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The external preliminary is of seven: showing the vessel of this instruction, the place [where this instruction should be shown and practiced], the time [of showing and practicing this instruction], companions [with whom this instruction should be practiced], materials [one should possess when showing and practicing this instruction], history and conferring empowerment.

First, showing the vessel; is [that the vessel should be] an individual with complete faculties, great intelligence, firm diligence, clean samayas, diligent in [virtuous] practices, generous, devoid of attachment, good revulsion, patient in troubles, faith in the unsurpassable Dharma and able to keep its secrets, stable in the mountain of faith, and with an overflowing ocean of respect and devotion. To those who are opposite of these [qualities] keep secret even the teaching on breathing [meditation].

The place: is amidst snow, solitary places, mountaintops and cemeteries. Show and put into practice this instruction at these places of clean solitude, free from deterioration.

External time is the time of neither summer nor autumn, and the last wi