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arises.
iv. With more progress, we come to the special
pleasures of the Vajrayana, which are enlarged
sixteenfold in the third initiation.
"We are talking here of Dharma beyond the pure
Hinayana tradition," reminded the yogi, "so it will
be helpful to understand these correspondences
through our new diagram."
In correspondence with breathing: on the exhalation
consider the cause or object of pain, and on the
inhalation, the result of pain.
As pain and pleasure are opposite and one-sided views
arise concerning either, if one meditates on them as
empty, thus these views (antagraha) are converted.
c. The mind is impermanent. Of the mind in the past,
nothing remains; it is already gone, and even if you
want to pursue it, this is impossible as nothing can be
found. Regarding the future mind, we have no idea what
we shall think in time to come. Where will these minds
come from? What will be their objects of thought? At
present, no mind stays the same even for one moment;
this has been the law in the past, is certainly so now, and
there is no reason to doubt that it will continue so in the
future. No real mind can be found which abides in any
time.
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