Tantric Techniques (42 page)
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Authors: Jeffrey Hopkins
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- I have respect for you.
O
ṃ
sarvatath
ā
gata-avalokite
ś
vara-sapariv
ā
ra sarvadevat
ā
-acinta-am
ṛ
ta sv
ā
h
ā
.Mentally offer clothing and adornments; offer music, and mentally raise up melodies of praise.
With the perfume seal (seal 31), offer perfume, saying:
With faith I offer these perfumes
- I have respect for you.
- Of wholesome divine substances Arisen from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
O
ṃ
sarvatath
ā
gata-avalokite
ś
vara-sapariv
ā
ra
ā
hara
ā
hara sarvavidy
ā
dhari p
ū
jite sv
ā
h
ā
.With the flower seal (seal 32), offer flowers, saying:
With faith I offer these flowers
- Of wholesome divine substances Arisen from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
- Of auspicious divine substance, Grown from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
O
ṃ
sarvatath
ā
gata-avalokite
ś
vara-sapariv
ā
ra
ā
hara
ā
hara sarvavidy
ā
dhari p
ū
jite sv
ā
h
ā
.With the incense seal (seal 33), offer incense, saying:
With faith I offer divine substances
- Of auspicious divine substance, Grown from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
- Made with perfume,
Pleasant essences of the forest. Receiving them, be pleased with me.O
ṃ
sarvatath
ā
gata-avalokite
ś
vara-sapariv
ā
ra
ā
hara
ā
hara sarvavidy
ā
dhari p
ū
jite sv
ā
h
ā
.With the seal of divine food (seal 34), offer food, saying:
With faith I offer
- Made with perfume,
- These foods of mantra, Pleasant medicinal essences.
Receiving them, be pleased with me.O
ṃ
sarvatath
ā
gata-avalokite
ś
vara-sapariv
ā
ra
ā
hara
ā
hara sarvavidy
ā
dhari p
ū
jite sv
ā
h
ā
.With the lamp seal (seal 35), offer lamps, saying:
With faith I offer these dispellers
- These foods of mantra, Pleasant medicinal essences.
- Of darkness, conquering harmers, Auspicious and virtuous.
I beg you to receive these lamps.O
ṃ
sarvatath
ā
gata-avalokite
ś
vara-sapariv
ā
ra
ā
lok
ā
ya
ā
lok
ā
ya vidh
ā
dhare p
ū
jite sv
ā
h
ā
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Repeat one hundred times the mantra of blessing the place into magnificence:
Nama
ḥ
sarvatath
ā
gat
ā
n
āṃ
sarvath
ā
udgate sphara
ṇ
ahima
ṃ
gaganakha
ṃ
sv
ā
h
ā
.Praise the Three Jewels—Buddha, his doctrine, and the spiritual community:
- Of darkness, conquering harmers, Auspicious and virtuous.
- Homage to the One-Gone-Thus, Protector with great compassion, Omniscient teacher,
Oceanic field of merit and attainments.
- Homage to the One-Gone-Thus, Protector with great compassion, Omniscient teacher,
- Homage to the pacifying doctrine, Through purity separating from desire,
Through virtue liberating from bad transmigrations, In all ways the supreme ultimate.
- Homage to the pacifying doctrine, Through purity separating from desire,
- Respectful homage to the spiritual community, Liberated, teaching the path of liberation, Completely dwelling in the precepts,
Excellent field of merit, endowed with attainments.Praise the lords of the three lineages—Mañjushr
ī
, who is the physical manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas; Avalokiteshvara, who is the physical manifestation of the compassion of all Buddhas; and Vajrap
āṇ
i, who is the physical manifestation of the power of all Buddhas:
- Respectful homage to the spiritual community, Liberated, teaching the path of liberation, Completely dwelling in the precepts,
- Homage also to Mañjushr
ī
,
Bearer of the appearance of a youth, Vividly adorned with the lamp of wisdom, Dispeller of the three worlds’ darkness.
- Homage also to Mañjushr
- Homage to the always merciful, Whose name is Avalokiteshvara, Composite of all excellent qualities, Strongly praised by all Buddhas.
Homage to Vajrap
āṇ
i, Powerful and fierce,
- Homage to the always merciful, Whose name is Avalokiteshvara, Composite of all excellent qualities, Strongly praised by all Buddhas.
- Virtuous king of knowledge-mantra, Tamer of the hard to tame.
Make praises specifically of Avalokiteshvara, and repeat one hundred times the mantra of bringing forth praise:
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Nama
ḥ
sarvabuddha-bodhisattv
ā
n
āṃ
, sarvatra sa
ṃ
kurumita avijñ
ā
- r
āś
ini namo stute sv
ā
h
ā
.Disclose ill deeds with an attitude of contrition and future restraint:
Ones-Gone-Thus residing
- Virtuous king of knowledge-mantra, Tamer of the hard to tame.
- In all directions of the worlds, Foe Destroyers, and Bodhisattvas, I ask you to heed me.
Whatever ill deeds
- In all directions of the worlds, Foe Destroyers, and Bodhisattvas, I ask you to heed me.
- I have committed in any lifetime, Or, disturbed by the power of desire,
Stupidity, or anger in cyclic existence In former lives or in this life, Whatever ill deeds I have done,
- I have committed in any lifetime, Or, disturbed by the power of desire,
- Asked others to do, or admired even a little, Even slight ones unconscientiously done With body, speech, or mind
To Buddha, doctrine, or spiritual community, Or gurus, father and mother,
- Asked others to do, or admired even a little, Even slight ones unconscientiously done With body, speech, or mind
- Foe Destroyers, Bodhisattvas, Or any object of giving,
Or to other sentient beings— Educated or uneducated—
- Foe Destroyers, Bodhisattvas, Or any object of giving,
- Having mentally collected all these, I bow down in great respect
To the perfect Buddhas and their children Manifest before me now
- Having mentally collected all these, I bow down in great respect
- And disclose individually And repeatedly my mistakes
With pressed palms and saddened mind.
- And disclose individually And repeatedly my mistakes
- Just as the perfect Buddhas know The ill deeds that I have committed, I make individual disclosure.
Henceforth I will not do such.Take refuge in Buddha, his doctrine, and the spiritual community with strong intent:
- Just as the perfect Buddhas know The ill deeds that I have committed, I make individual disclosure.
- So that the sufferings of beings might be pacified I respectfully go for true refuge
To Buddha, Doctrine, and Spiritual Community As long as I remain alive.The Practice
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Admire your own and others’ virtues:
Set in equipoise, I take admiration
- So that the sufferings of beings might be pacified I respectfully go for true refuge
- In the varieties of practical implementation of doctrine.
Entreat the Buddhas to remain teaching and supplicate them not to withdraw physical appearance so beneficial to the world:
- In the varieties of practical implementation of doctrine.
- To generate nonconceptual pristine wisdom I entreat you to turn the wheel of doctrine And not to pass away from sorrow
Until trainees are satisfied.Make prayer-wishes:
- To generate nonconceptual pristine wisdom I entreat you to turn the wheel of doctrine And not to pass away from sorrow
- Just as the earlier Buddha-children Made prayer-wishes,
I also with a virtuous mind Plant prayer-wishes in that way.
- Just as the earlier Buddha-children Made prayer-wishes,
- May all beings have happiness, Peace, and freedom from disease. May I be capable in all activities And also possess all good qualities.
May I be wealthy, generous, Intelligent, and patient, Having faith in virtue, memory
- May all beings have happiness, Peace, and freedom from disease. May I be capable in all activities And also possess all good qualities.
- Of former births in all lives, and mercy.
Cultivate the four immeasurables—compassion, love, joy, and the equanimity that is devoid of the conceptions of subject and object as inherently existent:
- Of former births in all lives, and mercy.
- May all sentient beings be free from all suffering.
May all sentient beings be endowed with all happiness.
- May all sentient beings be free from all suffering.
- May all sentient beings be blissful with the bliss of Buddhahood.
May all sentient beings pass from sorrow with the unsurpassed nirv
āṇ
a of a Buddha.Generate an altruistic intention to become enlightened such that it definitely suffuses your mental continuum:
Foundational Step: Equality
- May all sentient beings be blissful with the bliss of Buddhahood.
- From their own point of view, friends, enemies, and neutral beings equally want happiness and do not want suffering.
- From my own point of view, each and every one of them has been my friend limitless times over beginningless cyclic existence and will definitely help me again in the future; each
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- From their own point of view, friends, enemies, and neutral beings equally want happiness and do not want suffering.
