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should not have given him an initiation unless the
bodhicitta was already strong. This lama had already
come to the practice of a Tantric yidam and therefore
the time for meditation on the bodhicitta had passed.
The guru was also at fault in that he should not only
have given teachings on the form of the yidam, but also
on the philosophy underlying the practice. The yidam is
the reflection of sunyata and neither the void nor its
reflections can work any harm when they are
well-identified. The wrathful eyes of Jig-je do not show
human wrath, but the latter, if not sublimated in the
Mahayana, can do much evil if associated with wrathful
deities in the Vajrayana. Thus, the lama's eyes killed
from the power of untransmuted human anger in him
and not by the Great Wrath of the divine Jig-je.
This story shows the importance of going step by step
and is surely a good warning for those who might think
of rushing headlong into the Vajrayana. Especially, it
shows how important are the sunyata meditations and
their thorough realization.
In Tantra, the body is like the outer practice and every
point of it has to be visualized minutely and perfectly
identified with sunyata. Even each little hair should be
realized as void and in visualization be seen as though
hollow. The inner practice means the recitation and
visualization of the mantra. For the yidam practice,
there are these three important conditions:
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