Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Body Shrine Calamity Evasion Practice

Start by praying for the root lineage blessing: First empty the mind. Next, visualize the Root Lineage Guru 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. Visualize your parents, children, relatives, friends, and enemies join you in this practice.

Wake Up Call: Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.

1. Recite the Purification Mantras and Earth God Mantra
2. Recite the Invocation Mantra
3. Tender the Great Homage with Visualization
4. Mandala Offering
5. Fourfold Refuge
6. Armor Protection
7. Recite the High King Avalokitesvara Sutra
8. Recite the Rebirth Mantra (7 times)
9. Recite the Root Lineage Guru Heart Mantra (108 times)
10. Visualization
    
    (1) Visualize one’s hair gather together and transform into Thousand-armed Thousand-eyed Avalokitesvara seated on the highest point of the shrine.
    (2) Visualize one’s skin transform into the shrine’s parasol (Sanskrit: chattra).
    (3) Visualize one’s eyes transform into pearls and diamonds adorning the top layer of the parasol.
    (4) Visualize one’s nose transform into precious stones adorning the second layer of the parasol.
    (5) Visualize one’s teeth transform into jeweled necklaces hanging on the third layer of the parasol.
    (6) Visualize one’s ears transform into a pair of banners, each with “Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum” written in Sanskrit, hanging on the two sides of the parasol.
    (7) Visualize the bottom level as the soles of one’s feet which transform into the wind chakra (represented by a blue semi-circle).
    (8) Visualize the root chakra transform into the fire chakra (represented by a red triangle) placed right above the wind chakra.
    (9) Visualize the navel chakra transform into the water chakra (represented by a green circle) placed right above the fire chakra.
    (10) Visualize the heart chakra transform into the earth chakra (represented by a yellow rectangle) placed right above the water chakra.
    (11) Visualize one’s spine transform into Mount Meru (brown color) placed right above the earth chakra.
    (12) Visualize oneself seated on top of Mount Meru with all of one’s pores radiating golden rays of light. Recite the Thousand-armed Thousand-eyes Avalokitesvara Heart Mantra and enter into Samadhi.
11. Recite the Thousand-armed Thousand-eyes Avalokitesvara Heart Mantra
     Namo, sam-man-do, moo-toh-nam, wah-dzi-la, da-mo-seh. (108 or 1080 times)
12. Entering Samadhi
    (Nine Cycle Breathing, Entering of the Deity into Oneself, Release of Oneself into the Cosmic
    Consciousness, Breath Counting)
13. Recite the Principal Heart Mantras
14. Recite the Buddha’s Name (3 times)
15. Dedication
16. Recite the Hundred Syllable Mantra (3 times)
17. Tender the Great Homage with Visualization
18. Recite the Completion Mantra
    Om, Bu Lin. (3 times)
    Om Mani Padme Hum.

Dismissal: Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.

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 engaging in this particular sadhana.

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