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The Visualization of Buddha of Infinite Life Sūtra excerpt
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“The Buddha said to Ānanda and Vaidehī, “After you have seen this, next visualize the Buddha. Why the Buddha? Because buddha tathāgatas have cosmic bodies, and so enter into the meditating mind of each sentient being.
For this reason, when you contemplate a buddha, your mind itself takes the form of his thirty-two physical characteristics and eighty secondary marks.
Your mind produces the Buddha’s image and is itself the Buddha.
The ocean of perfectly and universally enlightened buddhas thus arises in the meditating mind. For this reason, you should singlemindedly concentrate and deeply
contemplate the Buddha Tathāgata, Arhat, and Perfectly Enlightened One.”

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