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Recite this as many times as you can. 2. Arousing the supreme bodhichitta, the essence of the path of the Great Vehicle Appealing to the objects of refuge as your witness, recite: All beings filling space have been my parents. They wish for happiness, yet all they achieve is suffering. How pitiful they are, wandering in cyclic existence with no chance of escape. I must do everything I can to free them. To that end I will drive myself with undistracted effort And see the profound yoga through to completion. Bringing to mind bodhichitta in aspiration and in action, recite as many times as possible: Heed me, Protectors and your Children: With the four boundless attitudes I will wholeheartedly take up the good of beings; Holding bodhichitta, I will train in the six transcendent perfections. May the twofold goal be spontaneously and gloriously fulfilled. Do the mind training of equalizing and exchanging oneself and others, and imagine giving away your happiness and taking on others’ suffering. At the end of the session: From the objects of refuge a boundless nectarous stream of blessings In the form of brilliant white rays of light issues forth. They dissolve into me and everyone else and purify the obscurations of body, speech, and mind. In an instant we melt into light and dissolve into the objects of refuge. The surrounding objects of refuge melt in stages and are absorbed into the main deity; The main deity is absorbed into the absolute space beyond concepts. With this dissolution, rest in evenness. 3. Meditation and recitation on Vajrasattva, to purify negative actions and obscurations that act as unfavorable conditions Visualize your root teacher in the form of Vajrasattva and consort actually present above the crown of your head. Developing intense shame and regret for the negative actions you committed in the past and vowing henceforth never to repeat them even if your life is at stake, imagine that the stream of nectarlike bodhichitta from the mantra garland in his heart purifies all your negative actions, obscurations, faults, and downfalls, with nothing left.