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I pray to you from the depth of my heart. Without my parting from you for an instant, Bless me with your guidance, And make me inseparable from you. Consider that at this, the teacher’s face joyfully breaks into a smile, his eyes filled with love and compassion, and he comes onto the crown of your head, where he immediately melts into light, dissolving upward from his throne and downward from the hair on his head to become a ball of light at the level of his heart. This passes through the crown opening on your head and dissolves into the middle of your heart: The teacher melts into the essence of great bliss, becoming a sphere of fivecolored light an inch in size, which dissolves into the middle of my heart: my mind becomes inseparable from the teacher’s mind. Remain in evenness for as long as you can, in the natural, innate state of luminosity beyond mind—awareness-emptiness, the nature of the absolute teacher watching itself. As you arise from that state, again view all appearances as the multifarious expression of the teacher’s body; all sounds as sound-emptiness, the spontaneous resonance of the channels; and all thoughts that arise as the spontaneous manifestation of the diamond wisdom. Conclude by dedicating the merit and saying prayers for auspiciousness: Precious, glorious root teacher, Dwell on a lotus seat on the crown of my head. Guide me with your great kindness, And grant me the accomplishments of your body, speech, and mind. With regard to the glorious teachers’ lifestyles May I never have even an instant’s wrong view. Through devotion—seeing everything they do as perfect— May the teachers’ blessings enter my mind. All the positive deeds accumulated in the three times, symbolized by this one, Unsullied by the stains of any selfish desire for personal peace and happiness, I dedicate to the infinite hosts of beings, without a single exception, As the cause for their attaining unsurpassable enlightenment. In all my lives, may the feet of my teachers, the lords of the families, Never cease to adorn the wheel of great bliss in my crown, And through the path of devotion, may their minds and mine mingle as one. Grant the good fortune that the twofold goal be spontaneously accomplished.