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shows and practice the yogic identification of lust
with the Enlightened Entity, or gamble for money at
high stakes, which also produces a highly excited
mind to be well identified."
Another opportunity for the yogi is to sit under an old
tree, angering the tree-spirit living there. Then, in the
heat of anger, make perfect one's identification with the
Enlightened Entity. These examples are not in the
Tibetan books edited by Evans-Wentz; their
implications for Tantric meditation should be well
understood.
These are the marks of the third yoga.
5. The Yoga of Non-practice
Even though there is no practice, one practices.
However, first the third stage must have been
thoroughly practiced—it cannot be omitted.
As we have seen, identification is the mark of the third
yoga, but in the fourth, if any desire to identify remains,
then this Mahamudra yoga as a whole cannot be
perfected. The aim of the yoga must be to make the
identification perfect at all times and in all places, but
without using any force or effort; it must be done
completely, naturally, and quite purely.
If one has attained this stage of non-practice, the fourth
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