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Start by praying for the root lineage blessing: First empty the mind. Next, visualize the Root Lineage Guru Living Buddha Lian-sheng appearing above your crown and radiating light on everyone present. Chant the Root Lineage Guru Heart Mantra 7 times. Pray to the Root Lineage Guru to empower you so that the practice will be auspicious.
Recite Supplication for the blessing of Living Buddha Lian-sheng
Engender the Four Immeasurable Minds: Visualize your parents, children, relatives, friends, and enemies joining you in this practice.
Wake-Up Call: Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.
- Recite the Purification Mantras and Earth God Mantra
- Recite the Invocation Mantra
- Tender the Great Homage with Visualization
- Mandala Offering
- Fourfold Refuge
- Armor Protection
- Recite the High King Avalokitesvara Sutra (1 time).
- Recite the Rebirth Mantra (7 times).
- Recite the Four Immeasurable Vows
Recite the Bodhicitta Verse
Recite the Bodhicitta Mantra (3 times)
Recite the Repentance Verse
Recite the Repentance Mantra: (108 times) - Recite the Root Guru''s Heart Mantra (108 times):
Om, gu-ru, lian-sheng sid-dhi hum - Mudra and Visualization
Number-One Mudra: Interlace the fingers inward with the right thumb pointing upwards.
Illustration of mudra:
Seed Syllable:
Seh (Yellow in color emitting great yellow light)
Visualization: First empty the mind
Chant the Emptiness Mantra:
Om, si-ba-wa, su-da, sa-er-wa, da-er-ma, si-ba-wa, su-do-hang. (3 times)- Visualize a blue moon disc in the emptiness. Within the moon disc is a yellow syllable 「
」''seh,'' emitting great yellow light. - The seed syllable within the moon disc revolves and transforms into Noble Guanyin with two arms and a golden body that is light yellow in color. She holds a lotus in her left hand, with the thumb and ring finger of her right hand forming a circle. The other three fingers are standing up vertically.
- Visualize Noble Guanyin’s brow chakra emitting a ray of white light that shines into practitioner’s brow chakra; her throat emits a ray of red light that shines into practitioner’s throat chakra; her heart chakra emits a ray of blue light which shines into practitioner’s heart chakra. The white, red, and blue lights merge into practitioner’s body.
- Visualize a blue moon disc in the emptiness. Within the moon disc is a yellow syllable 「
- Recite Noble Guanyin Heart Mantra (108 times):
Mala Beads Visualization:
Turn a mala bead with each recitation of the mantra, while visualizing each mala bead transforming into Noble Guanyin who comes before one.
Noble Guanyin Heart Mantra:
”Om, ma-ni-pad-me-hum, da-zha-bu-ze, gu-ru-ye, so-ha.” (108 times) - Perform Nine Cycle Breathing, the Merging of Self and Deity Contemplation, and Entering Samadhi
- Visualize Noble Guanyin atop one’s crown aperture.
- Within practitioner’s body, a lotus blooms on the heart chakra in the central channel. There is a moon disc atop the lotus. Visualize Noble Guanyin’s seed syllable “seh” within the moon disc emitting yellow light.
- Visualize the Noble Guanyin at one’s crown transforming into a pearl light the size of a grain of rice. From the crown aperture, the pearl light enters into one’s central channel, descending through the central channel to the heart chakra, then sitting atop the lotus on the heart chakra.
- The Noble Guanyin on the lotus on one’s heart chakra gradually becomes larger and larger until it is the exact same size as practitioner. Practitioner visualizes becoming exactly the same as Noble Guanyin. Practitioner is precisely one and the same as Noble Guanyin.
- Emerging from Samadhi
- Recite the Eight Principal Heart Mantras
- Recite the Buddha''s Name (3 times)
Na-mo san-shi-liu-wan-yi yi-shi-yi-wan jiu-qian-wu-bai tong-ming-tong-hao ah-mi-tuo-fo.
Namo the 36 trillion 119 thousand and 500 Amitabha Buddhas. - One May Recite Prayer to Buddha to Stay in the World
- Dedication
Jin-yin-cai-bao-yong-bu-jin, wu-gu-za-liang-chi-bu-wan,
mei-li-de-wu-cai-si-chou-yi-fu-chuan-bu-jin.
Inexhaustible gold, silver, and treasures
Infinite abundance of five grains to eat
Unlimited beautiful silken garments in five colors to wear
May all who uphold the name of Amitabha Buddha
Be born together in the Pure Land of His Western Paradise.
Repaying the Fourfold Generosity from above,
And aiding those who suffer in the Three Paths below.
Upon seeing the Buddha,
May I be liberated from the cycle of birth and death,
And may I develop the qualities of Buddhahood,
And thus free all who suffer. - Recite the Hundred Syllable Mantra (3 times)
- Tender the Great Homage with Visualization (same as step 3)
- Recite the Completion Mantra
Om, Bu Lin. (3 times)
Om Mani Padme Hum.
End of Practice: Xiu-fa yuan-man, ru-yi ji-xiang. May all endeavors be auspicious.
An empowerment must be received from Living Buddha Lian-sheng or an authorized True Buddha School master before one engages in this particular sadhana.
