Close Formation of Tibetan Masters
The Geluk merit field is one of the most important meditation formations. It is a little bit like this; I read about the blue angels, jet planes that fly in close formation. Like that, this assembly visualization is vrrrrooooomm…. great ones, powerful beings in close formation, all there, right there. Who knows, maybe they are like blue angels. Certainly, they would be similar to the blue angel pilots, who are highly skillful beings, and top of their field. However, the merit field beings can do things that pilots cannot. The tremendous individual effort that beings such as Geshe Chekawa, or the others depicted in the merit field gave, benefitted living beings, but in addition, they remained in an internal method, in a cooperative formation. If we want to call this an enlightened society, it would comprise different levels such as the assembly of gurus, presenting teachings for different times and places such as Geshe Chekawa. The seven-point mind training is a ...