Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00088)

8/12/2005 2:12 AM

Thanks Gerry:

Very helpful -- will now work on that for a while.

See below notes

Dallas

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From: Gerald Schueler [mailto:gschueler@earthlink.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:32 PM
To: Theosophy Study List
Subject: HPB's Diagram of Meditation

<<Thanks. I have some doubts about it. Hence I have not made any display of
it. I do not understand it very well. I had hoped you had some clues.
Dallas>>


Dal, HPB's Diagram of Meditation is pure Buddhism. It is an outline of a
typical Buddhist tantric yoga, a special form of what is called deity yoga.


Essentially one begins by uniting with emptiness in a formless spiritual
mental state. This kind of beginning is typical of Tantric yogas. This can
be helped by saying "I am all Space and Time" and then realizing it to be
so. Then one visualizes oneself as a spiritual being with purified skandhas
and no defilements. 

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DTB	Since our highest principles [ATMA & BUDDHI] are already of such a
stature (?) -- does this exercise not become an attempt of the personal,
embodied, Lower Mind (KAMA-MANAS) to attempt to make such a connection by
"purifying" itself of its own previously created impeding kamic skandhas ?

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GS
The purified skandhas are the five Dhyani Buddhas. The meditation diagram
that has come to us mentions only three of these under the title of
"aquisitions." It is pretty clear to me which three are mentioned, but
their names would mean nothing to most westerners.

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DTB	see S D I 108, 114, 213, 267, 570 - 575, 571-3, 574 (twin soul),

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Then we have the five "deprivations." These are the basic defilements or
kleshas that must be eliminated through proper purification processes.


The meditation is one in which we identify our self with a spiritual being
having purified skandhas and no defilements. 


The ego-self or human personality is transcended. There are many variations
on this theme in Buddhist Vajrayana.

Then a hint to the meditator is given that "all the passions and virtues
interblend with each other." This is a reminder that when we separate our
good charcateristics from our bad, the aquisitions from the deprivations,
we are discriminating because such divisions are not really possible and
are Path-oriented mayavic illusions.

In my opinion, this kind of meditation, when practiced properly, goes far
beyond Patajali and Raja Yoga.

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DTB	I think some elements blend -- conceptions of analogy and similarity
?

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Hope this helps.

Jerry S.



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