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Avalokiteshvara Visualization Meditation

This document provides instructions for a visualization meditation practice focusing on the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. The meditation involves: 1) Taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha and reciting the Bodhisattva vow. 2) Visualizing Avalokiteshvara on top of one's head. 3) Reciting mantras while focusing on Avalokiteshvara's compassionate nature. 4) Visualizing light emanating from Avalokiteshvara purifying one's karma. 5) Absorbing into emptiness through mantra recitation. 6) Visualizing Avalokiteshvara dissolving into space. 7) Renew

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Avalokiteshvara Visualization Meditation

This document provides instructions for a visualization meditation practice focusing on the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. The meditation involves: 1) Taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha and reciting the Bodhisattva vow. 2) Visualizing Avalokiteshvara on top of one's head. 3) Reciting mantras while focusing on Avalokiteshvara's compassionate nature. 4) Visualizing light emanating from Avalokiteshvara purifying one's karma. 5) Absorbing into emptiness through mantra recitation. 6) Visualizing Avalokiteshvara dissolving into space. 7) Renew

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Avalokiteshvara

Visualization Meditation
The Meditation for All Beings Throughout Space as transmitted by
Tangtong Gyalbo to Thubten Yeshe, to all teachers
1. Start: Repeat the Refuges and
Bodhisattva Vow

I take refuge in the Buddha, May all actions I undertake---


Dharma, and Sangha until I am giving, moral conduct,
enlightened. forbearance, energy,
meditation, insight--- cause me
to accomplish Buddhahood, in
order to help all beings.
2. Undertake the Visualization
(in the Mind’s Eye)

I place on top of my head a white lotus


and moon, and on top of that the
mantra “HRIH”… from which appears
Avalokiteshvara. White, luminous,
emanating five color light rays. Smiling,
he watches with loving kindness. Of his
four hands: the first two are palms
together, and the other two hold a
crystal rosary and a lotus. He is adorned
with silk, with ornaments, wears a deer
skin across his chest, and has a crown
with Amitabha on it. He sits in lotus
position, leans against a pure moon. He
has become the essence of all refuges.
3. Activation of the Bodhisattva’s Compassion

[While holding visualized bodhisattva in mind, repeat 3, 7, or 108


times:]
I revere noble Avalokiteshvara, who is perfect, white, whose head is
adorned by the Perfected Buddha, and who watches beings with
boundless compassion.
4. The Bodhisattva’s Compassionate Insight
PERSONALLY Incorporated

[Visualize primary color light rays emanating from Arya’s body


entering one’s (own) body, dissolving all impure karma and
mistaken ideas, while repeating this mantra for 3, 7, or 108 rosary
cycles:]

OM MANE PADME HUM


[At the end, realize: Sights, Sounds, and Thoughts are Empty,
becoming undifferentiated.]
5. Absorption in Emptiness

[One or more rosary cycles]

(Become absorbed in one’s own consciousness, which is not rooted


in a constructed self…)
6. Reabsorption in Avalokiteshvara’s Essence
[Visualize:] THE DIVINE IMAGE VANISHES INTO SPACE
7. Return to Samasara and
Renew Bodhisattva Vow

[Repeat:]

Through this merit may I quickly become as Avalokiteshvara

and establish all beings without exception as bodhisattvas.

May all beings share the merit of this meditation.

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