Diamond Porcupines

Using the image of a tiny diamond-light porcupine in your heart, you send very fine quills in infinite directions, connecting your heart to all beings. It is recommended to practice Expanding Your Love and Yourself meditation, before practicing this meditation.

Transcript

And so our next set of images is concerned with our connection to all the beings and our work in the outside world.

We will start again with a very short visualization.

So please find again your perfect position,

Relax into it,

And for the next three minutes please gently close your eyes.

Now picture your outer universe as a huge globe filled with objects and beings with you at its very center.

Imagine that each being in your world is a point somewhere in this globe at a certain direction and distance from you.

When you contracted the world into your heart in the previous visualization,

Each being became a tiny speck,

A seed inside a small drop in your heart.

Now imagine a very fine line like a thin ray of diamond light connecting each tiny seed in your heart to the being that is projected from it in the world outside.

Millions and billions of rays of light emerging from your core connecting your heart to every single being in your world.

You can use the image of a tiny and very cute porcupine in the very center of your heart.

She is made of diamond light and has infinitely many very fine diamond light quills sticking out of her tiny body in all directions of space.

Some quills are short connecting you to beings that are close,

Others are long or very long connecting your heart to beings that are far.

These quills are the very rays along which you project each one of the beings in your outer world from the tiny seed in your heart.

The rays are made of karma,

The subtle mental imprints in your mind left there by all your past deeds of body,

Speech and mind.

And they now project every being and everything else in your world.

When you are ready,

Please open your eyes.

Reviews

It was adorable and beautiful at the same time, as delightful as light itself! Thank you.

Much needed diamond light rays and the porcupine was very helpful! ❤

My experience listening to this meditation was forgiveness and an opening of warmth in my heart, with a connection to all beings. Just beautiful.
Thank you

A short and fun visualization about connections and karma.
Thank you 🙏

Great super quick lesson on emptiness..fine teacher from a great line of teachers

Beautiful imagery for a loving kindness practice. This seems like part of a larger practiced (presumably the multi-part Tonglen practice published here in insight timer).

i appreciated this with child like innocence. connecting me to animals, others

A short but beautiful visualization that connects us with all creatures

I love the imagery. I now have the tiny porcupine in my heart who spills joyful light into my world! Thank you!