Lama Chopa Booklet

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An Offering Ceremonyto the

Spiritual MastersLama Chopa Guru Puja


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An Offering Ceremony to the Spiritual Masters(Bla-ma mchod-pa, Lama Chopa, Guru Puja)

by The First Panchen Lama(Pan-chen Blo-bzang chos-kyi rgyal-mtshan)

translated by Alexander BerzinMay 2001

2003 by Alexander Berzin - www.berzinarchives.com;formatted & published for www.vajrayogini.com andwww.vajrabhairava.com with permission of Dr. Berzin.


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Preliminaries

Within a state o great bliss, I am a guru-yidam.From my body, arisen clearly in this state,A prousion o light-rays radiates to the ten directions,Highlighting the glory o the environment and the beings therein.All become perectly arrayed with only excellent qualities, innitely pure.

Out o a lustrously positive, vast state o mind,I and all beings, my mothers, throughout space,From now till enlightenment, take sae directionFrom the gurus and the Three Supreme Gems.

Namo gurubhyaNamo buddhaya,Namo dharmaya,Namo sanghaya. (3x)

For the sake o a ll beings, my mothers,I transorm into a guru-yidam,And thus shall secure all limited beingsIn a guru-yidams supreme state. (3x)

For the sake o a ll beings, my mothers,I shall quickly, quickly, in this very lie,Attain the high stateO a primordial Buddha-guru-yidam.

I shall liberate all beings, my mothers, rom sueringAnd secure them in the stage o a Buddhas great bliss.To this end, I now shall practiceThe proound path o guru-yidam yoga.

(Repeat verses 5 and 6 three times.)OM AH HUM. (3x)

Pure clouds o outer, inner, and hidden oerings,Fearsome items and objects to bond us closelySpread out beyond the range o thought,Pervading the reaches o space, the earth, and the sky.In essence, they are deep awareness,In aspect, inner oerings and oering items;The unction o each, as objects enjoyed by the six sensors,Is to enhance a special deep awareness o bliss and voidness.

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Visualization

In the vast heavens o inseparable bliss and voidness,Amidst billowing clouds o Samantabhadra oerings,At the crest o a wish-granting tree,Embellished with leaves, fowers, and ruit,Is a lion-throne, ablaze with precious gems,With cushions o lotus, sun, and ull moon.

Upon them, sits my root guru, kind in three ways,In essence, all Buddhas,In aspect, a saron-robed monk,With one ace, two arms, and a radiant white smile.Your right hand is in the gesture o expounding the Dharma,Your let in meditation pose cradles an alms bowl brimming with nectar.You are draped with three robes o lustrous saronAnd your head is graced by a pandits gold-colored hat.

In your heart sits a Vajradhara, ruler o the all-pervasive,With a blue-colored body, one ace, and two arms,

Holding vajra and bell, and embracing Vajradhatu Ishvari:They delight in the play o co-arising bliss and voidness,Are adorned with jewel ornaments o many designs,And arrayed with garments o heavenly silk.

Emblazoned with the signs and exemplary eatures o a Buddha,You yoursel are radiant with thousands o light-rays,Sitting in the vajra-position, enhaloed by a ve-colored rainbow.Totally pure, your aggregate actors are the ve Blissully Progressed;Your our elements are the our mothers;The stimulators o your senses, your channels, sinews, and jointsAre actual examples o the bodhisattvas.

The hairs o your pores are the twenty-one thousand arhats;Your limbs, the urious powerul ones;Your light-rays are directional protectors,

and yaksha and guhyaka guardians o wealth;While worldly gods could be cushions or your eet.

Surrounding you in successive ringsIs an encircling sea o my actual and lineage gurus,Yidams with hosts o mandala gures,Buddhas, bodhisattvas, viras, dakinis,And protectors o the teachings.

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Exterminate untimely death,Diseases, demons, and obstructing ghosts.Make nightmares, ill omens, and disastersAll become extinct.

May worldly happiness, crops, and harvests abound;May the Dharma thrive; all goodness and joy come about;And every wish in our minds be ull led.

(Optional Additional Verse:)

(83) When, by the orce o this bountiul giving,We become Buddhas, automatically arising or wanderers sake,May we ree by our generosityThe masses o beings untamed by the Triumphant o old.

(To conclude, return to verse 84, The Graded Path.)

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HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:May we never be parted rom perect gurus in all our lives;May we joyully experience the glories o Dharma;May we gain in ull the qualities o the paths and stages,And thus attain quickly a Vajradhara state.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,Hosts o fawless dakinis,

Gaze with aection and bestow all enlightening eects.

(Offer a portion of leftover tsog for the regional guardians who are powerfulspirits.)

HUM the making o impure deceptive appearances ispuried away in the sphere o reality;

AH this magnicent nectar ashioned rom deep awareness,OM becomes a vast ocean o everything wished.

OM AH HUM. (3x)

Ho! This ocean o an oering east o untainted nectarsMade glorious by samadhi, mantra, and mudra,We oer to please you legions o regional guardians bound by oath.OM AH HUM. Having served you to contentmentWith an array o everything glorious anyone might wish,E-ma-ho! we request you, please,Help the yogis enlightening infuence work as it should.

(Take the offering for the regional guardians outside.)

Ho! By oering this ocean o letovers rom the r itual eastTo you remaining guests and your crowd,May the precious teachings fourish;

May the upholders o the teachings,The oering patrons, with their circle,

And especially we yogisGain reedom rom sickness, long lives,Glory, ame, good ortune,And bounteous wealth.

Open the way to our actual attainmentO enlightening eects such as stilling and increasing.Oath-bound ones, protect and help us to meetThe karmic price or all actual attainments.

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The three gateways o each are marked with three vajras.From the syllable HUM, hooked light-rays inviteDeep awareness beings rom their natural abodesTo merge inseparably and make them secured.

You who are the sources o goodness, bliss,and perection throughout the three times,

O root and lineage gurus, yidams, Three Supreme Gems,Viras, dakinis, and Dharma-protectors with legions o guards,By the power o compassion, come orth and stay ast.

Although everything is ree o true coming and going,Still you possess the enlightening activity o omniscience and aectionTo arise in whatever manners accord with the thoughtsO varying disciples who wish to be tamed.Hallowed guardians or sae direction, come orth with your entourage.

OM GURU BUDDHA BODHISATTVA DHARMAPALASAPARIWARA E-HYE-HIH.

JAH HUM BAM HOH the awareness and bonding beings

become nondual.

Prostration

With compassion, in the sphere o great bliss,You direct us even to a state o Three Buddha-Bodies in this very instant,As gurus with jewel-like bodies.Holders o the Vajras, we prostrate at your lotus-eet.

With deep awareness o all the innite Triumphant,You impart, with supreme skillul means, whatever will tame,As portrayers o a dance o those clad in saron.

Hallowed guardians or sae direction, we prostrate at your eet.

Your states o all aults and their habits extracted,And your treasures o athomless jewel-like qualitiesAre the sole gateways to benet and bliss, baring none.Ennobling, impeccable gurus, we prostrate at your eet.

You are actual examples o all the Buddhas,spiritual teachers o even the gods,

Sources o eighty-our thousand pure Dharmas;You tower in the midst o all hosts o aryas.Kindly gurus, we prostrate to you.

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With belie in these acts and w ith rm conviction,With an ocean o lyric praise, and with emanated bodiesAs numerous as the atoms o the world,We oer prostration to you gurus o three times,

dwelling in the ten directions,To the Three Supreme Gems, and all worthy o homage.

OfferingsGuardians or sae direction, ennobling, impeccable gurus,

together with entourage,We present you with oceans o clouds o various oerings.

From expansive, well-ashioned vessels, radiant and precious,Four streams o puriying nectars gently fow orth.

Beautiul fowers and trees in blossomWith bouquets and garlands, exquisitely arranged,Fill the earth and the sky.

Blue monsoon clouds o the beryl-like smokeO ragrant incense billow up to the highways o the gods.

Light rom suns and moons, glittering gems,And scores o faming lampsJoyully rolic, dispelling the darknessO a thousand, a million, a billion worlds.

Vast seas o scented waters imbued with the ragranceO saron, sandalwood, and camphorSwirl out to the horizons.

Delicacies o gods and humans,Beverages, savories, and eastsWith ingredients o a hundred favorsAmass a Mount Meru.

Music rom an endless variety o instrumentsBlends into a symphony and lls the three realms.

Goddesses o outer and inner desirable objects,Holding symbols o sights and sounds,Fragrances, tastes, and physical sensationsPervade all directions.

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HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:Like a lotus sprung orth in a swamp o mud,The bliss o the lotus o yoginis supremeThough born rom desire, never is tainted by desires aults.Through such bliss, may we too burst ree

rom the bonds o samsaric existence.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,

Hosts o fawless dakinis,Gaze with aection and bestow all enlightening eects.

HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:Like a swarm o bees rom all sides sippingThe essence o honey rom its fowering source,May we taste to contentment the enrapturing essenceO a ully bloomed lotus endowed with six qualities.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,Hosts o fawless dakinis,Gaze with aection and bestow all enlightening eects.

Optional:

Additional Verses to the Song

HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:To practice correctly, may the viras and yoginis o unhamperedmightO our southern islands sacred twenty-our sites, with their circles,Always assist us and not keep apart.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,Hosts o fawless dakinis,


HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:Please inspire the spiritual guardians who reveal

the excellent path like thisAnd the companions who practice along it correctlyTo plant their eet rmly to live long lives,And inspire us too to paciy ully

the hordes o outer and inner hindrance.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,Hosts o fawless dakinis,


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The Song to Move the Dakinis Hearts

(Added, especially when practicing mother tantra.)

HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:As Herukas, delighting in blissul awareness supreme,Who treat with respect yoginis bursting with joy,May we enter in union with co-arising bliss

By experiencing pleasure according to the rites.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,Hosts o fawless dakinis,Gaze with aection and bestow all enlightening eects.

HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:Sporting in the lotuses o sealing consorts Minds enlivened by magnicent bliss,Bodies swaying in a graceul dance May we oer great bliss to you yogini hosts.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,

Hosts o fawless dakinis,Gaze with aection and bestow all enlightening eects.

HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:May yoginis dancing in gentle, elegant modes,Guardians to ull joy, with hosts o dakinis,Alight beore us, grant inspiration,And direct us to co-arising bliss.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,Hosts o fawless dakinis,Gaze with aection and bestow all enlightening eects.

HUM all Blissully Progressed and all viras, yoginis,Dakas, and dakinis, we make you requests:Great bliss, bearing reedom as your dening mark;Great bliss, lacking which, a marathon o ascetic practice

cannot bring liberation in this lie Great bliss, may we savor you at your seat:In the corolla o a supreme lotus.Alala-lala-ho, a-i-ah, arali-ho,Hosts o fawless dakinis,Gaze with aection and bestow all enlightening eects.

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Mount Meru and our island-worlds a billion times over,The precious seven royal xtures, the precious royal trappings, and more,Perectly delightul environments and those dwelling within,And a magnicent treasure o everything desirable

that gods and humans enjoy We present them all, with truly joyous minds,O guardians or sae direction, treasures o compassion,Best o all eminent elds or growing a positive orce.

To please you, ennobling, immaculate gurus,We oer these objects actually arrayed and those envisionedAs a pleasure grove on the shore o a wish-granting sea.It captivates everyones minds

with ully bloomed lotuses o a thousand petals Oering objects arisen rom the lustrous impulses o samsara and nir vana;Sparkles everywhere with fowers The worldly and transworldly constructive deeds

o our own and others three gateways o action;Diuses a myriad ragrances Samantabhadra oerings;And bears sumptuous ruit the three trainings, two stages, and ve paths.

We oer a libation o China tea the color o saron,Rich in a hundred favors, with a delicate bouquet,And ve hooks, ve lamps and so orthPuried, transormed, and expanded into a sea o nectar.

We oer even beautiul, voluptuous, illusion-like consorts,a host o messenger dakinis

Born rom place, rom mantra, and simultaneously born Having slender gures, aglow with vibrant youth,And skilled in the sixty-our arts o love.

We oer you the deepest mind o bodhichitta:The great deep awareness o co-arising bliss, ree rom obstructions,The sphere ree rom antasy about everythings nature,Which inseparably establishes appearances spontaneously,And is beyond all words, thought, and expression.

We oer a pharmacopoeia o potent medicineTo cure the plagues o the our hundred twenty-our disturbing emotions,And ourselves as servants to please you:Pray keep us in your service as long as the heavens endure.

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The Remaining Five Branches of the Seven-Part Practice

Beore the eyes o those having great compassion,We openly admit, with minds o regret,Whatever destructive, negative deeds we have done

rom beginningless time,Have caused others to do, or in which we have rejoiced;We vow not to repeat them again.

(Realizing that) everything is ree rom eaturesO inherent existence and arises like a dream,We sincerely rejoice in the lustrous actions that gave riseTo whatever comort and happinessAny ordinary being or arya has enjoyed.

We request a rain o proound and vast Dharma to allFrom the myriad billowing clouds o your eminent wisdom and aectionTo enhance, sustain, and propagate a garden o moon-fowersO benet and bliss or us innite beings.

Though your vajra-bodies are subject to neither birth nor death,

And are vessels that are kings with the authority o being unied pairs,Please abide orever, in keeping with our wishes:Do not pass beyond sorrow till samsaras end.

We dedicate the network o lustrous positive orce thus createdThat, as its legacy, we never be parted, in all uture lives,From ennobling, impeccable gurus, kind in three ways,And that we may attain the authority o being a Vajradhara unied pair.

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The Nine-Line Migtsema Verse of Tsongkhapa

You are mighty Vajradharas sources o all actual attainments,Avalokitshvaras great treasures o unaimed aection,Manjushris commanders o fawless wisdom,Vajrapanis -- destroyers o all hordes o demonic orces,Lozang-dragpas crown jewels o the erudite masters o

the Land o Snows,Guru-yidams, incorporating all sources o sae direction,We make you requests with three gateways o respect:Inspire us and all others to ripen and set ourselves ree.Direct us to the supreme and common actual attainments.

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Ho! This ocean o an oering east o untainted nectarsMade glorious by samadhi, mantra, and mudra,We oer to please you hosts o precious Supreme Gems.OM AH HUM. Having served you to contentmentWith an array o everything g lorious anyone might wish,E-ma-ho! We request you, please,Let a bounteous rain o hallowed Dharma pour down.

Ho! This ocean o an oering east o untainted nectarsMade glorious by samadhi, mantra, and mudra,We oer to please you hosts o dakinis and Dharma-protectors.OM AH HUM. Having served you to contentmentWith an array o everything g lorious anyone might wish,E-ma-ho! we request you, please,Let a bounteous rain o enlightening infuence pour down.

Ho! This ocean o an oering east o untainted nectarsMade glorious by samadhi, mantra, and mudra,We oer to please you masses o limited beings, our mothers.OM AH HUM. Having served you to contentment

With an array o everything g lorious anyone might wish,E-ma-ho! May you stop projecting deceptive appearancesand thus end your suerings.

(Hold up the feast of tsog before the spiritual master.)

E-ma-ho a lavish ritual east!Knowing that in the ootsteps tread by the Blissully Progressed

o the three times,You stand as the source o all actual attainments,We invite you now, great heroic vira,Having shed all minds o conceptual thought,Continually enjoy our ritual east.

Alala-ho!

(Accepting the feast of tsog, the master chants:)

OM with a nature o three inseparable vajras,I have arisen clearly as a guru-yidam.AH this nectar o untainted deep awareness,HUM without straying rom a bodhichitta mind,I taste w ith delight, to serve to contentment,The deities located within my body.A-ho maha sukha!

(Taste the feast of tsog.)

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Standing above them are an OM, AH, and HUM,Each sparkling with its brilliant color.The wind becomes turbulent; the re fares; the ingredients melt.From their boiling, vapors billow copiously orth.

From the triad o syllables, a prousion o light-raysRadiates to the ten directions,Inviting the three vajras, together with nectars.They dissolve into the respective three syllables,Which then melt into nectar and blend with the ingredients,Puriying, transorming and expanding them.E-ma-ho! They become an oceanGlittering with every glory wished.

OM AH HUM. (3x)

Root and lineage gurus, compassionate in nature,Yidams with hosts o deities,Sources o sae direction Three Supreme Gems,Viras, dakinis, and Dharma-protectors with legions o guards,We invite and request you:Please grace with your presence this oering site.

Amidst an ocean o clouds o outer, inner, and hidden oerings,On this elegant throne ashioned rom precious gems,Firmly plant your radiant eetAnd direct us, who strive or supreme attainment,To every actual attainment we might wish.

Ho! This ocean o an oering east o untainted nectarsMade glorious by samadhi, mantra, and mudra,We oer to please you hosts o root and lineage gurus.OM AH HUM. Having served you to contentment

With an array o everything glorious anyone might wish,E-ma-ho! We request you, please,Let a bounteous rain o inspiration pour down.

Ho! This ocean o an oering east o untainted nectarsMade glorious by samadhi, mantra, and mudra,We oer to please you hosts o yidam deities with your entourage.OM AH HUM. Having served you to contentmentWith an array o everything glorious anyone might wish,E-ma-ho! We request you, please,Let a bounteous rain o actual attainments pour down.

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Ngdrub knjung tuwang dorjey-chang,Migmey tseway terchen chenray-zi,Drimey kyenpay wangpo jampel-yang,Dpung mal jomdzay sangway-dag,Gangchen kaypay tsuggyen lozang-drag,Kyabnay knd lama lhagpay-lha,Gosum gpay gonay slwa-deb,Rangzhen minching drlwar jingyi-lab,

Chogdang tnmong ngdrub tseldu-sl.(Repeat many times.)

Requests

You are sources o excellent qualitiesAnd vast oceans o ethical discipline,Swelling with a treasure o gems o encyclopedic learning.Wearers o saron, you are masters who are second Kings o the Sages.Holders o the Elders Vinaya, we make you requests.

You possess the ten qualities that render you suitable

To indicate the path o the Blissully Progressed;Representatives o all the Triumphant Ones,You are Lords o the Dharma.Mahayana spiritual teachers, we make you requests.

Your three gateways o action are well-tamed;You are highly intelligent, patient, and honest,Without guile or pretense,Learned in rituals and tantras,Endowed with both sets o ten qualities,And skilled in drawing and explaining.Foremost Holders o the Vajras, we make you requests.

To us beings o this degenerate age,Unt to be tamed by the countless Buddhas o the past

and dicult to curb,You show, as it is, the excellent path o the Blissully Progressed.Compassionate guardians or sae direction, we make you requests.

The daylight hours o the Sages sun have setAnd now you enact the Triumphant Ones deedsFor us wandering masses beret o guardians or a sae direction.Compassionate guardians or sae direction, we make you requests.

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Even a single hair rom your pores is or usA eld or growing positive orce more highly praisedThan all the Triumphant o the three times and the ten directions.Compassionate guardians or sae direction, we make you requests.

From a stunningly beautiul mirage-like lattice o skillul means,The circles that adorn your Blissully Progressed Three BodiesManiest in ordinary orms to lead us who wander.Compassionate guardians or sae direction, we make you requests.

Your aggregates, elements, the stimulators o your senses, and your limbsAre in nature the ve Buddha-amily athers, mothers,Bodhisattvas, and the urious mighty protectors The very essence o the Three Supreme Gems.Foremost gurus, we make you requests.

Unolding rom the play o omniscient deep awareness,You are the quintessence o ten million mandala cycles,The all-pervading rulers o the hundred Buddha-traits,Chie among the Holders o the Vajras.Unied pair First Guardians, we make you requests.

Without obscurations, inseparable rom the play o co-arising bliss,The nature o all things, pervading everything in motion and at rest,Samantabhadras ree o beginning and end;Actual examples o deepest bodhichitta, we make you requests.

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Guru Name Mantras

(His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama)OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA, VAGINDRA SUMATI, SHASANA-

DHARA, SAMUDRA SHRI-BHADRA, SARVA-SIDDHI HUM HUM.

(Tsongkhapa)OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA, SUMATI-KIRTI, SARVA-SIDDHIHUM HUM.

(Shakyamuni)OM MUNI MUNI MAHA-MUNIYE SVAHA.

(Vajradhara)OM VAJRADHARA HUM HUM.OM AH HUM.

(Repeat many times each.)

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Optional Concluding Verses

May our glorious gurus live long stable lives;May joy and happiness abound as extensively as space;And may we and all others, baring none, be inspiredTo build up our networks and cleanse away obstacles,And thus quickly become enlightened Buddhas.

In this land surrounded by a ring o snow mountains,May the lotus-eet o Avalokiteshvara, Tenzin-gyatso,The spring or all benet and joy,Remain rmly planted till samsaras end.

Offering a Feast of Tsog

OM AH HUM. (3x)Pure clouds o outer, inner, and hidden oerings,Fearsome items and objects to bond us closelySpread out beyond the range o thought,

Pervading the reaches o space, the earth, and the sky.In essence, they are deep awareness,In aspect, inner oerings and oering items;The unction o each, as objects enjoyed by the six sensors,Is to enhance a special deep awareness o bliss and voidness.

E-ma-ho! In the g rand play o deep awareness,All lands and regions are vajra-elds;The structures majestic vajra-palaces;Oceans o clouds o Samantabhadra oerings billow orth.

The objects o enjoyment possess every glory wished;All dwelling therein are actual viras and v irinis;Not even the words impurity or faw exist:Nothing is less than innitely pure.

HUM within a state o Dharmakaya in which all abricatingis absolutely still,

On top o a turbulent wind and blazing re,Upon the crown o a tripod o three human heads:AH within a ritual skullcup,OM the ingredients brilliantly appear one by one.

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The Lamrim Dedication Prayer

(1) By however much we have built up our two networksas vast as space,

From our longtime eorts in this practice,May we become Commanders among the Triumphant Ones,Universal Leaders or wanderers with wisdom-eyes

blinded by ignorance.

(2) Even i we do not reach this state,May we ollow under the aectionate care o Manjushri,

or all our lives,And thus always nding the supreme path in whichAll the stages o the teachings are complete,May we please the Triumphant Ones with our practice.

(3) With the points o the path as we have understood them,And with ski llul means drawn rom strong aectionate care,May we clear the darkness rom wanderers minds,

So that the Triumphant Ones teachings are enduringly held.

(4) With our hearts going out with great compassionIn whatever direction the precious-most teachingsHave not yet spread, or once spread have declined,May we reveal this treasure o happiness and aid.

(5) Through these very stages o the path to enlightenment,Which have arisen so well through the wondrous infuence

o the Triumphant and their spiritual ospring,May we direct to glory the minds o those who wish liberationAnd enduringly urther the Triumphant Ones deeds.

(6) With the help o all human and nonhuman beingsWho make things conducive and eliminate adversity

or practicing the excellent path,May we never be parted, in all o our lietimes,From the purest path the Triumphant Ones praise.

(7) Whenever we strive to properly practiceThe ten Dharma actions to support Mahayana,May mighty ones always assist as companionsAnd oceans o propitiousness spread everywhere.

Special Requests

You are our gurus; you are our yidams;You are our dakinis and Dharma-protectors.From this moment, till our enlightenment,We shall seek sae direction rom none other than you.In this lie, the bardo, till the end o all rebirths,Hook us ast with your compassion.

Free us rom the ears o samsara and complacent nirvana;Direct us to all actual attainments;Be our constant companions;And guard against all intererence.(3x)

By the orce o having thus been requested three times,From the centers o our gurus body, speech, and mind,White, red, and dark blue nectars and raysStream orth one by one and then all together.They dissolve into our own three centers,One by one, and then all together.Thereby, we are purged o our our obstructions,

Receive the our totally pure empowerments,And attain the Four Buddha-Bodies.By a replica guru happily dissolving into us,We become uplited and inspired.

(If making a ritual offering feast of tsog, go to verse 55 at the end.)

The Stages of the Path

By the orce o having made oeringsAnd having respectully made you requests,O hallowed, ennobling, impeccable gurus,Best elds or growing a positive orce,

Inspire us to joyully ollow under your care,O guardians and roots o bliss and well-being.

Inspire us to realize that this lie o respites and enrichmentsIs ound but once, is dicult to obtain, and is easily lost,And thus, undistracted by meaningless aairs o this lie,To partake o its essence and make it worthwhile.

Inspire us to become aghast at the searing blaze osuering in the worse realms,

And thus, rom the depths o our hearts,to take sae direction rom the Three Supreme Gems,

Readily to strive to avoid any negative behavior,And to strengthen our networks o positive actions in numerous ways.

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Inspire us to traverse, thereater, the labyrinth ocean o the tantra classesThrough your kindness as our navigators, Vajra-Holders,And to keep the close bonds and vows dearer than our lives:This is the root o the actual attainments.

Inspire us that, through the rst-stage yogaO transorming birth, death, and bardo into the Triumphant Three Bodies,We purge all stains o ordinary appearance-making and clinging,So that whatever appears arises as the body o a yidam.

Inspire us that, by setting you, our guardians, with the nails on your eetAt the center o the eight petals at our hearts in our central channels,We actualize the path o a unied pair:A clear light mind and illusory body, in this very lie.

Inspire us that, i we have not completed the points o the pathat the time o our deaths,

We pass on to pure lands, either by the orceul meansO transerence into the guru ull stateOr through the instructions or properly applying the ve orces.

In short, inspire us, O guardians, to ollow inseparablyUnder your care in all our lives, rom one to the next,And thus, to become chies among your spiritual ospring,Holding every hidden eature o your body, speech, and mind.

O guardians, wherever you maniest Buddhahood,Please make everything propitious or us to comeAmong the very rst o your circle,Thus, spontaneously ullling, without any eort,All our provisional and ultimate wishes and needs.

Having made you requests like these,

Supreme gurus, we urther entreat you:To bring inspiration, happily alight on the crowns o our headsAnd settle once more with the radiant nails on your eetAt the corollas o our lotus-hearts.

Dedication

We dedicate the lustrous constructive steps, taken in this way,As causes or ullling, without an exception,The deeds and prayers o all Blissully Progressed

and their spiritual ospring, throughout the three times,

And or upholding the hallowed Dharma o the scripturesand their realization.

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Thereore, compassionate, ennobling, impeccable gurus,Inspire us that all the negative orces, obstacles, and sueringsO wandering beings, our mothers, ripen upon us right now,And that we may impart our happiness and positive orces to othersAnd thereby secure all wanderers in bliss. (3x)

Inspire us to see that even i the ruits o our negative actionsOverwhelm the environment and us dwelling therein,And unwished or suerings pour down like rain,These serve as causes exhausting the results o our destructive impulses,And thus, to drat all miserable conditions into the path.

In short, inspire us that, through practicing ve orces,the quintessence o all Dharma,

We may transorm whatever appearances arise be they good or bad Into paths augmenting the two bodhichittasAnd thus, attune ourselves solely to comort o mind.

Inspire us that, by the skillul means o the our acts o use,We may adapt to meditation whatever we occasion to meet,And may put into practice the close bonds and

trainings o cleansing our attitudes,Thus rendering this lie o respites and enrichments worthwhile.

Inspire us that, through love and compassionConjoined with the wondrous method o mounting giving

and taking upon the breath,And through an exceptional wish,We may become bodhichitta adepts to rescue beingsFloundering in the monstrous ocean o recurring existence.

Optional:

The Eight Verses for Cleansing Ones Attitudes(1) May we always cherish all limited beingsBy considering how ar superior they areTo wish-granting gemsFor actualizing the supreme aim.

(2) Whenever we come into anyones company,May we regard ourselves as more lowly than allAnd, rom the depths o our hearts, hold others as supreme.

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(3) Whatever we are doing, may we check the fow o our minds,And the moment that disturbing emotions arise,Since they debilitate ourselves and others,May we conront and avert them with orceul means.

(4) Whenever we see beings instinctively cruel,Overpowered by negativities and serious problems,May we cherish them as dicult to ndAs discovering a treasure o gems.

(5) When others, out o envy, treat us unairlyWith scolding, insults, and more,May we accept the loss upon ourselvesAnd oer the victory to others.

(6) Even i someone whom we have helpedAnd rom whom we harbor great expectationsWere to harm us completely unairly,May we view him or her as a hallowed teacher.

(7) In short, may we oer to all our mothers,

both actually and indirectly,Whatever will benet and bring them joy;And may we hiddenly accept on ourselvesAll our mothers troubles and woes.

(8) Through a mind untarnished by stains rom thoughtsAbout these eight transitory things in lie,And that knows all phenomena as an illusion,May we set ourselves ree rom all our clingingAnd thus release ourselves rom our bondage at last.

Inspire us to tame our mind-streams with pure bodhisattva vows,The single path j ourneyed by all the Triumphant o the three timesAnd to exert ourselves readily in the pract iceO the three Mahayana ethical disciplines.

Inspire us to perect ar-reaching generosityThrough the guideline instructions or enhancingThe mind that gives reely, without attachment,Namely transorming our bodies, wealth, and the networks

o our constructive actions o the three timesInto the objects desired by each limited being.

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Inspire us to perect the ar-reaching ethical disciplinesNot to transgress the bounds prescribedBy the pratimoksha, bodhisattva, or tantric vows

even at the cost o our lives To build up constructive actions,And to work or the sake o limited beings.

Inspire us to perect the ar-reaching patienceThat even i all beings in the nine states o rebirthThroughout the three realms, baring none,Become angry with us, humiliate, criticize, threaten,

or even attempt to take our lives,We remain unperturbed, and work or their benet

in response to their harm.

Inspire us to perect ar-reaching joyous perseveranceThat even i, or the sake o each limited being, we must remainFor an ocean o eons in the res o an Uninterrupted Hell,With compassion, we remain undiscouraged,And strive ever onward or supreme enlightenment.

Inspire us to perect ar-reaching constancy o mind Through absorbed concentration rid o the aults o

dullness, fightiness, and mental wandering,And totally absorbed, single-pointedly,On the abiding nature o all things Their total absence o true existence.

Inspire us to perect ar-reaching discriminating awarenessThrough the yoga on space-like voidness,Which is total absorption on the deepest act,Conjoined with great bliss rom a sense o tnessInduced by discriminating awareness investigating

the particulars o suchness.

Inspire us to perect absorbed concentration on illusion-like voidness,By realizing how all outer and inner phenomenaLack true existence, yet still appearLike illusions, dreams, or the moons image in a clear lake.

Recurring existence and beyond lack even an atom o inherent nature,While cause and eect and dependent arising are never wrong.Inspire us that these two points dawn, not in contradiction,

but in total agreement,And thus, that we realize the import o Nagarjunas thought.

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