文/蓮生活佛 盧勝彥
密教看「光」,先看「明點」,再看「金剛鍊」,三看「金剛幕」,四看「佛國淨土」,此時的密教行者,「天眼」已具。
要「五眼六通」,打開心輪,心間放光是為第一首要。
這裡,我傳授「打開心輪法」,此法極其珍貴:
先修「氣脈明點」,使「燃滴作用」於心輪,即明點下降在心輪,拙火上昇至心輪,水火交融於心輪也。這樣可以打開心輪。
密教行者觀想自身完全如清淨琉璃透明,一塵也不染,於內空心中有一朵紅色無根的八葉蓮花,蓮花上現出月輪,月輪中間是吽()字。月輪的周邊,順時鐘方向排列,次第正是「嗡。古魯。蓮生悉地。吽」周布月輪之緣,於是想一字一字之咒字旋轉,周而復始,字字光明燦爛,字字不必觀大,月輪也不必觀大,愈小愈好。
「嗡。古魯。蓮生悉地。吽」一邊靜坐,一邊內觀,此為「心中八字輪觀法」,可打開心輪。
每回修觀完畢,即想蓮花月輪收攝入于中間的吽()字,吽字收攝於光明一點,這光明一點直衝上頂,剎那之間散於虛空之中,無盡無量,於是,我即虛空,虛空即我,一切均無所得,如來如來,如是如是。
我告訴大家,這是什麼境界,這就是「觀自在菩薩,行深般若波羅蜜多時,照見五蘊皆空」的【般若波羅蜜多心經】的到達彼岸的境界。
八萬四千之妙相。
得非本性之彌陀。
十萬億剎之遐方。
的是唯心之淨土。
善哉!善哉!
The Secret to Opening the Heart Chakra
Written by Living Buddha Lian-sheng Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by Cheng Yew Chung edited by Victor Hazen
True Buddha Translation Teams
The Tantric approach to seeing the Clear Light begins with first observing the drops, following which one sees the vajra chain, then the vajra screen, and lastly the Pure Land of the Buddha. At this stage, the practitioner is skilled with divine sight or the spiritual eye.
To attain the five eyes and the six supernatural abilities, it is of vital importance to first open the heart chakra and radiate light from the heart.
I shall here impart an extremely precious practice for opening the heart chakra:
First, one should cultivate the winds, channels and drops, causing the blazing and dripping action to take place at the heart chakra. This means lowering the drops and raising the inner fire so they meet at the heart chakra, where the water and fire merge. In this way, the heart chakra will open.
The Vajrayana practitioner visualizes himself as completely pure, transparent and spotless, like lapis lazuli. Within this inner emptiness a red, rootless eight-petalled lotus is seen at the heart chakra. Upon the lotus sits a moon disc and on the centre of the moon disc is the syllable HUM(). Around the edge and circumference of the moon disc is a clockwise arrangement of the mantra OM GURU LIAN-SHENG SIDDHI HUM. Visualize that each syllable spins in a complete circle, and each syllable radiates brilliantly. It is not necessary to visualize the syllables growing, nor should one enlarge the moon disc in one`s visualization. The smaller the size of syllables and moon disc, the better.
This technique of meditating and visualizing the mantra OM GURU LIAN-SHENG SIDDHI HUM is known as the Eight Syllable Wheel of the Heart Visualization Practice, which can help open the heart chakra.
Upon the completion of visualization, imagine the lotus and moon disc being absorbed into the syllable HUM(). This syllable HUM shrinks into a light drop which surges up to the crown chakra, and in an instant dissipates into the vastness of space as countless dots of light. At once, you shall feel “I am space and space is me.” There is nothing to be attained, and the reality of Tathagata is as it is.
Let me reveal this spiritual level of attainment. It is exactly the state of enlightenment revealed in the Prajnaparamita Sutra (the Heart Sutra) as “Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita, perceived that all five skandhas in their own being are empty.”
Eighty four thousand wonderful forms.
May express the appearance but not the original nature of Amitabha.
It may seem far away, across ten trillion buddha lands.
The pure land is really within one’s heart.
Very well. Very well.