Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

for saving the sentient beings should be made devotedly.
When the light is withdrawn, the meditator should feel
blessed by the wisdom, compassion, and supernatural
powers of all four kinds of enlightened beings. Thus,
development of the bodhicitta has been completely
formed.
Only gods, asuras, and higher spirits, who can read
others' minds, can know of the benevolent bodhicitta of
the meditator. Other sentient beings are clouded by the
five obstacles, the five impurities, the five poisons, the
four demons, etc.; they cannot accept the holy moon's
light, which is subtle, imponderable, and intangible. In
fact, a meditator practicing such a form is not capable of
saving them.
This is the "head" of the connection between the second
and the third forms.
To subdue all demons, to increase a meditator's power
to control the elements, and to purify desires, there is a
Tantric instrument consisting of the five wisdoms of the
Buddhas in its upper part, the five holy elements in its
lower part, and the essence of the five bodhicittas in its
middle part. All together they form a vajra which is at
once material and spiritual. It is comparable to the
diamond in hardness, essence, indestructibility, power,
strength, and rigidity. The meditator should recognize
such a vajra-mind to be the third form. Here the mind
should perceive the essence of truth, not in the manner
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