Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

obstacles along the eight-fold noble paths!"
If you see some paper with words on it, take it and put it
in a higher place with this idea: "May these words be
used in Buddhism to manifest the truth!" For this reason,
such pieces of paper should not be stepped on. When
one sees paper of the same color as one's yidam, then
think: "Oh, this is my yidam's color, and certainly
should not be trampled underfoot."
If one is in a car or bus, visualize the vehicle as rolling
forward on Dharma-wheels, and causing no harm or
injury to anyone. From my own practice, I have a story:
I was a professor of two colleges, one in the North and
one in the South of the city. When I took the bus to go
from one to the other, I would sit down and visualize as
I have described, while inwardly repeating OM MANI
PADME HUM, the wheels of the vehicle becoming the
revolutions of the mantra. As I did this, I concentrated
my mind on mercy, thinking that not even a small ant
should suffer under the wheels.
One day, travelling in this way, I met a professor of
biology and started to converse with him. I forgot to
repeat the mantra, but soon after, I distinctly heard a
heavenly voice, "Why do you not repeat the mantra?"
Hurriedly recollecting myself, I had barely repeated it
twice when I heard the screeching of brakes and the
cursing of the driver. An old person had stepped into the
road and nearly been run over. As it was, the victim
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