Becoming the Compassion Buddha: Tantric Mahamudra in Everyday Life by Thubten Yeshe & Robina Courtin & Geshe Lhundub Sopa

Author:Thubten Yeshe & Robina Courtin & Geshe Lhundub Sopa
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Religion, Buddhism, Tibetan, General
ISBN: 9780861713431
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2003-06-01T01:55:04+00:00

MEDITATION 3

CLARITY AND DIVINE PRIDE

This time, I want you to actualize clarity and divine pride. Remember that clarity is an antidote to our ordinary vision, to mundane thoughts, and divine pride is an antidote to the ordinary conception of the ego. Each has its own function.

Do not think that it is your flesh and bones that become Avalokiteshvara. That’s why I sometimes refer to our psychic body, our conscious body, or why I say that it’s our liberated wisdom energy that is transformed into the divine Avalokiteshvara form. I use these different terms to help you understand the process.

You should think, “Yes, I have some liberated wisdom, especially when my concrete imagination, my conceptualization, of who I think I am disappears.” Then you can experience emptiness to some extent. This is your wisdom, and it is this liberated wisdom that transforms into the mahamudra deity, Avalokiteshvara. “This is who I am.”

Now let us do the meditation.

1 In the space in front of you is Guru Avalokiteshvara. He sits on a throne held up by snow lions and looks at you lovingly. At his heart is the wisdom-being, Avalokiteshvara himself.

2 Recite the Seven-limb Prayer, make a mandala offering, and recite the Prayer of the Graduated Path.

3 Now visualize that the throne melts into light and absorbs into Guru Avalokiteshvara’s body. His radiant light body melts into the moon at his heart, simultaneously from the feet upward and the crown downward. Then the moon absorbs into the Hrih at its center, which becomes like an egg of radiant light. This radiant light enters your central channel and descends to your heart chakra, the essence of Avalokiteshvara becoming one with you. The egg-light radiates throughout your entire nervous system.

4 All the energy of your own body melts, dissolves, into radiant light. This light becomes smaller, smaller…atoms…neutrons…then disappears into empty space. Let go into nothingness, with one part of your mind understanding the right view of non-self-entity.

5 Now a precious lotus appears. On the lotus is a moon with a beam of light at its center. Concentrate on the beam of light. Feel unity with the beam of light; let your mind sink into it. Don’t think, “Now I’m concentrating.” Feel that your mind actually goes into that beam of light; don’t feel that you are looking at it from the outside.

Light radiates out from the beam to embrace all universal phenomena.

6 Then you hear the divine sound of Om mani padme hum coming from space, energizing, stimulating the light to absorb back into the beam at your heart. Your liberated wisdom energy beam of light instantly transforms into Avalokiteshvara.

See each part of yourself clearly: your divine, radiant light body, as clean and clear as crystal; your two hands holding the rosary and lotus; the other two hands at your heart; your eyes; the antelope skin draped over your left shoulder. Everything is clean-clear. Concentrate on this clarity.

Do not feel that you are looking at an object outside yourself, as if it were another person.

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