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purity, and their opposites arc all seen as sunyata with
this mirror-like wisdom, which reflects their true nature.
As far as the nature is concerned, all forms are both pure
and void. Though they may appear to the discriminating
mind (which has not yet realized sunyata) as wrathful or
beautiful; to one who knows sunyata, no such notions
remain: only the mirror-like wisdom appears.
In brief, in the Vajrayana, where the function of
salvation is stressed, the Great Poison of lust united with
the Dharmakaya has some connecting function to save
persons full of common lust.
The four other poisons follow this same pattern of
sublimations followed by functions, and the details need
not be repeated here. (For definitions of the Great
Poisons of Buddhahood, see Appendix I, Part Two, A, 3
and 4).
F. What Are the Realizations of Mahayana
Meditations?
We have said that we only choose our meditations and
doctrines from the yanas of the first two "C"'s, but not
from the last one (see Ch. IX, X), so we should not talk
here of the ten states of the Bodhisattva path which are
in the position of consequence for us, since they are still
to be realized.
There are two views in Tibet regarding the practice of
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