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the necessary sunyata-conditions before he can actualize
his aim (Full Enlightenment, Buddhahood, the
Dharmakaya).
It is like cooking food: it boils and becomes steam, but
here we are not satisfied with that steam—which after
all still contains the smell of the food, nor can we wait
so long for the meal to be ready.
For this reason, we take up the Vajrayana, where we are
at once initiated into the actual position of consequence
of Buddhahood. To obtain the glorious body of
Buddhahood (the Sambhogakaya, in which the Buddhas
preach to the holy bodhisattvas), it is necessary to use
one of the many Tantric methods. One should not think
that the highest body among these three, the
Dharmakaya, because it is inert and unmanifested, is
something dead. No, indeed! All the functions from the
other two Buddha-bodies, the Sambhogakaya and the
Nirmanakaya (appearance-body which is seen by men
and animals, as the earthly Buddhaforms), are the
complete salvation found only in the Vajrayana.
2. Second Meditation
The compassion for beings and the four kinds of
boundless mind in the Hinayana teachings can check the
sorrow of anger. The method used in this yana to
control hatred is the observance of the moral precepts
(and the vinaya for bhiksus)—really only an outward
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