14. Week 2 - Teaching 6

We should practise this sadhana completely free from distractions. This is very important. We should concentrate solely on its meaning, completely free from distractions. If you just do this everyday you don’t need to do other jobs. Familiarity with this practice will naturally arise. This is very important. After finishing your daily practice of this sadhana you should not forget it. You should try to carry any special feeling from this practice into your daily activities. It will help you oppose delusions and make your mind more calm and peaceful. Then our actions out of meditation and our action of meditation are connected. This will help us to make quick progress. This is very important.

The success of this practice depends upon 8 stages of preparatory practices presented in this sadhana. The preparatory practices often seem more difficult than the actual practice. This is like cooking is more difficult than eating, and preparing for a party is more difficult than the actual party.

1. We promise to go for refuge throughout our life to the Gurus, Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. This is our refuge vow and the gateway through which we enter Buddhadharma. We apply effort to receiving Buddha’s blessings, putting Dharma into practice, and receiving help from our Sangha friends. Making progress in our spiritual practice depends upon receiving blessings from the Buddhas. Engaging in any mind of spiritual practice with a mind of faith will result in us receiving blessings. We engage in this practice following the sadhana.

2. Generating bodhichitta - we promise to practise the stages of the path of generation stage and completion stage in conjunction with the 6 perfections.

3. Generating a special motivation. We should follow the contemplation presented in the sadhana. We think, there is no guarantee I shall not die today. We must think and remember this. Death destroys my special opportunity to make spiritual progress. Death destroys everything, especially to attain enlightenment, to benefit many people. Therefore I must transform my body into the deathless body of Vajrayogini. When we attain dakini land, the pure land of Keajra, our body will become deathless, and we can continue to practise HYT and attain enlightenment in this life.

4. Purifying ordinary appearance of ourself. Ordinary appearance is the main obstacle for completing the uncommon yoga of inconceivability. We must oppose this by meditating on the emptiness of the self that I normally see, by following the instructions in the sadhana.

5. Generating ourself as outer Vajrayogini. When we perceive nothing than the mere absence of our self that we normally see, we follow the meditation presented in the sadhana. This prevents obstacles.

6. Visualising the channels. We practice this for 2 reasons - to recognise the location of the channels, and to receive blessings on our channels and winds. (No channel knots)

7. Generating our mind Vajrayogini. We transform our mind into Vajrayogini - this transformation is called our mind Vajrayogini. We must be used to this understanding and is a special self-generation practice. The purpose of doing this practice is so that we will reach the pure land of Keajra without leaving this body. It is our mind but Vajrayogini. It is the most important stage for success in the uncommon yoga of inconceivability.