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Generating as a Deity

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Rinpoche discussed how to generate correctly as the deity.

We were talking last night about how much a meditator who just completed a three-year retreat has changed. He used to get quite angry, now he is becoming soft like cotton. He is a very good practitioner. I wish all people who did retreat changed like that, from doing all those prayers.

If you don’t purify in emptiness when you generate as the deity, then the ordinary body becomes a wrathful one. If you don’t know how to generate as the deity correctly, then your physical body changes.

There was a man in Hong Kong who worked on ships, and he had a meditation room in the ship. Years ago he received the Yamantaka initiation. He didn’t know how to practice, did millions and millions of mantras, and his eyes became big, very big.