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the methods of mudra and mantra.
5. Purification
Impurity of any sort easily blocks the conditions for
Tantric practice. Therefore, all one's defenses must be
built up very well.
6. Shortened time
Because the period of time from worldling to Full
Enlightenment is shortened to only one life, so details of
the Vajrayana path must be exactly prepared.
For these reasons, there are so many preparations. Now
we come to the main meditations.
E. Meditation on the Six-element Yoga (Being One
Practice Selected from the Garbhadhatu)
Before I speak on this meditation, there are some points
to which I would ask readers to pay attention. Firstly,
why have these particular meditations been selected?
Because in Tibetan Tantra, they are neglected (see App.
III, B, 3). Another point to note is that here we have not
introduced the readers to all the mudras and mantras,
though all the main principles of these are set forth.
Instructions on the former must be obtained from the
personal voice of the guru and cannot be obtained from
any printed words. Whatever one's personal guru has
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