Indeed, an auspicious day to chant your mantras / sutras, perform wealth / health rituals, hang your prayer flags, carry out good deeds……
Everything is MULTIPLIED 100 TRILLION times today!
Also, not to miss this rare opportunity since it’s Amitabha Day & Kalachakra Day as well.
Samantabhadra’s “ Aspiration To Good Actions ” -www.lotsawahouse.org
The Seven Preliminaries for Purifying the Mind
1. Prostration
ཇི་སྙེད་སུ་དག་ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ན། །
To all the buddhas, the lions of the human race,
དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པ་མི་ཡི་སེང་གེ་ཀུན། །
In all directions of the universe, through past and present and future:
བདག་གིས་མ་ལུས་དེ་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། །
To every single one of you, I bow in homage;
ལུས་དང་ངག་ཡིད་དང་བས་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། །
Devotion fills my body, speech and mind.
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་སྟོབས་དག་གིས། །
Through the power of this prayer, aspiring to Good Action,
རྒྱལ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡིད་ཀྱིས་མངོན་སུམ་དུ། །
All the victorious ones appear, vivid here before my mind.
ཞིང་གི་རྡུལ་སྙེད་ལུས་རབ་བཏུད་པ་ཡིས། །
And I multiply my body as many times as atoms in the universe,
རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
Each one bowing in prostration to all the buddhas.
2. Offering
རྡུལ་གཅིག་སྟེང་ན་རྡུལ་སྙེད་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས། །
In every atom reside as many buddhas as there are atoms,
སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས་ཀྱི་དབུས་ན་བཞུགས་པ་དག །
And around them, all their bodhisattva heirs,
དེ་ལྟར་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་རྣམས་མ་ལུས་པ། །
And so I imagine them filling,
ཐམས་ཅད་རྒྱལ་བ་དག་གིས་གང་བར་མོས། །
Completely the entire space of reality.
དེ་དག་བསྔགས་པ་མི་ཟད་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམས། །
Saluting them with an endless ocean of praise,
དབྱངས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་སྒྲ་ཀུན་གྱིས། །
With the sounds of an ocean of different melodies.
རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་རབ་བརྗོད་ཅིང་། །
I sing of the buddhas’ noble qualities,
བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་བདག་གིས་བསྟོད། །
And praise all those who have gone to perfect bliss.
མེ་ཏོག་དམ་པ་ཕྲེང་བ་དམ་པ་དང་། །
To every buddha, I make offerings:
སིལ་སྙན་རྣམས་དང་བྱུག་པ་གདུགས་མཆོག་དང་། །
Of the loveliest flowers, of beautiful garlands,
མར་མེ་མཆོག་དང་བདུག་སྤོས་དམ་པ་ཡིས། །
Of music and perfumed ointments, the best of parasols,
རྒྱལ་བ་དེ་དག་ལ་ནི་མཆོད་པར་བགྱི། །
The brightest lamps and finest incense.
ན་བཟའ་དམ་པ་རྣམས་དང་དྲི་མཆོག་དང་། །
To every buddha, I make offerings:
ཕྱེ་མ་ཕུར་མ་རི་རབ་མཉམ་པ་དང་། །
Exquisite garments and the most fragrant scents,
བཀོད་པ་ཁྱད་པར་འཕགས་པའི་མཆོག་ཀུན་གྱིས། །
Powdered incense, heaped as high as Mount Meru,
རྒྱལ་བ་དེ་དག་ལ་ནི་མཆོད་པར་བགྱི། །
Arranged in perfect symmetry.
མཆོད་པ་གང་རྣམས་བླ་མེད་རྒྱ་ཆེ་བ། །
Then the vast and unsurpassable offerings,
དེ་དག་རྒྱལ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཡང་མོས། །
Inspired by my devotion to all the buddhas, and
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་ལ་དད་པའི་སྟོབས་དག་གིས། །
Moved by the power of my faith in Good Actions,
རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་མཆོད་པར་བགྱི། །
I prostrate and offer to all you victorious ones.
3. Confession
འདོད་ཆགས་ཞེ་སྡང་གཏི་མུག་དབང་གིས་ནི། །
Whatever negative acts I have committed,
ལུས་དང་ངག་དང་དེ་བཞིན་ཡིད་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་། །
While driven by desire, hatred and ignorance,
སྡིག་པ་བདག་གིས་བགྱིས་པ་ཅི་མཆིས་པ། །
With my body, my speech and also with my mind,
དེ་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་བདག་གིས་སོ་སོར་བཤགས། །
Before you, I confess and purify each and every one.
4. Rejoicing
ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་དང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས། །
With a heart full of delight, I rejoice at all the merits,
རང་རྒྱལ་རྣམས་དང་སློབ་དང་མི་སློབ་དང་། །
Of buddhas and bodhisattvas,
འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་བསོད་ནམས་གང་ལ་ཡང་། །
Pratyekabuddhas, those in training and the arhats beyond training,
དེ་དག་ཀུན་གྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་ཡི་རང་། །
And every living being, throughout the entire universe.
5. Imploring the Buddhas to Turn the Wheel of Dharma
གང་རྣམས་ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་སྒྲོན་མ་རྣམས། །
You who are like beacons of light shining through the worlds,
བྱང་ཆུབ་རིམ་པར་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་ཆགས་བརྙེས། །
Who passed through the stages of enlightenment, to attain buddhahood, freedom from all attachment,
མགོན་པོ་དེ་དག་བདག་གིས་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། །
I exhort you: all of you protectors,
འཁོར་ལོ་བླ་ན་མེད་པར་བསྐོར་བར་བསྐུལ། །
Turn the unsurpassable wheel of Dharma.
6. Requesting the Buddhas not to Enter Nirvāṇa
མྱ་ངན་འདའ་སྟོན་གང་བཞེད་དེ་དག་ལ། །
Joining my palms together, I pray
འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕན་ཞིང་བདེ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །
To you who intend to pass into nirvāṇa,
བསྐལ་པ་ཞིང་གི་རྡུལ་སྙེད་བཞུགས་པར་ཡང་། །
Remain, for aeons as many as the atoms in this world,
བདག་གིས་ཐལ་མོ་རབ་སྦྱར་གསོལ་བར་བགྱི། །
And bring well-being and happiness to all living beings.
7. Dedication
ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་དང་མཆོད་ཅིང་བཤགས་པ་དང་། །
What little virtue I have gathered through my homage,
རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་བསྐུལ་ཞིང་གསོལ་བ་ཡི། །
Through offering, confession, and rejoicing,
དགེ་བ་ཅུང་ཟད་བདག་གིས་ཅི་བསགས་པ། །
Through exhortation and prayer—all of it
ཐམས་ཅད་བདག་གིས་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཕྱིར་བསྔོའོ། །
I dedicate to the enlightenment of all beings!
The Actual Aspiration
Aspiration for Purity of Attitude
འདས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་དང་ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་ཡི། །
Let offerings be made to buddhas of the past,
འཇིག་རྟེན་དག་ན་གང་བཞུགས་མཆོད་པར་གྱུར། །
And all who now dwell throughout the ten directions of this universe!
གང་ཡང་མ་བྱོན་དེ་དག་རབ་མྱུར་བར། །
Let all who are yet to come swiftly fulfil their wishes
བསམ་རྫོགས་བྱང་ཆུབ་རིམ་པར་སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱོན། །
And attain the stages of enlightenment and buddhahood!
ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་ག་ལའི་ཞིང་རྣམས་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །
Let as many worlds as there are in all the ten directions
དེ་དག་རྒྱ་ཆེར་ཡོངས་སུ་དག་པར་གྱུར། །
Transform into realms that are vast and utterly pure,
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཤིང་དབང་དྲུང་གཤེགས་རྒྱལ་བ་དང་། །
Filled with buddhas who have sat before the mighty bodhi tree,
སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས་ཀྱིས་རབ་ཏུ་གང་བར་ཤོག །
Around them all their bodhisattva sons and daughters!
ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་སེམས་ཅན་གང་རྣམས་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །
Let as many sentient beings as there are in all the ten directions
དེ་དག་རྟག་ཏུ་ནད་མེད་བདེ་བར་གྱུར། །
Live always and forever in happiness and health!
འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་རྣམས་ནི། །
Let all beings meet the Dharma
མཐུན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིང་རེ་བའང་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག །
That befits them best! And so may all they hope for be fulfilled!
Aspiration Never to Forget the Bodhicitta
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་པ་དག་ནི་བདག་སྤྱོད་ཅིང་། །
As I practise the training for enlightenment,
འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྐྱེ་བ་དྲན་པར་གྱུར། །
May I recall all my previous births,
ཚེ་རབས་ཀུན་ཏུ་འཆི་འཕོ་སྐྱེ་བ་ན། །
And in my successive lives, through death and through rebirth,
རྟག་ཏུ་བདག་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བར་ཤོག །
May I always renounce the worldly life!
རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་རྗེས་སུ་སློབ་གྱུར་ཏེ། །
Training in the footsteps of all the victorious buddhas,
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
May I bring Good Actions to perfection,
ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་སྤྱོད་པ་དྲི་མེད་ཡོངས་དག་པ། །
And my moral conduct be taintless and pure,
རྟག་ཏུ་མ་ཉམས་སྐྱོན་མེད་སྤྱོད་པར་ཤོག །
Never lapsing, and always free from fault!
ལྷ་ཡི་སྐད་དང་ཀླུ་དང་གནོད་སྦྱིན་སྐད། །
In the language of the gods, nāgas, and yakṣas,
གྲུལ་བུམ་དག་དང་མི་ཡི་སྐད་རྣམས་དང་། །
In the language of demons and of humans too,
འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་སྒྲ་རྣམས་ཇི་ཙམ་པར། །
In however many kinds of speech there may be—
ཐམས་ཅད་སྐད་དུ་བདག་གིས་ཆོས་བསྟན་ཏོ། །
I shall proclaim the Dharma in the language of all!
དེས་ཤིང་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་ལ་རབ་བརྩོན་ཏེ། །
Taming my mind, and striving in the pāramitās,
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ནི་ནམ་ཡང་བརྗེད་མ་གྱུར། །
I will never forget the bodhicitta;
སྡིག་པ་གང་རྣམས་སྒྲིབ་པར་གྱུར་པ་དག །
May all my harmful actions and the obscurations they cause
དེ་དག་མ་ལུས་ཡོངས་སུ་བྱང་བར་ཤོག །
Be completely purified, every single one!
Aspiration to be Free from Defilements
ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་བདུད་ཀྱི་ལས་རྣམས་ལས། །
May I be freed from karma, harmful emotions, and the work of negativity,
གྲོལ་ཞིང་འཇིག་རྟེན་འགྲོ་བ་རྣམས་སུ་ཡང་། །
And act for all beings in the world,
ཇི་ལྟར་པདྨོ་ཆུས་མི་ཆགས་པ་བཞིན། །
Just like the lotus flower to which mud and water cannot cling,
ཉི་ཟླ་ནམ་མཁར་ཐོགས་པ་མེད་ལྟར་སྤྱད། །
Or sun and moon that course unhindered through the sky.
Aspiration to Lead Beings to Happiness
ཞིང་གི་ཁྱོན་དང་ཕྱོགས་རྣམས་ཅི་ཙམ་པར། །
Throughout the reach and range of the entire universe
ངན་སོང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་བར་བྱེད། །
I shall pacify completely the suffering of all the lower realms,
བདེ་བ་དག་ལ་འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་འགོད་ཅིང་། །
I shall lead all beings to happiness,
འགྲོ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ནི་ཕན་པར་སྤྱད། །
And work for the ultimate benefit of each and every one!
Aspiration to Wear the Armour of Dedication
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
I shall bring enlightened action to perfection,
སེམས་ཅན་དག་གི་སྤྱོད་དང་མཐུན་པར་འཇུག །
Serve beings so as to suit their needs,
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་དག་ནི་རབ་སྟོན་ཅིང་། །
Teach them to accomplish Good Actions,
མ་འོངས་བསྐལ་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤྱོད་པར་གྱུར། །
And continue this, throughout all the aeons to come!
Aspiration to Accompany other Bodhisattvas
བདག་གི་སྤྱོད་དང་མཚུངས་པར་གང་སྤྱོད་པ། །
May I always meet and be accompanied by
དེ་དག་དང་ནི་རྟག་ཏུ་འགྲོགས་པར་ཤོག །
Those whose actions accord with mine;
ལུས་དང་ངག་རྣམས་དང་ནི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་། །
And in body, speech and mind as well,
སྤྱོད་པ་དག་དང་སྨོན་ལམ་གཅིག་ཏུ་སྤྱད། །
May our actions and aspirations always be one!
Aspiration to Have Virtuous Teachers and to Please Them
བདག་ལ་ཕན་པར་འདོད་པའི་གྲོགས་པོ་དག །
May I always meet spiritual friends
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་རབ་ཏུ་སྟོན་པ་རྣམས། །
Who long to be of true help to me,
དེ་དག་དང་ཡང་རྟག་ཏུ་ཕྲད་པར་ཤོག །
And who teach me the Good Actions;
དེ་དག་བདག་གིས་ནམ་ཡང་ཡིད་མི་དབྱུང་། །
Never will I disappoint them!
Aspiration to See the Buddhas and Serve them in Person
སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས་ཀྱིས་བསྐོར་བའི་མགོན་པོ་རྣམས། །
May I always behold the buddhas, here before my eyes,
མངོན་སུམ་རྟག་ཏུ་བདག་གིས་རྒྱལ་བ་བལྟ། །
And around them all their bodhisattva sons and daughters.
མ་འོངས་བསྐལ་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་མི་སྐྱོ་བར། །
Without ever tiring, throughout all the aeons to come,
དེ་དག་ལ་ཡང་མཆོད་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བགྱི། །
May the offerings I make them be endless and vast!
Aspiration to Keep the Dharma Thriving
རྒྱལ་བ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་འཛིན་ཅིང་། །
May I maintain the sacred teachings of the buddhas,
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྣང་བར་བྱེད། །
And cause enlightened action to appear;
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བ་ཡང་། །
May I train to perfection in Good Actions,
མ་འོངས་བསྐལ་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤྱད་པར་བགྱི། །
And practise these in every age to come!
Aspiration to Acquire Inexhaustible Treasure
སྲིད་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་ཡང་འཁོར་བ་ན། །
As I wander through all states of samsaric existence,
བསོད་ནམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་དག་ནི་མི་ཟད་བརྙེས། །
May I gather inexhaustible merit and wisdom,
ཐབས་དང་ཤེས་རབ་ཏིང་འཛིན་རྣམ་ཐར་དང་། །
And so become an inexhaustible treasury of noble qualities—
ཡོན་ཏན་ཀུན་གྱི་མི་ཟད་མཛོད་དུ་གྱུར། །
Of skill and discernment, samādhi and liberation!
Aspiration to the Different Methods for Entering into the “Good Actions”
a) Seeing the Buddhas and their Pure Realms
རྡུལ་གཅིག་སྟེང་ན་རྡུལ་སྙེད་ཞིང་རྣམས་ཏེ། །
In a single atom may I see as many pure realms as atoms in the universe:
ཞིང་དེར་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས། །
And in each realm, buddhas beyond all imagining,
སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས་ཀྱི་དབུས་ན་བཞུགས་པ་ལ། །
Encircled by all their bodhisattva heirs.
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱད་པ་སྤྱོད་ཅིང་བལྟ་བར་བགྱི། །
Along with them, may I perform the actions of enlightenment!
དེ་ལྟར་མ་ལུས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཡང་། །
And so, in each direction, everywhere,
སྐྲ་ཙམ་ཁྱོན་ལ་དུས་གསུམ་ཚད་སྙེད་ཀྱི། །
Even on the tip of a hair, may I see an ocean of buddhas—
སངས་རྒྱས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཞིང་རྣམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དང་། །
All to come in past, present and future—in an ocean of pure realms,
བསྐལ་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་སྤྱོད་ཅིང་རབ་ཏུ་འཇུག །
And throughout an ocean of aeons, may I enter into enlightened action in each and every one!
b) Listening to the Speech of the Buddhas
གསུང་གཅིག་ཡན་ལག་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་སྒྲ་སྐད་ཀྱིས། །
Each single word of a buddha’s speech, that voice with its ocean of qualities,
རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་དབྱངས་ཡན་ལག་རྣམ་དག་པ། །
Bears all the purity of the speech of all the buddhas,
འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་བསམ་པ་ཇི་བཞིན་དབྱངས། །
Sounds that harmonize with the minds of all living beings:
སངས་རྒྱས་གསུང་ལ་རྟག་ཏུ་འཇུག་པར་བགྱི། །
May I always be engaged with the speech of the buddhas!
c) Hearing the Turning of the Wheels of Dharma
དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པའི་རྒྱལ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་དག །
With all the power of my mind, may I hear and realize
འཁོར་ལོའི་ཚུལ་རྣམས་རབ་ཏུ་བསྐོར་བ་ཡི། །
The inexhaustible melody of the teachings spoken by
དེ་དག་གི་ཡང་གསུང་དབྱངས་མི་ཟད་ལ། །
All the buddhas of past, present and future,
བློ་ཡི་སྟོབས་ཀྱིས་བདག་ཀྱང་རབ་ཏུ་འཇུག །
As they turn the wheels of Dharma!
d) Entering into All the Aeons
མ་འོངས་བསྐལ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་འཇུག་པར་ཡང་། །
Just as the wisdom of the buddhas penetrates all future aeons,
སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་གིས་བདག་ཀྱང་འཇུག་པར་བགྱི། །
So may I too know them, instantly,
གང་ཡང་བསྐལ་པ་དུས་གསུམ་ཚད་དེ་དག །
And in each fraction of an instant may I know
སྐད་ཅིག་ཆ་ཤས་ཀྱིས་ནི་ཞུགས་པར་སྤྱད། །
All that will ever be, in past, present and future!
e) Seeing all the Buddhas in One Instant
དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པ་མི་ཡི་སེང་གེ་གང་། །
In an instant, may I behold all those who are the lions of the human race—
དེ་དག་སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་ལ་བདག་གིས་བལྟ། །
The buddhas of past, present and future!
f) Entering the Sphere of Activity of the Buddhas
རྟག་ཏུ་དེ་དག་གི་ནི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་ལ། །
May I always be engaged in the buddhas’ way of life and action,
སྒྱུ་མར་གྱུར་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྟོབས་ཀྱིས་འཇུག །
Through the power of liberation, where all is realized as like an illusion!
g). Accomplishing and Entering the Pure Lands
གང་ཡང་དུས་གསུམ་དག་གི་ཞིང་བཀོད་པ། །
On a single atom, may I actually bring about
དེ་དག་རྡུལ་གཅིག་སྟེང་དུ་མངོན་པར་བསྒྲུབ། །
The entire array of pure realms of past, of present and future;
དེ་ལྟར་མ་ལུས་ཕྱོགས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། །
And then enter into those pure buddha realms
རྒྱལ་བ་དག་གི་ཞིང་རྣམས་བཀོད་ལ་འཇུག །
In each atom, and in each and every direction.
h) Entering into the Presence of the Buddhas
གང་ཡང་མ་བྱོན་འཇིག་རྟེན་སྒྲོན་མ་རྣམས། །
When those who illuminate the world, still to come,
དེ་དག་རིམ་པར་འཚང་རྒྱ་འཁོར་ལོ་བསྐོར། །
Gradually attain buddhahood, turn the Wheel of Dharma,
མྱ་ངན་འདས་པ་རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་མཐའ་སྟོན། །
And demonstrate the final, profound peace of nirvāṇa:
མགོན་པོ་ཀུན་གྱི་དྲུང་དུ་བདག་མཆི་འོ། །
May I be always in their presence!
Aspiration to the Power of Enlightenment through Nine Powers
ཀུན་ཏུ་མྱུར་བའི་རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་སྟོབས་རྣམས་དང་། །
Through the power of swift miracles,
ཀུན་ནས་སྒོ་ཡི་ཐེག་པའི་སྟོབས་དག་དང་། །
The power of the vehicle, like a doorway,
ཀུན་ཏུ་ཡོན་ཏན་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྟོབས་རྣམས་དང་། །
The power of conduct that possesses all virtuous qualities,
ཀུན་ཏུ་ཁྱབ་པ་བྱམས་པ་དག་གི་སྟོབས། །
The power of loving kindness, all-pervasive,
ཀུན་ནས་དགེ་བའི་བསོད་ནམས་སྟོབས་དག་དང་། །
The power of merit that is totally virtuous,
ཆགས་པ་མེད་པར་གྱུར་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྟོབས། །
The power of wisdom free from attachment, and
ཤེས་རབ་ཐབས་དང་ཏིང་འཛིན་སྟོབས་དག་གིས། །
The powers of knowledge, skilful means and samādhi,
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྟོབས་རྣམས་ཡང་དག་སྒྲུབ་པར་བྱེད། །
May I perfectly accomplish the power of enlightenment!
Aspiration to the Antidotes that Pacify the Obscurations
ལས་ཀྱི་སྟོབས་རྣམས་ཡོངས་སུ་དག་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
May I purify the power of karma;
ཉོན་མོངས་སྟོབས་རྣམས་ཀུན་ཏུ་འཇོམས་པར་བྱེད། །
Destroy the power of harmful emotions;
བདུད་ཀྱི་སྟོབས་རྣམས་སྟོབས་མེད་རབ་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
Render negativity utterly powerless;
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྟོབས་ནི་རྫོགས་པར་བགྱི། །
And perfect the power of Good Actions!
Aspiration to Enlightened Activities
ཞིང་རྣམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམ་པར་དག་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
I shall purify oceans of realms;
སེམས་ཅན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དག་ནི་རྣམ་པར་སྒྲོལ། །
Liberate oceans of sentient beings;
ཆོས་རྣམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རབ་ཏུ་མཐོང་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
Understand oceans of Dharma;
ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རབ་ཏུ་རྟོགས་པར་བྱེད། །
Realize oceans of wisdom;
སྤྱོད་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམ་པར་དག་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
Perfect oceans of actions;
སྨོན་ལམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་པར་བྱེད། །
Fulfil oceans of aspirations;
སངས་རྒྱས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རབ་ཏུ་མཆོད་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །
Serve oceans of buddhas!
བསྐལ་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མི་སྐྱོ་སྤྱད་པར་བགྱི། །
And perform these, without ever growing weary, through oceans of aeons!
Aspiration for Training
a) To Emulate the buddhas
གང་ཡང་དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པའི་རྒྱལ་བ་ཡི། །
All the buddhas throughout the whole of time,
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་བྱེ་བྲག་རྣམས། །
Attained enlightenment through Good Actions, and
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སངས་རྒྱས་ནས། །
Their prayers and aspirations for enlightened action:
དེ་ཀུན་བདག་གིས་མ་ལུས་རྫོགས་པར་བགྱི། །
May I fulfil them all completely!
b) To emulate the bodhisattvas: Samantabhadra
རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་སྲས་ཀྱི་ཐུ་བོ་པ། །
The eldest of the sons of all the buddhas
གང་གི་མིང་ནི་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་ཞེས་བྱ། །
Is called Samantabhadra: ‘All-good’:
མཁས་པ་དེ་དང་མཚུངས་པར་སྤྱད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །
So that I may act with a skill like his,
དགེ་བ་འདི་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་རབ་ཏུ་བསྔོ། །
I dedicate fully all these merits!
ལུས་དང་ངག་དང་ཡིད་ཀྱང་རྣམ་དག་ཅིང་། །
To purify my body, my speech and my mind as well,
སྤྱོད་པ་རྣམ་དག་ཞིང་རྣམས་ཡོངས་དག་པ། །
To purify my actions, and all realms,
བསྔོ་བ་བཟང་པོ་མཁས་པ་ཅི་འདྲ་བ། །
May I be the equal of Samantabhadra
དེ་འདྲར་བདག་ཀྱང་དེ་དང་མཚུངས་པར་ཤོག །
In his skill in good dedication!
c) To emulate the bodhisattvas: Mañjuśrī
ཀུན་ནས་དགེ་བ་བཟང་པོ་སྤྱད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །
In order to perform the full virtue of Good Actions,
འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་ནི་སྨོན་ལམ་སྤྱད་པར་བགྱི། །
I shall act according to Mañjuśrī’s prayers of aspiration,
མ་འོངས་བསྐལ་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་མི་སྐྱོ་བར། །
And without ever growing weary, in all the aeons to come,
དེ་ཡི་བྱ་བ་མ་ལུས་རྫོགས་པར་བགྱི། །
I shall perfectly fulfil every one of his aims!
Concluding Aspiration
སྤྱོད་པ་དག་ནི་ཚད་ཡོད་མ་གྱུར་ཅིག །
Let my bodhisattva acts be beyond measure!
ཡོན་ཏན་རྣམས་ཀྱང་ཚད་བཟུང་མེད་པར་ཤོག །
Let my enlightened qualities be measureless too!
སྤྱོད་པ་ཚད་མེད་པ་ལ་གནས་ནས་ཀྱང་། །
Keeping to this immeasurable activity,
དེ་དག་འཕྲུལ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་འཚལ་བར་བགྱི། །
May I accomplish all the miraculous powers of enlightenment!
Extent of the Aspiration
ནམ་མཁའི་མཐར་ཐུག་གྱུར་པ་ཇི་ཙམ་པར། །
Sentient beings are as limitless
སེམས་ཅན་མ་ལུས་མཐའ་ཡང་དེ་བཞིན་ཏེ། །
As the boundless expanse of space;
ཇི་ཙམ་ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་མཐར་གྱུར་པ། །
So shall my prayers of aspiration for them
བདག་གི་སྨོན་ལམ་མཐའ་ཡང་དེ་ཙམ་མོ། །
Be as limitless as their karma and harmful emotions!
The Benefits of Making Aspirations
Whoever hears this king of dedication prayers, and yearns for supreme enlightenment; Who even once arouses faith, will gain true merit greater still than by offering the victorious buddhas Infinite pure realms in every directions, all ornamented with jewels, or offering them all the highest joys of gods and humans, for as many aeons as there are atoms in those realms.
The Thirteen Benefits in Detail
Whoever truly makes this Aspiration to Good Actions:
Will be never again be born in lower realms;They will be free from harmful companions, and soon behold the Buddha of Boundless Light.
They will acquire all kind of benefits, and live in happiness; Even in this present life all will go well, and before long, they will become just like Samantabhadra.
All negative acts—even the five of immediate retribution; Whatever they have committed in the grip of ignorance, will soon be completely purified, if they recite this Aspiration to Good Actions.
They will possess perfect wisdom, beauty, and excellent signs; Be born in a good family, and with a radiant appearance.
Demons and heretics will never harm them. All three worlds will honour them with offerings. They will quickly go beneath the bodhi tree; and there, they will sit, to benefit all sentient beings, then awaken into enlightenment, turn the wheel of Dharma, and tame Māra with all his hordes.
The full result of keeping, teaching, or reading this Prayer of Aspiration to Good Actions is known to the Buddhas alone:
Have no doubt: supreme enlightenment will be yours!
Dedication of the Merits of this Meritorious Aspiration
1. Dedication that Follows the Bodhisattvas
Just as the warrior Mañjuśrī attained omniscience, and Samantabhadra too, All these merits now I dedicate to train and follow in their footsteps.
2. Dedication that Follows the Buddhas
As all the victorious buddhas of past, present and future; Praise dedication as supreme, so now I dedicate all these roots of virtue
For all beings to perfect Good Actions.
3. Dedication towards Actualizing the Result
When it is time for me to die, let all that obscures me fade away, so I look on Amitābha, there in person, and go at once to his pure land of Sukhāvatī.
In that pure land, may I actualize every single one of all these aspirations!
May I fulfil them, each and every one, and bring help to beings for as long as the universe remains!
4. Dedication towards Receiving a Prophecy from the Buddhas
Born there in a beautiful lotus flower, In that excellent and joyous buddha realm, May the Buddha Amitābha himself grant me the prophecy foretelling my enlightenment!
5. Dedication towards Serving Others
Having received the prophecy there, with my billions of emanations,
Sent out through the power of my mind, may I bring enormous benefit to sentient beings, in all the ten directions!
Conclusion
Through whatever small virtues I have gained
By reciting this “Aspiration to Good Actions”,
May the virtuous wishes of all beings’ prayers and aspirations
All be instantly accomplished!
Through the true and boundless merit
Attained by dedicating this “Aspiration to Good Actions”,
May all those now drowning in the ocean of suffering,
Reach the supreme realm of Amitābha!
May this King of Aspirations bring about
The supreme aim and benefit of all infinite sentient beings;
May they perfect what is described in this holy prayer, uttered by Samantabhadra!
May the lower realms be entirely emptied!
Words of Truth to Accomplish Aspirations
By the blessings of the buddhas who have attained the three kāyas,
And the unchanging truth of reality
As well as the unwavering aspirations of the Saṅgha,
May all the aspirations and dedication prayers be fulfilled!
The dhāraṇī for the accomplishment of all aspirations
ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། པཉྩ་དྲི་ཡ་ཨ་ཝ་བོ་དྷ་ན་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ། །
teyata pentsa driya awa bodhanayé soha
འཕགས་པ་བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རྫོགས་སོ།
pakpa zangpo chöpé mönlam gyi gyalpo dzok so
“The King of Aspirations” comes from the Gandhavyuha Sutra, one of the greatest mahayana sutras. It is said that the Buddha taught it over twenty-one days, quite a short time. According to some explanations, the Gandavyuha is the most extensive and longest of the mahayana sutras. There are numerous versions of the sutra in widely differing lengths. The longest one has eighty-one volumes and exists in Chinese but not in Tibetan. Even this very long version, however, is not complete, for it has only 45,000 volumes and the full version has 100,000. It is also said that the sutra was taught in nine places, including the Radiant Palace, and various god realms, such as Tushita and Having Power Over Appearances to Others.
普賢菩薩十種廣大行願：
禮敬諸佛、稱讚如來、廣修供養、懺悔業障、隨喜功德、請轉法輪、請佛住世、常隨佛學、恆順眾生、普皆迴向。
普賢菩薩說：「願令眾生常得安樂，無諸病苦。欲行惡法，皆悉不成；所修善業，皆速成就。關閉一切諸惡趣門，開示人天涅槃正路。若諸眾生，因其積集諸惡業故，所感一切極重苦果，我皆代受，令彼眾生悉得解脫，究竟成就無上菩提。菩薩如是所修迴向，虛空界盡、眾生界盡、眾生業盡、眾生煩惱盡，我此迴向無有窮盡！念念相續無有間斷，身語意業無有疲厭。」普賢菩薩大願如海不可思量，是我們效法的最高典範。
普賢行願品是《華嚴經》的最後一品，是證入華嚴事事無礙的具體法門。而普賢行願品的十大願王，更是修學《華嚴經》、開啟華嚴法界的要訣所在。
The Golden Light Sutra or Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra ( Sanskrit: सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रराज ), is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the full title is The Sovereign King of Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light.
The name of the sutra derives from the chapter called ” The Confession of the Golden Drum “, where the bodhisattva Ruchiraketu dreams of a great drum that radiates a sublime golden light, symbolizing the dharma or teachings of Gautama Buddha.
The Golden Light Sutra became one of the most important sutras in Japan because of its fundamental message, which teaches that the Four Heavenly Kings protect the ruler who governs his country in the proper manner.
The sutra also expounds the vows of the goddesses Sarasvatī, Lakṣmī and Dṛḍhā to protect any bhikṣu who will uphold and teach the sutra.
” This text is very precious; it brings peace and happiness and is very powerful to stop violence. It gives incredible protection to the country from violence etc. By hearing this text, one’s karma gets purified. ” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This text increases success and, especially for leaders like kings or presidents, brings success in guiding in virtue, the path to happiness. If anyone has problems; if the devas have turned against one and nothing is working; if one’s wealth declines or if one has harm from black magic or spirits, with bad dreams or fearful things happening, then one should wash, put on clean clothes and with a peaceful mind listen to the transmission of this text. Then all will be pacified. Anyone who hears it creates much merit and is highly admired by the buddhas.
In whichever country this is taught, the whole country benefits. The king of that country doesn’t get attacked and disease is eliminated, everyone is happy and the country becomes harmonious; there are no quarrels. The king gives religious freedom and is always protected by the devas. It is especially good to be read in places where there is a lot of fighting. As well, there is prosperity and rains come at the right time.
Anyone who keeps, memorizes or contributes to this text exceeds the eight worldly beings and all their wishes get fulfilled. Buddha told the four guardians to make offerings and serve this text, and always protect the people who memorize or even just read it. The four guardians acknowledged they would protect those who read it and would help and fulfill all their wishes.
Memorizing or making offerings to this text is like making inconceivable offerings to Buddha. Enlightenment will never be reversed within anyone in whose ear these holy words are spoken; the life will always be directed toward enlightenment and one will never fall back.
There is no question if you memorize the text. The deva, Hamachiwa Pala, told Buddha that she will protect the bhikshu who recites this text and he will receive all that is needed: property, a stable mind and so forth. Whoever even tries to read or understand this text will experience the comfort and happiness of devas and humans for 100 billion eons; fame and perfect crops; and will become a buddha.
The earth goddess definitely will help even if only one chapter or one bodhisattva’s name is mentioned; she will protect those sentient beings who even read and try to understand one verse ( four words ), and will fulfill their wishes.
Those sentient beings who hear only one verse will never go to the lower realms. The Buddha told the earth goddess that even if a person hears only one verse, they will be born in the deva realm. Further, the Buddha told the earth goddess the non-virtuous karma of the person who hears even one verse will be eliminated and they will achieve enlightenment.
釋迦佛宣講的《金光明最勝王經》，能為世界和全球和平帶來廣如虛空的利益。 即使只是閱讀一章一節，亦能獲福無量。 此經非常殊勝，能為眾生帶來平和快樂，更有效止息暴行，保護國家免受侵凌。
聽聞此經亦可淨除業障。 此經能促成種種事業，尤能幫助國王或總統等領袖教化人民，使其踏上快樂之道。 性命垂危；被天眾刁難而諸多阻滯；一說話便惹怒朋友、所愛的人、丈夫、妻子、家人甚至僕人；財富損減；受詛咒、魔害、惡夢或恐怖之事困擾的有情，應沐浴更衣，一切障難自當除滅，更可積聚廣大功德，為佛讚歎。
不論此經在何處講說，整個國家亦能獲益，國君不受欺凌，疾疫消滅，眾人歡喜，上下和睦，無有爭鬥；國君賦予人民宗教自由，常獲天人護持。 在爭戰頻頻之處，誦念此經尤有助益。 保存、背誦或倡印此經者，功德勝於天龍八部，願望皆能達成。
佛曾囑咐四大天王供奉此經，恆常護衛背誦或僅僅閱讀此經的有情。 四大天王承諾會保護讀經者，使其心想事成，國土風調雨順，繁榮昌盛。
誦讀金光明最勝王經功德利益
1、吉祥如意速消業障
2、 如意勝願隨願滿足
3、即時福慶遂心樂意
4、普令人天歡喜踴躍
5、能令世界和平安穩
6、護身護國家宅平安
7、去除貧窮官司訴訟
8、速證清靜覺行心性
9、普皆進趣佛道向善
10、往生西方極樂世界
Om Ami Deva Hrih
” OM AMIDEVA HRIH ” is the Mantra of Amitabha, one of the 5 Dhyani-Buddhas in Eastern Buddhism, who represents love and compassion. Amitabha’s Mantra is a variant of his name, meaning ” Infinite Divinity ” or ” Infinite Radiance. “
Sitatapatra (Sanskrit) or Dukkar (Tibetan) is regarded as the female counterpart of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion. Her name translates to ” White Victory Parasol “, which is a reflection of the powerful protection that she offers to practitioners. According to the Sitatapatra Sutra, she emerged from the sacred crown protrusion of Buddha Shakyamuni’s head while he was at Trayastrimsa heaven. The Buddha pronounced her role to “ completely cut asunder all malignant demons and all spells of others and to turn aside all enemies, dangers and hatred. “
Her elaborate form with a thousand arms, has skin that is white in colour like the moon. This form does not have just 0ne thousand arms but also one thousand faces and legs too. On each palm and sole of each foot, Sitatapatra has eyes that watches and protects all sentient beings. She holds onto an assortment of implements like Dharma wheels, Vajras, jewels, lotuses, double vajras, bows, swords, lassos and vajra hooks. But her principle implement is a white parasol that symbolizes victory over death, demons and negativities. Her thousand feet trample upon gods, demigods, ghosts, demons, humans, animals and all manner of obstructive beings.
Praising Protectress Sitatapatra
Recite the following praise. Ring your dorje bell and damaru if you have one:
Abiding in the selfless void,
manifests a white Sitatapatra
With one face, two arms, and three eyes;
Wearing a jeweled crown and layers of celestial garments.
Every palm possess an eye,
Her left hand holds a parasol and her right forms the wish-fulfilling,
She sits in the in the Full Lotus position on the lotus-moon;
Om Vajra Samaya Jah
Long mantra of Sitatapatra
TADYATHA OM ANALE ANALE
KHASAME KHASAME BHAIRE BHAIRE
SAUME SAUME SARVA BUDDHA
ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE SOHA
&
OM SARVA TATHAGATA USHNISHA
SITATA – PATRE HUM PEH
HUM MAMA HUM NI SOHA
Om Sarva Tathagata Usnisha Sitatapatra Hum Phat! Hum Mama Hum Ni Svaha ( medium mantra )
Hum Mama Hum Ni Svaha ( short mantra )
一種改善命運的最佳方法，是持誦佛教密宗的「大白傘蓋佛母心咒」。其咒語很簡短，儀式很簡單方便，而功效卻非常大，有無量不可思議的大威力。
持誦此咒的人，能退避一切人鬼怨敵，摧毀一切邪巫詛咒，避免一切災難橫禍，降伏一切陰魔鬼魅，消除一切奇難雜症惡疾，心身得安泰。一切所求，無論求財、求壽、求子、求婚姻、求智慧、求事業成就、求受人敬愛、求醫治惡疾、求化解冤仇怨恨、求化解官非、求避免意外橫禍，等等，無不如願，無不成就。
持誦此咒的人，常得日月星斗歡喜擁護，大降吉祥，逢凶化吉。功德無量無邊。如發願往生西方者，命終不墮六道，直生淨土。
Dedication
The Supreme Crown of all Tathagatas,
Manifest on the clouds in the heavens.
The powerful and liberated White Parasols,
I prostrate to every one of them;
May my practice of the White Parasol,
speedily accumulate the invincible Dharma Light,
Shielding all beings and subjugating all maras;
Together, may we all soar to the Buddha-Lands!
The mantra that invokes the divine power of Ksitigarbha to help us to eliminate negative karma, especially fixed karma ( bad karma that’s ripening & manifesting just now )
Om Pramardane Svaha – Sanskrit
Om Bo La Mo Ling To Ning Soha – Mandarin
One should chant this powerful mantra while visualising the purifying blue rays encompassing ones body. The intense blue aura that originates from Ksitigarbha’s wish fulfilling jewel would cleanse & bless us. His utterly divine blue aura would then resonates within our heart chakra.
Shakyamuni ( the sage of the Shakyan clan ) is the historical Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama.
Shakyamuni was almost certainly the first enlightened figure to be visualized. Shakyamuni’s mantra is a play on his name. Muni means sage. Maha means great. So the mantra reads “ Om wise one, wise one, greatly wise one, wise one of the Shakyans, Hail! ”
The mantra of Shakyamuni Buddha could be said to be the essence of the Buddha, the essence of his enlightenment. It is in no way separated from the Buddha himself.
TADYATHA OM MUNE MUNE MAHA MUNEYE SVAHA
As you chant this mantra, visualize millions of golden light rays emanating from the Buddha’s holy body and entering your body through the crown of your head. This brings you a mountain of blessings that purifies eons of negative karma.
We should practice purification on a regular basis because of the deep realization of the psycho-mechanics of negative karma, especially its four fundamentals: negative karma is certain to bring suffering; it multiplies exponentially; if eradicated, it cannot bring its suffering result; and once created, it never simply disappears.
The Vajrasattva mantra is also known as the 100 Syllable Mantra. It is typically repeated 100,000 times with the goal of purifying the karma of the individual reciting it.
OM
Syllable of the most supreme exclamation of praise
BENZAR SATO SA MA YA
Vajrasattva’s Samaya
MA NU PALAYA BENZAR SATO
O Vajrasattva, protect the samaya
TENO PA TISHTHA DRI DHO ME BHA WA
May you remain firm in me
SU TO KA YO ME BHA WA
Grant me complete satisfaction.
SU PO KA YO ME BHA WA
Grow within me ( increase the positive within me )
ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA
Be loving towards me
SARVA SIDDHI ME PRAYATSA
Grant me all the accomplishments
SARVA KARMA SU TSA ME
As well as all the activities.
TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU
Make my mind virtuous.
HUNG
Syllable of the heart essence, the seed syllable of Vajrasattva.
HA HA HA HA
Syllables of the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, and the four kāyas
HO
Syllable of joyous laughter in them
BHAGAWAN SARVA TATHAGATA
Bhagawan, who embodies all the Vajra Tathāgatas
BENZRA MA ME MUNTSA
Do not abandon me
BENZRI BHA WA
Grant me realization of the vajra nature
MA HA SA MA YA SATO
O great Samayasattva
AH
Make me one with you.
Syllable of uniting in non-duality
HUM
Syllable of the wisdom of great bliss
PHAT
Syllable that clarifies the wisdom of inseparable bliss-emptiness and destroys the dualistic mind that obstructs realization
Meaning of the mantra: You, Vajrasattva, have generated the holy mind ( bodhicitta ) according to your pledge ( samaya ). Your holy mind is enriched with the simultaneous holy actions of releasing transmigratory beings from samsara ( the circling, suffering aggregates ). Whatever happens in my life ; happiness or suffering, good or bad – with a pleased, holy mind, never give up but please guide me. Please stabilize all happiness, including the happiness of the upper realms, actualize all actions and sublime and common realizations, and please make the glory of the five wisdoms abide in my heart.
Vajrasattva’s mantra is a powerful purification prayer that invokes the mindstreams of all the Buddhas. Recite the mantra 7 or 21 times or as many times as possible.
” Before any confession, arousing the bodhichitta of intention and application is indispensable. The Buddha taught that confessing your evil deeds and downfalls without arousing bodhichitta, even though you might apply the four powers, will reduce your faults but not purify them altogether. Sincerely giving rise to bodhichitta, however, will of itself purify all past misdeeds, whatever they might be. “
And,
” If you stay undistracted and do not mix your recitation with ordinary speech, to say the hundred syllable mantra one hundred and eight times without interruption will undoubtedly purify all your evil actions and obscurations, and all violations and breaches of vows and samayas. Such is Vajrasattva’s promise. “
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva said: ” If any virtuous men or virtuous women, who recite and hold this holy Dharani, Bodhicitta could be developed; Keep the Abstinent-precepts; With the heart of equality towards all living beings, keep reciting this Dharani without interruption – reside in a clean room, clean themselves, wear clean clothes, hang up streamers and light up lamps, make offerings with fragrances, flowers, vegetable foods of hundreds of tastes, stop their hearts from wandering, and recite and hold this Dharani; Then Sunlight Bodhisattva & Moonlight Bodhisattva and innumerable Gods and Immortals will come to bear witness and enhance the efficacy of their recitation. “
” At that time, I will illuminate them with a thousand eyes, and protect and support them with a thousand hands. From then on, they will be able to master all worldly literature, and will perfectly understand all Exterior paths’ theories and sorceries, as well as the Veda Scriptures. “
” One who recites and holds this holy mantra can heal all the 84000 kinds of diseases of the world, without exception. He also can command all ghosts and spirits, vanquish heavenly demons, and tame all Exterior paths practitioners. “
” If one is reading Sutras or practicing Dhyana (Zen) in a mountain or in wilderness, and some mountain-spirits, various ghosts, demons, monsters or Devas come to disturb and make one unable to concentrate, recite this mantra once, then all those ghosts and spirits will be tied up. “
” If one can recites this Mantra in accord with Dharma and arouse merciful and compassionate heart towards all living beings, I will then command all virtuous Gods, Dragon Kings, and Vajra Secret-Traces Divinities to always follow and guard him, never leaving his side, guarding him as their own eyes and lives. “
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva then said a misfortune-eliminating and refreshingly cool Gatha ( verse ):
When walking in wilderness, mountain or marsh,
if encountering tigers, wolves, or other fierce beasts,
or snakes, spirits, demons, monsters, ghosts,
they will be unable to harm the Mantra-holder when they hear this Mantra;
When voyaging on river or sea,
poisoned dragons, flood dragons and Makaras, Yaksas, Rakshas, fishes, and soft-shelled turtles, will dodge when they hear this Mantra;
If besieged by battle arrays or robbers,
or being robbed by villains,
recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely, those villains will show mercy and go back;
If one is imprisoned by government official, jailed, chained and locked,
recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely, the officer will show mercy and set him free;
If entered a house of a poisonous insects raising family in a wild way, the family purpose to venom with drinks, foods or medicines,
recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely,
the poison will turn to nectar;
When a woman is giving birth to a child,
evil demons comes to obstruct the birth and causing suffering and oppressive pain, recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely,
the demons will disperse, leaving a safe and comfortable birth;
If evil dragons or pestilence ghosts spread poison,
people are infected by pyrexia and about to die,
recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely,
diseases will be healed and lives of people will be lengthen;
If evil dragons or ghosts spread the tumescent diseases,
people suffer from carbuncles, sore, abscess, ulcer and bleeding, recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely,
then spit three times to the abscesses and it will be cured.
If there are muddled and wicked living beings who aroused immoral minds, causing hatred by sending nightmares, ghosts and curses to you,
recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely,
then the hexes and evil spells will return to its original senders.
When Dharma is about to disappear,
the world is evil, feculent and disordered,
people’s sexual desire are like raging fire,
their hearts are deluded and they confuse right and wrong.
They have adulteries behind their spouses,
and think of lust days and nights ceaselessly.
If they can recite the Great Compassion Dharani sincerely,
the fire of sexual desire will quench and the evil minds will extinguish.
If anyone prays for any wish in his present life, he should keep the Abstinent- precepts and keep reciting this Dharani for 21 days, then his wishes will certainly be fulfilled. From the verge of the previous death to the verge of the next birth, all his evil karmas will be purified.
If a human or heavenly being, who recites and holds this Dharani, baths in a river or a sea, the nearby living beings wet by his bathwater will have all their weighty sins cleaned and be reborn in purelands of other directions. They will be born through miraculous creation from lotuses.
If one who recites and holds this Dharani is walking, a wind blows his hair and clothes, then the living beings blown by the wind that previously touched the Mantra holder will have all their heavy obstructions and evil karmas cleansed, will not continue to suffer from karmas of the three evil paths, and often be born in front of Buddhas. It should be known that the Mantra holder’s blessings, virtues, and rewards will be unimaginable.
If the Mantra holder says anything, no matter good or bad, it sounds like pure Dharma – to all heavenly demons, Exterior paths practitioners, Gods, Dragons, Ghosts, and Spirits, thus they will respect the Mantra holder as if he were a Buddha.
As to one who recites and holds this Dharani, we should know that he is a store of Buddha-bodies, because he is cherished by 9.9 billions Buddhas.
We should know that he is a brilliant light store, because he is illuminated by the light of all Tathagatas.
We should know that he is a store of mercies and compassions, because he constantly saves living beings with this Dharani.
We should know that the he is a store of Dhyana and Samadhi, because hundreds of thousands of Samadhis often appear in front of him.
We should know that the he is an Empty Spaces store, because he constantly observes living beings with wisdom of emptiness.
We should know that the he is a store of intrepidities, because he is constantly guarded by Dragons, Gods, and virtuous Gods.
We should know that the he is a Wonderful Language store, because the Dharani-Sound come from his mouth is uninterrupted.
We should know that the he is an Eternally-Abiding store, because the three-disasters and evil-kalpas cannot harm him.
We should know that the he is a Liberation store, because Heavenly Demons and Exterior Paths Practitioners cannot detain him.
We should know that the he is a Medicine King store, because he constantly heals living beings with this Dharani.
We should know that the he is a supernatural power store, because he can freely travel round the Buddha Worlds.
The glorifications for the merits and virtues of the Mantra holder are endless.
If he recites the Dharani for all living beings that he sees, make them hear the Dharani and make it become a cause of their achievement of Bodhi, then, his merits and virtues are immeasurable, boundless, and cannot be praised completely.
If he wish to command the four guardian gods, he should recite towards a sandalwood and burn it, then he will achieve the goal – because the power of the Bodhisattva’s great compassionate vows are deep and weighty, and the power of this holy Dharani is mighty and vast.
The Buddha told Ananda: ” When there are catastrophes in a country, if the King of the country can manage state affairs according to correct laws, be liberal toward people and animals, not to do anybody any injustice, and for 7 days & 7 nights, keep both his body and his mind sincere and diligent, and in this way recite and hold this Great Compassionate Heart Dharani Holy Mantra, then all the catastrophes of his country will disappear, the five kinds of crops will be abundant and his people will live in peace and happiness. “
” If a country is being frequently invaded by enemies from other countries, people are unsafe and ministers are traitorous, pestilences are spreading everywhere, the rains and the droughts are unbalanced and unseasonable, or even the sun and the moon lost their accuracy, when such disasters come, the people should make a statue of Thousand-Handed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and set it facing the west, make offerings to it sincerely with fragrances, flowers, streamers, precious canopies, or vegetable foods and drinks of hundreds of tastes, and, for 7 days & 7 nights, if the King of the country can keep both his body and mind sincere and diligent, and in this way recite and hold this Dharani, then the foreign enemies will be tamed of themselves, they will return to their own countries and make no further disturbance. These countries will be in communication and will have friendly relations, the princes and officers will be loyal, the queen, the prince’s wife, and the maids will also be loyal to the king. Dragons, ghosts and spirits will protect this country, the rains will be seasonal, the fruits will be abundant, and the people will be happy. “
” If anyone in a family gets a serious evil disease, or if hundreds of monsters appear, or if ghosts, spirits, and demons deplete and demolish the family; or if some villains malign the family and plot to harm them; or if the members of the family are disharmonious, they should set up a Mandala ( altar ) in front of a statue of Thousand-Handed and Thousand- Eyed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, recite the name of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva with their deep-felt sincere heart, and then recite this Dharani fully 1000 times, then all those misfortunes will disappear, the family will be peaceful forever. “
Sanskrit version of The Great Compassion Mantra, Nilakantha Dharani, or Mahakaruna Dharani, is a popular mantra also associated with the six-syllable mantra of Avalokitesvara.
Chanted for protection and purification.
1. Namo ratna-trayāya
2. Namo āriyā
3. Valokite-śvarāya
4. Bodhi-sattvāya
5. Maha-sattvāya
6. Mahā-kārunikāya
7. Om
8. Sarva-raviye
9. Sudhanadasya
10. Namo skritvā imam āryā
11. Valokite-śvara ramdhava
12. Namo narakindi
13. Hrih Mahā-vat-svāme
14. Sarva-arthato-śubham
15. Ajeyam
16. Sarva-satva Namo-vasatva Namo-vāka
17. Mavitāto
18. Tadyathā
19. Om avaloki
20. Lokate
21. Krate
22. E Hrih
23. Mahā-bodhisattva
24. Sarva sarva
25. Mala mala
26. Mahi Mahi ridayam
27. Kuru kuru karmam
28. Dhuru dhuru vijayate
29. Mahā-vijayati
30. Dhara dhara
31. Dhrini
32. Śvarāya
33. Chala chala
34. Mama vimala
35. Muktele
36. Ehi ehi
37. Śhina śhina
38. Ārsam prasari
39. Viśva viśvam
40. Prasaya
41. Hulu hulu mara
42. Hulu hulu hrih
43. Sara sara
44. Siri siri
45. Suru suru
46. Bodhiya Bodhiya
47. Bodhaya Bodhaya
48. Maitreya
49. Narakindi
50. Dhrish-nina
51. Bhayamana
52. Svāhā
53. Siddhāya
54. Svāhā
55. Maha siddhāya
56. Svāhā
57. Siddha-yoge
58. Śvaraya
59. Svāhā
60. Narakindi
61. Svāhā
62. Māranara
63. Svāhā
64. Śira simha-mukhāya
65. Svāhā
66. Sarva mahā-asiddhaya
67. Svāhā
68. Cakra-asiddhāya
69. Svāhā
70. Padma-kastāya
71. Svāhā
72. Narakindi-vagalāya
73. Svaha
74. Mavari-śankharāya
75. Svāhā
76. Namo ratna-trāyāya
77. Namo āryā
78. Valokite
79. Śvaraya
80. Svāhā
81. Om Sidhyantu
82. Mantra
83. Padāya
84. Svāhā
Magnificent Mantra & Splendid Sutra 