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Vajrayana sadhana instructs us to chant the Kalachakra scripture passages, praying for Kalachakra to descend to your shrine. This will take several days. He will emerge from emptiness and descend to your shrine. Then, through the shrine, he will give you empowerment blessing. This is his blessing. He will enter your heart of luminosity. From your heart of luminosity, he transforms into the time wheel, and your body transforms into the time wheel. As long as you are as one with Kalachakra at all times, then that is "xiang yin," that is yoga. In the future, when your flesh body disintegrates, this "one breath" of yours will naturally be reborn into the Pure Land of Kalachakra. So, what exactly are we cultivating for in Vajrayana? This is precisely what we are cultivating for.

If you don't have an acharya to give you empowerment, if you don't have the blessing of Kalachakra, if you don't have Kalachakra abiding in your luminous heart, if you cannot purify your own heart, how can you achieve accomplishment? I will tell everyone— cultivation is a very serious matter. You can't be careless with the slightest detail. So, at the beginning of cultivation, you must accumulate merits, the resources of cultivation. You must have sufficient blessings, then you can be reborn into the Western Pure Land of the Ultimate Bliss. If you don't have any blessings, you cannot be reborn [into the Pure Land]. This blessing is not referring to money. This is referring to purifying the defilements of your body and revealing the heart of luminosity. Then what are these defilements of the body? Tangibly speaking, it is this flesh body (form body); it is the filth inside your body. Intangibly speaking, it is greed. We as cultivators must guard against greed. Grandmaster Lu has spent his entire life assisting others. If they give some money offering for my assistance, that's okay. If they don't have money to provide offering, that is okay as well.

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《本文譯自蓮生活佛在休士頓密儀雷藏寺傳時輪金剛法的開示》