The actual practice of generation stage > Bringing the three bodies into the path > Bringing death into the path to the Truth Body

Question 1

Definition of Bringing death into the path to the Truth Body:

Answer 1

A yoga, similar in aspect to the experience of death, that has the divine pride of being the Truth Body.

Question 2

How do we do this?

Answer 2

• absorb all external environments and their inhabitants
• this helps us to overcome ordinary appearances and conceptions, and causes dualistic appearances to subside into emptiness
• we think that our root mind of great bliss is appearing in the form of a blue letter HUM at our heart, and we imagine that this letter HUM radiates powerful rays of light that reach all worlds and their beings.
• everything melts into light, which gradually gathers back and dissolves into our body
• we feel that all worlds and their beings have dissolved into us.

Question 3

What appearances do we perceive?

Answer 3

1. Mirage-like appearance arises due to the dissolution of the inner wind supporting our earth element.
2. Body gradually dissolves from below and above into the letter HUM and we imagine that we perceive the smoke like appearance that arises due to the dissolution of the inner wind supporting our water element.
3. The shabkyu at the bottom of the letter HUM gradually dissolves upwards into the main lette HA and we perceive the sparkling-fireflies-like appearance that arises due to the dissolution of the inner wind supporting our fire element.
4. We imagine that the main body of the letter HA gradually dissolves upwards into the horizontal line at its head, and we perceive the candle-flame-like appearance that arises due to the inner wind supporting our wind element beginning to dissolve.
5. We imagine that the horizontal line gradually dissolves upwards into the crescent moon, and that we experience the mind of white appearance that arises due to complete dissolution of the inner wind supporting our wind element.
6. We imagine that the crescent moon gradually dissolves upwards into the drop, and we experience the mind of red increse that arises due to the dissolution of the inner wind supporting the mind of white appearance.
7. We imagine that the drop gradually dissolves upwards into the nada and we experience the mind of black near-attainment that arises due to the dissolution of the inner wind supporting the mind of red increase.
8. Then the nada itself gradually dissolves from the bottom upwards, finally dissolving into clear light emptiness. We imagine that we experience the eighth sign, the mind of clear light that arises due to the dissolution of the inner wind supporting the mind of black near-attainment.

Question 4

What four recognitions should we have at this point?

Answer 4

1. we imagine that our mind is experiencing great bliss
2. this mind of great bliss is mixed inseparably with emptiness
3. this union of great bliss and emptiness is the Truth Body, the basis for imputing Heruka’s I
4. on this basis we strongly think ‘I am Truth Body Heruka’.

Question 5

How do we meditate?

Answer 5

Principally we meditate on emptienss, but without forgetting these points. Sometimes we can emphasize meditation on great bliss, or on the Truth Body.

Question 6

What functions do this meditation perform?

Answer 6

1. It helps overcome ordinary appearances and conceptions.
2. It causes dualistic appearances to subside into emptiness
3. It indirectly purifies ordinary death
4. It causes the completion stage realization of clear light to ripen
5. It is a collection of wisdom
6. It sows in our mind a powerful potential to attain the actual Truth Body of a Buddha in the futrue.

Question 7

What meditation is the real transference of consciousness?

Answer 7

Even if we do not complete our training in generation stage and completion stage before we die, if we have experience of the meditation on bringing death into the path to the Truth Body of Heruka we will be able to remember it when we die and our consciousness will be transferred to Heruka’s Pure Land.

Question 8

Why do many practitioners have strong ordinary appearances and conceptions?

Answer 8

Because they lack experience of emptiness.

Without realizing emptiness there is no basis for authentic meditation on bringing death into the path to the Truth Body.