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Prostrations

• Watch thangka very carefully for 5 minutes. Then do prostrations.
• When doing prostrations in the morning, feel that you are taking refuge. When doing prostrations in the evening, feel that you are purifying negative deeds of the day.
• Faith, devotion, compassion are prostrations.
• When it comes to prostrations, faith and devotion are principal. Prostration is support to increase conviction in the Three Jewels.
• When you enter the shrine room, prostration itself is an offering. Think “May I and all beings attain enlightenment.”

• Offering prostrations is generosity.
• Doing them properly is discipline.
• Tolerating hardships is patience.
• Having joy is diligence.
• Not being distracted is concentration.
• Subject and object is without self-nature is wisdom.