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Garchen Rinpoche on OM AH HUNG Breathing MeditationAugust 26, 2012 at 10:17am

The actual practice of the OM AH HUNG Vajra Recitation:

As a formal meditation session it is best to do this practice in the morning at dawn, but you should actually do it throughout the day.You can do this practice whenever you breathe, and you always breathe, don't you? When you inhale the air think "OM." You do nothave to visualize it or say it out loud; just think "OM." When the wind reaches the navel think "AH," and when you exhale the wind think"HUNG." The main focus is on the AH at the navel. AH has the nature of fire and is heat. When you inhale the wind think that the winddissolves into the AH at the navel. The quintessence of the wind is kept, and the stale air is always exhaled. In formal meditationsessions, as you inhale think that you are pressing down the upper winds and simultaneously draw up the lower winds by gentlycontracting the anus. This "union of the upper and lower winds" forms an egg-shaped sphere at the navel center. Hold your breath for ashort time and observe the nature of mind.

Do not retain the wind too long, only as much as is comfortable. Again exhale and think "HUNG." In your daily activities there is noneed to hold the breath; you can just breathe naturally and think "OM AH HUNG." The main focus is always on the fire at the navel, andeventually warmth will arise. This warmth in fact is already there, but ordinary beings do not recognize it. This practice is an excellentmethod to sustain mindfulness; it is a method to unite the mind with the winds. If we lack mindfulness the winds and mind go separateways. and we become deluded.

--Garchen Rinpoche, translated by Ina Bieler

OM (white) AH (red) HUNG (blue)

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Sanya Singh Thakur Thank you Rinpoche ..... smile emoticonAugust 26, 2012 at 10:53am 1RemoveRemove

Karma Tinle Rabten 3 LIGHTS!

RemoveMyron Berney how does the AH look at the navel ?August 26, 2012 at 10:48pmRemoveRemove

Korpon Kunsang ah loks in red and not too big like you thumb. that is aAugust 27, 2012 at 7:54amRemoveRemove

Korpon Kunsang just think don't press it okAugust 27, 2012 at 7:55amRemoveRemove

Korpon Kunsang i really that practice i am doing every momentAugust 27, 2012 at 7:55am 1RemoveRemove

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