Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

enable the many necessary things to be done.
3. Service
Because the Buddhas and the mandala are treated as the
Pure Land, one's service to the Buddhas and one's
offerings must be increased. For the Vajrayanist the
Pure Land is here, not a paradise after death, and
temples are not necessarily external but internally seen
by visualization, that very place in which a Tantrika
lives is his temple. (For this reason, the Tantra should
always be made in a hermitage where one can study
diligently and practice the detailed and elaborate
visualizations in peace.)
4. Devas
All the Tantras are methods in the position of
consequence of Buddhahood. Some of these methods
are not liked by the peaceful deities, so before practicing
them one must first send these devas away.
"You know," said the yogi turning to the writer, "you
saw me perform that fire-sacrifice. At the beginning,
I threw some offerings far away; that was for these
gods and by this action they were dismissed."
Many things which in the ordinary way of exoteric
Buddhism are forbidden, may be done after purification
and sublimation into the position of consequence with
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