Whenever I'm meditating on the Yidam generation stage
My body is rainbow-like in the sky of appearance and emptiness.
Not turning that into a mental fixation, craving is consumed.
Speech is sound and emptiness—like an echo in an empty valley.
With neither good nor bad about it, to indulge or refuse is consumed.
The mind is luminous emptiness, like the light of the sun and the moon.
Without the slightest bias in it, the idea of a self is consumed.
What is thought of as the usual body, speech, and rational mind?
Are self-existent vajra body and speech, self-existent vajra heart?
There's nothing left of the usual triple gates, and what a relief!
Whatever I do, it fits with Dharma, and that puts me in a state of delight!
My way of life is a Dharma journey—that's why I'm cheerful and bright!
What is deity yoga in Vajrayana Buddhism?
Deity yoga is a practice found in Tibetan Buddhism involving visualisations that have the normative goal of “becoming one” with a supernatural being. During the practice, practitioners report experiencing that their own body transforms into the body of the deity.
The fundamental practice of Vajrayana and Tibetan tantra is deity yoga (devatayoga), meditation on a chosen deity or "cherished divinity" (Tibetan: Yidam), which involves the recitation of mantras, prayers, and visualisation of the deity, the associated mandala of the deity's Buddha field, along with consorts and attendant Buddhas and bodhisattvas. According to the Tibetan scholars, deity yoga is what separates Tantra from Sutra practice.
In the Unsurpassed Yoga Tantras, the most widespread tantric form in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, this method is divided into two stages:
In Vajrayana, there appear to be many different types and stages of mediation as well. One form is called "generation stage meditation," also known as utpattikrama. What exactly is "generation stage meditation" and how is it practiced?
1) The generation stage (utpatti-krama)
In the generation stage, one dissolves one's reality into emptiness and meditates on the deity-mandala, resulting in identification with this divine reality.
What is the generation stage in Vajrayana Buddhism?
The generation stage or creation phase (Tibetan : bskyed rim) (Sanskrit : utpatti-krama), also known as "the phase of imagination" and "the yoga of fabrications," the first phase of tantric deity yoga in the Unsurpassed Yoga Tantra of the later schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It also equates to the Mahayoga of the Nyingma school.
(Tibetan : bskyed rim) (Sanskrit : utpatti-krama) is the ‘generation’ or ‘development phase’ of practice—otherwise known as visualisation practice—the goal of which is to purify our perception into the purity of our inherent nature.
The first phase of meditational practice (Sadhana) is associated with the anuttara-yoga-tantras in general and especially with the so-called ‘Father Tantras’ such as the Guhyasamaja Tantra. The generation phase involves the use of creative imagination or visualisation as a means of personal transformation through which the practitioners either visualise a divine being before them (front generation) or as themselves (self-generation) in order to alter their perception and experience of the appearance aspect of reality.
For those who have received the empowerment of this Tantric practise, you are reminded not to intentionally or unintentionally disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practise, and disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors.
Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practise! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practise, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.
Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods that, if practised in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practise is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power, or self-interest.
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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease.
But increase further and further.
Dedication of Merit
By this merit, may we then obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrongdoings
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
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