May our inner flame illuminate the way
from darkness to light,
from unconsciousness to consciousness,
from becoming to being.
And from the outer body to the inner body to no body,
from the many to the one and beyond.
Om shanti, shanti, shanti.
Listen to Amido reciting the invocation here.
This is from the collection of stories, essays, poems and insights that is compiled to form the book From Lemurs to Lamas: Confessions of a Bodhisattva.