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Kusali / Chod

• Kusali is the inner practice of generosity. Imagine you are repaying your debts throughout this practice.
• Realize the body is to be left behind. It is one night’s shelter. Lessen attachment to body.
• Generate the mind to give everything: body, wealth, merits. Give impartially. Please the lama, yidam, buddhas and bodhisattvas. Fulfill the dakas, dakinis, dharma-protectors. Satisfy the beings in the six realms - local gods, pretas. This is Chod practice.

• Khro-ma [pronounced Tro-ma]: This refers to Nature of Mind.
• Tripod stove: It spontaneously appears. It refers to the Three Kayas.
• Short Ah at navel: This refers to the red seed of mother.
• Ph’et: This is what does the cutting. ‘Ph’ refers to compassion. ‘Tha’ refers to awareness.
• Ah: This refers to resting in non-conceptual awareness.

Four Demons (Basic vehicle)

• Mara of son of gods: This refers to pleasure. It makes us lazy. Don’t make offerings to this demon.
• Mara of death: We need to be alive to practice.
• Mara of afflictive emotions:
• Mara of aggregates/ body: Body is support for ‘self’.

Four Demons (Mantrayana)

• Outer demons – demons that harm: enemies, wild animals, natural disasters.
• Attachment and Aversion:
• Pride: In this case, this refers to joyous feeling about own achievement in practice.
• Self-grasping: