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OM AH HUM MEDITATION

by Lama Yeshe

Happy Monks Publication

Happy Monks Publication

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Shantideva verses used with permission from Fedor Stracke.

Shantideva:Letting the elephant mind wanderCreates harm beyond pain.The unsubdued crazy elephantDoes not do as much damage here.

If, through all, with the rope of mindfulness,One tightly fastens the elephant of the mind,All threats become completely non-existent,And all virtues will come into ones hand.

Purification of the BodyPlace your hands in whatever position is comfortable for you and close your eyes. Visualize a white OM at the upper center of your head, a red AH at your throat and a blue HUM at your heart. These letters are made of radiant light.

If you cannot visualize these letters in Tibetan or Sanskrit, you can visualize them in English or any other language.

Concentrate on the white OM in your head. Recognize that this white OM is the pure energy of the divine body of the buddhas and bodhisattvas.

Mantra Make the sound OM and visualize that radiant white light emanates from the syllable, goes down your central psychic channel and fills your whole body with blissful, radiant white light energy. All conceptions and impure energy of body are cleansed and purified.

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It is important to visualize that your entire body, from head to toe, is completely full of blissful, radiant white light energy. Feel that.

Continue making the sound OM for two or three minutes while you are meditating and purifying your body.

OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM, OM; OM; OM, OM, OM, OM ...

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Intense AwarenessWhen you stop making the sound, do not do or think anything. Remain perfectly still, fully aware, unconcerned with good or bad, not reacting, free of any internal conversation, with all your attention on the light consciousness at the center of your brain.

Be there. Be intensely aware and let go, without sluggishness, without distraction, without expectation.

Intensive awareness leads to the experience of zero, or egolessness, emptiness, nothing.

Comprehend this intense awareness and let go.

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Purification of SpeechMantraConcentrate on the red AH at your throat chakra, like the sun at sunset. Recognize that this red AH is the pure speech of the buddhas and bodhisattvas.

Make the sound AH for two or three minutes and visualize that radiant red light emanates from the syllable, goes down your central psychic channel and fills your whole body with blissful, radiant red light energy. All impure conceptions and energies of speech are cleansed and purified.

Again, when you finish the recitation, just be, without any expectation or interpretation, in a state of intense awareness of your own consciousness.

Intense AwarenessAfter the two minute we stop AH, then, again same as before: Just stable awareness, intense awareness on our own consciousness.

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Stay there without any expectation or interpretation of anything. Just be intensive awareness. Stay there.

When you experience and non-dual, non-self-existent I or nothingness or zero or empty or space comprehend, this is truth, reality, gives strength of the energy for the comprehension. This experience is much more real than waking fantasy sensory world.

Understand your experience of: the non-dual, of the non-self-existent I, of nothingness, zero, empty space,

as truth, understand it as reality. This increases your energy for a strong comprehension of reality. This experience is much more real than your waking, fantasy sense world.

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CompassionWhen uncontrolled, distracting thoughts come during meditation, realize that not only you but also all other sentient beings are in the same situation of not being able to control the mind.

On this basis, cultivate equilibrium and loving kindness for all others. Thus, your uncontrolled, distracted mind becomes a resource for the development of loving kindness. When it arises, direct that intense awareness of loving kindness towards your consciousness.

Hence, there are two ways you can meditate here. Either place intense awareness on your own consciousness or, when distractions arise, direct intense awareness of loving kindness on your own consciousness. Alternate these two.

Then, your loving kindness manifests in your central channel at your heart as a full moon disk.

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Purification of ConsciousnessMantraAt your heart, on the moon disk, stands a radiant blue HUM. Recognize that this blue HUM is the non-dual wisdom of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas. Your heart is pure, cool and calm, opened by the radiant light of the moon and the HUM. Infinite blue light radiates from the HUM. All narrow thoughts disappear.All indecisive minds disappear. All obsessed minds disappear.The radiant blue light from the moon and the HUM fills your whole body. Your whole body feels blissful. Filled with light, there is no room for fanatical, dualistic concepts. At the same time, make the sound HUM for two or three minutes. Then feel infinite blue light, like your consciousness, embrace the entire universal reality. Your intensive awareness embraces all of universal reality. Feel and be, without expectation or superstition.

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ConclusionThere are two essential experiences that we can achieve through this meditation: wisdom and method. The wisdom experience is intensive awareness of your own consciousness. The method experience comes when you get distracted and use that lack of control as a resource to regenerate loving kindness. Then, when you are again free of distraction, remain in the experience of wisdom. In summary, when your concentration is good, place your attention on wisdom; when you are distracted, generate loving kindness.Recitation of the OM AH HUM mantra is very useful. Since you are often too busy to recite long mantras, you can recite this short one, which represents all other mantras. In particular, when you say OM, intensive awareness is energized and your consciousness awakens within you.The purpose of meditation is to awaken us from the deep sleep of ignoranceto awaken us to universal reality, not to our usual fanatic reality. Mantra touches a wider reality; thats why its useful.

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In all our lives may we never be separatedFrom the perfect teachers,

Enjoy the splendor of the Dharma,Develop Completely the Qualities of the

Grounds and Paths,And quickly attain the state of Vajradhara.

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ColophonThis meditation was taught by Lama Yeshe in Switzerland in 1983 during a weekend seminar.The text was edited by Nick Ribush. The talks of the seminar are the basis for the book Life, Death and after Death, one of the many free publications by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archives.The book can be ordered or downloaded for free under www.lamayeshe.com.

May all sentient beings be happy.

SARVA MANGALAM

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This meditation was taught by Lama Yeshe in Switzerland in 1983 during a weekend seminar.

The three syllables Om Ah Hum are the essence of the enlightened body, speech and mind of all buddhas.

This meditation on the three syllables plants the potential for complete enlightenment and contains the important points of single pointed and analytical meditation.

OM

AH

HUM

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