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The spiritual vehicle of anuyoga, which corresponds to the stage of completion, following the mahāyoga.  +
The quality or feature of some phenomenon, such as the mind, whose nature is luminosity.  +
Within the Vajrayāna, the path that reveals the deities and buddhafields as definitely existing by their own characteristics, and which emphasizes only the avenue of relative skillful means. See VE 199.  +
The spontaneous emergence of qualities and activities from the dharmakāya, the realization ofwhich is the central aspect of the practice ofdirect crossingover.  +
A being in whom bodhicitta arises effortlessly and who devotes himsel for herself to the cultivation of the six perfections, in order to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.  +
Lit. "superior vision," contemplative insight into fundamental aspects of reality, such as impermanence, suffering, nonself, and emptiness.  +
A ritual offering cake in which the nutritive essence of the universe is synthesized and which acts as a source of all desirable things. See VE nr.  +
(1) The vase, or water, empowerment, (2) the secret, or crown, empowerment, (3) the wisdom-primordial-consciousness, or vajra, empowerment, and (4) the word, or bell, empowerment. To take the four empowerments, visualize that (1) from a white Om at your gurus crown, white light rays descend to the point between your eyebrows, purifying physical obscurations with the vase empowerment; (2) from a red Ah at your guru's throat, red light rays descend to your throat, purifying verbal obscurations with the secret empowerment; (3) from a dark blue Hūm at your guru's heart, dark blue light rays descend to your heart, purifying mental obscurations with the wisdom-primordial-consciousness empowerment; and (4) from a red Hrih at your guru's navel, red light rays descend to your navel, purifying the obscuration of grasping at the three doors as differentwith the fourth, or word, empowerment. See also Padmasambhava, Natural Liberation-. Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos, commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, trans. B. Alan Wallace (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1008), 78-79. See GD 25S-57,271; VE 248-9.  +
The natural power of mindfulness occurring without strenuously observing the mind's stillness and movement.  +
A "god" within saṃsāra, who experiences great joy, extra sensory perception, and paranormal abilities, but who suffers greatly when faced with death.  +
A Dharma treasure such as those hidden by Guru Rinpoché and Yeshé Tsogyal to be discovered by a predicted revealer for the benefit of future generations. Earth treasures are physical objects concealed in the environment, and mind treasures are concealed in the mindstreams of realized beings, particularly of the incarnated disciples of Padmasambhava.  +
A demonic force or being that emerges from the aggregates of grasping at the "I and consists of the conceptual mental factors that reify appearances, arising as an apparition of ignorance.  +
Lit. "oral instruction", quintessential guldance in spiritual practice, which synthesizes the teachings of the buddhas into specificpractices for specific individuals, according to their needs.  +
Mirror-like primordial consciousness, discerning primordial consciouness, primordial consciousness of equality, primordial consciousness of accomplishment, and primordial consciousness of the absolute space of phenomena.  +