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Avalokite!vara Meditation

Excerpted fromA Spacious Path to Freedom

By Karma Chagm

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In general, it is necessary to receive an empowerment to practice Secret Mantra, and it isinappropriate if that is not received. However, according to Mah!siddha Karmapak!i, asfor this public Dharma of Jinas!gara, which was prophesied and granted byAvalokite"vara, it is alright even if you have not received an empowerment. For thosewho have not received an empowerment, who have not been granted the oral

transmission, and who have not completed the Dharma training from a master, may the

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blessing be equal to that of the Great Compassionate One. This is stated in KarmapasSadhana of Jinas!gara,the Great Compassionate One:

Everyone copy this. Practice it. Grant the empowerment. Vastly serve the

needs of others with this public Dharma. By the blessings of the spiritual

mentors, the chosen deities, and #!kin$s, even without receiving the oraltransmission, may all those who write this down and see it have their ownand others needs fulfilled like the rising sun.

The public Dharma of the Blessed Lord, the Great Compassionate One, is to be

cultivated as the stage of generation after already cultivating bodhicitta. Imagine a whitesyllable HR%" as the seed of your consciousness. From the HR%" are emanated whiterays of light in the ten directions, striking all sentient beings and thereby purifying theirsins and obscurations. Then vividly imagine the realm of the external universe and all the

sentient beings who inhabit it as the Great Compassionate One. Drawing the light raysback in, they dissolve into the syllable HR%". As a result, the HR%"on a lotus, sun, and

moon seat melts into light, from which you vividly imagine yourself as the GreatCompassionate Lord.How are you present? Your body is white, with one face, and four arms. You are

smiling like a blossoming lotus. The locks of your hair are bound up in braids, and theyare adorned with a crown of five kinds of precious substances. You wear a silken diadem.

The palms of your first two hands are joined at your heart. In your lower right hand youare turning a pearl rosary, and in your lower left hand you hold the stem of a lotus. You

are adorned with a collar band, neckband, and necklace composed of various precioussubstances. You are seated in the cross-legged position. If viewed from the outside, you

are inwardly luminous, and if viewed from the inside, you are outwardly luminous.Imagine that various rays of light are shining forth from your body. That visualization is

the generation of thesamayasattva.As for the visualization of thesam!dhisattva, imagine a white HR%"on a moon-disk at your heart, and imagine O# ma$i padme h circling it in a clockwisedirection. That is thesam!dhisattva.

With the recitation of O# ma$i padme h, imagine that the buddhas andbodhisattvas of the ten directions and all the sugatas of the three times, in the nature of

the Great Compassionate One, unceasingly descend upon you and all sentient beings likesnowflakes. That is the dissolution of thej!nasattvas.

As for phenomena as the presentation of the divine body, think of the outerenvironment and the sentient beings who inhabit it as being the Great Compassionate

One, just as you have imagined yourself. As for sounds as the presentation of the divine

speech, imagine them as the sounds of the six syllables. As for memories and thoughts asthe presentation of the divine mind, recognize them as self-emergent primordialconsciousness, the union of appearances and emptiness. You will gain mastery over the

reality of the one taste of the many intellect-transcending presentations of the phenomenaof the divine body, speech, and mind. This wish-fulfilling jewel sadhanais to be taught

as a public Dharma to all the six kinds of beings. When the father spiritual mentor and hisspiritual sons don their crowns, they grant this as a public Dharma.

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These verses written down by Lord Knchok Yenlak were received by R!ga Aseymore than forty times from the father spiritual mentor and his two spiritual sons, so they

have an extraordinarily great blessing:

Bring forth the aspiration for supreme enlightenment.

Your consciousness is the white syllable HR%".Rays of white light are emitted,Purifying the sins and obscurations of all sentient beings.

The outer universe is a palace and its inhabitants are deities.The light rays are withdrawn and dissolve into the HR%".Upon a lotus, sun, and moon seat

The syllable HR%"melts into light,Which transforms into yourself as the Great Compassionate One.The color of your body is white, and you have one face.

Like a blossoming lotus, you are smiling radiantly.The braids of your locks are bound up,

Adorned with a crown of five precious substancesAnd a silken diadem.

The first of your four hands are pressed together at your heart.The lower right holds a pearl rosary,

And the lower left holds a lotus.You are beautifully adorned with a throat ornament,

A collar band, neckband,Necklace and semi-necklace of various precious substances.

You are luminous, with no outer or inner obscurations.You are seated with both legs crossed.

Various rays of light shine out.

That is the nature of thesamayasattva.Upon a moon-disk at your heartThe six syllables circle clockwise

Around a white syllable HR%".That is thesam!dhisattva.

By the power of verbally recitingO#ma$i padme h,All the sugatas of the three times

Become of the nature of the Great Compassionate OneAnd dissolve into you like raindrops.

That is the fully perfectedj!nasattva.

The whole universe and all its inhabitants become the deity.Phenomena are the presentation of the divine body.All sounds and voices are the six syllables.

Sounds are the presentation of the divine speech.The mind is the self-emergent union,

And memories and thoughts are the presentation of the divine mind.