Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

unattainability of the equivalence of the sky, because
every dharma is in its nature sunyata and therefore
corresponds to the Dharmakaya. Now, the Dharmakaya
is everywhere and the KOM bija corresponds to the
space element; therefore, in this Tantra one visualizes
every offering (breath-meditation, etc.), and makes it
pervade everywhere. One even makes a little thing
spread through all space. In the Mahayana, one knows
well that the Dharmakaya is sunyata, but there one has
no such expedient method as this in the position of
consequence.
If one meditates on these seed mantras one by one and
investigates their meaning, by such a samapatti the
Buddhas, mystic powers, and functions of salvation are
all easily experienced.
4. In this meditation, we have a double visualization in
which one pagoda corresponds to our body (as already
described), while a second one is visualized like a
shadow or reflection in the reverse order in the ocean of
Dharma. Our body stands on the earth, and within the
body the earth-element is lowest. Thus the second
visualization is to establish that our surroundings are
also formed from the five elements. It is like the planet
we live on: the gross earth may be covered with water,
then comes heat (fire-element), and after that air, then
space and so on, from gross to subtle.
Or again, as Bhante remarked, it is like those
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