Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

This topic turned into a discussion on
stupa-symbolism and Vajrayana practice and from
there we very soon came to our opening section of
this part of the chapter.
A. Meditations in the Third Initiation
There are two kinds to be considered here. One is for
monks and the other for laymen.
The male bhiksu is obviously not able, by the nature of
his precepts (the Vinaya) to use a physical dakini. For
his practice, he visualizes a mind-made dakini and her
embrace brings about the great pleasure which must be
identified with the great void. The meditation is, in any
case, the same in essence for the bhiksu or the layman;
only the conditions are different. The layman can, of
course, use a physical yogic partner if he wishes.
It must be as Milarepa said: "On pleasure meditate with
sunyata; on sunyata meditate with pleasure." Sometimes
when this yoga is practiced, these two factors are not
experienced together. At times there is more pleasure,
and at others, more concentration upon sunyata. But a
good yogi will try to perfectly identify the two with
each other (see our table below).
THE CORRESPONDENCES OF SUNYATA AND
ANANDA IN THEIR SAMADHl IDENTIFICATION
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