Genuine Happiness: Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment by B. Alan Wallace & The Dalai Lama

Author:B. Alan Wallace & The Dalai Lama
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 047146984X
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2005-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Practice

Our first meditation session was a personal vision quest, posing the question: Wherein lies my happiness? Now let's extend ourselves a little further. In preparation, settle your body and mind in a state of relaxation, stillness, and clarity, and follow your breaths for twenty-one counts, with your eyes partially open.

Once again symbolically imagine the purity of your own pristine awareness, your own buddha-nature, as an orb of radiant, purifying light, a quarter-inch in diameter in the center of your chest. Imagine this light to be one of boundless, unconditional love and of happiness. With each in-breath, imagine drawing forth this light at your heart as if you were pumping water from a well. And with each out-breath imagine the light suffusing all aspects of your being, every cell of your body.

Now, in your mind's eye, in the space in front of you, bring to mind as vividly as you can a person whom you hold dear, in whom it is very easy to find loveable qualities. Recall the wonderful qualities of this person that are exhibited day in and day out, time and time again. Vividly picture a person who displays such goodness.

Now bring to mind and empathetically engage with this person's yearnings. What does this person hope for from life? What is this person's vision of happiness? And just as you wish for your own happiness, your own fulfillment, so include this person in the sphere of your loving-kindness with the yearning, "May you find the fulfillment you seek. May you find happiness and the sources of happiness." And with each out-breath, imagine light emanating from your heart, flowing out-a light of bounty, a light of loving-kindness. From breath to breath, imagine this person's dearest longings being fulfilled. Picture this person, or a community of such people, finding the happiness that they seek.

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