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Lama Thubten Yeshe - Vajrasattva - The Tantric Path of Purification-Wisdom Publications (2004)
Lama Thubten Yeshe - Vajrasattva - The Tantric Path of Purification-Wisdom Publications (2004)
meditation. If you can do your practice with good concentration and stable
penetrative insight, it will be tremendously effective in eradicating impure
concepts and the darkness of emotional obstacles. That purification comes
from the power of your concentrated meditation, but the mantra too has
power of its own. Sometimes it brings you telepathic visions of things that are
happening on the other side of the planet. When you purify the obstacles of
narrow emotional concepts, you will discover a whole new world.
Mantra can also enable you to read the minds of others. That can cause you
pleasure or pain; it depends what the other person is thinking! Many other
things can happen too-it all depends upon the individual; when people
retreat, they have different experiences and receive different realizations. It is
very difficult for us to tell who has realized what. Some become American
Vajrasattvas, some Asian Vajrasattvas, some European Vajrasattvas, some
Australian Vajrasattvas ... who knows!