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A meditative practice designed to bring forth realization of emptiness, with a side effect of generating intense heat arising from the navel cakra. Great, empty awareness, devoid of activity, the fire of primordial consciousness, the union of bliss and emptiness, which blazes as a display of the power of the five facets of primordial consciousness. See VE183-90.  +
The spiritual vehicle of the "Great Yoga," which is perfected by realizing the nondual reality of the deity and one's own appearances.  +
The third of the four stages on the path of direct crossing over, in which the entire universe appears to be totally pervaded with rainbow light and blazing fire, and everything appears as bindus in which the five families of male and female peaceful and wrathful deities appear in union. This sage of spontaneous manifestation corresponds to the attainment of the eighth āryabodhisattva stage, known as Immovable.  +
The second of the four stages on the path of direct crossing over, in which all appearances during and after meditation transform into displays of light and rainbow bindus with ever-increasing clarity, until finally all ordinary appearances vanish and dissolve into continuous, omnipresent displays of visions of light. This stage corresponds to the attainment of the fifth āryabodhisattva stage, known as Difficult to Cultivate.  +
A highly realized being who reveals Dharma teachings concealed in the physical world or in the nature of mind.  +
A thread or continuum. An esoteric scripture belonging to the class of Vajrayāna Buddhism, as opposed to the exoteric teachings of the sūtras.  +
A meditator takes birth as a rūdra, a type of demon, by firmly and clearly visualizing himself or herself as a wrathful deity— while having no realization of emptiness and no motivation of compasion. It can also mean the conceptual grasping by which one reifies the distinctions of outer, inner, and secret phenomena.  +
Lit. "Compact Display" this is the buddhafield of Vairocana in the central direction. See VE 192.  +
Mental imprints accumlated as a result of previous experiences or actions, which influence later events and conduct.  +
A direct crossing over practice in which one visualizes Hūm syllables emerging from and withdrawing back into one's heart, as a means to gain mastery over one's vital energies and mind. See VE 413-15.  +
Dualistic awareness that clings to appearances, conceptually observes its own processes, and arouses pleasure and pain through intellectual fabrications and the acceptance and rejection of virtue and vice.  +
That which functions independently. Characteristic reasoning of the Svātantrika Madhyamaka system.  +
The outer elements. The impure "residues" of the five great elements; they arise externally as space, water, earth, fire, and air due to grasping and reification of the five lights of the great elements. See CM 398, BM 327-29, GD 150-53, VE 123-25.  +
Conceptual constructs, such as those of existence and nonexistence, which are apprehended by way of dualistic grasping.  +
A substantial cause of a phenomenon is a prior phenomenon that actually transforms into the subsequent phenomenon that it produces, such as a seed that transforms into a sprout. substantialism (Tib. gngos par lta ba). The view that phenomena exist by their own inherent natures, prior to and independent of conceptual designation.  +