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The third visualization is called pung-de. Here, the emphasis is on light instead of the,white kundalini energy. Limitless blissful radiant light emanates from Heruka Vajrasattva's heart in a powerful beam that bursts through his sex chakra and your crown chakra and enters your central channel. It is white but has a rainbow-like quality with red, yellow, green, and blue in it as well. The instant this brilliant light enters your body it completely dispels the darkness of your doubt-wracked, indecisive mind and your ignorance, attachment, and aversion; all of these disappear forever. It is like switching on a light in a dark room, where the darkness vanishes instantly and no longer exists anywhere. It doesn't go out the window, does it? It simply vanishes. Thus, there is no space for darkness or impurity anywhere in your brain, throat, or any other part of your necvous system. You are as clear as crystal. Feel that you have been completely purified, especially of the most subtle negativities. When you are in retreat, you can do each of these purifying techniques in each session by dividing the period for mantra recitation into three, or spend an entire session on each method separately, using the next technique in the following session. When you are not in retreat, it is highly beneficial for you to practice this meditation every day, reciting the Heruka Vajrasattva mantra twenty-one times with each of the three techniques. The best time to do it is at night, just before you go to bed. During the day you are so busy that you are likely to meditate distractedly. Therefore, as the last thing at night, you completely purify all the nonvittues you created during the day and go to sleep feeling free and liberated instead of sad and bothered by the day's negativities. Because we are constantly involved in so much activity, we need a powerful yoga method such as this. There is so little time to purify. The weight of unpurified negative karmic imprints increases exponentially, but if we recite the Vajrasattva mantra just twenty-one times at the end of each day, even the negative karma of tantric vows broken that day will not increase. If this method has the power to prevent from increasing the negative karma that results from broken tantric root vows-which are the highest vows and most serious transgressions of all-of course it can stop the increase of negativities from actions that are nonvirtuous by nature (natural negativities), such as killing and so forth, and other broken vows. Moreover, if we recite this mantra properly one hundred thousand times, all negativities whatsoever can be completely purified. While you recite the mantra, it is essential that you remain in singlepointed concentration; do not allow any samsaric thoughts to interrupt your

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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!