In the
study of Great Perfection (大圆满), a practitioner strives to stay in the heart of
Dharmadatu; or the center of the universe. According to Ati Yoga, this is the
final resting place of Buddha of three times. One can only enter the centre of
Dharmadatu through direct teaching of a qualified guru and no amount of
theoretical studies will bring a practitioner there.
Sometime
ago, my guru brought me to the summit of a mountain in a chilly morning and he
asked me to stare into the deep blue sky while performing the lotus posture.
After a while my guru asked me:
“What did
you see?”
I answered:
“The state of AH.” (AH refers to the unborn state of our mind).
“Not good
enough!” He shouted.
“Now follow
what I do.”
I looked at
my guru bewildered but obliged.
“HA! HA!
HA!” He shouted, so I shouted “HA! HA! HA!”
“Now what
did you see?”
“Oh! I saw
the syllable AH flew off into the sky and gone… there is no past, present or
future… just luminous and calm.”
My guru
said: “Rest in this state of mind now and forever.”
After the
strange initiation, my mind always stays in that state and my interest in magic
slowly diminishes.
One day, my
80 year old brother in dharma was in a terminal stage and dying. My guru
summoned me to the brother’s sickbed. The bro in dharma was performing
meditation preparing for the dying process.
After a long
while, my guru said to the bro:
“Do you
want to go easier?”
The bro in
dharma nodded and my guru suggested me to perform phowa service for the bro. So
I obliged. As the dying person continued to be in a meditative state; I said to
him:
“Please do
as I do… HA! HA! HA!”
The bro
shouted the first ‘HA’ loudly, then the second ‘HA’ became weaker and by the
third ‘HA’… he was gone for good. I know he has entered into the center of
Dharmadatu and never return.
So you see…
the dying process in Great Perfection is not a sorrowful or painful event. It is
as if going out for a final tour!
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