The actual practice of generation stage > Bringing the three bodies into the path > Bringing rebirth into the path to the Emanation Body

Question 1

Definition bringing rebirth into the path to the Emanation Body:

Answer 1

A yoga, similar in aspect to the experience of rebirth, that is attained after brining the intermediate state into the path to the Enjoyment Body, and that has the divine pride of being the Emanation Body.

Question 2

While in the aspect of the nada, what should we think?

Answer 2

‘Although I have arisen in a Form Body, the Enjoyment Body, only highly realized beings can see it. If I am going to benefit ordinary beings directly, I also need a gross Form Body. Therefore, I will take rebirth as an Emanation Body Heruka.’

Question 3

We see the place where we will take rebirth:

Answer 3

The protection circle, which consists of the vajra ground, fence, canopy and tent.

• composed entirely of indestructible five-pronged vajras, the nature of Heruka’s exalted wisdom
• on top of the vajra fence is the vajra canopy, which serves as a ceiling. Above this is the vajra tent.
• the vajras in the east are dark blue, in the north green, in the west red, and in the south yellow.
• around the outside powerful fires of the five wisdoms, white, yellow, red, green and blue in colour, swirl counter-clockwise.
• everything is the nature of the indivisible bliss and emptiness of Heruka.
• our mind, the nada, observes the protection circle, regarding it as the Pure Land of Heruka in which we will take rebirth

Question 4

Symbolism of protection circle:

Answer 4

The protection circle, the four elements, Mount Meru and the sixty-four-petalled lotus symbolize the place where we will take rebirth as an Emanation Body.

Vajra - mother’s body
Eight-petalled lotus - her womb
White moon with a reddish tint - union of father’s sperm and mother’s ovum

Question 5

Motivation

Answer 5

• With the motivation to benefit all living beings, we, the nada in space, develop a strong wish to be reborn inside this union of Father Heruka’s sperm and Mother Vajravarahi’s ovum.
• Through the power of this motivation, we descend through space to the point just above the moon.
• Then a drop develops from the nada, a crescent moon from the drop, a horizontal line from the crescent moon, a letter HA from the horizontal line, and a shabkhy from the letter HA. In this way a letter HUM develops in the center of the moon.
• The nada descending to the center of the moon symbolizes conception in the mother’s womb, and the development of the HUM symbolizes the development of the baby inside the womb.
• We now think that we are just about to be born.

Question 6

Continued:

Answer 6

• We visualize five-coloured lights radiating from the letter HUM in all directions, filling the whole of space.
• At the tips of the light rays are Deities of heruka’s mandala, who come to the crowns of all living beings and grant them empowerment, completely purifying their two obstructions.
• They all attain the state of Heruka, and their environments transform into Heruka’s Pure Land. Then all these beings and their environments melt into light.
• At the same time, all the Heroes and Heroines are invited from all the Buddha Lands throughout the ten directions. They melt into red and white bodhichittas, and mix with the beings who have melted into light. This light gathers inwards until it dissolves into the nada of the HUM.
• As a result our mind, in the aspect of this HUM, becomes the nature of spontaneous great bliss.
• All worlds and their beings, and all Buddhas in the form of Heroes and Heroines, have dissolved into this HUM.

Question 7

Next step:

Answer 7

• Now the moon, vowels, consonants and HUM transform into the supporting mandala and supported Deities of Heruka, which appear fully and simultaneously.
• We imagine that we can see everything - the protection circle, the mandala and all the Deities - perfectly clearly, and we think, ‘Now I have been born as Emanation Body Heruka’, and meditate on this feeling for a while.
• The protection circle, mandala and Deities, appearing fully and simultaneously, are Heruka’s wisdom of the Dharmadhatu.

Question 8

Summary:

Answer 8

Through this meditation we can transform our experience of rebirth into the experience of the gross Deity body, which is the quick path to the Emanation Body of a Buddha.

Question 9

What does it purify?

Answer 9

> It indirectly purifies ordinary rebirth

> causes the completion stage realization of the gross Deity body to ripen,

> and sows in our mind a powerful potential to attain the actual Emanation Body of a Buddha in the future.

> It is also the principal method for attaining rebirth in Keajra, Heruka’s Pure Land.