The next word in the Lamaistic nomenclature is contemplation. Circumambulation i. general erciso—contemplation is a par-Heulur devotion. -Cireumambul tion is performed by the crowd: contemplation is the lonely vigil, Gircumambulation calls for no centration—contemplation demands intense cogitation. The nomad may ereumambulate, only the Lama an contemplate,' The simple meaning of the word is to look" and involves an act. of the
Lama can look in different ways gumd or will" "Apparent the and contemplation is no doubt the "holy look." He has, "how over, al number of other "looks" enumerated. as. follows: the lephant's look, the tion's look, the magic look, the attracting. ook, the repulsive Jock, the pre-Jock, the mild look, the powerful the paralyzing Lama
Jock,, and. the striding look, In this dark, closed, forbidden $f situation of nian of the land, the lonely Lama sits solitude; in the mud-built gloomy sequestered cell, perhaps some oran temples. fa his temple, they sit in thousands cave along the mountains, far the solitary traveller wends his gored from the haunts of sri, wary way arrass the snow bound solitary, vigil. He may be daily 10 gloomy Lama sits in silen mountain; the mendicant, encumbered with fis charms and and assiduously repeating the talismans, trudges day by day Cone formula or simply folwing the cadies, barren plateau Lord "Riddell's advice on con: roy row ask the simple quescentration. is difficult to fud ti out as the Lama generally Why the artless answer "Devils confront me and sur-alone in his secluded cell. His hands are clasped in prayer. © In the intensity of the meditation ho forgets food, comfort, cold, home, friends, everything but the theme that occupies his mind, Ecstacy or frenzy may now tak possession of him, ecstasy Gause the mind hap, revelled some satisfying soliloquy, frenzy, because the power of meditation has surrounded him wito the obtot his desire. When his soul is filled with sweetness and his cell with demons his weary. vigil ends in the accomplishment dear to the Lama, namely, "the grasping of the intangible." This appears to be the swnimum bonus of Jamaism—the acquisition of the spiritual and' the. realization of nirvana, To attain these he will labour, watch and pray.
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