General Statement on the “Five Golden Dharma of Niguma” （3）

General Statement on the “Five Golden Dharma of Niguma” （3）

According to prediction of successive lineage gurus: sentient beings who follow dharma to receive the teaching and discipline of the Five Golden Dharma, whether they meditate on it or not, as long as they keep pure faith and strictly keep the root promise of Samaya, Dakini will unfailingly appear and welcome them right before they die, and they can be reborn into purelands of the ten directions according to their wishes.

The lineage of the Five Golden Dharma is like the unbroken sunlight of a clear sky, and also like golden beads stringed together, one following another, without any disruption. The Five Golden Dharma, from Buddha guru to today, is like the purity of gold, without any changes in its blessing strength, continuously preserving the pure and true dharma lineage.

The formal meditation of the Five Golden Dharma includes two parts: the Creation Stage and the Perfection Stage.

The pronunciation of Creation Stage in Sanskrit is “Wubadizhama”. Its original meaning is growth and innovation, and is compare-amount yidam yoga. It is comprised mostly of the visualization of the image of yidam, mainly visualising the external and internal mandala, visualising that oneself becomes the yidam heaven body. Inside the body, the three nadi and five chakra are visualised, in the five chakra of the central nadi the yidam five great Vajra Buddha and their dependable and depended upon mandala are visualised and meditated upon.

In the Five Golden Dharma of Niguma, meditators visualize all the chief and subject Yidam as the Vajra dual-practice body. Because they are internal mandala, the protecting fire shield outside the body of Yidam is not visualised. With every Yidam, their dependable and depended mandala should also be visualised. (This is put here for collective emphasis) All sacred venerables in ritual should be visualized as the moon in the water and flowers in the mirror, like rainbow illusion, without true substance, manifest but without self-nature, manifestation and emptiness have no difference.

In the Creation Stage, there are meditation methods of the inside three nadi and five chakra which do not appear until the Perfection Stage of many other tantra of Anuttara Yoga. Moreover, it formally meditates the five root tantra, and takes the ultimate Hevajra announcing strong fire, the karma handprint ultimate Chakrasambhava, the illusory body brightness ultimate Guhyasamaja, the dream ultimate Mahamaya, and the career ultimate Yamantaka as the five places of the body. Therefore, the Five Golden Dharma appears exceptionally more superior than other tantra of Anuttara Yoga even in its creation stage.