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The two practices of Vajrayana that HÜMÜH embraces are Dzogchen and Mahamudra. Dzogchen is the ‘overtone awareness’ or the overlapping of awarenesses of divinity, where one learns to cultivate awareness that they are aware, an overlap in awareness, and live from that state without interruption. HÜMÜH refers to this as Third Eye Vision or extended awareness. The other practice, Mahamudra, is unification with the emptiness of divinity that is beyond the realm of manifestation, or physical life.  In HÜMÜH, this emptiness is often referred to as the inner light, the clear light, or the light of divinity. Through the practice of Living Meditation, one develops an overlapping awareness of the light and learns to maintain that awareness at all times, bringing it into every activity and interaction throughout the day. Out of the experiences that result, one eventually comes to the realization that everything is light and that they are one with it.

HÜMÜH teaches that viewing each person as separate from all other sentient life is a delusion, which arises when we strongly identify with our karma. This false view is the result of attachment to ideas of who we are. Ultimately, all sentient beings are karmic expressions of the oneness of divinity, which cannot be divided or separated. It is the birthright of every sentient form to realize this oneness, to attain enlightenment; but, it takes a human body to be able to do it, because humans are the only sentient life form that are able not only to be aware, but to be aware that they are aware.

Nevertheless, because of the oneness of all sentient life, logically, what each of us does affects the whole of sentient life. That is why HÜMÜH is a path of the bodhisattva, which is also one of the key components of the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools that distinguishes them from Theravada. Simply put, a bodhisattva is a dedicated practitioner who seeks to attain enlightenment for the upliftment of all sentient life, one who consciously acts for the benefit of others as an essential part of pursuing one’s own enlightenment. It is a path of service and compassion.

It is through living as a bodhisattva that we come to realize the oneness of all life that is the essence of divine love that Buddhism teaches. For students of HÜMÜH who have deepened their commitment through taking the bodhisattva vow, one of the primary spiritual practices is the study and application of the Transcendental Awareness Key Formulas. These are based on the ‘six perfections’ of generosity, ethics, patience, effort, concentration/meditation, and wisdom, which are also aspects of higher awareness found in Mahayana. Through the application of these formulas in daily life situations, students are able to discern logical courses of action from their own experiences. This way, deeper levels of insight are gained that would not be possible with only intellectual study or debate, because the Teachings can only be truly validated through direct experience. Analyzation is a dissection of accumulated ideas from the analyzer’s current point of view, not the enlightened view, which is perceived directly through a fusion of subject to object of one’s attention. That is why analyzation is inherently limited. Realization cannot come about through mulling over words in one’s mind. To truly know the Teachings is to live the Teachings. Continued...

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