A Method for Meditating with the Mani Wheel

Homage to the Guru, Transcendant Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion.
Om Mani Padme Hung
Refuge and Boddhicitta Motivation
I go for refuge until I am enlightened
To the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly.
By the virtuous merit that I create by practicing giving and other perfections
May I attain the state of a Buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings.
(Recite 3 times)
Recall:
The pupose of my life is not just to find happiness for myself and to solve all of my own problems. The purpose of my life is to free other sentient beings who are numberless, making myself useful and beneficial for them. I will free each of them from suffering and lead them to happiness in this life, happiness in future lives, perfect rebirths, the ultimate happiness of liberation from samsara, then the peerless happiness of Full Enlightenment.
Visualization and Recitiation
Begin turning the Mani Wheel clockwise and reciting the mantra Om Mani Padme Hung!
While continuing to turn the Wheel and recite the mantra, go through the following visualizations, spending as much time on each as possible.
Purifying Yourself:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of your negative karmas, disturbing thoughts, and obscurations. These take the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, you develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. You complete the practice of the six perfections and you become like the Compassion Buddha, completely dedicated to the welfare of all sentient beings.
Purifying Hell Beings:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of the sufferings of the beings in hell realms such as experiencing unbearable heat or cold, being crushed alive, being boiled and being cut or beaten. The light beams also draw out all the their negative karmas, disturbing thoughts such as anger, and obscurations. All of this negativity takes the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, all these beings develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. They complete the practice of the six perfections. They attain the fully enlightened state of the Compassion Buddha.
Purifying Hungy Ghosts:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of the sufferings of the beings in hungry ghost realms such as experiencing unbearable hunger or thirst, inability to find or take sustenance, exhaustion, fear and heat or cold. The light beams also draw out all the their negative karmas, disturbing thoughts such as greed, and obscurations. All of this negativity takes the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, all these beings develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. They complete the practice of the six perfections. They attain the fully enlightened state of the Compassion Buddha.
Purifying Animals:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of the sufferings of the beings in the animal realm such as being attacked or eaten by others, being imprisoned or forced work by humans, heat or cold, fear, and stupidity. The light beams also draw out all the their negative karmas, disturbing thoughts such as ignorance, and obscurations. All of this negativity takes the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, all these beings develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. They complete the practice of the six perfections. They attain the fully enlightened state of the Compassion Buddha.
Purifying Humans:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of the sufferings of the beings in the human realm such as not getting what one wants, loosing what one has,anxiety, depression, poverty, war, illness and death. The light beams also draw out all the their negative karmas, disturbing thoughts such as desire, and obscurations. All of this negativity takes the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, all these beings develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. They complete the practice of the six perfections. They attain the fully enlightened state of the Compassion Buddha.
Purifying Demigods:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of the sufferings of the beings in the demigod realm such as unbearble jealousy of the gods, mental agitation, fighting, and losing in battle with the gods. The light beams also draw out all the their negative karmas, disturbing thoughts such as jealousy, and obscurations. All of this negativity takes the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, all these beings develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. They complete the practice of the six perfections. They attain the fully enlightened state of the Compassion Buddha.
Purifying Gods:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of the sufferings of the beings in the god realm such as remaining in samsara due to one's delusions and disturbing thoughts, stil having to fear rebirth in the lower realms, and the terrible suffering of death. The light beams also draw out all the their negative karmas, disturbing thoughts such as pride, and obscurations. All of this negativity takes the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, all these beings develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. They complete the practice of the six perfections. They attain the fully enlightened state of the Compassion Buddha.
Purifying Being in the Intermediate State:
Beams of light are emittted from the Mani Wheel, drawing out all of the sufferings of the beings who have recently deid and are now in the intermediate state. The light beams also draw out all the their negative karmas, disturbing thoughts and obscurations. All of this negativity takes the form of darkness which is completely absorbed into the Mani Wheel and destroyed.
As the beams continue to radiate, all these beings develop love, compassion, equanimity, joy and bodhicitta. They complete the practice of the six perfections. They attain the fully enlightened state of the Compassion Buddha.
Dedication
By this virtue may I quickly attain the state of the Buddha of Compassion
And lead all beings without exception to that Enlightened State.
May the supreme jewel, Bodhicitta, that has not arisen, arise and grow
And may that which has arisen not diminish but increase more and more.
May the lives of those compassionate ones who've embodied in human form - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the virtuous friends, and all holy beings - Remain long and stable.
As a result of these merits, by merely seeing, hearing, touching, talking with or thinking of me,
May any being be freed immediately from all their sufferings, diseases, spirit harms,
Negative karmas, disturbing thoughts and obscurations,
And may they abide in the peerless happines of Full Enlightenment forever.
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Summary of Benefits
The Mani Wheel particularly helps one to develop great compassion and bodhicitta; it helps one to complete the accumulation of extensive merit and purify obscurations so as to achieve Enlightenment as quickly as possible.
The Mani Wheel embodies all the actions of the Buddhas and Boddhisatvas of the ten directions. To benefit sentient beings, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas manifest in the Prayer Wheel to purify all of our negative karmas and obscurations, and to cause us to actualize the realizations of the path to Enlightenment. All the beings - not only the people but also the insects - in the area where the Prayer Wheel is built are saved from rebirth in the lower realms; they receive a deva [godly] or human body, or are born in a pure land of Buddha.
If you have a Mani Prayer Wheel in your house, your house is the same as the Potala, the pure land of the Compassion Buddha.
If you have a Prayer Wheel next to you when you die, that itself becomes a method to transfer your consciouness to the pure land of Buddha Amitabha or of the Compassion Buddha.
Simply touching a prayer wheel brings great purification of negative karmas and obscurations.
Anyone who recites the six syllables while turning the Dharma Wheel at the same time is equal in fortune to the Thousand Buddhas.
Turning the Dharma Wheel is better than listenening, refleting and meditating for aeons.
Turning the Dharma Wheel once is better than attempting to practice the ten transcendant perfections for a thousand years. It is even better than explaining and listenening to the Three Baskets and the four Tantras for aeons.
One will control all three: human beings, wealth and sustenance. One will become meaningful to behold by anyone with whom one has a connection. Sentient beings who are touched by one's shadow will be liberated from the lower realms.
This practice purifies the the five uninterrupted karmas and the ten non-virtuous actions; it purifies all evil-gone actions [causes of rebirth in the lower realms].
One will receive the blessings from the Lineage Lamas and will have one's wishes fulfilled by the mind-seal dieties [Skt. yidmas], and will naturally fulfill the Buddha's thoughts. Also, male and female angels [Skt. dakas and dakinis] will eliminate your obstacles. The Protectors will act according to your wishes.
Even those lacking perseverence in their practice, who pass the time passively, will be able to attain mystic powers [Skt. siddhis]. Those with perseverence for reciting the mantra and turning the wheel will undoubtably attain the tenth ground [Skt, bhumi].
Even if one has no thought to benefit oneself, encouraging another to write the mantra and turn the wheel eliminates your negativity and completes your good qualities.
Not knowing the practice of the Dharma Wheel and relying upon other practices is like a blind person trying to see - there is no way to succeed. A person with small wisdom and great laziness is like a donkey stuck in mud. Therefore cherish the practice of the Dharma Wheel.