The Code to Unlock the Heart's Lock

Everything is locked up inside the heart.You need the matching mantra to open the lock.If past love-wounds, unhappy marriage, romantic setbacks have locked up the heart, what opens it?The mantra of Kurukullā opens it.The Red Tārā mantra opens it.Vajravārāhī too.Today's teaching is deep.If you can remember, write it down.All practice is to open the heart's gate — to open the combination lock on the heart's gate.Once the heart's gate opens, you have methods to resolve all obstacles.Second, you can see your original nature, because the treasure in the heart is open, the Dharma-ark is open — and once it opens, the central channel opens, you'll have five eyes and six abilities.Mind-reading will come first.This is the inner-practice heading: "The Code to Unlock the Heart's Lock."

So where are all karmic obstacles?In the heart.All the pressures, the depressions.The person is fine on the surface but keeps doing depressive things, still stuck there, unresolved — that means it still exists in the subconscious, undone.Where to resolve from?From the heart.Our heart connects to the subconscious.If the heart can resolve it, the subconscious can.If you think only the conscious has resolved — that isn't heart-resolution, isn't subconscious-resolution.When practicing to open the safe lock, the chest will feel hot, sometimes swollen, sometimes aching — this will happen.Don't be shocked.While unlocking, this spot feels muffled, hot, swollen — fine.It's working.Keep practicing, until "click," it opens.The safety lock turns to open — at the "click" instant of opening, there's a certain thrill, inexplicably happy for a moment.That's the feeling.

So where do we know which matching Dharma to practice?From the Fate Palace?Don't preset it.Match it to the obstacle.Based on what you feel is the hardest pass.I just said: because of money, producing shame, chest-tightness, grief — use the Wealth Deity Dharma to unlock.Because of love, marriage, dating, male-female relations — use Kurukullā to unlock.Work?Work is also money-fortune.What is your work for?Right — money-fortune.Interpersonal relations — probably also Kurukullā.If due to the torment of illness — use Medicine Buddha to unlock.If you can't tell what, no method — send it straight to Amitābha to unlock.If the cause is unknown — Amitāyus works, use the first mantra, the Immeasurable-Life Tathāgata Root Dhāraṇī, to unlock.If due to karmic obstacles — as said, needing deliverance for ancestors or karmic creditors — the Root Dhāraṇī to Uproot All Karmic Obstacles, or the Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra.But for Dzogchen practice to see light, use the Victorious Hundred-Syllable Mantra — the mantra I just transmitted.Unlocking with it, you'll see light.Two mantras can show light: one is the Light-Empowerment True Words (Rinpoche recites), the second the Victorious Hundred-Syllable.When the lock opens, you'll see light.Open the thing, and you don't see jewels — you see light.Where does the light come from?Today I tell you — where's the light?Open this and you see light.So where's the treasure?Right here.That's why Amitābha has a symbol on his chest — the swastika, the Dharma-Wheel ever-turning.To open the code lock, you turn it.When it's about to open, you'll feel it — a "click" sound, eyes closed you'll hear a "click," and light bursts out.So what can you see here?Medicine Buddha.What else?Jambhala.What else?Kurukullā — all come out from here, all can manifest, right at the chest.Even the eighteen Arhats' heart-chakra opening is right here.Open it, a Buddha image here — created here.So put your maṇḍala here.

I'll use the shallow way to teach you: opening the safe lock.There's a circle on your chest — the swastika Buddha-emblem.Let it turn.Just let it turn, don't manage it.In three days you'll start feeling strange — there really seems to be a wheel, strange.Keep reciting, keep turning.Recite the Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable: white light appears.Recite the Victorious Hundred-Syllable: the maṇi-jewel light you want to practice appears.So Dzogchen practice has two methods — last time I taught trekchö and tögal.One is sudden awakening, one is light-gazing.The Nyingma uses light-gazing; the Kagyu uses trekchö.Trekchö and tögal — two methods to perfect Dzogchen.For Dzogchen practice via Zen, sudden awakening is hard — you must cut off and train through Zen, train with śūnyatā.The second, the Nyingma's strongest, uses light.We Nyingma practice Dzogchen starting with light, use light to start.Light?There's light everywhere.But the light to obtain is inner light, not outer light.How to open the inner light?Inside our Tanzhong point there is light — the light of the main soul.You see that light.The door must open for the light to shine out.So you must turn that code lock.The one that can turn it to reveal the light is the Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable, and the Light-Empowerment True Words — those more capable of showing the light.After seeing the light?Refine it into śarīra-particles — eventually release, condense as a sheet, slowly aggregating into śarīra-particles, becoming maṇi-jewel light, same as the one in Kṣitigarbha's hand, same as the one in Four-Armed Avalokiteśvara's hand — the Jewel-Hand is that one.In the Mahākaruṇā Dhāraṇī teachings it becomes the Jewel-Hand mantra, the jewel appears.Keep practicing this way.

Inside that bead, you see pass-one, two, three — you see yourself on the bead.You've begun doing consciousness-transference, moving your spirit-cultivation onto the bead — doing spirit-flesh separation.The bead passes 18 stages, matures, then by phowa, recite seven "Pay!Pay!Pay!Pay!Pay!Pay!Pay!" and out it goes.The body stays — you don't die.Call it back, place a crossed-vajra, rest.Train this way — day 1, 2, 3, 4.See, come and go freely.Pandemic comes, don't want to live anymore — meditate, voom, gone.Really!Especially if today Taiwan had those plagues spreading everywhere — too late to die by then!That panic, scared to death, neighbors already carried out — wouldn't you panic?Still waiting to die?Or just straight to bye-bye?Don't say bye — because that light has awareness, so he can set this body down at any time.So the "self-grasping" thought must not be too heavy.If you're too attached to this body, this me, you can't go, you'll be pulled back and stay.The more you don't want to go, the less you can go.That's why Chöd is important.When our lama comes — our Vajra Guru's lama specializes in teaching Black Wrathful Ḍākinī Chöd.Last time at the Dharma gathering he sat on the throne; many practiced Chöd there.That's cultivating the ability to offer your body.If you can offer the body, the spirit can achieve spirit-flesh separation.The most important is the spirit, not the body.The spirit must leave through the aperture — the view must be built, or no way.So tantric disciples who practice to Dzogchen — your body isn't yours.The body is for offering: offering to the guru, to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

So Prince Siddhārtha, in one life, offered his body to a tiger.He offered many times, once feeding an eagle.See how he gave the body — how many lifetimes, before he had a chance of buddhahood.Trained this way, the body can be offered — spirit abundance.If you can't bear to offer the body, impossible.See external offerings — many unwilling.Offering fruit, food, money — reluctant to death.Offer yourself?Even less likely.To do this requires enormous resolve.But think of birth and death — everyone must face it; without resolve, no good.The coffin isn't there yet, so no tears.By then too late.Too late to train.You can't do spirit-flesh separation; you simply can't let go.When tormented by illness, hard to separate — once the body hurts, the spirit is pinned down.Torturing the body tortures the soul — both suffer.So while healthy, hurry and train spirit-flesh separation.No impact on life, no impact on work, no impact on anyone — just an instant letting-go.So in the Dharma "let go" — deep meaning: let go of bodily sensation, let go of bodily need.Only then can the other side, the spirit, come out.What is being let go?The thing is still there!What's let go?The body is let go, so the spirit can come out.Let go — deep letting-go is different from shallow letting-go.

Let go of self-grasping.What is self-grasping?Real things I want to hold, things I pursue, every demand of human nature.But as long as those things are there, the spirit won't leave.So the heart must truly not care — nothing's a big deal, carry on, nothing's a big deal.Then you'll come to think, really, nothing is a big deal.So, facing that Wuhan virus — you all have money, what good is it?Any way you manage money, no use.Pulled out of your home — what human rights?Looking at us, we can't bear a plague, can't bear a big earthquake, can't bear a solar-flare burst or a volcanic eruption.One day too late — Taiwan has how many volcanoes?Active.Yangmingshan erupts, Datun erupts, Guanziling in Tainan erupts — all active.One erupts and nothing to say — really nothing to say.Taiwan's catastrophe includes volcanic ash falling.At least two-thirds dead.Then your "having" means what?So day by day, build a good mood, live knowing what's enough — enough.If such a day comes, more than one disaster at once.So Green Tārā's practice is for the seven calamities and eight disasters — flood, wind, earth, water, every kind of calamity, plus plague-calamity and war-calamity.How many disasters wait for us — but now we feel comfy, nothing's hit us.

If today we were in Wuhan, totally different — panicking to death, fleeing!Like Shanghai in wartime — fleeing, panicking, hiding in air-raid shelters; droughts fleeing, nothing to eat.These are all processes, repeating in history.We live inside history — starving to death, dying of disease, in plague whole areas die — terrifying, right?But we keep not believing it would be like that.History is this.All made it through.Will it repeat?Of course.History is repetition.Not new stuff — repetition.After this ends, in tens of thousands of years it must repeat anew.Only you think you've advanced — different clothes, different foods, screens and electronics — the plot is the same, one in costume, one modern.Plot is identical.Disasters?Same.Later there's worse.Why?The greenhouse effect.Many of the bacteria and plagues that wiped out dinosaurs were frozen — people didn't think of this.Bacteria preserved in ice; greenhouse effect, ice melts, bacteria revive.Both poles have people active — oilfields and such, many tourists — they carry germs out, spread it, Earth destroyed, not by exploding stars but by plague.So now plague is re-emerging.More?This is still small-case.This Wuhan pneumonia is still small-case.Worse coming.The ancient prophecies of both East and West — Earth's population dies down to how many?Maybe only a quarter, less.Like this plague now, spreading and spreading, no medicine.By then we watch helplessly as family, we ourselves get infected, lingering, groaning.I'd rather not.Like the ancient martial-arts novels — the senior monk severs his meridians and goes.The most pleasant way.Why torment to death?Dying anyway, why take the torture?Why come to the world at all?That's the karmic obstacle.So practice is to not come to reincarnation, to not accept this torment.Why practice?If you'd asked this 100 years ago, you wouldn't be here now, not watching Wuhan virus and worrying to death.Right?100 years ago you awakened, and happened to have good fortune to practice to Dzogchen, achieve rainbow-light liberation — not come back.You wouldn't be asking.

You ask now — next life you won't come either.Oh, why come?No benefit — all torment.What is enjoyment?Nothing counts as enjoyment.But many souls — don't they wait 100, 200 years to reincarnate?That's forced reincarnation.We want to choose not to be forced.You freely choose, come or not.The soul, because of karma, must wait — until the affinity is ready.Like conscription — time's up, draft paper comes, go report.So many souls wait and wait for what?That affinity.On the chart, look at the children you'll bear — what kind?Good children, or many children coming to collect debts — all have been waiting for that affinity.So why queue for affinity?If we already have masks, no need to queue to grab masks.I've prepared, no queue for alcohol, masks.Many souls can't; energy insufficient to accumulate the free-rebirth energy.Most are forced.So most reincarnate forced.Some for an unresolved wish choose — "I wait for this family to take in a daughter-in-law, I reincarnate into this family, ruin them." Why?That family ruined ours in a past life.So I reincarnate into this family.When the daughter-in-law marries in and conceives, I seize color and enter.When I grow up I become a prodigal — all day drinking at hostess bars, gambling at casinos.Second, borrow money, wreck the family.His task is revenge.So with any condition or barrier in your heart, you'll reincarnate — for that reason.

So what Dharma can open my heart-lock?Match it by your obstacle point.No preset.I also don't set which yidam Dharma you must practice — he'd just attach.The guru telling you to practice this yidam Dharma must have the divine power and ability to see past and present lives, including your dharmatā affinity, directly linking to your yidam.Not time yet, not that simple — can see.

So Dharma must be the Three Baskets and seventy-two chapters, all complete and perfect.We can't say "I only practice this yidam, ignore the rest." The pacifying-increasing-magnetizing-destroying-jewel Five-Section Dharma must all be learned.Beyond mantras being complete, these five sections must be present.What does "five sections all present" mean?The Great Compassion Dharma — the 42 Hands of Great Compassion are already divided: pacifying, increasing, magnetizing, destroying, jewel — five sections.So why is it called the Great Perfect, Unobstructed Great-Compassion-Mind Dhāraṇī.The 42 Hands — each with five "transformation hands": 5 pacifying, 5 increasing, 5 magnetizing, 5 destroying, 5 jewel.For deliverance I only need the Amrita-water, Amrita-vase mantra to perform deliverance.

To transform: the Buddha-Crown Transformation Hand — Amitābha above, Buddha-on-the-crown — can accomplish Amitābha appearing on top of the head.For wealth, use the Jade-Ring Hand.These are all good treasures.Why does nobody use them?To this day no one has transmitted this.Not knowing the Great Compassion Mantra contains so many useful Dharmas — all in the Great Compassion Mantra, appearing within the thousand-light hand bodhisattva's Dharma principle.That's why there are single hands and single hands.The Thousand-Light-King extends to Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara's attainment.His Dharma principle has 24 transformation hands.The Great Compassion Mantra doesn't write it.Look — passed down from his teacher, we attribute to Dzogchen using pacifying-increasing-magnetizing-destroying-jewel to unlock.Must open.Heart's obstacles are inside these five.Increasing — obstacles from wealth, use increasing.Can't be freed because of catastrophe, use pacifying.Many can't be freed in the past because they met fire or flood and died, and dread of death-in-disaster still hangs on; now facing new rebirth, encountering such disasters again — this is COPY.Fearing dying in earthquakes, reincarnate into an earthquake-prone country and go through earthquakes again — repeat the show.For one kind of mental obstacle, specialize the Dharma against it — the most direct response.Don't go silly listening to Vajrayāna Rinpoches saying practice some yidam.Can you really be sure who your yidam is?Only practicing the five sections is perfection.One yidam alone isn't.Each manages their own — single-doctor can't open a hospital.A hospital needs gastroenterology, infectious disease, endocrinology — every department needs an attending.Then you can run a hospital.That's complete.To practice Dzogchen, pacifying-increasing-magnetizing-destroying-jewel must all be complete.Why?Whatever benefits beings or any practice — I can bring forth all five sections.Pacify if pacifying is needed, increase if increase is needed.If I only pacify, sorry, I don't increase — how is that perfection?Not.So to accomplish Rinpoche, or accomplish a guru, learn the five sciences — all five clearly: arts (temple building, color, art), medicine (medical), discipline (rules, śīla), numerology, music.You must hold much such wisdom — first to meet beings, second to accomplish worldly Dharmas.In practice, I hold pacifying, increasing, jewel practice (maṇi-jewel), magnetizing-love practice (hooking) — all five.That is perfection.Where to find the five sections?Pacifying — Green Tārā has pacifying.Increasing — choose Jambhala.Magnetizing — choose Kurukullā.That's single-yidam learning.You'd need to learn a stack.Condensed, it's the Great Compassion Dharma — pacifying, increasing, magnetizing, destroying, jewel — nicely divided.Bodhisattvas' Dharma won't require coordination, but your Dharma versus mine — sorry, different.Mine is connected.My pacifying links into all pacifying Dharmas.Increasing is not only Jambhala — Black Jambhala doesn't ignore you.If your Wealth Dharma is practiced well and the lock opened, all Wealth-Deity series are linked — including the Jade-Ring Hand in the Great Compassion Mantra, all Wealth Dharmas — that is the master switch.Put the master switch inside the Great Compassion Mantra — a single key opens all.Practicing individual yidams means matching one by one, and sometimes you don't know what matches what.

Excerpted from a teaching by Master Urgyen Topden Rinpoche on 2020-02-11.