Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

dharmas are very powerful through the nature and
foundation of the water element.
LA is third. The nature of every dharma is neither pure
nor defiled. We have gone through the purification
process in the Hinayana and the sublimation in the
Mahayana but we have not yet come to the functions.
As the seed-syllable LA corresponds to the fire, so we
use this wisdom-fire to burn up all craving for both
mentality and materiality. The function of the
wisdom-fire may be likened to a fire made for cooking
something. As the latter matures food so that one can
eat it, so the former matures the spiritual food of
Buddhadharma. The name of its function is
"purification of dharma-marks."
Fourth is HUM. When we know the philosophy of
karma as unattainable, then good and evil disappear.
The karma of good and evil is stressed in the Hinayana
and sublimated in the sunyata meditations of Mahayana
(for in sunyata there can be neither good nor evil). But it
remains only the theory of meditation until one comes
to this Tantric practice called "turning the Dharma
wheel." All Dharma wheels are in sunyata and this
syllable corresponds to the wind which turns those
wheels. Here are no good and no evil, and when the
correspondence is also made with the mystic
mind-element, then one truly turns the Dharma wheel.
The fifth syllable, KOM, has the meaning of the
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