107 Asking permission for the protectors to enjoy the torma 112 The actual offering of the torma 113 The outer offering to the protectors 115 The inner offering to the protectors 116 Praise to the protectors 117 Yamantaka hundred syllable mantra 118 Sending away the direction protectors 118 Consecration of the offerings of self generation 119 Mandala offering 120 A Samantabhadra practice 121 Vajrasattva meditation recitation 122 Renewing of the refuge and bodhisattva vows 122 The Vajrasattva meditation recitation 123 Purification visualization 129 Questions and answers 133 III GENERATING THE SUPREME FIELD OF MERIT OFFERING THE PRAC 138 Review instant generation 138 Combining the sadhana with the Lam Rim in the lineage prayer 138 The wisdom of emptiness and the object of negation 140 THE ACTUAL SESSION 143 (1) TAKING DEATH AS DHARMAKAYA AND THE RELATED BRANCHES 143 (i) Accumulation of various merits: corresponding to causes 143 1. Accumulation of merits from the supreme field 145 i. Inviting the field of accumulation [of merit] 145 Union 147 ii. Accumulation of merit therefrom 150 Praise 151 Praise to the Lama 151 Praise of Yamantaka 152 Praise - second explanation 153 Making Offerings 155 Five qualities of the offerings 157 Confession 158 Rejoice 159 Dedication 160 Refuge taking 160 2. Accumulation of merit from the lower field 161 Generating bodhimind 161 Wishing or prayer form 161 Action form 161 Taking the vows 161 The bodhisattva vow 162 The vajrayana vows 162 About fear 164 The four universal vows 168 The four immeasurables 169 Dualistic preconceptions of objects and consciousness – sung 170 The eight worldly dharmas – jigten gi cho gye 171 IV TAKING DEATH AS DHARMAKAYA 174 (1) Taking death as dharmakaya and the related branches 174 (ii) Meditation on the wisdom of the basis of shunyata as dh 175 The base of purification 176 Sarva dharma 176 Base, path and result - dharmakaya 177 The eight stages of dissolution at death 178 The meditation/visualization of the eight stages of dissolut 183 Meditation on emptiness 184 Base, path and result – dharmakaya 186 Discussion on emptiness 188 (iii) Meditation on protection wheel to block obstacles 193 1. The common protection wheel 193 2. The uncommon/special protection wheel 197 Five points on the uncommon protection wheel 203 1. Changing the direction the protectors face 203 2. Moving the wheel 203 3. Protecting through hiding 203 4. The four activities 204 5. How to transfer the principal deity 204 V REVIEW BY MEANS OF THE EXTENDED PRAYER 206 Tsongkhapa’s praise to Buddha for his teaching of relativity 211 Discussion on the daily practice and its difficulties 214 VI TAKING BARDO AS SAMBOGAKAYA 222 (2) TAKING BARDO AS SAMBOGAKAYA AS THE PATH 222 (i) Generation of environment of the mansion, wherein enlig 222 Symbolic meaning of what has been built up 229 Questions and answers 233 (ii) Generation of occupant, the Causal Vajra Holder 233 Base, path and result - sambogakaya 234 The bardo 235 The yoga of taking bardo as sambogakaya 238 Development of the bardo within us 239 What to do at the time of death? 242 Questions and answers 244 On pure lands 244 On the bardo 246 On death 249 On experiences during death and bardo 252 Generation of the causal Vajra holder – continuation 254 Symbolic meanings or correspondences of the sambogakaya 256 Towards nirmanakaya 260 Questions and answers 262 VII REVIEW BY MEANS OF THE OUTLINES 264 Importance of the outlines 264 Review by means of the outlines 266 Elaborated explanation of this practice 266 The origination of this teaching with an account of the orig 267 How to guide the disciples by the actual teaching 269 The attitude of the person who will practice 269 The place where the practice will be done 269 The method of the actual practice 269 The development stage 269 How to practice the actual method of the development 270 The yoga of the session 270 Beginning of the session – the preliminaries 270 The lineage prayer – first preliminary practice 271 Instant generation– second preliminary practice 275 Consecration of vajra and bell – third preliminary practice 277 Consecration of the inner offering - fourth preliminary pra 278 Consecration of the preliminary [outer] offering and torma – 280 Offering the preliminary torma – sixth preliminary practice 280 Consecration of the offerings of self generation –seventh pr 283 The Vajrasattva meditation – eighth preliminary practice 283 The actual session 285 The meditation method enabling oneself, the yogi, in future 285 Taking death as Dharmakaya and the related branches 286 Accumulation of various merits: corresponding to causes for 286 Accumulation of merits from the supreme field 291 Inviting the supreme Field of Merit 291 Accumulation of merit therefrom 291 Accumulation of merits from the lower field 291 Meditation on the wisdom of the basis of shunyata as dharmak 291 Meditation on protection wheel to block obstacles 300 The common protection wheel 300 The uncommon/special protection wheel 302 Taking bardo as sambogakaya as the path 303 Generation of environment of the mansion, wherein enlightenm 303 Generation of occupant, the causal Vajra holder 306 Discussion – questions and answers 306 The three kayas 306 Daily practice 310 VIII TAKING REBIRTH AS NIRMANAKAYA 316 Review 316 (3) TAKING YOGA OF REBIRTH NIRMANAKAYA AS THE GENERATION OF 316 (i) The actual method of meditating birth as nirmanakaya 317 Base, path and result – nirmanakaya 319 Correspondences of the nirmanakaya 320 The five wisdoms 320 Yamantaka’s body 320 Yamantaka’s six ornaments 322 Pride and clarity of the deity 327 (ii) Purification of sense bases and body, speech, and mind 327 The three beings or triple being 328 Review taking rebirth as nirmanakaya 330 The relevancy of the three beings in our life and on the pat 331 (iii) Method of entering the wisdom beings, empowerment, and 332 Invocation verse 332 Invocation of the wisdom beings by mantra 335 Making the eight outer offerings to the wisdom beings 337 Actual dissolving of the wisdom beings 337 Invocation of the initiation deities 338 Making the eight outer offerings to the initiation deities 338 Actual initiation 338 IX ACTIONS REPRESENTING THE ACTIVITIES OF BUDDHAHOOD 340 Review 340 Preliminaries 340 The actual practice 341 Making offerings and praises, corresponding with the ac 343 (1) Making offerings and praise 343 Outer offerings 344 Outer offerings in the self-initiation practice 346 Inner offering 347 Secret offering 349 Suchness offering 350 What the offerings should be free of 350 Praise 350 (2) Meditation of the precise and coarse 351 The gross development stage meditation 351 Purpose of the development stage 351 Ordinary perception and conception [tib. tamel gyi nangwa an 353 The yoga of the vast and the profound 354 Clarity and stability 355 How to do the meditation of the gross development stage 355 How to meditate on the mandala – building up 355 How to meditate on the mandala – looking round 355 The subtle development stage 357 How to do the meditation of the subtle development stage 357 Meditating many duplicate vajras 357 Meditating the mandala in a drop 359 Review of the supported and supporting mandala 359 (3) Recollection of the purities 360 (4) Manner of doing recitation 362 Blessing the mantra-mala 362 Mantra recitation – combination of peace and wrath 363 Manjushri’s mantra 363 Visualizations with the Manjushri mantra 363 1. Collecting wisdom 363 2. Cutting of ignorance 364 3. Washing away impurities 364 4. Collection of the seven wisdoms 365 5. Purifying sentient beings 365 6. Meditation on de dhih 365 7. Another meditation on the dhih 366 The root mantra 366 Visualizations with the root mantra 366 1. Purifying all sentient beings 367 2. Making offerings to the buddhas 367 3. Purifying sentient beings and placing them in the state o 367 4. Purifying obstacles 367 5. Meditation using the skull mala 367 6. Burning obstacles 367 7. Simple meditation 368 8. Your consciousness into the hum 368 The activity mantra 369 The essence mantra 369 The wisdom-showering mantra 369 The hundred-syllable mantra 369 Making Offerings 370 Praise 370 Some remarks on the Yamantaka retreat 370 Questions and answers 372 X CONCLUSION & IN BETWEEN SESSIONS 376 End of the Session 376 Offering torma 376 Blessing the torma offering 376 Invocation of the guests 376 Offering [torma, outer and inner offerings] to the principal 377 The praise 377 Offering the torma to the Direction Protectors 377 The outer offering and inner offering to the direction prote 378 Torma offering to Karmayama 378 Generation of Karmayama 378 Initiation of Karmayama 379 Actual offering of the torma to Karmayama 379 External offerings to Karmayama 379 Inner Offering to Karmayama 379 Exhorting to Karmayama to activities 380 Abbreviated Karmayama praise 380 Manner of bidding farewell 380 Prayer 381 The concluding prayer 381 The extended prayer 381 Abbreviated Prayer 386 Reabsorption 386 Verses of good fortune 386 Verses of auspiciousness 388 [ii] Yoga between sessions 389 Yoga of external activities 389 Yoga of eating 389 The yoga of sleeping 389 Yoga of rising 390 The yoga of washing 390 XI COMPLETION STAGE 392 [i] General preliminaries 392 [ii] Special preliminaries 393 Vajrasattva recitation 393 The uncommon guru yoga practice 393 XII APPENDICES 398 XIII GLOSSARY 410 XIV LITERATURE 424 XV INDEX 426 Yamantaka title pageUS.pdf 1 series: Vajrayana teachings - 2 1 SOLITARY YAMANTAKA TEACHINGS on the Generation Stage 1 Combined Back Inserts for Transcripts.pdf 1 Transcript listJune03 for transcripts.pdf 1 Jewel Heart Transcripts 437 A commentary on guru yoga in the tradition of Lama Tsong Kha 437 A commentary on guru yoga in the tradition of Lama Tsong Kha 440