Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

initiation, repeating and visualizing are most important.
After practicing this for many years and becoming well
matured and realized, it is said that a spiritually great
lama may, when going out riding, place his left foot in
the stirrup and the growing yoga of the first initiation is
finished; swinging his right foot over into the other
stirrup, the yoga of perfection (second and third
initiation doctrines) is accomplished. So quick may
attainment be! But for this, the preparations must have
been very well carried out.
In the second initiation, the most important practice is
deep breathing, and in the third, one uses this breathing
in conjunction with vajra-love. If there is not success in
deep breathing, there will be no attainment in vajra-love.
In the fourth initiation, most important is the tathata of
Mahamudra.
7. How should the yidam be selected? What
Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, etc. may function as
yidams?
8. What is the relationship between meditation on
one's yidam and on some other deity?
9. Does one meditate upon the yidam invariably in a
wrathful or invariably in a peaceful form? Does one
stick to form of the yidam?
10. Does one keep to one yidam throughout one's
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