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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 the [[Vajrayana]].
 
 
 
[[His Holiness the Dalai Lama]] says:
 
 
 
:You might wonder what is meant by ‘[[secret mantra]]’. It does not mean the [[visualization]] of [[deities]], or the recitation of [[mantra]] or the [[ritual]] practices for [[pacifying]], enriching, [[magnetizing]] and subjugating. These are not what we call ‘[[secret mantra]]’. Nor is it the [[yogic]] practice of ''[[tsa-lung]]'' [[meditation]].
 
 
 
:[[Secret mantra]] is not simply [[offering]] [[torma]]s, playing instruments like the ''gyaling'', beating drums and doing elaborate [[rituals]]. If this were the definition of [[tantra]], then it would follow that even [[Milarepa]] was not a [[tantric]] [[practitioner]]. He lived in a {{Wiki|cave}} and had no {{Wiki|possessions}}, he did not even have a [[bell]] and [[vajra]], yet he was without question one of the greatest [[tantric]] [[yogis]] who ever lived.
 
 
 
:What then is the ‘[[mantra]]’ in the [[vehicle]] of [[secret mantra]]? The [[word]] [[mantra]] means that which protects the [[mind]]. Here, [[mantra]] protects the [[mind]] against ordinary [[perception]]. This is also the {{Wiki|real}} meaning of ‘[[vajra]]’ in the [[word]] ‘[[vajra-yana]]’.
 
 
 
:In [[mantrayana]] practice, there must be an [[understanding]] of [[emptiness]] endowed with [[compassion]], which then transforms into a [[deity]]. We then practise identifying with that [[deity]]. That is the ‘[[vajra]]’ [[element]] of [[vajra-yana]]. The {{Wiki|real}} practice of [[secret mantra]] [[vajrayana]] involves generating a [[mind]] of [[emptiness]] with the [[heart]] of [[compassion]] (''tong nyi nyingje’i nyingpo [[chen]]'') and then [[transforming]] that very [[mind]] into the [[pure]] [[perception]] of the [[deity]] and [[feeling]] a [[sense]] of [[pride]] or [[confidence]].
 
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