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Pacification, increase, power, and wrathfulness. These are powers gained through tantric practice and are used to remove obstacles and hindrances for self and others. +
The second of the five stages but third of the three isolations. This completion-stage practice correlates to the death- withdrawal practice of the generation stage, only here the withdrawal of the winds into the central channel and into the drop at the heart actually occurs. +
Usually a process of bringing the upper life- sustaining wind and lower evacuative winds together at the navel. +
The resultant state of a fully enlightened buddha that dwells in neither samsara nor nirvana. +
The state of existence between death and the start of the next rebirth. The being of the intermediate state has a body composed of subtle wind. In advanced completion-stage practice, this state is replaced by the illusory body in the form of a deity. +
Generally refers to the generation stage where conceptualization is used to "create" divine forms, as opposed to the more nonconceptual completion stage. Within the generation stage, it refers to the more advanced practices of subtle yoga and drop yoga. +
The wisdom arising from the subtle consciousness characterized by great bliss focused upon the ultimate truth of phenomena. +
Like ''meditative absorption'' this term refers to a concentrated state of mind, and these two are sometimes synonymous. ''Samādhi'',however, has a wider range of application, to the point of there being specific samādhis named according to their particular power. In this work the term often refers to the sixth of the six yogas, which equates with the stage of union from the five stages. See also six-branch yoga. +
The completion-stage practice of taking basic-state experiences and "mixing" them with the three enlightened bodies in order to bring one closer to the resultant state.There are three categories of experience_ sleep, death, and meditative experience—each divided into three, thereby making nine mixings. +
The fourth of the fifth stages. When third-stage illusory body withdraws into illustrative clear light, the illusory body itself disappears, but the remaining clear light becomes the ''actual'' clear light. Its nature is the very subtle mind focused on the ultimate truth of phenomena, and its function is to serve as the substantial cause for the exalted-wisdom dharmakāya. +
Tantric adepts who have achieved high levels of attainment. +
The fundamental ignorance that acts as a cause for the continuation of the cycle of suffering and whose characteristic is the mistaken perception that the phenomenon Held by the conscious ness exists in its own right, from its own side, without depending on other factors. +
Included in the stage of speech isolation, this is the exclusive form of mantra repetition on the completion stage. It is not vocalized chanting but an identification of the tones of the movement of the inner breath with the three fundamental syllables. +
The topic of part 10 of this volume. See page 15 of the introduction. +
Great compassion focused on all living beings but grasped by the wisdom that characterizes these beings as not existing inherently. +
Often used to describe an advanced meditative session, often involving absorption in emptiness, and is contrasted with "post-meditation". +
''All-at-once'' refers to advanced tantric practices that seem to negate or omit any preceding preparatory practices, such as the generation stage. The ''gradual method'' is a sequential process to advanced tantric states. As Tsongkhapa points out, there are divergent views on what these two terms actually refer to. +
The three main meditative concentrations of the generation stage:initial yoga, sovereign mandala, and sovereign activities mandala. +
Tsongkhapa discusses the meaning of this term in the section "The way to meditate on the generation stage" beginning on page 87. Phabongkha (''Compilation of Notes'', 47a4) also says that single-thought yoga occurs in the coarse generation stage and refers to focusing solely on the deity to the exclusion of all else, or to recollecting that you and the deity are of one nature. +
(i) Hand gestures made to illustrate particular states of mind such as wrathfulness and inner activities such as making offerings; (2) a consort, in the sense of she who seals the bliss of the yogi by way of meditative union. ''See also'' karma consort; wisdom consort. +
