Establish a comfortable meditation posture ensuring that the body is relaxed, the back straight but not tense, the hands resting in the lap, palms facing upwards with the right hand on top of the left and the thumbs gently touching. The head should be bent slightly forward with the gaze downwards and eyes preferably half closed or closed.

Turn the mind inwards, letting go of all distractions by concentrating on the natural coming and going of the breath either at the nostrils or the rise and fall of the abdomen for a few moments.

MOTIVATION

Establish a bodhichitta motivation by reflecting on the predicament of all motherly sentient beings. Think how they wish to experience true happiness but are unable to obtain it and how they wish to avoid suffering but continually encounter it. Then think "in order to truly help all beings and lead them to the perfect peace and happiness of enlightenment I myself must become a Buddha. It is for this purpose that I shall do this meditation.

VISUALISATION

Accumulation of Merit - the principle cause to attain the Form Body of a Buddha.

Visualise either above the crown of your head or in the space in front of you a large golden throne adorned with precious jewels and supported by four pairs of vibrant white snow lions, which in reality are manifestations of bodhisattvas. On the flat surface of the throne is a seat of open lotus and radiant moon and sun discs, one on top of another. These symbolise respectively the three principal realisations on the path to enlightenment, renunciation, bodhichitta and the wisdom realising emptiness. Seated upon this is one's kind Guru, the embodiment of all enlightened beings, appearing in the aspect of Shakyamuni Buddha. His holy body, adorned with all the major and minor marks of a Buddha, is made of golden light which radiates brilliantly in all directions. He wears the saffron robes of a monk and is seated in the full lotus posture. His right hand rests on his right knee in the earth touching mudra, while his left hand in the gesture of meditative concentration cradles a begging bowl in his lap filled with three types of nectar, the nectar of immortality, the nectar of medicine and the nectar of uncontaminated transcendental wisdom. Together these symbolise that Buddha has conquered the four demons, the demon of death, the demon of aggregates, the demon of delusions and the demon of lust.

Guru Shakyamuni Buddha is very beautiful and smiles serenely with his compassionate gaze towards you and all other living beings. Feel his presence. Remember his perfect qualities and his willingness to help you. Request Guru Shakyamuni Buddha to help you become free from all negative energy, ignorance and problems and to receive all the realisations of the path to Enlightenment. Guru Shakyamuni accepts your requests.

Visualise that rays of light stream down from Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, entering you through your crown aperture, and completely filling your body, purifying you and all sentient beings of all negativities and bestowing all blessings and realisations. While visualising this, recite silently the Buddha mantra Om Muni Muni Maha Muniye Soha.

Guru Shakyamuni Buddha then dissolves into light entering your crown and descending to your heart. Your body, speech and mind becomes inseparable with the holy body, speech and mind of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha. You yourself become Buddha, seated upon a lotus, moon and sun disc.

Accumulation of wisdom - the principal cause to achieve the truth body of a buddha.

At your heart, seated upon a white moon disc, is a blue syllable HUM, surrounded by the Buddha mantra. Light radiates brilliantly in all directions from the HUM and mantra rosary, reaching all sentient beings and purifying them complete of all negativities and obstructions. All sentient beings are transformed into blissfully enlightened state of buddhahood. All beings  then dissolve into light and absorb into you and you dissolve into the state of emptiness. While I this state, meditate on how the self and all phenomena lack inherent existence. Remain in this state for some time. Then from that state of emptiness you arise once again in the aspect of Shakyamuni Buddha.

Feeling great joy in your heart, rejoice that you have fulfilled the ultimate purpose or yourself and all sentient beings.

DEDICATION

May any merits accumulated through engaging in this meditation become a cause to quickly attain the ultimate state of a Buddha for the benefit of all sentient beings.