Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

asis for these higher teachings. If one asks many
Tibetan Tantric teachers to explain about causation, they
will still talk of tathata and say that everything is
mind-only. Why? Because they have no experience in
the six-element yoga. Therefore, I have chosen some
points which the Eastern tradition emphasizes, but
which are neglected in Tibet, where only the highest and
most scholarly lamas are able correctly to investigate
the meaning of the lower yogas. I want it to be
otherwise with our readers. They should not think that
six-element yoga is not included in the Tibetan Tantric
works. It is, but it is not specially practiced.
First, one should recognize the importance of this
philosophy and practice it, after which one may better
understand the anuttarayoga.
4. The Five Signs
Every Tibetan ritual includes the five signs of a
Buddha-body, but they are just verbally repeated by
present-day Tantric students. They do not give a long
time to their practices and so do not get at their
profound meaning, valuable for the comprehension of
anuttarayoga. If one has not practiced this Japanese
yoga, but reading over the Tibetan yoga ritual passes by
it, then through lack of basic practice, one's body does
not correspond to a Buddha's body. Without this, one
still tries to practice the third initiation meditations: the
result we see in bad lamas who are married and making
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