Visualization

Visualize His Holiness the Dalai Lama and all the gurus. Beneath them are the Sangha, who help to preserve and spread the Dharma. On the moon disc are all sentient beings.

All the buddhas and bodhisattvas in the ten directions, and Namgyalma, send light beams to your heart. Beams of light are also emitted  from the Namgyalma mantra. This purifies your own negative karma and defilements, sicknesses and spirit harm. Think that your negative karma and defilements, the four things, are purified.

You and all sentient beings are totally purified and filled with light, totally illuminated. At nighttime, when you land at an airport and see the city lights—similarly, all the sentient beings are totally illuminated.

First, purify all the numberless sentient beings in each of the six realms—hell beings, hungry ghosts and so forth. Visualize that they are purified. Do that for a little while.

Then, visualize that all the gurus and all the Sangha are totally filled with long-life nectar.

Next, the three types of sentient beings [receive the long-life nectar]. The three types of people are: 1) those who do good things for others, 2) those who recite OM MANI PADME HUM, and 3) those who are living in the vows, in morality.

This is what Khunu Lama Rinpoche explained. He said to recite the long-life mantra, and that he recites it to benefit all the people who recite OM MANI PADME HUM. So all the people who chant OM MANI PADME HUM receive long-life nectar. The nectar enters them and is received by them. And then those who do good deeds for others and those who are living in morality. So, these three types of people all receive the long-life nectar.

Also visualize that you, yourself, are filled with long-life nectar.

If you do the long-life meditation like this, it is most beneficial. It becomes a long-life meditation for all gurus, the Sangha and all the other people. It becomes a long-life meditation for everybody, it helps everybody.

Benefits of reciting Namgyalma mantra

Namgyalma mantra  is unbelievable. If you chant Namgyalma mantra—even one a day—you will always have a pure life, you will attain enlightenment and you will never be reborn in the lower realms. This is the last rebirth, this is the last time you will be born in the womb, and you will always meet buddhas and bodhisattvas throughout your life. You will always have a pure life and you will attain enlightenment.

If you chant the mantra only one time, it brings you up to enlightenment. That’s just unbelievable, unbelievable. Even if you recite only one mantra a day, you will have a pure life, from now up to enlightenment. It’s just unbelievable, unbelievable, it’s incredible. It makes your life unbelievably easy and you never get reborn in the lower realms. It’s just unbelievable.

I asked a student to find a boat. We have a Namgyalma mantra that is carved on wood—I had that in mind for the last few years, for a long time, and now it’s happened. The Namgyalma mantra board is to go in the water. You can go sailing and bless the whole ocean. This liberates and purifies all the numberless animals in the ocean. It’s amazing. They are liberated from the lower realms, and anybody who drinks the water or touches the water will be purified. So we did that. We also chanted Migtukpa mantra and put tsatsas in the water, and in this way blessed the water.

If you put the Namgyalma mantra on top of a mountain, then the negative karma of all the animals and people who climb the mountain or touch the mountain is purified.

If you put the mantra on top of your house, the house is blessed. Even if someone just touches the shadow of the house, their negative karma is purified.

If you put the mantra on top of a banner, then if the shadow of the banner touches anybody, even insects, their negative karma is purified.

If you have the mantra inside your house, the people in the house are blessed and their negative karma is purified. It’s just unbelievable.

I suggest putting Namgyalma mantra in your car. You can put many Namgyalma mantras in your car so the people are always blessed and purified. Not only that, any insects or any beings who touch the car are blessed and their negative karma is purified.

If the wind, rain or dust touches the car and then touches any other beings, their negative karma is purified. If rainfall touches the car and then touches insects, such as worms, it purifies their negative karma. Even if insects are killed by the car, because they have touched the car, they receive benefit and are purified, so it helps.

I have given the Namgyalma mantra out to many people to put in their car. So many insects die when we drive, and I think there’s some benefit for them.

Therefore reciting the Namgyalma mantra is unbelievable. Our life becomes free from worry. It’s unbelievable and it’s the easiest way to be liberated from the lower realms, to have a pure life, and to always see buddhas and bodhisattvas. The Namgyalma mantra is priceless.

My very dear Lucy
I hope you are better now. In your letter you asked a few questions. According to my divination, the mudras may have been taught by Kuan Yin, but you must always be aware that all the buddhas have one mind, or you can say the same mind. For example, from the ocean come rivers, streams, and rain. They look different, but in the end, they are all one. The forms of water look different, but they are all one. So, what Kuan Yin did for you is, in reality, the action of all the buddhas.

There is also the root of the path to enlightenment, which is guru devotion. However many gurus one has, whatever different actions they perform, however different they appear, one should realize that they all come from the same source, like in the example of water. All the gurus, from our side, are embodiments of our root guru, or the one we have the highest devotion for. From our side, we should realize they are all the Buddha’s holy mind, Dharmakaya, which has no beginning and no end, which pervades all existence, and manifests and takes form the second our karma ripens.

Some of these points you may not understand at the moment. But if you keep this in mind, you will understand later. Guru devotion is a very important meditation, and causes all the realizations on the path to enlightenment. It liberates all sentient beings from suffering and its causes, and brings them to enlightenment.

You mentioned that the faces of the Buddhas Amitabha and Medicine Buddha are the same. The way to differentiate generally is not by the face, but by their mudras. The second thing is by color, and sometimes by the position of the legs. As far as faces, there are many wrathful faces, so by the face alone it is difficult to tell which deity it is. For example, Guru Shakyamuni is golden in color with his legs crossed, the palm of his right hand on his knee, which signifies the mudra of having control, and his left hand is holding a begging bowl in the mudra of concentration, having destroyed delusions.

Amitabha is red in color and his two hands are in the mudra of concentration. He can also hold a bowl filled with nectar. Medicine Buddha is blue in color, his right hand holds a medicinal plant called arura, and his left hand is holding a begging bowl.

On another matter, we requested teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and His Holiness has accepted to teach for eight days in Bodhgaya. Are you able to come? That would be the most precious thing in your life, as His Holiness is the actual Kuan Yin.

With much love and prayers...

Please perform the Tomo Metsig purification practice. Every morning, when you are brushing your teeth, recite the Tomo Metsig mantra three times:

OM ARYAM SIRKAM BIMANASE UTSUMA MAHAKRODHA HUM PHAT

Then brush your tongue and rinse your mouth out with water three times.

Also, when you take a shower, visualize Tomo Metsig washing down your body. The purpose of this practice is to purify your mind and improve your visualizations.

Tomo Metsig Washing Practice
As it is said in the text Ka ri ka, “Having cleaned the dirt from your face and teeth, respectfully prostrate to the fully awakened Buddha.” After waking up in the morning, when you wash you can do so as when initiating the individual deities of the four classes or you can do the following practice.

On top of your crown in an instant abides the dakini, Metseg, and through the vase water she cleanses the outside of your body, beautifying all uncleanliness and pollutions.

Visualize in this way, and then recite the mantra while washing yourself:

OM ARYAM SIRKAM BIMANASE UTSUMA MAHAKRODHA HUM PHAT

After you have brushed your teeth and tongue and rinsed your mouth three times, the dakini on the top of your crown dissolves into you and blesses you.

If you practice as above, you will not have the faults of uncleanliness, pollution, etc.

After that, arrange offerings in front of the holy objects according to your capacity.

The student wrote many years later to say he had recited the mantra while brushing his teeth for 15 years and his visualizations had greatly improved.