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114 GUIDED MEDITATION Visualizing a Meditation Object The Great Master gave us a good technique for visualization: to imagine a crystal clear sphere that is totally flawless, as clear as a polished diamond, the size of your iris, as your object of meditation. Bring your mind to settle at the center of this crystal clear sphere at the Seventh Base of the mind. Recite the mantra “samma arahang, sama arahang, samma arahang” as you visualize. Make sure that the mantra and your visualization go hand in hand. Maintain this state of mind continuously. This is the method that our Great Master has taught us. Some of you may find it difficult to visualize the crystal sphere. If this is the case, you may choose an object that is easiest for you to imagine, something that you’re more familiar with, such as an apple, an orange, a dumpling, a bread bun, or whatever you may feel most comfortable imagining. A gentleman imagined a bread bun as his object of meditation because he sold buns for a living. Before long that bread bun turned into a crystal and appeared at his Seventh Base. From that day on, his bread buns were selling like crazy. Keep visualizing, and soon, whatever object you visualize will progress to become the Sphere of Primary Path². Use whatever object you wish as your object of meditation: a diamond, a pearl, a precious stone, or anything at all. But make sure you visualize in a nice and easy way, continuously. You may choose to recite the mantra along with your visualization or choose not to. This is up to you. ______________________ ²Sphere of Primary Path: the beginning path to liberation which emerged in the form of a sphere as experienced during meditation