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pled, blind, deaf, and dumb coincide, these people will call themselves Chöd practitioners. They will leave behind the ten virtues of the sacred Dharma and take up the ten nonvirtues. They will wear the clothes of dualistic delusion wrapped firmly with the belt of subject-object dualism, tied tightly with the knot of greed. They’ll carry the sharp banner of hatred in their hands and resound the drum of pride slung on their arms. Wearing the boots of desire on their feet, they’ll stick the human thighbones of jealousy in their belts. They’ll throw the dog pelt of emotional obscuration on their backs, tie the bearskin of stupidity on their torsos, carry criss-crossed nets of five poisons, use human skull cups as the begging bowl of afflictive emotions, carry the noose of craving on their backs, and wear human flayed skins with limbs, head, and hair still attached. Crazy nonsensical songs will issue out of their mouths while they emit the sounds of p’e with their speech. In their minds the darkness of wrong views will thicken. If you look at their attire, it is the style of sinpo cannibals. If you look at their bodies, they are human bodies. If you look at their behavior, it is that of heretics. If you look at their minds, they are like animals. No matter how you look at them, in whatever they do they are the same as actual psychotics. “Chöd practitioners with such a doctrine of solid self-fixation ride on long-eared black donkeys saddled with ignorant delusion, held by the straps and cruppers of solidified fixation on true existence, cinched with the tight girth of fixated attachment and wearing the bridle of snobbish contempt. Black sinmo demonesses lead the donkeys by the nose, and the gyalpo Pekar is the trail guide. Hosts of death lords head up the front, and armies of devils bring up the rear. Wild, cavorting tsen spirits run on the right, and nineheaded za devils flank the left. Mu devil kings swarm above and black n›ga devils push up below. With those hordes of eight classes, they are surrounded by a retinue of dark protectors. Ordinary nonhumans will tremble and panic. “With such an entourage of the eight classes [of gods and demons] they will destroy my doctrine in the degenerate times. Such Chöd practitioners will have a hostile attitude and then become conceited about successfully subduing demons and spirits. All those proliferating big-time Chöd practitioners and their retinues will be the sweepers of the holy Dharma of ten virtues. They will be the fuel of the turbulent ten nonvirtues. They will be the butchers of the life force of freedom. They will be the keys to open the padlocks of the lower realms. They will be the source of compassion for bodhisattvas. They will be the place of reproach of holy spiritual masters.