Blazing Light, Love's Song

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OM Mani Padma Hum

Many people are familiar with this mantra. It is associated with Avolokiteshvara whose Sanskrit name means “the Lord who sees.” In Eastern cosmology, predating the Buddha, Avolokiteshvara is known as the Lord of the World. This epithet is one that Master DK used for Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World. Yes, they are the same great being.

Avolokiteshvara is a she in China and Japan and known as Kwan Yin, and back to a he or non-binary in Tibet as Chenrezig.

We use the Mani mantra among other phrases to radiate loving kindness for all beings and the world.

As the world watches today’s election procedings, we meditate with our hand on our heart radiating light, love, and presence through the mechanism that is shared by all beings: the heart.

Radiant clarity, peaceful equanimity, a smile of loving presence, courtesy and respect.

May all of our meditations, from all the traditions and sources we benefit from, pour luminous clarity and warm-heartedness into the world, into the U.S. during this election and after, and into all moments of our day, each day.

We begin with the quotation from Tuesday’s post and today’s session:

“Since pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha, in openness and contentment I found the lama in my heart.”
The Vajra Essence, vol 3, pg. xv.

In order to receive the potential support that this quotation is offering, one is invited into the range of meaning of each term within Dujom Lingpa’s words. Pure, awareness, nowness, real, buddha, openness, contentment, lama (teacher), heart. Each word is layered, related to a common and/or intrinsic quality, and can be experienced right now, or any time any where. Therefore, the invitation is to flow, not to get hung up on definitions.

With that freedom, each person can and will experience nowness; each person will feel the expanse of openness and possibilities or the contraction of being unopen. Etc.

We meditate!