“Generating the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment” (sems bskyed) is the core Great Vehicle practice integrating compassion and emptiness, and here involves the recitation of a short prayer while visualizing the assembly tree.

In the context of this being part of the “extraordinary preliminary practices” (sngon ‘gro) one is required to do before engaging in advanced tantric contemplation, one is expected to do this 100,000 times.