Guhyasamaja Tantra
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GUHYASAMAJA TANTRA Commentary by H. E. Zong Rinpoche The practice of Guhyasamaja part of Guhyasamaja is such a vast and profound subject, so it cannot be dealt with in a very short period. If to go through the stage of generation and completion, usually it takes at least a month. Also, usually when a teaching is given then it must be based on certain commentaries, reliable commentary of the practice and so reading the words of the commentary and explaining the meaning of it altogether takes a very long time. So Je Rinpoche today, instead of going through such commentaries about those two stages of practice, he will give the explanation of how to practice the sadhana, how to practice the meditation, the actual meditation sadhana, concerning Guhyasamaja. So actually the practice of sadhana is the very essence of what is called the stage of generation. After completing this explanation of the sadhana, then Je Rinpoche will explain a summary of the stage of completion. So first we need to know that a person who is going to practice the stage of generation of the tantra, what sort of qualities should that person have. What sort of preparations that person must undergo, such as the place of the meditation, the actual practice of the meditation and the preparation of, the personal preparation from his own side. So what sort of person has the right or is fit to practice the stage of generation is, it must be someone who has received the proper initiation. Without receiving the proper initiation, let alone to enter into the practice of tantra, even that person has no right whatsoever even to hear some words of the tantra. So to teach the tantra to the unrightful disciple or a person is a great downfall, to the teacher himself. So without receiving the proper initiation, then try to learn about the practice and also try to put into practice the meditations and so on is completely wrong and does not give any favorable result or fruit and it can have certain heavy consequences. So without initiation if someone teaches tantra, both the teacher and the student will fall into the great suffering of hell realm. So there are many quotations from various great masters and Guru Vajradhara himself. For example -- but all those quotations will take time and will be difficult to translate. However, one line says "A person out of ignorance and great pride engaged into the practice of tantra takes the tantra, both the master and the disciple will certainly, without any doubt, will fall into the hell very speedily." So a proper practitioner must first receive the initiation, the necessary initiation, not only receiving the initiation, but observe the precepts, the pledges of the initiation. So if a person does not observe the samayas or the pledges of the tantra, although how hard he works, strives in the practice of the meditation, one will never achieve the siddhi or the accomplishment. So it says in the tantra, "One who has not entered into the mandala and who has given up the samayas and who is ignorant about the actual, the ultimate meaning of the practice will never achieve any siddhi." So on the basis of receiving initiation and also in general a practitioner of tantra must be endowed with these natural qualities of intelligence, power of intelligence, and very strong or firm devotion and one who can keep the secrecy. Although somebody has great power of intelligence, somebody is very intelligent, if the proper faith and devotion is lacking, then again one can, it is an obstacle to obtain the fruit, the result. Although someone does not have a very great intelligence, if somebody has a really deep faith and devotion, that person still has more chance to accomplish the goal. In general there are three divisions of the faith, three types of the faith; faith that is called the "clear faith", "desiring faith" and the faith of "confidence of belief". So out of those three, the kind of faith which is very important here, very necessary here is what is called the "clear faith". So a practitioner of the tantra must be able to keep the secrecy of the tantra. So therefore, even if one practices a little bit immediately to make a big showoff of that, is completely contradictory to the practice of tantras. Therefore, except for a few very reliable other practitioners one should keep ones practice secret. Even one should not make it public that what sort of deities one has. When the great master translator who is Ralousawa was a great siddha of Tibet, when he went to Nepal to receive the lineage or the teachings of Yamantaka, at that time that guru, that Nepalese guru, was giving lots of teachings to his disciples, teachings of various fields, various kinds, but he was never teaching any Yamantaka, any practice of Yamantaka, even not uttering the word, the name of Yamantaka. So the name of that master was Divancharochita or also sometimes is known an Lama Baro. So when the great translator went to him to receive the teachings, he was never uttering even the name of Yamantaka and when he was living with his Master then he saw the master was going every night somewhere. So he was curious about this and one night he decided to follow. The place of this great master can be visited in Nepal. There is a cave then there is a long passage underground. Very few people go in there. Some people are successful to get to the end of the passage, by tying themselves with a rope and a string. Je Rinpoche has visited the place, but he didn't go right in the end because there are many, it is dark and many places where one can fall and there are certain dangers like that. So then when the translator followed the master and the master was going to a cave and then he was alone reciting the Yamantaka sadhana and mantras and practicing meditation. So he followed very quietly and sat somewhere in the coroner listening, and listened to the lama. He thought that, he came back before the guru so he thought that he could break some secrecy and he thought that his guru wouldn't have known. But then of course, guru was clairvoyant and the next morning he scolded the translator, "Why were you behaving like a sneaking dog last night?" So then he had to admit it and he said "I was very eager to know what the secret practice of my guru is and with this hope to know a little bit of it, he followed". Then the lama asked him "What have you learned?" He of course couldn't give a complete report, but he has learned, has heard only a few words of the tantra, so he said those few words, repeated those few words, then insist the guru to give him that particular teaching. He insisted and insisted for a very long time, very strongly until he has received the complete lineage of the transmission of this particular tantra - then he returned to Tibet and became a very great siddha and became the most outstanding siddha Tibet ever had. 1 If someone has very strong faith and devotion in the tantra, and even if one is unable to practice all the complex stage of generation, even with certain ore simple practice of the tantric meditation, one has still the possibility to obtain some accomplishments or some siddhis. If someone has a deep faith in the guru and in the deity and in the practice itself, then even if he didn't have very great intelligence and wisdom, but gradually that person will be guided by the deity and gradually one will accomplish all the siddhis. So once there was an old mother in India who was very devoted but she was unable to practice all the complex practices of meditation, but she was very devoted and she had a great desire to recite some mantra of a deity. So she had been given this mantra of goddess Tundale so the recitation, the actual recitation of the mantra is something like OM CHURl CHURl CHURNDALI SWA HA, but she was so ignorant that she didn't learn it correctly and she had been reciting always OM BULLY BULLY BULLY SWA HA. So she was spending her time reciting this wrong mantra and she had a son who was a novice somewhere in a monastery, then once there was a great famine in their country and the greatest starvation and so on, so the son was very worried about his mother and he went to see her. When the son saw his mother, his mother was not only living but she was looking very healthy, very radiant, looking much more powerful than she had ever been. So the son asked, "There is a starvation throughout the country and I was worried that maybe you were already dead and you are still living and very healthy, so what have you been eating all this time?" And she has answered "I have been cooking the stones, eating these cooked stones and drinking the melted stone." And the son asked "what sort of magic have you learned to cook the stones and melt the stones". She said, "I have no other method than my mantra which is OM BULLY BULLY BULLY." Then the son said "This mantra is completely wrong, the proper mantra is OM CHURl CHURl CHURNDALI SWA HA and so on he taught her the right mantra.