Guru Yoga > Receiving the blessings of the four empowerments Flashcards
What is the purpose of receiving the blessings of the four empowerments?
We can:
- purify our broken Tantric vows and commitments
- maintain the special blessings that we received directly from our root Guru when he or she granted the empowerment
What is the verse related to the four empowerments?
O Guru Heruka, the nature of the Truth Body,
I seek no refuge other than you.
Please purify all negativities of my three doors,
And bless me to attain the four bodies of great bliss.
What are the ultimate blessings of the four empowerments?
The attainment of the four bodies of a Buddha.
How do we receive the vase empowerment?
We imagine that due to our request Guru Heruka emanates from his heart Vajravarahi and the four Yoginis, who hold precious vases filled with wisdom nectar.
They grant us the vase empowerment by pouring the nectar through our crown. Our body is filled with wisdom nectar, and this purifies all the defilements and obstructions of our body.
We imagine that we experience great bliss, and thus we receive the blessings of the vase empowerment.
What is the actual vase empowerment?
If we experience even a slight feeling of bliss, this bliss is the actual vase empowerment.
How do we receive the secret empowerment?
We imagine that as Guru Heruka Father and Mother engage in union, all the Heroes enter Heruka’s body through his mouth and melt into his white bodhichitta, the white drops;
all the Heroines enter Vajravarahi’s body through her mouth and melt into her red bodhichitta, the red drops.
These white and red drops unite at the tip of Guru Heruka’s sex organ, and Guru Heruka then places them on our tongue. Through tasting this secret substance, all the defilements and obstructions of our speech are purified. In particular, our channels, drops and inner winds are purified.
We imagine that we experience great bliss, and thus we receive the blessings of the secret empowerment.
If we experience even a slight feeling of bliss through imagining that we taste the white and red bodhichittas of Guru Heruka Father and Mother, this bliss is the actual secret empowerment.
What is the actual secret empowerment?
If we experience even a slight feeling of bliss through imagining that we taste the white and red bodhichittas of Guru Heruka Father and Mother, this bliss is the actual secret empowerment.
How do we receive the wisdom-mudra empowerment?
We imagine that a knowledge woman, who is an emanation of Vajravarahi, appears in front of us.
We promise to rely upon her and the knowledge woman is delighted.
We recall that no phenomenon exists from its own side and, by concentrating on this firm knowledge, we dissolve all our ordinary appearances into emptiness.
From the state of emptiness we generate ourself as Heruka embracing our consort Vajravarahi and we engage in union.
Through this our bodhichitta melts.
- As it descends from our crown to our throat we experience joy.
- As it descends from our throat to our heart we experience supreme joy.
- As it descends from our heart to our navel we experience extraordinary joy.
- As it descends from our navel to the tip of our sex organ we imagine that we are experiencing spontaneous great bliss inseparable from emptiness.
What is the actual wisdom mudra empowerment?
If we experience any of the four joys through concentrating in this way described above, this is the actual wisdom-mudra empowerment.
How do we receive the precious word empowerment?
We imagine that we hear the following words directly:
“When you received the third empowerment, the wisdom-mudra empowerment, you generated your body as Heruka’s body. This is an imagined divine body.
You also generated your mind as Heruka’s mind, an imagined Deity mind. Finally, through continual practice of this meditation you will attain the actual body and mind of Heruka, the resultant union of the illusory body and the mind of great bliss and emptiness of a Buddha. This is the Union of No More Leaerning, the final goal.”
Through hearing these words, we imagine that we experience great bliss, and through this we receive the blessings of the precious word empowerment.
What is the actual precious word empowerment?
If we experience a feeling of joy through imagining that we hear Guru Heruka’s words, this is the actual word empowerment.
What does the precious word empowerment purify?
It purifies all the defilements and obstructions of our body, speech and mind together, and causes us to accomplish the union of Buddha Vajradhara’s body and mind.
