Tulku Thondup:
If you keep focusing your mind one-pointedly on the presence of Buddha
Chenrezig — or on some particular aspect of him, such as his loving-kindness or
his eyes looking lovingly at us — then before long a powerful feeling of
devotional energy is certain to emerge in your mindstream. Once that happens, a heat of joy and bliss
will arise in every part of your mind and body because of a mental and physical
suppleness such as you have never felt before.
If you have already experienced this, it will augment the experience.
When this experience happens, you should allow the blissful heat generated by
the development of loving-kindness to increase without grasping at or being
attached to it. Then the precious bodhichitta
unstained by the obscurations of defiled concepts will awaken in you. In the minds of those who follow the path of
devotion, these enlightening effects will miraculously manifest before their
own eyes.
