The actual practice of generation stage > What is generation stage?

Question 1

What is the definition of generation stage?

Answer 1

A realization of a creative yoga that purifies the three basic bodies and causes the three bodies of the path to ripen.

Question 2

Why is it called a creative yoga?

Answer 2

Because its object is generated, or created, by a mind of pure concentration.

Question 3

What are the three basic bodies?

Answer 3

Ordinary death (‘basic truth body’)
Intermediate state (‘basic enjoyment body’)
Ordinary rebirth (‘basic emanation body’)

Question 4

What will happen if we cut the continuum of ordinary birth?

Answer 4

We will take rebirth through choice, either in a Pure Land or, out of compassion, in the human realm.

It is the suffering of uncontrolled birth and death that will cease.

Question 5

How do we purify ordinary death, intermediate state and rebirth?

Answer 5

Ordinary death (‘basic truth body’) is purified directly by the completion stage realization of ultimate example clear light (‘path truth body’);

ordinary intermediate state (‘basic enjoyment body’) is purified directly by the completion stage realization of illusory body (‘path enjoyment body’);

ordinary rebirth (‘basic emanation body’) is purified directly by the completion stage realization of the gross Deity body attained after the realization of illusory body (‘path emanation body’).

Question 6

What are the three path bodies?

Answer 6

1. The clear light of completion stage is known as the ‘path truth body’
2. The illusory body of completion stage is known as ‘path enjoyment body’
3. The completion stage yoga of the gross Deity body is known as the ‘path emanation body’.