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imaging the shining sun. If you find that your mind wanders, you can bring your mind back by repeating the mantra “Samma Arahang” along with visualizing the sun. Repeat the mantra slowly and silently, as if the sound of the mantra is coming from the centre of the sun inside your abdomen. “Samma Arahang” means if you purify your mind, you will be free from suffering in this life. Alternatively you can repeat the phrase “clear and bright.” Keep repeating and visualizing it until your mind comes to a standstill. Eventually, the sound of the words will fade away. If you have an experience that differs from seeing the shining sun, do not get excited or emotional. Treat it as though it is normal and simply accept it as your own personal experience. Observe the im- age without emotions. Eventually, your mind will become more refined and seated more firmly at the centre of your body. It may move further inside to a place which is clean, pure, and bright. You will gradually access deeper happiness and more pro- found knowledge, going further into a succession of increasingly pure knowledge. Ultimately you will reach the purest form, a universal form, which is inside every human being in this world.