Specific points on the different stages of receiving blessings: the approach and so forth There are two sections. a. IN GENERAL To approach an authentic teacher, who is the source of all perfection and virtue and the root of the Diamond Vehicle path, and to then please that teacher with great respect, physically, verbally, and mentally, and thereby properly receive the maturing empowerments and liberating instructions and acquire the treasure of the teacher’s mind, is the approach. To one-pointedly put into practice the profound generation and perfection phases as instructed by the teacher and attain realization inseparable from the teacher’s mind is the accomplishment. Having obtained accomplishment—realization of the innate natural state that is one’s own mind—to do whatever one can to benefit the doctrine and beings and especially to propagate the essential teaching of the Supreme Vehicle is the activity. It is by following these stages that one will fulfill the wishes of the knowledge holders of the past and hold their lineage; one will obtain accomplishment for oneself and benefit other beings, and by doing so one will join the ranks of the knowledge holders oneself. b. IN PARTICULAR On the outer level, having gained the certainty that the triply kind teacher is the embodiment of all refuges, to pray with intense yearning, faith, and devotion is the approach. On the inner level, the Secret Mantra Vehicle method of purifying ordinary appearances, sounds, and thoughts, which are based on deluded attachment, into the great, infinitely pure display of the teacher’s three secrets is the accomplishment. On the secret level, to take the ultimate, absolute nature — the primal wisdom that is the essence of the empowerment—as the path and to grasp the ultimate accomplishment, the desired goal, is the activity. One begins by clearly visualizing the support for empowerment, according to the text. One then condenses the essential points of accumulation, purification, and increase by accumulating merit and purifying one’s mindstream with the seven branches. With intense faith and devotion, one prays one-pointedly and invokes the teacher’s mind by reciting the mantra. Finally one receives the blessings—the wisdom of the four empowerments — in the path empowerment, with the emanation and dissolution of rays of light. By the force of one’s devotion, the support for empowerment melts into light and dissolves into one. The teacher’s mind—the wisdom devoid of thought — blends indistinguishably with one’s own mind, like water added to water, and one rests in evenness, maintaining, without tension or effort, the very nature of the Buddhas’ wisdom, the great self-manifestation free of bias. - Dudjom Rinpoche - A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom
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