was reading Commentary on "A Lamp for the Path to
Enlightenment"
Khunu Lama Rinpoche.
One thing that really helps us complete these two collections is
the ability to foresee the future; therefore, we should try to
acquire clairvoyance. Without it, we are like a baby bird whose
wings are undeveloped and has not yet grown feathers and remains
stuck in its nest, unable to fly. Without clairvoyance, we cannot
work for other sentient beings.
36-37. The person who has achieved the psychic power to foresee the
future can create more merit in a day than a person without this
ability can create in a hundred years. Therefore, to complete the
collections of merit and transcendent wisdom quickly, it is
necessary to acquire the psychic power to see past, present and
future.
38. In order to do this, it is necessary to achieve single-pointed
concentration [Skt: samadhi; Tib: ting-nge-dzin]. For this, we must
understand the details of the method of attaining samadhi, such as
the nine stages, the six powers and the four mental
engagements.5
39. In order to practice samadhi meditation properly, we must
ensure that the conditions are perfect. If they are not, then even
though we try practicing it hard for even a thousand years, well
never achieve it. Therefore, we should find a perfect environment,
remain quiet and avoid having to do work such as healing the ill
and making astrological predictionsany activity that keeps us
busy.
40. The way to meditate to attain single-pointed concentration is
to focus our mind on a virtuous object, such as an image of the
Buddha. We visualize such an image in front of us and simply
concentrate on that. As we focus our mind on the object again and
again, well be able to hold it for increasingly greater periods of
time, and through the continuity of such practice will eventually
attain calm abiding [Skt: shamatha; Tib: shi-né] and single-pointed
concentration. Thus we will gain higher seeing [Tib: ngön-she],
the psychic power to see the future and so forth.
41-43. But that is not the point. Next we have to practice
penetrative insight [Skt: vipashyana; Tib: lhag-tong]. Without it,
our samadhi cannot remove our delusions. In order to eradicate our
two levels of obscurationthe obscurations of delusion [Skt:
kleshavarana; Tib: nyön-drib] and the obscurations to knowledge, or
omniscience [Skt: jneyavarana; Tib: she-drib]we must achieve the
wisdom realizing the non-self-existence of the I. Doing so also
depends upon achieving method, such as compassion and so forth.
Its a mistake to practice only wisdom and not method. This can
lead us to fall into individual liberation, or lower nirvana.
Similarly, practicing only method and not wisdom is also a mistake
and causes us to remain in samsara.
and also been wondering if there's a good fortune teller who can
see past lifes? feel like wanting to try the method as
quoted.
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