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Torma ritual

    I prostrate myself before the Three Jewels!
    First, inside the mouthpiece or any acceptable vessel, set up a portion of torma. When you have done so, place offerings of smoke and the [symbol of] suppression. Then meditate upon yourself as an exalted deity. When you do this, visualize one blue hūṁ syllable on the seat of the Sun disk on top of the torma. It melts and dissolves into the torma. Visualize that through this the particles of substance of the torma are purified.
    Then also on top of the eight-petaled red lotus, visualize one red syllable a. When it appears, it melts away. Meditate that because it dissolves, the particles become red in color, uncontaminated in purity, and possess supreme taste.
    Then also meditate that over the disk of the moon [appears] one white syllable oṁ. It melts and dissolves [into torma]. Imagine that due to this it becomes pure as white and appears as the nature of nectar, that it possesses a hundred best flavors.
    Then, due to emanation from the nectar of light - the nectar of the non-conceptual original wisdom of the Tathagata mind and the nectar that exists in the land of the gods is grasped. Visualize it dissolving.
    Then, by virtue of the light that is again emitted from the essence of the nectar, the Enlightened One along with the holy teacher-gurus, the bodhisattvas, the protectors of the outer and inner teachings, and the dakinis are grasped in space.
    oṁ akāro mukhaṁ sarva dharmā ṇāṁ ādya nutpanna tvāta oṁ āṭ hūṁ phaṭ svāhā
    Due to the proclamation of this, light is emitted from the torma. It comes in contact with everyone's tongues. Imagine that due to this, the power of tasting the great bliss of nectar is experienced.
    Then realize the explanation of the teaching:
    All phenomena are like a reflection [in a mirror].
    Say thus, etc. Realize the prescribed desirable acts for the dakini. Ask for patience and ask her to leave.
    Thus concludes.
    Translated by Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).