Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Thubten Chodron guides students through the concluding phase of a deity meditation practice. She instructs on the dissolution of the visualized Buddha into light that merges with the meditator’s body, speech, and mind, followed by dedication of merit. The teaching emphasizes reflecting on emptiness throughout the dedication—the dedicator, the positive potential, the aspiration for enlightenment, and all sentient beings are seen as empty of inherent existence yet existing through mental designation. This final segment is suited for practitioners already engaged in deity practice who understand basic emptiness concepts.
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Teacher: Thubten Chodron Guided Med
Collection: Guided Meditation (Thubten Chodron Guided Med)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~267
When you finished with your meditation, then think that the Buddha on your crown melts into light and dissolves into you, and your body, speech, and mind becomes inseparable from the body, speech, and mind of the Buddha. And contemplate on that. And then to conclude your meditation session, dedicate the positive potential. Due to this merit, may we soon attain the enlightened state of guru Buddha that we may be able to liberate all sentient beings from their sufferings. May the precious body mine, not yet born arise and grow.
May the born have no decline but increase forevermore. In the snowy mountain paradise, you’re the source of good and happiness, powerful, tensing, may you stay until saṃsāra ends. And as you dedicate, reflect that you as the person dedicating, empty of inherent existence, but exists by being merely labeled, that the positive potential or merit that you’re dedicating is similarly empty and also merely labeled, That the enlightenment you’re dedicating for, the sentient beings that you’re trying to help, and the whole action of dedicating, All of these are similarly empty of existing from their own side but exist by being merely labeled by mind.