Settle your body and let the breath become quiet and natural. Feel the center of your chest, not merely as muscle or bone, but as an open lotus resting within a vast inward sky. At the center of this heart-lotus is the precious wish-fulfilling Jewel.

The Jewel is not an object hidden somewhere inside the heart. The awakened heart itself is the Jewel. It is bodhicitta: boundless caring and clear awaring, the heartfelt wish that every being be freed from suffering and brought into awakening. The Jewel shines with a radiance that has no source and no end. It rests within immeasurable space and possesses an immeasurable capacity. Nothing is excluded from it, and nothing can exhaust it.

This is the Heart of Precious Abundance. Its abundance is not accumulation. It possesses nothing and hoards nothing. It is abundant because it is empty of self, empty of fear, empty of grasping, and empty of anything that could be diminished. Because it possesses nothing, it can receive everything. Because it clings to nothing, it can transform everything. Because it has no separate owner, it can give without end.

The Jewel does not fulfill every passing desire. It fulfills the deepest wish beneath all wishes: freedom from suffering, freedom from confusion, and the awakening of the heart.

Now bring to mind someone who is suffering. They may be near or far, living or dead, known or unknown. Distance does not matter. Time does not matter. The awakened heart is not confined by geography. See them before you. See their face. Feel, as steadily as you can, the burden they carry.

With the inbreath, let the heart-lotus open. At once, the precious Jewel becomes brilliantly present. All their sickness, sorrow, fear, shame, confusion, grief, loneliness, rage, despair, obscurations, and mental poisons are drawn gently into the boundless space of the awakened heart.

Their suffering does not enter you as a personal burden. It does not become another wound within you. It enters the immeasurable capacity of bodhicitta. No affliction is too heavy, no wound is too old, and no darkness is too dense. The awakened heart has room for all of it.

Their suffering enters the Heart of Precious Abundance. There it is not stored, kept, or possessed. It does not become yours. Within the Jewel, emptiness and compassion are inseparable. Suffering is met without resistance and held without grasping. Its knots begin to loosen. Its causes unravel. Its poison loses its poison. Its contraction opens into spaciousness, and its heaviness is released into peace.

Nothing is denied, and nothing is pushed away. Yet no suffering can remain unchanged within the boundless presence of bodhicitta. What entered as fear is released as courage. What entered as grief is released as tenderness. What entered as hatred is released as clarity. What entered as shame is released as dignity. What entered as exhaustion is released as rest. What entered as despair is released as the possibility of awakening. The energy bound within suffering is freed into compassionate strength, luminous wisdom, great joy, and liberating bliss.

Pause for a moment within this measureless heart. Nothing has harmed you. Nothing has stained the Jewel. The heart is not burdened by what it receives, and it is not diminished by what it gives.

Then breathe out. From the Heart of Precious Abundance, let an infinite ocean of loving-kindness pour toward the person before you. It flows as cool, luminous white light. It flows as healing nectar. It flows as warmth, courage, nourishment, protection, wisdom, joy, and bliss. Let it enter their body and mind, their memories and breath, their nervous system, and every hidden place of pain.

The ocean knows what is needed. The Jewel gives without calculation. You don’t needed to analyze. What is needed will be given. If they are sick, healing. If they are afraid, courage. If they are grieving, tenderness. If they are angry, spaciousness. If they are ashamed, dignity. If they are confused, clear seeing. If they are lonely, companionship. If they are exhausted, rest. If they are hungry, nourishment. If they are endangered, protection. If they are dying, peace. If they have lost hope, the quiet certainty that awakening remains possible.

See them relieved. See their body soften, their breath deepen, and their face become clear. See the burden fall from them. See them held within an immeasurable ocean of safety, joy, loving-kindness, and freedom.

Again, breathe in. The boundless heart receives suffering. Again, breathe out. The precious Jewel pours forth blessing. With the inbreath, nothing is refused. With the outbreath, nothing is withheld. Suffering enters the immeasurable space of bodhicitta, and healing, wisdom, joy, and liberating bliss flow forth.

Continue for as long as the practice feels steady and alive. With every inbreath, discover that the heart has more room than you imagined. With every outbreath, discover that its generosity has no shore. You are not manufacturing compassion. You are uncovering its abundance. You are not emptying a limited vessel. You are allowing an infinite ocean to flow.

When you are ready, let the person dissolve gently into light. Let the Heart of Precious Abundance become quiet again. The Jewel remains within the open lotus, radiant and unspent. It is not fuller because it received suffering, and it is not poorer because it gave blessing. Its nature is inexhaustibility.

Now extend the practice wider. For all who suffer as this person suffers, may their pain enter the boundless heart and be released. For all who carry this fear, sickness, grief, loneliness, or confusion, may they be freed. For all who have no one to care for them, may this loving-kindness reach them. For all who feel forgotten, may they be held within the awakened heart.

Breathe in the suffering of all beings. Let it enter the immeasurable capacity of bodhicitta, where suffering is received without fear, held without possession, and transformed without violence.

Breathe out an infinite ocean of loving-kindness. Let waves of healing, courage, tenderness, wisdom, joy, and bliss pour into every realm. Let them reach every home, hospital, prison, battlefield, refuge, forest, ocean, city, and unseen place of suffering. Let them reach those who are afraid and those who cause fear. Let them reach those who are grieving and those who have forgotten how to grieve. Let them reach those who are dying and those who are being born. Let nothing be outside the generosity of the awakened heart.

Rest finally in the recognition that your heart is not small. It is boundless space. It is an open lotus. It is the precious wish-fulfilling Jewel of bodhicitta. It is an infinite ocean of loving-kindness.

The awakened heart can receive suffering without becoming burdened. It can transform suffering without rejecting it. It can give bliss without being depleted. It can serve beings without reaching an end. Its treasure is emptiness. Its radiance is wisdom. Its abundance is compassion. Its purpose is the freedom of all beings.

The Heart of Precious Abundance possesses nothing. Therefore, it withholds nothing. It gives itself completely to the world, and still there is no end to what it can give.