THE PRACTICE OF CHENREZIG is presented here from the perspective of someone who is starting their practice of Dharma at the beginning stage and working toward the experience of complete enlightenment. This is a very strong approach: beginning the practice of Dharma as an ordinary being with the goal of full enlightenment. Here, as indicated in the text, you visualize Chenrezig above the crown of your head and above the crowns of the heads of all beings. There is a sense of a limitless number of sentient beings as boundless as space. Above the crowns of the heads of all beings, you develop the visualization of Chenrezig. You visualize Chenrezig above the crown of your head as an expression of acknowledgment that a fully enlightened being is superior to yourself as an ordinary being, in the sense that they have actualized the potential we all have. So Chenrezig is visualized higher than yourself.
Chenrezig appears brilliantly, spotlessly white, free of stains or defects of any ...