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Machik’s Complete Explanation
the visualization in meditative absorption. Those are all inner signs. They are not deep uprisings. Secret Signs “Five-colored rainbows envelop you and fill the sky. Blue-red gale winds envelop you and fill all space. A dark-red whirlwind tosses you around and fills the whole area of the mountain valleys. The wind carries leaves the size of shields up into the sky and you are caught up in it. Lights of various colors blaze like tongues of fire and swirl like oceans and flash like lightning and wrap around like coiled rope. There are large pieces of turquoise of excellent color, clear and shining with lights, the size of sheep’s livers and kidneys and all different sizes; coral of excellent color ranging in size from sheep’s heads to human hands, and so on; and black mottled zi stones from one cubit down to the size of a closed fist. You find them in the ground like treasure, or in storehouses, or chests, or arranged on seats, naturally in singles or pairs or in lines like garlands, and so on. You take care and look after them. These are the secret signs of uprisings. Get them straight and don’t mix them up. Signs of Düd 15 Uprisings Inner Signs “Listen well, you karmically destined ones with critical intelligence. The signs of the düd uprisings are like this. A naked man as black as if he were smeared with coal, or else wearing black clothes, holds up a yak-hair banner. A black horse with a high tail and mane and a very long muzzle with dark vapors like smoke billowing out. Black snarling dogs with gaping mouths, lapping with red tongues and barking. Black birds with extremely long wings, and sharp, long blue beaks and claws make clicking tak tak noises in their palates and fly around. Very scary black bears roar ferociously with gaping maws. Black yaks with blazing horns of fire make great charges, swishing their tails and pawing with their hooves. Frightening black men wear black silk bandanas and clothes made of tiger skins, their hair bristling upward and the breath from their mouths lapping out red like tongues of flame. In their hands they hold up notched boards, calculation tablets,16 three-pointed black spears, white and black pebbles of [astrological] calculations [that weigh karma], and black lassos. Drawing bows and arrows with their hands, they hold them