MAHAYANA SUTRA

CHAPTER TWO


ENLIGHTENMENT - THE EXPERIENCED WORLD OF THE TRUTH

Here are the experiences of three attainers. They are edited from everything which they had written down so that they mainly tell about before and after the attainment. They are the moment of attainment which are revealed in Japan for the first time. These experiences should be the precious guidepost to the following practitioners.

They used to be ordinary people before attainment. The general human beings who had emotions like everyone else. As you can see from what they had written, the confession which they had done was nothing you can imagine from how they acted in their daily life - killing, stealing, adultery, lies, pride, and so forth. And they attained enlightenment after all these hardships.

However, I need to add the fact that they had outstanding power of will which is the condition for the attainment of Raja Yoga, or devotion, love, and life energy which are the conditions for the attainment of Kundalini Yoga.

In each Yoga, it take some time from attainment to the perfection. This is the reason why you may feel some differences in each of their spiritual levels while reading what they had written. Please understand that it depends upon how close they are to the perfection.

ABOUT "THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE IN THE ISOLATED ROOM"

The spiritual practice in the isolated room is to practice alone in the room where there is no contact at all with outer world. It is the intensive practice for the spiritual practitioners who are just about to attain enlightenment. In the practice of Yoga which is aimed to attain enlightenment and self realization, it is necessary to approach one's subconsciousness and to eradicate worldly desires. The Yogic techniques such as Pranayama or Mudra before meditation all exists in order to get rid of sufficient consciousness and to enter subconsciousness.

Spiritual practitioners has less sufficient consciousness compared to ordinary people because of the spiritual practice. Not to mention the time when they are about to attain enlightenment. In this stage, the soul goes and comes back between the dimention of this physical body and the Astral dimention. Mentally, various mental struggle occurs in one's daily life due to the manifestation of subconsciousness which brings the practitioner in the state of some type of insanity. So when this stage comes, the spiritual practitioners need to put themselves into the circumstances which they recieve the least influence from the outer world.

In AUM, a practitioner will stay in a private room which completely shut off the light so as to do spiritual practice for the average of 18 hours. Only chance for them to go out from the room is when they practice Kriya Yoga. Food, toilet, and all other things are taken care of by the people who are in charge of.

I check the state of the practitioners everytime when it is necessary, and give initiations. Even when I don't go there, I can see them through the Astral world. I could recognize the attainment of Maitreya-Taishi while I was meditating in my house because I flew to the Astral world and got the information.

In the end, I would like to add that this practice in the isolated room is also practiced in Tibetan esoteric Buddhism such as Kagyu- pa.