Part 1b - Meditating in the Manner of being born from a womb

Then there is a brief treatment of meditation with few complexities:

As taught to purify patterns of being born in a womb,
There is refuge, bodhicitta, and the seed from emptiness;
From the scepter comes the body with its rays of light and such,
Then do the extensive stages, as they were done before.

Development and completion do not have brief versions first;
As from prana and mind, as well as the red and white bindus
Come oval, oblong, lumpy, becoming solid and so on,
Until at last the completed body has been born.

Just as for those who are born from the womb the body is born after being gradually completed, in this kind of development meditation first we go to refuge and arouse bodhicitta. Then with the “svabhava” mantra from emptiness, just as the red and white bindus gather together to constitute consciousness, there is the seed syllable of the deity, for example HUM. Like the development of the embryo into oval and oblong shapes, from HUM comes a vajra. Like the lumpy stage and solidification, from the vajra, as a cause of the body, come globes of the five lights. As that becomes an embryo and as Vishnu’s body manifested as a fish and a tortoise, from the light comes the body, and the meditation of the developing stage is completed. Sometimes, from the seed comes a mass of light and syllables, from which the body is maintained to appear. In any case, as the brief developing stage and offerings to the field of merit are omitted, there are fewer complexities.