Vajrayogini retreat is a meditation practice of Buddhism in the category of Highest Yoga Tantra. The practice comes to us from the Indian master Naropa who lived in the 11th century and was passed down to us in an unbroken lineageof enlightened beings. In Tantra, the concept we work with is called “taking the result into the path” which means we pretend or imagine to have the qualities we wish to develop in our being. This is considered the fastest way to manifest enlightenment.In Vajrayogini practice, we imagine the mind is total bliss and emptiness; the speech is mantra blessing all beings; the body is light like a rainbow hologram in the aspect of a beautiful young maiden. Our environment is transformed into a pure land; our activity is to make offerings to all beings and to cut through delusions of all unenlightened beings and establish them in the state of blissful emptiness blended with compassion and unconditional love for all beings.While we go through this training, we can experience the cutting of our delusions, which can sometimes be somewhat painful as the ego does not easily let go of its destructive patterns.But the good news is that this process alternates or co-exists with a very blissful mental and physical state that comes from refuge and faith in the lineage lamas combined with the blessing of reciting Vajrayogini’s Mantra. It produces quite an extraordinary awareness of being; ordinary view of life drops away. The goal of so much practice is to be able to take this extraordinary self with us into the world, as an armor of bodhichitta light so we can transform all situations into the path to enlightenment.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 02:32:29 +0000
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