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Author: [[Kyabje Garchen Rinpoche and Ari Kiev]] Full Title: Vajrakilaya Category: #books CHAPTER 1 Approaching These Teachings The Deity I remember when I was a child looking at a mind accomplishment sadhana that had been brought forth by the Drigung treasure revealer Lho Nüden Dorje. In the colophon of the text was a quote of Guru Rinpoche, which said that even though there were three thousand different mind accomplishment sadhanas in the land of Tibet, this one mind sadhana was the innermost quintessence in which all the others were subsumed. Thus, I felt extremely fortunate to have encountered the one practice that was the most profound of all. As it says in The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas, “Even if a person I’ve dearly nurtured like my own child should view me as an enemy, to love him even more, as a mother does a child stricken with illness, is the bodhisattvas’ practice.”[3] He revealed the methods whereby afflictions need not be abandoned but rather could become the path itself. Whatever actions one may engage through the four activities of pacification, enrichment, magnetization, and destruction, the bodhicitta underlying each of them is absolutely immutable. Thus, the deity’s bodhicitta and one’s own mindstream inseparably mingle, like milk poured into tea. The deity’s love reaches one’s mind, increasing one’s capacity for love and compassion. My body is filled as amṛita streams descend from their points of union. Dwelling in the small skull chambers, the blood-drinking couples become crown ornaments, making fully complete the five wisdoms’ empowerment. Through the light rays from each of our hearts, wisdom beings are invited here.

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Vajrakilaya by Kyabje Garchen Rinpoche and Ari Kiev presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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