Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

the truth of Enlightened Entity and not only on the
theory of sunyata.
ii. Water and waves. Here the waves are the function of
Enlightened Entity and the ocean is its nature.
With the help of such similes we come to see how the
Enlightened Entity is vivid and present on any occasion
in daily life. The great guru Gampopa pointed this out in
detail and the methods that he so mercifully introduced
are excellent. A personal disciple of the even greater
Milarepa, he obtained many wonderful teachings and
much deeper wisdom from his yogi-guru.
Venerable Gampopa instructed that if one has attained
real progress, then there is no need to live as a hermit in
a remote cave, but instead one should go live in a
graveyard. Why? In such a place there will be
frightening spirits and terrible ghosts. It is a good
chance completely to identify one's terror of such
demons with the Enlightened Entity: in this way, the
power of one's practice is increased. Furthermore, one
may sometimes purposely make sorrows arise, to
complete this same process of thorough identification.
One should take advantage of illness and meditate on
the identification of pain and disability with the
Enlightened Entity.
"In my opinion," said the yogi, "an advanced
layman could conceivably even go to prostitutes or
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