(from "Guru Yoga"):
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche: Having met a precious teacher, been accepted by him, and received his profound instructions, now we come to put the instructions into practice. To do so, we need to transform our impure perception of outer phenomena into a vision of infinite purity.
To practice the inner tantra, we need to realize that everything is primordially pure. Accordingly, the outer elements are not perceived as ordinary, but as the five female buddhas. The five aggregates within the body are also not perceived as ordinary, but as the five male buddhas. In the same way, the eight conciousnesses as well as their eight objects are perceived as the eight male and eight female bodhisattvas.
Through this kind of perception, not only do we come to see the purity of all phenomena, but also we will perceive the "great evenness of samsara and nirvana." No longer then will we look upon samsara as something to be discarded and nirvana as something to be attained; they will be seen and understood as the "union of great purity and great evenness."
Yet a state like this is not something which has to be fabricated anew; it has always been there, since the very beginning.
The essence of Kyerim - the development, or generation stage - or Mahayoga, is to recognize all appearances as the deity, all sounds as mantra, and all thoughts as the dharmakaya. This is the most profound path, through which we can actualize all of the qualities of the body, speech, and mind of the Buddha. We say "actualize," because these are but the expression of the primordial nature of things, which is now simply being revealed.
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