Meditation on Ultimate Bodhichitta

• Guru Yoga:

I pray for your blessing, my guru, great and completely worthy spiritual friend.

I pray that you will cause love, compassion and bodhicitta to arise in my mind.

• Count without disturbance twenty one breaths over and over again.

• Train yourself to have some feeling for looking at the world as a dream.

• Investigate Mind’s nature (origin, location, and cessation)

• When thoughts about emptiness arise, let them self liberate through looking right at them. Then rest without any reference point.

• Placing Meditation: Let go and rest in the clarity of the natural state.

• Seven-branch Prayer:

Whatever little wholesome energies I have collected

By prostrating, making offering, confession, rejoicing,

Requesting to give teaching, and requesting not to pass away

I dedicate all of them to attain full awakening.

I seek refuge in the Three Jewels.

I confess all misdeeds individually.

I rejoice in the virtues of all beings.

I take to heart the Buddha’s enlightenment.

Having developed the intention for highest enlightenment

I shall invite all sentient beings as my guests

And I shall engage in the delightful practices of bodhisattvas.

Daily Life:

Continually foster the feeling of knowing that all appearances, yourself, others, animate or inanimate, appear though they seem to be nothing.