When we dissolve everything into the clear light, we don’t just dissolve our own body and mind into emptiness – transporting ourselves to the inner pure land – we also can dissolve the bodies and minds of everyone we love into emptiness – transporting them also to the inner pure land.

Just like us, their samsara is a mere karmic appearance to their minds, a hallucination they believe is real and suffer from. But their samsara is not just empty with respect to THEIR minds, it is also empty with respect to our mind. They suffer because they believe their samsara and they believe the lies of their delusions.

When we dissolve them into the clear light, we should imagine we are freeing them from the clouds of hallucinations that have been tormenting them and they are freed and delivered into the inner pure land where they enjoy infinite peace and omniscient wisdom.

Dissolving them into emptiness doesn’t make them cease, it just makes their samsara they normally see cease. Their minds remain, abiding in the bliss of the emptiness of all things.

We should feel that our meditations on emptiness are supreme acts of compassion and that those we dissolve into the clear light are directly blessed by the definitive guru because we dissolve the mental obstructions between them and his loving care.

When we think about it, if we allow their samsara to again reappear to our mind, it is like we are re-imprisoning them in a samsara of our creation. We can’t do that! So out of compassion, we again dissolve them back into the clear light, imagining we are re-delivering them to everlasting joy. This is Vajrayana Mahamudra.

All of this works because it is correct imagination and they are empty. There will of course be a lag between when we see them this way and they come to see themselves in this way, but if we keep at it for as long as it takes, eventually they will. This is why we need never worry.

Just as nobody can stop us from leaving the prison of samsara if we choose to do so, so too nobody can stop us from also freeing everybody else from samsara.

According to common appearance, it will appear as if they are freeing themselves (they will be blessed to start to do the right things, if not in this life in some future life), but from the uncommon perspective of our own enlightenment, we will directly perceive us having liberated all beings and they all abide with us in the pure land, not just at some point in the future, but always in all three times.

It will be as if samsara never was, not just for us, but for everyone. As Nagarjuna said, with emptiness, everything is possible.