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C. Visualize the Perfect Place and Invoke Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Then, we should visualize the place where we are to be decorated by a variety of offerings and adornments just as it’s described in The King of Aspiration Prayers and The Adornment Sutra of Sukhavati. We should visualize this world as nothing like that which we perceive through our ordinary senses as filthy and disorderly, filled with holes, rubble, and more. In our visualization, the land should be smooth like lapis lazuli. This entire universe is extremely dignified and perfect. That’s how we should view this world with a pure perception and then invoke all buddhas and bodhisattvas with the three recitations of the Clouds of Offering Mantra. Now, let’s recite the stanzas for the visualization of a pure place and the Clouds of Offering Mantra for inviting all buddhas and bodhisattvas: May the earth be wholesome everywhere, Free from boulders, cliffs, and chasms, Flat and even like a level palm, And smooth like lapis lazuli. May all excellent materials, outer and inner, of gods and men, Such as musical instruments, ornaments, garlands, food and clothing, All become a beautiful cloud of offerings,
