So now, how to meditate on taking. Taking means taking others’ suffering upon oneself through meditation. So how do we meditate on taking? There are two stages to meditation on takin 301. Meditation on taking focusing on all living beings; 2. Meditating on taking focusing on particular living beings. In the first stage, meditation on taking focusing on all living beings, we should focus on the assembly of all living beings without exception, and from the depths of our heart with a caring attitude, or loving-kindness, or cherishing them. With a caring attitude towards all living beings, with cherishing for all living beings, then we should think the followin 52Focusing on all living beings without exception, with a caring attitude, cherishing them with loving kindness, then we thin These living beings... will experience the cycle of human suffering, animal suffering and the... sufferings of hungry ghosts, hell beings, demi-gods and gods in their... countless future lives without choice. No-one gives them permanent liberation from this suffering. How wonderful if all these living beings achieved permanent liberation from suffering. May they achieve this. I myself will work to accomplish this.’ Then again make the determinatio 05‘I myself will work to accomplish this aim. How wonderful if all these living beings achieved permanent liberation from suffering. May they achieve this. I myself will work to accomplish this aim. I must do this.' Then, thinking in this way, we imagine that the sufferings of all living beings... have gathered together in the aspect of black smoke. This dissolves into our ignorance of self-grasping and self-cherishing at our heart. The sufferings of all living beings have gathered together in the aspect of black smoke. This dissolves into our ignorance of self-grasping and self-cherishing at our heart. We then strongly believe that all living beings have achieved... permanent liberation from suffering and our ignorance of self-grasping and... self-cherishing cease permanently, and we meditate on this belief... single-pointedly without distraction for as long as possible. We should practise this meditation continually with great effort so that we can purify our mind quickly. We can accumulate a great collection of merit and... we will ripen our potential of the ability to benefit all living beings. Understanding and contemplating these benefits, we should encourage ourself to practise this meditation continually. We should know that the meditation on taking focusing on all living beings... that I have now explained gives us immeasurable meaning in this life and in our future lives. For example, a Heruka practitioner, although he is not real Heruka, however, when he meditates on self-generation of Heruka he believes that he is Heruka. He strongly thinks, ‘I am Buddha Heruka.’ This belief is wisdom. Although he is not real Heruka, his belief or view is a wisdom, and is the quick path to enlightenment. In the same way, although living beings actually have not achieved permanent liberation from suffering, however, when we meditate on taking focusing on all living beings... we believe that all living beings have actually achieved permanent liberation from suffering. This belief is wisdom and is the quick path to enlightenment. In truth, in reality, with respect to this view or wisdom, I can say that with respect to this belief or wisdom all living beings... actually achieved permanent liberation from suffering. How? As mere imputation. In truth, there is no single phenomenon other than as mere imputation. Everything exists as mere imputation. There is not any phenomenon other than as mere imputation. So we imputed with wisdom, believing all living beings achieved liberation from all suffering. With respect to this view or wisdom, from this point of view, all living beings... have actually achieved permanent liberation from suffering. How? As mere imputation. There is not any single object other than as mere imputation. Everything, if we search with wisdom, everything is empty like space. There is no suffering sentient being who exists from its own side. There are no suffering living beings that we see now; they do not exist. Living beings exist as mere name; their suffering exists as mere name, their liberation, permanent liberation, also exists as mere name. So, one thing has different points.1 It is as I said, bodhichitta can be a vehicle and bodhichitta can be a path.1 Generally, vehicle and path cannot be one path; this is impossible.1 But from one point of view it is a vehicle and from another point of view it is path.1 From one of point of view, sentient beings experience suffering...1 and from another point of view, it is permanent liberation from suffering,1 so therefore everything depends upon the practitioner’s way of understanding things...1 how much they have ultimate view, realization of ultimate view.1 We also normally believe that our self that we normally see actually exists.1 We believe this and then everything - ‘I need this’ and we are working for them etc - it is the same.1 So like this you can..., it is not just like imputation by ignorance, but it is imputed through wisdom.1 So, Tantric practises are almost like this. With respect to this belief,1 in our meditation seeing all sentient beings having achieved permanent liberation,1 in respect to this belief or this wisdom, all living beings have achieved permanent liberation.1 How? As mere imputation. In truth, there are not any phenomena other than as mere imputation.1 The meditation on taking focusing on all living beings brings the ultimate result of our...1 training into the path, so it is the same as Tantric practise,1 which brings the result into the path and uses it now.1 So that makes our ability to benefit all living beings quickly ripen, which is Buddha nature.1 So it is a quick path. You should know this, this technical method, information.1 Generally, in the book it is not clear, but we should use our own wisdom...1 to understand how it implies the teachings given by previous Kadampa scholars,1 and recently teachings with our Teachers imply this kind of profound instructions.