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Secret mantra (Tib. sang ngak ; Wyl. gsang sngags ) or Secret Mantra Vajrayana(Tib. sang ngak dorje tekpa ; gsang sngags rdo rje theg pa ) another name for theVajrayana.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama says:

You might wonder what is meant by secret mantra. It does not mean thevisualization of deities, or the recitation of mantra or the ritual practices for

pacifying, enriching, magnetizing and subjugating. These are not what we callsecret mantra. Nor is it the yogic practice of tsa-lu ng meditation.

Secret mantra is not simply offering tormas, playing instruments like the gyaling , beating drums and doing elabor ate rit uals. If this were the definition of tantra, thenit would follow that even Milarepa was not a t antric practitioner. He lived in acave and had no possessions, he did not even have a bell and vajra, yet he waswithout question one of the greatest ta ntric yogis who ever lived.

What then is the mantra in the vehicle of secret mantra? The word mantra meansthat which protects the mind. Here, mantra protects the mind against ordinary

percep tion. This is also the real meaning of vajra in the word vajra-yana.

In mantrayana practice, t here must be an understanding of emptiness endowed withcompassion, which then transforms into a deity. We then practise identifying withthat deity. That is the vajra element of vajra-yana. The real practice of secretmantra vajrayana involves generating a mind of emptiness with the heart of

compassion ( tong nyi nyingjei nyingpo chen ) and then transforming that verymind into the pure perception of the deity and feeling a sense of pride or confidence.

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