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[Vajra Play: Questions and Answers]

Homage to total victory over the devils' influence

(1) Lady Mother, how would you sum up your Severance of Evil Object?

The teaching of this Severance Object is twofold: not casting out those with faith down the abyss of the lower realms, and not allowing those with wisdom to befriend samsara. 

Those with faith should engage in dharma activities without regard for time, be without deceit in their own minds, and maintain their sacred pledge without hypocrisy. Then they will be emancipated from samsara and the lower realms. Those with wisdom should not enter the door of tenet systems that are bad approaches, not line up the row of bad thoughts, and not be bound by the golden chains of experiences of bliss and clarity. If they are possessed of wisdom, they will enter the door of Severance, the unmistaken approach, and practice meditation without minding and mental activity. 

(2) How does one put it into practice?

First you need to become convinced through the view. In the middle, trust in your meditative equipoise, and in the end you'll know that all phenomena are brought into mind.

(3) In that case, are all phenomena in the lungs?

Meaningless explanation, deviant meditation, disastrous desire. 

(4) So then how does one meditate?

Without mental inflation or change, rest in nondual consciousness without likes or dislikes.

(5) One reference?

Mistakes are prevented by not creating a specific focus. Just being without reference liberates fixation. I have no other flawless instruction.

(6) When afflictive emotion arises, how should one apply the antidote?

Don't block the clarity aspect and don't practice the fixation aspect. Just when devils arise is when the necessary severance should be brought to bear.

(7) Must this teaching be understood without words?

This Severance Object carries great meaning in few words and difficult realization in an easy training. It is not the realm of conceptual thought.

(8) Even though an antidote works, is there attachment to this appearance?

Again, clinging must revert naturally, arising from within. If clinging does not revert from within then dharma becomes a big project and you might think there's something to sever, which is to be one's own devil.

(9) So how is actual Severance?

Although severing, it is best without thinking "I'm doing it, I'll do it." Just do it, without flaw.

(10) What's the measure of realizing the evil object?

It is to be free of inflation.

(11) What's the measure of being free of inflation?

The measure of freedom from inflation is to be fearless.

(12) What kind of signs arise from practice experience?

Outwardly, there is no clinging to appearances. Inwardly, there is no entanglement in mind itself. Secretly, there will be no reference to afflictive emotions.

(13) How can one confuse basic emptiness?

Ignorant fixation arises from not understanding emptiness. That leads to cycling in the three realms and wandering in the six continuums. Then there's no way to recognize the essential nature of phenomena. It is the turmoil of fixating fixation and desirous desire ('dzin 'dzin po 'dod 'dod po).

(14) Is the realization of no fixation what they call "buddha"?

Buddhahood is blissful by nature, so it is without fixating concepts. Rest without any thoughts whatsoever in mind. Not "Now I meditate."

(15) How much "non thought" are we talking about?

This refers to not engaging in mind. The lack of fixation in this awareness is being called "buddha." Meditate without squandering this mind.

(16) What is being said by the term "yogin"?

It refers to freedom from thought. Once there is freedom from the notion of self-fixation, clinging must revert by itself. If it does not arise that way in your being, even if there is talk of doing the dharma, it wouldn't help. At first, you came alone. In the end, you will go alone. So now also, you must train alone.

(17) Are all dharma teachings ascertained by understanding this Severance?

While consistent with dharma in general, it is an especially elevated instruction. Severance is the highest standard.

(18) How will just this connection with general dharma be enough?

In fact it is the destruction of delusion. If hope is destroyed there is freedom from gods. If fear is destroyed there is freedom from demons. If delusion is destroyed it is freedom from demons.

The answers to questions called "Vajra Play" is perfectly complete.

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