The Practice of Ma Tri Mantra

This is the practice of " great open heartedness."

It is good to do this practice when your channels are aligned sitting in the meditation posture, but you can also do it while walking.

Recall and reinhabit a tender, loving, heart-melting moment. Anyone who has had a baby can usually remember their baby. Not an adolescent, because that's when things become more complex, but the memory of when they were a baby. Remember that sweet feeling of a baby reaching out to touch your face. Remember the feeling in your heart at that moment.

So remember your baby, as she or he was when they were a baby. And if you don't have kids, use your kitty or your puppy or your opossum. Use something that you have loved in that way. Some little being that looks up into your eyes with big eyes and touches you, licks your nose, and trusts you implicitly. You feel your heart opening and melting. Do you know that feeling? Remember that feeling and sensation of love -- of your heart opening and melting.

Take your memory of the purest and most unmistakable emotion of love you have. Not your lover; that too is too complex.

Take that simple pure love to the center of your heart, where there is a closed lotus bud. The lotus bud is closed, your heart is closed, because we are afraid. We have been kicked in the heart during our life, all of us have been kicked in the heart in our lifetimes.

So bring back that memory of this pure and simple love, and let it water the lotus blossom in your heart.

You water the lotus with that feeling of love, and let it flourish. We water the lotus with that feeling of love so it may soften and melt. So that the lotus is safe and can open and bloom.

The lotus in your heart begins to open and as it opens, each petal elongates into a ray of light. White light, made of all the colors spun together, the way all colors turn to white.

By the time you can see the center of your lotus when it starts to bloom, you will see that there is an OM symbol in the middle and that the mantra MA TRI MU YE SA LE DU surrounds it, in a counterclockwise direction. It was always there; Before, you just couldn't see it. You can say OM MA TRI MU YE SA LE DU.

Vocalize the mantra, as this activates the throat chakra, and this is the chakra of the intention. You can also sing it and sing it with the melody you want. The OM is the white color that makes up all the colors, the syllables MA TRI MY YE SA LE DU are in a rainbow of colors. 

Send this light out into infinite space to all buddhas. Receiving this offering, the buddhas respond by sending light back to you. Feel that through these lights you receive the empowerments of body, speech, and mind and become one with the buddha Tonpa Shenrab.

Next send out these rays from your heart out to the six realms -- hell, hungry ghost, animal, human, demi-god, and god realms. These ray extends to thousands of beings, to the beings you love, your friends, your enemies, and strangers, expanding another thousands to beings within, without, near and far, past and future. These rays extend to all places and beings who are suffering.

Through these rays of light that feeling of love, warmth, open-heartedness flows from you into each being the light touches.

The rays of light, of love, flow and touch the closed hearts of the lotus bud of the thousands sentient beings, who are closed because they have all received a kick in the heart sometime.

The rays of light, love, begin to relax them and the buds begin to open just like yours. From their heart lotus, rays of light, which are love, continue to spread outward, touching thousands of beings, watering the lotuses in their hearts. Their lotus petals lengthening, with rays of light reaching thousands of hearts who in turn open and radiate light reaching thousands more beings (including you), and like a rippling effect, thousands and thousands of hearts are watered with love and open-heartedness.  

This light of love reaches all across space and time. It reaches the past, and touches your heart in the past. It reaches into your internal biome of all the tiny organisms that live in your gut. It reaches to the birds and the bugs in the forest.  The universe is so full of life. And each one is radiating and proliferating this light of love in every direction.

The entire universe is so full of this transparent, clear light of all colors that you can no longer see "you" or "them". There are so many rays of light that the universe is solid with light. All the beings of the universe radiating light, made of light, dissolve into the light until there is nothing left but the clear light of love.

Every sight you see is this light of the pure dimension. Every sound you hear is the sound of the MA TRI mantra. All your thoughts and feelings arise as spontaneous arising virtuous wholesome qualities to benefit all beings.

That's all there is.