Contemplation: Like Images in a Mirror

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take this as your object of contemplation:

It should be understood that [the conception of] the entire world of objects can be held only on the basis of man's deluded mind of ignorance. All things, therefore, are just like the images in a mirror which are devoid of any objectivity that one can get hold of; they are of the mind only and are unreal.

The Awakening of Faith pp. 48-49

Contemplation: Letting Go

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take this as your object of contemplation:

Long-associated companions will part from each other. Wealth and possessions obtained with effort will be left behind. Consciousness, the guest, will cast aside the guest-house of the body. Letting go of this life is the Bodhisattva's practice.

from The Thirty-Seven Bodhisattva Practices of Ngulchu Thogme Zangpo

Contemplation

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:

At this time when the difficult-to-gain ship of leisure and fortune has been obtained, ceaselessly hearing, pondering and meditating day and night in order to liberate oneself and others from the ocean of cyclic existence is the Bodhisattva's practice.

from The Thirty-Seven Bodhisattva Practices by Ngulchu Thogme Zangpo

Contemplation: The Teacher

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take this as your object of contemplation (here, Buddha Shakyamuni is addressing Bodhisattva Universal Enlightenment by name):

Universal Enlightenment, you should know
that sentient beings in the Dharma Ending Age
who wish to seek a good teacher
should find one with correct views
whose mind is far away from the Two Vehicles.
The Dharma [he actualizes] should be free
from the four faults of
contrivance, stopping, allowing things
to be as they are, and annihilation.
Approached by the teacher, the should
not be arrogant and proud.
Left by the teacher, they should not be resentful.
When witnessing different conditions displayed by the teacher,
they should regard them as precious rare occurences,
like a Buddha appearing in the world.

from The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, p. 57

Contemplation: All Things are Teachings of Buddha

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take this as your object of contemplation:

This mental moment is not vertical, not horizontal; it is inconceivable. This is not true only of oneself; Buddhas and sentient beings are also thus. The Flower Ornament Scripture says, "Mind, Buddha, sentient beings--these three have no difference." You should know your own mind contains all the Buddha's principles. The Scripture on Consideration of Benefit says, "The ignorant want to seek enlightenment in the elements of mind and matter, but these elements are themselves it--apart from these there is no enlightenment." The Pure Name Scripture says, "The liberation of Buddhas is to be sought in the mental activities of sentient beings. Sentient beings are enlightenment, which cannot be further attained; sentient beings are nirvana, and cannot be further extinguished." As one mind is thus, so are all minds, and so are all things. When the Contemplation of Universal Good says that Vairochana Buddha is omnipresent, this is what it means. You should know that all tings are teachings of Buddha, because the Buddha is the cosmos.

Chih-i, Stopping and Seeing, pp. 34-35