Yoga of Deity’s Activity of the Generation Stage (5/5)

 

Deity yoga engages creative visualization as a skillful means of personal transformation through which the practitioner (sadhaka) visualizes a chosen deity (yidam) as part of a mandala or refuge tree in order to transform their experience of the appearance aspect of reality.

The yoga of activity is to accomplish, through the light radiating from mantras, the four The yoga of activity is to accomplish, through the light radiating from mantras, the four activities that the Buddha undertook to turn the wheel of Dharma and deliver sentient beings from suffering.

For example, in the practice of Vajrasattva, visualize the heart mantra of Vajrasattva radiating light and, on top of the light, abundant offerings to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the ten directions, and receiving blessings from deities in the ten directions. 

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When the light is absorbed back; then visualize again the mantra radiating light downwards to shine on sentient beings in the six realms, especially those in the three lower realms, so as to eliminate their suffering. 

These are the activities of the deity.activities that the Buddha undertook to turn the wheel of Dharma and deliver sentient beings from suffering.

Our activities in everyday life can be transformed into those of the Buddha through the yoga of activity.

The sadhana of Vajrasattva contains these four yogas: first visualize Vajrasattva; next visualize the mantra on the moon disc and recite the hundred-syllable mantra; then visualize the light emanating from the mantra, etc. 

Because this practice is part of the preliminaries, it does not particularly emphasize the idea of emptiness, but actually, the state of emptiness is also needed for this practice. 

People often ask which yidam practice they should do or who their own yidam is. The fact is, there is no way to do the yidam practice if one doesn’t know how to practice the generation stage, and there will be no result if the quality of the generation stage is not up to standard. 

On the other hand, if one has practiced the preliminaries well and undertakes the generation stage seriously, one can hope to attain some results from the yidam practice as well. 

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