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etc. This is not the main meditation "trunk" but rather a
samapatti "branch." Nevertheless, it has to be
completed.
When all this is done, then one goes back to the main
practice and, visualizing the mandala of the yidam,
places this in one's own body. This melts into the heart,
which in turn contracts into the mantra. This again
disappears into the bija, which finally melts away into
sunyata.
c. From the second sunyata of reduction the holy yidam
appears again. It must come just as a fish jumps out of
the surface of the ocean: The yidam must quickly
appear from the voidness-ocean. In a flash, one sees that
the nature of sunyata and its manifestation as the yidam
are identified. When this stage has been experienced,
this is the real Enlightenment of a Buddha.
By the above three kinds of samatha-samapatti, birth,
death, and the intermediate state are abandoned one by
one.
4. Visualization of the Surroundings (Mandala)
Mr. Chen produced a large photograph of a
mandala acquired from a departing Chinese
Buddhist. It was not one which he had practiced
himself and he was not sure which meditation it
represented, for, as he explained, there are many
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