Meditation Categories Generating Bodhicitta

69. Preparation for Generating Bodhicitta IV — Rejoicing

Longchen Nyingtik Meditation 69

The Beginning

Take refuge and arouse bodhicitta.

The Main Part

Recall the Buddha’s virtuous activities of turning the Dharma wheel to liberate sentient beings, the various manifestations of Bodhisattvas in the six realms to bring welfare to all beings, and the positive actions of ordinary beings, those of mundane merit and those leading to liberation. Think whatever virtues you yourself have done in the past, are doing at present (such as listening to a Dharma discourse right now), and will certainly do in the future (such as you’ll recite the Samantabhadra’s Aspiration in dedication at the end of the class). To any and all of these sources of good, you rejoice sincerely, missing none.


Finally, rest in a state without any conceptualization and grasping.


If you follow this instruction and practice sincerely, over time you’ll experience signs of successful meditation. In terms of outer signs, at night you dream about wearing a white garment or receiving blessings from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and during the day you feel joyful. As to inner signs, you experience a heightened devotion, renunciation, and so forth, you relate to the world in a fitting and harmonious way, and your mind remains imperturbable when encountering any kind of people.


For seasoned practitioners, no task can make them unhappy. They’re eager to volunteer when need to; they’re enthusiastic to meditate when there’s an opportunity; they’re fine to have food; they’re also fine to have no food. In all, the more advanced they are in practice, the less fussy they become about life’s amenities. Such spiritual adepts no longer perceive this person as nasty or that person as wicked. They don’t criticize people and situations, and will never voice a complaint. Even if they were put in jail, they would still maintain a positive attitude in considering incarceration as a kind of “retreat”.

The Ending

Dedicate the merit in a state of seeing everything as a magical illusion and as a dream.