Four Yogas Of Mahamudra:
IV. Yoga of Non-Meditation. Eight Infinite Senses
The practice consists of the eight stages and reminds going upstairs. Each stair has its basic line (it is to be taken as a result of ascending) and its auxiliary line - a concept helping us to go up a stair, to arouse and to comprehend the feelings of the basic line.
The first stage
Gratitude leads to joy.
Realize, that all what you possess, all what you value in yourself and for yourself - all these connect you with others, with those who had once passed on you something: be it a thing, an idea or an initial material for their coming into existence. Feel gratitude for that which you'd received.
This makes a good beginning for the development of interrelation with reality, and this is an essence of yoga of non-meditation. An arising of joy in such circumstances may be caused by any, even little, success or by just a removal of unreasonable demands.
Seeing the nature of joy is a basic for further growth. It is like a recognizing of the one intimate to you.
The second stage
Tolerance leads to peace.
Ripening, an experience of joy makes us able to accept the following understanding: though Buddha-nature is inherent in every man, most of people, including those ones who are the most intimate to us, may hardly share our convictions.
This leads to tolerance. Tolerance leads to peace. Peace is just the feeling of the own potency. Peace gives openness and space for the surrounding world in our mind, while the own troubles become a working material for us.
An appearance of such peace out of tolerance is a matter of arising of successful thought or just of giving up the old delusions.
The third stage
Generosity leads to benevolence.
Out of peace generosity arises. The possibility to share own experience and warmth of the own heart arises. Generosity gives rise to benevolence. You are no more to fear for yourself; you already have so much and you are able to pay attention to that, which is going on around you.
Since benevolence requires means which correspond to the particular type of the good, the key to its development is an ability to observe. The most important orientation for the development of benevolence is in the three wishes:
May the ignorant keep away from evil.
May the weak be strengthened by good faith.
May the deserving ones take refuge on the path of giving.
The fourth stage
Liberation from suffering leads to compassion.
For some time you are feeling that getting free from pain, troubles and worries is possible.
This feeling is a perspective, which has been created by the own benevolence. An experience of freedom brings to realization of insufficiency of ignorance. Observing this experience, we may say that compassion is a moment of awakening and concentration. To bring compassion and wisdom together means to cultivate it in unity with seven noble senses mentioned above.