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Fourth, always maintain a natural mind; no force is<br />

needed.<br />

These four are very hard to keep without a realization of<br />

the Dharmakaya. In mahamudra they are explained in<br />

this way, but their correspondences with vajra-love are<br />

never mentioned.<br />

e. The act of vajra-love. These sections correspond with<br />

the four mahamudra precepts given above.<br />

First, if the semen is lost during the act of vajra-love one<br />

should meditate upon its non-reality. If great pleasure<br />

results from the act, then this pleasure must be identified<br />

with non-reality.<br />

"The meditations in this section are all within the<br />

third initiation, but this process belongs to the<br />

fourth, as we shall see. How can a meditator be<br />

expected to keep this precept? Retaining the semen<br />

during the sunyata meditation may lead on to the<br />

practice of the fourth initiation; if it is lost, the<br />

precept is not in this case broken, though the<br />

practice is not good."<br />

Second, hold the semen in the organ. To do this, one<br />

must maintain a samapatti upon the vastness of the sky.<br />

If one can do this, the meditator will avoid seminal<br />

discharge from the reproductive organs. The samapatti<br />

under these conditions will cause the semen to dissolve.<br />

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