and he advises us to aspire to be reborn in Sukhavati,in particular.Chagmey Rinpoche summarizes the context of his entire book and how to implementall the things he has taught in the eighteen chapters. The practice, of course, consists ofthe common preliminaries, the four thoughts, the uncommon preliminaries, the practiceof generation and completion of Mahamudra and the Dzogchen practices of Trekcho andTogel. So at this point he presents a way to apply these as an on going practice. First ofall, whatever you practice you must insure that you dont do it for your own benefitalone. At the beginning of any session of practice clarify concisely your motivation fordoing it. Recollect that there are innumerable beings who are suffering intensely, wholack the happiness that they seek. So resolve that whatever practice that you do, whatevervirtuous actions that you perform will be done for their benefit. In that way, before thesession begins, generate bodhicitta. Then at the beginning of the session briefly recollectin sequence the four thoughts which turns the mind and then briefly meditate in sequenceon the uncommon preliminaries; each of the four or five, if refuge and bodhicitta areconsidered separate uncommon preliminaries. For the main practice visualize yourself asChenrezig, as instructed in the text, and visualize the Buddha Amitabha present aboveyour head as the lord of your family. Then think that Amitabha is the embodiment of allthe root and lineage gurus and in order to reinforce that thought, invite all the root andlineage gurus, including all of the siddhas of India and Tibet, and cause them to dissolveinto Amitabha. Next invite all of the yidams which you are connected with, such asVajrasattva, whomever, invite all of them and dissolve them into yourself as Chenrezig.Then visualize the seed syllable HRIH in your heart and the six syllable mantra OMMANI PADME HUNG surrounding it. Reflect upon the fact that the mantra is theessence mantra of all yidams without exception. Now the reason for this recollection ofAmitabha as the embodiment of all gurus and Chenrezig as the embodiment of allyidams, and his mantra as the embodiment of all essence mantras, is so while doing thisone practice you can be simultaneously accomplishing all gurus, all yidams, and allmantras. Think that rays of light from the syllable HRIH and its surrounding mantra inyour heart emerge filling the entire universe which is transformed into the realm ofSukhavati. These rays of light also strike all beings, transforming each and every one ofthem into the bodhisattva Chenrezig, resting in the attitude that the entire universe isSukhavati, and all beings within it are Chenrezig. It is the maintenance of the first ofwhat are called the three barings, and this is the baring or outlook of all appearances asthe body or presence of the deity.After that commence the repetition of the mantra OM MANI PADME HUNG, andwhile you recite it, think that simultaneously all beings in the form of Chenrezig recitethe mantra along with you. Contemplating that, while reciting the mantra, is the practiceof the second baring or outlook, which is the attitude that all sound is the speech ormantra of the deity.