立體開展　林鈺堂 簡繁轉換 - 繁體

師傳曼達一變五，前後左右不斷增；
成五加觀上下層，立體開展法界圓。

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陳師所傳之供曼達觀想，以一曼達觀為居中，前後左右各變現一曼達，而成五曼達。再以此居中，前後左右各觀同樣五曼達。如此不斷重複開展，使曼達充遍法界。詳見拙編《密乘初階》。

謹此提出如下之增益觀法：

一曼達觀成如前所述之五曼達，以此五曼達為一單位，觀成其上變現兩層同樣的五曼達，並且其下亦變現兩層同樣的五曼達，然後以此五層共廿五曼達為一單位，再做如前之四方開展，而後上下開展。如斯不斷開展，令曼達充遍法界。

此增益之觀法，比起師授之「平面開展」，可謂「立體開展」，更易觀成以曼達充遍法界。

平日供曼達時曾思及此增益之法。今日逢陰曆廿五，供曼達時又思及此，遂提筆記述以供眾。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　二○○九年十月十三日
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　養和齋　　　　於加州

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Three-dimensional Expansion　Yutang Lin

Guru taught to visualize one Mandala turn into five
Front, back, left and right, incessantly increasing
Five as one unit, adding upper and lower layers
Three-dimensional expansion to fulfill Dharmadhatu

Comments:

Guru Chen taught the following visualization for offering of Mandala: Visualize the actual Mandala as at the center, and at its front, back, left and right there appears an identical Mandala. Then, taking these five Mandalas as one unit at the center, again visualize that there appears identical five Mandalas at its front, back, left and right. Thus repeating the process until the whole Dharmadhatu is fulfilled with Mandalas. For details, see my work, The First Steps of Vajrayana.

Here I am offering the following enriching visualization as follows:
One actual Mandala is to be visualized into five Mandalas as described above, then taking these five Mandalas as one unit, visualize that two layers of identical five Mandalas appear above it and two layers of identical five Mandalas appear below it. And then, taking these five layers of total twenty-five Mandalas as one unit, visualize expansion in four directions, and then in upper and lower layers as previously described. Repeating these processes of visualization incessantly until the whole Dharmadhatu is fulfilled with Mandalas.

This enriching visualization, when compared with the "two-dimensional expansion" visualization as taught by Guru Chen, may be called a "three-dimensional expansion" visualization, and it seems to be an easier approach to achieve fulfilling the Dharmadhatu with Mandalas in visualization.

In the past when I was offering Mandalas I had thought of this enriching visualization method. Today is lunar 25th, and while I was offering Mandala I thought of this method again, so I wrote it down as offering to Tantric practitioners.

Written in Chinese and translated on October 13, 2009
El Cerrito, California

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