THE MIRACULOUS ACTIVITY SADHANA OF VAJRAKILAYA, THE RAZOR WHICH DESTROYS AT A TOUCH by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje
How Tibetan Buddhism Makes Me Feel, by Tara Carreon Revelations of a Mother Goddess, by David Icke The unbearable blue-black raksha body possessing the nine dances of wrath and rage and the brilliant ferocity of a hundred thousand suns, to the vajra body I give praise. With the terrifying HA HA HUNG PHET, the raging roar like a thousand dragons and the vajra laugh which shakes the three realms, to the speech of the heruka, I give praise. * From the hearts of the hosts of deities of the self-visualization and front visualization, shine rays of razor-sharp mantra light like showers of meteors and forks of wild lightning. These set upon all the dualistic forces of harm and sever their aortas.
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Self-arisen and primordially pure, the eight thousand herbs of prepared medicines and the supreme samaya of alchemical mercury are mixed together into one powerful taste. May all the deities of the mandala accept this offering and bestow the accomplishment of unsurpassable magical transformation. * If you wish to enact the activity ritual specific to this deity, use the great red averting torma. Sprinkle poison and blood on the mandala that is the basis of the activity. Place on this either a properly laid-out diagram in colored sand or a painted version of a three-sided chojung with a ring of fire around it and a wheel within it complete with rim and hub. If either of these diagrams is unobtainable, it will be sufficient to use a piece of skin soaked in blood with piles of black grain on it. On a tripod in the center of this in an iron vessel, place a red torma molded of dough made from the raw flour of some black grain moistened with blood. The torma is called "thunderbolt" and has sharp, blade-like edges. Around it are small offering tormas equal in number to the deities, and on top of it is the representation of Vajrakilaya and a garuda, over which is placed a canopy of black silk. As well, wrathful ornaments are arranged in a grand and fierce display: Bowls of blood, fragrant tse grass, mustard seed, red brambles, a plaque marked "XXX" and so forth. Finally, these are surrounded by the wrathful sense offerings (the "great red" for drinking water and so forth). Gather together the necessary articles for the ritual: A phurba, an effigy and the substances for dividing, casting down, suppressing and rendering mad, the power substances, the liberating knife, the hammer, triangular ladles and so on. * Burn gugul and so forth as incense, and perform the separating mudra with raven and owl feathers. * From emptiness appear the torma vessel, an enormous red conch skullcup, vast and extensive. Inside are the torma substances, which are obtained from the liberation of the forces of dualistic obstruction: mountains of flesh, oceans of blood, heaps of bones, foaming masses of brains and fat and a complete array, with no omission, of all offerings that are pleasing to the senses and worthy of being samaya substances. In essence, these have the nature of the amrita of the inexhaustible wisdom; inconceivable, they fill the extent of space. * Once again, the great torma instantly becomes the majestic Dorje Zhonnu, with an army of the eight classes of defiant gods and demons. With wrathful, fierce and
fearsome forms, they fill the three states of conditioned existence and bring down a rain of disease, weapons and poison, rapacious in their activity to liberate the forces of dualistic obstruction. * Tame the hordes of mara with the force of the Vajra cannibal! *
This King of Confessions, in just a few words, can stir samsara from its depths like alchemy applied to iron. Table of Contents: •
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Opening Prayers o The Prayer to Supplication to Dudjom Lingpa o The Prayer of Supplication to Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje o The Prayer That Swiftly Accomplishes All Wishes o Prayer to Guru Rinpoche to Clear Obstacles on the Path o Long Life Prayer for All Lamas o Prayer for the Nyingmapa Lineage and the Tradition o Yeshe Tsogyal’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoche as He Left Tibet o The Aspiration of the Vajradhatu Mandala by Guru Rinpoche o The Aspirations Prayer to Journey to the Realm of the Copper Colored Mountain: A Chariot of Happiness and Good Fortune o The Verses of Prayer to the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones The Preliminary Practice of the New Treasure of Dudjom The Prayer to the Legendary Incarnations, Called “Crystal Pearls” The Daily Practice of Vajrakilaya Main Practice: The Miraculous Activity Sadhana of Vajrakilaya, the Razor Which Destroys at a Touch o Lineage Prayer o First Section Preparation Wheel of Protection Kar Tor Gek Tor Confession Descent of Blessings Blessing the Offering Materials o Second Section The Main Practice Visualization of the Commitment Mandala Invitation of the Wisdom Beings
Requesting the Commitment Being and the Wisdom Being to Reside Inseparable Homage Offerings: Conventional Offering Special Offering: Medicine Torma Offering Rakta Offering Offering of the Three Poisons Offering of the Liberation of Union The Praises The Recitation Exhortation Visualization The Recitation of Approach (nyen pa) The Recitation of Accomplishment (drup pa) The Activity Recitation (leg gyur) The Recitation of the Close Approach of the Wrathful Mantra (ngen ngak nye war nyen pa Long-Life Recitation Vowels and Consonants, etc. To Close the Session Third Section: Stages of Conclusion The Tsok Offering Invitation of the Tsok Assembly Offering the First Portion of Tsok Intermediate Offering of Confession Last Offering of Slaying Kangwa Tsok Offering Verse Heruka Prayer Giving the Remains Recalling the Contract Offering to the Tenma Goddesses The Dance of Suppression Requesting the Spiritual Attainments Heruka Confession Stabilizing the Presence Clarification of Eternalism and Nihilism Prayer to Dedicate the Merit Prayer of Good Fortune Lower Activity (Medlei) Preparation Warding Off Harm Slaying Exhorting the Rigdzins Exhorting the Principal Deities
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Exhorting the Oath-Bound Ones Offering the Golden Drink Requesting a Fair Witness Creating the Objects of Visualization Summoning the Consciousness Dispatching the Messengers Depriving Them of Their Defenses Casting Them Into the Effigy Binding Them Into Suppression Rendering Them Mad Transfixing Them with the Spike Crushing Them To Dust Feeding Them to the Mouths of the Deities Calling Upon the Sacred Bonds Enjoining the Enlightened Activity that Averts Negativity The Clapping of Hands Offering Torma as Power Substance Opening the Door Recalling the Contract Offering the Golden Drink (2) o Vajrakilaya Longevity Sadhana o Summoning Longevity o The Abbreviated Offering Prayer to the Phurba Protectors The Protectors o The Combined Essence of a Daily Torma Offering to the Three Roots and the Oath Bound Protectors (Damchen Chitor) o A Concise Torma Offering to the Protectress of the Secret Mantra, Mamo Ngag Sun Ma -- Ekadzati o A Brief Supplication Offering to the Three Protectors: Ekadzati, Rahula and Dorje Legpa (Maza Dor Sum) o The Prayer to Activate the Miraculous Activity of Marpo Lha Sum Called: "The Indignant Laugh of Blazing Powerful Wrath" (Marpo Lha Sum) o The Supplication to Invoke Shenpa Extracted From the Main Terma o Nodchin Shenpa Protector Prayer o The Abbreviated Offering Prayer to the Phurba Protectors The Inexpressible Absolute Confession From the Stainless Secret of Vajrasattva: The Doctrine of the King of Purification, the Essence of Confession
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THE MIRACULOUS ACTIVITY SADHANA OF VAJRAKILAYA, THE RAZOR WHICH DESTROYS AT A TOUCH
OPENING PRAYERS Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche Hung. In the northwest country of Orgyen Born in the pollen heart of the lotus, Possessing astonishingly supreme spiritual attainments, You are well known as Pedma Jungney (the Lotus Born), Surrounded by a retinue of many dakinis, Following you, I practice. Please come forth to bestow blessings. GURU PEDMA SIDDHI HUNG. The Prayer to Supplication to Dudjom Lingpa The essential nature of the undeceiving three precious jewels, The supreme expression of the three kayas of the ocean-like buddhas, The great perfection dharma king of the three realms: To the feet of Dudjom Lingpa, I pray.
In the play of the pure equality of samsara and nirvana, May buddhahood be obtained by actualizing relation and liberation. The Prayer of Supplication to Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje In the past, you were the Vidyadhara Nuden Dorje Tsal. In the future, you will be the Buddha Mopa Thayei. Now you are Padmasambhava’s regent, the actual presence of Dro Ben Lotsawa. To Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, I pray. This was written by myself upon the request of the faithful. SARWA MANGALAM In the Ogmin Dharmadhatu Palace, The actual nature of all the Buddhas of the Three Times Reveals the direct perception of the Dharmakaya Self-Mind. To the feet of the Root Lama, I pray. The Prayer That Swiftly Accomplishes All Wishes EH MA HO. How Astonishing! In the center of the lake, on the pollen heart of a lotus, Is the spontaneously accomplished primordial wisdom deity of the five embodiments, Great self-born Padmasambhava and consort, Surrounded by dakinis like massive heaps of clouds; to you I pray. Grant blessings that my wishes may be swiftly accomplished. Due to the strength of fully-ripening negative karmic behaviors, All illness, negative forces, obstacles, war, strife, and famine develop. By fervently remembering your face, they are exhausted. Before you, from my heart I implore you, Lord Orgyen: Grant blessings that my wishes may be swiftly accomplished. Liberating the mind through the practice of faith, morality, (and) generosity, With modesty and shame, (through) listening (to dharma) And being fully endowed with wisdom, these are the seven wealths. By the strength of these (qualities) rising in the minds of all sentient beings, They will breathe the treasure of bliss and happiness in this world. Grant blessings that my wishes may be swiftly accomplished. All illness, and the suffering of undesirable circumstances, The rising up of demonic forces, and the punishment of the kind (of demonic spirits), Fire, water, wild animals, treacherous passageways, and great fears – During all such temporary occasions, and when the end of this life is reached, There is no other source of refu8ge or hope (than you). Hold me fast with your compassion, Lord Orgyen. Grant blessings that my wishes may be swiftly accomplished.
(Optional Prayer) I pray to you, Orgyen Rinpoche, Without allowing conflicting circumstances and obstacles to arise, Accomplish all conducive circumstances and wishes, and Bestow the supreme and common spiritual attainments. From my heart I pray to you, Lord Orgyen. Hold me fast with your hook of merciful compassion, Lotus-born One. In this and future lifetimes, grant blessings that all excellent and meaningful desires May be accomplished in accordance with the dharma! OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA SIDDHI HUNG Prayer to Guru Rinpoche to Clear Obstacles on the Path Precious teacher, the embodiment of all buddhas of the three times, Great bliss, the lord of all accomplishments, Wrathful power, the one who dispels all hindrances and subdues demons – I pray, bestow your blessings. Please remove the outer, inner, and secret obstacles And grant the blessing to accomplish wishes spontaneously. Long Life Prayer for All Lamas I pray for the excellent health of the teacher, I pray for supreme long life as well. I pray for the ever-increasing expansion of miraculous activity. Grant blessings that I may never be separate from the lama! Prayer for the Nyingmapa Lineage and the Tradition May the great tradition of Khenpo Shantarakshita, Lobpon Padmasambhava, and the dharma king Trisong Detsun, Increase and spread throughout the three realm world. May the appearance of the Three Jewels, and the mindstreams of beings, Remain inseparable, and bring sublime well being throughout the three times. By Jnana. Yeshe Tsogyal’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoche as He Left Tibet NAMO GURU When the master Padmasambhava was leaving for the land of rakshas at the summit of Mang Yul pass, Yeshe Tsogyal, having done many prostrations and circumambulations, bowed down to his feet and made this prayer.
By the blessing of the Maha Guru, Through all of my lifetimes, In the palace of the pure land, May I become inseparable with the lama. By my stable faith May I please him by perfect service. May I be able to receive his blessing and the nectar of his instructions, The essence of his profound realization. By the blessing of his body, speech, and mind, May my three doors, (body, speech and mind) ripen, and Through the two profound stages of generation and completion, May I obtain power and spiritual accomplishments. May all the demons of incorrect thinking and their assemblies, As well as illness, malevolent spirits, and obstacles, be pacified, and May (my) endowments and retinues increase So that all my thoughts are wish-fulfillingly accomplished. In cemeteries, high in the snow mountains, and other secluded places, In prosperous and favorable places, May I be able to constantly practice The nectar of Buddha mind, the profound Samadhi. By the results of practicing, May I be able to accomplish the four supreme activities. May all the guardians come under my control And thus enable me to guard the Buddha’s teachings. May the meaning of the Buddha’s teachings Arise spontaneously within my mind. May I possess supreme knowledge And thus be able to attain the highest realization. Through the interdependence of bodhicitta May I be able to control all beings, And by the power of wish-fulfilling, unobstructed bodhicitta, May all the connections I make be purposeful. May the Buddha’s teaching increase And may its followers flourish in the teaching. May all beings achieve happiness And may all the Buddha realms be perfect. Through my body, speech and mind, According to the needs of beings to be tamed, May there appear measureless nirmanakaya embodiments In whatever manifestation is the most beneficial. In short, may all of samsara and nirvana Become inseparable with the guru. May I immediately attain buddhahood, The state of the three kayas, indistinguishable, May the beings pray to me.
May the guru bless me. May the yidam grant me siddhi. May the dakinis give me prophecy, May the dharma protectors removemy obstacles. May the Buddha’s teaching ever increase. May all beings be happy. May I practice dharma day and night. May I spontaneously fulfill the two aims (of self and others). By this perfect virtue May I be able to root out suffering from samsara. May I never fall into the samsaric ocean again. May I be able to reveal the three kayas. The great secret treasury of all buddhas, The supreme teaching of Vajrayana – May it spread everywhere Like the sun rising into the sky. Through this and other virtuous deeds which I will accumulate, May the qualities and causes which fulfill the wishes of the spiritual teachers arise. May I have the strength to develop and spread the precious teaching of Buddha. May my knowledge, compassion and ability reach the ultimate state and may I become a Buddha. May I be able to carry all the beings who are suffering in the six realms across the ocean of samsara, so they may attain buddhahood immediately. I, Pema Lingpa, found this prayer from the lion-faced rock of Lho-Drag Mendo. Translated by Bhakha Tulku, Pema Tenzin, at Kunzang Palyul Choling, Poolesville, Maryland in February, 1990. The Aspiration of the Vajradhatu Mandala by Guru Rinpoche NAMO GURU On the tenth day of the monkey month in the monkey year, Orgyen Rinpoche uttered this aspiration on the occasion of revealing the Vajradhatu mandala in the turquoise covered middle chamber of Samye. Thereafter, the king and the disciples made it their daily practice. All future generations should wholeheartedly take it up as their practice, as well. Victorious ones and your sons in the ten directions and four times, Assemblies of gurus, yidams, dakinis, and dharma protectors, Please come here, all of you, numerous as dust motes in the world, And be seated on the lotus and moon seat in the sky before me. With respectful body, speech, and mind I bow down And present to you outer, inner, secret, and suchness offerings. In the presence of you sugatas, the supreme objects of worship,
I feel shame for the gatherings of my past evil actions And confess regretfully my present non-virtues. In order to turn away from them in the future, I shall restrain myself. I rejoice in all gatherings of merit and virtue And ask you, victorious one, not to pass away into nirvana But to turn the dharma wheel of the tripitaka and the unexcelled teacings. All accumulations of virtue I dedicate to the minds of beings, So they may reach unsurpassed liberation. Buddhas and your sons please listen to me. May this excellent aspiration which I have here begun Be expressed in accordance with The victorious Samantabhadra an dhis sons And with the wisdom of noble Manjushri. May all the precious masters, the splendor of the doctrine, Reach everywhere like the sky. May they shine on everyone like the sun and moon And may their lives be firm like mountains. May the precious sangha, the foundation of the doctrine, Be in harmony, keep pure vows, and be wealthy in the three trainings. May the practitioners of Mantrayana, the essence of the doctrine, Keep the samaya and perfect the development and completion stages. May the ruler who supports the dharma, the patron of the doctrine, Expand his dominion and aid the Buddhist teachings. May the nobility and chieftains, the servants of the doctrine, Increase their intelligence and be endowed with resourcefulness. May all rich householders, the sponsors of the doctrine, Have wealth and enjoyments and be free from harm. May all free countries with faith in the doctrine Have peace and happiness and be free from obstacles. May I, a yogin on the path, Have flawless amaya and fulfillment of my wishes. May anyone connected with me through good or evil karma, Both now and ultimately, be cherished by the victorious ones. May all beings enter the gate of the unexcelled vehicle And attain the vast kingdom of Samantabhadra. Exert yourself in this aspiration during the six sessions. SA MA YA GYA The great treasure revealer Choggyur Lingpa, emanation of Prince Murub, revealed this treasure among a crowd of people. He took it from underneath the upper part of Piled Jewels Rock Mountain situated on the right slope of the most sacred place, Sengchen Namtrak. The silk paper, made from the robe of Vairocana with Tibetan shurma letters written by Tsogyal, was then immediately transcribed correctly by Padma Garwang Lodro Thaye. May virtuous goodness increase.
The Aspirations Prayer to Journey to the Realm of the Copper Colored Mountain: A Chariot of Happiness and Good Fortune The purity of appearances of one’s own perceptions is the vajra realm of great bliss. The spontaneously arisen Ogmin Dharmadhatu, an interweaving dance of illusory emanations, is The most perfected among the infinite pure lands of all the buddhas. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. Atop a beautiful mountain of ruby Is the jewel dome and levels of the celestial palace, Wonderfully perfect in design and beauty. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. Surrounding are lush lawns and sandlewood groves and Turquoise colored marshes blooming with lotuses of various colors, Youthfully boasting their full bloom and their beautiful pollen hearts. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. Camphor scented springs of flowing amrita Cascade into swirling pools – LHUNG LHUNG, Like the flowing movements of youthful dancers. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. From the open eyes of the tent of interlacing rainbow light rays Fall a rain of flowers like strands of molecules Among which the Ging Chens wind in their dance of bliss. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. All fully perfected desirable qualities are The cloud of beautifully adorned dakinis, Which endlessly spread out in all directions like a canopy. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. At the head of the assembled vidyadharas Is the powerful conqueror Padma Jungney, the Lotus-born Guru, Proclaiming to all directions the lion’s roar of the profound secret. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. Having revealed that he is the essential nature of all buddhas, With the unequalled power of primordial wisdom, knowledge and loving kindness, He employs appropriate methods to assist the needs of countless beings. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. A treasure of ocean-like noble qualities that has no limit – By the mere thought of it, one is uplifted and this pure land is beheld, A brilliantly blazing wheel of astonishing miraculous activitiy. May I be born in the realm of the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain. With immutable strength may I arrive, at this very moment, In the citadel of the beautiful pureland of Kha Chod Padma Od, and Through the liberation of accomplishing the mind’s supreme wish of benefiting self and others, May I never be anything other than one with you, oh Guru!
This prayer was written from the heart with a mind of intense longing by the old man Yigdral Yeshe Dorje to be the cause of the noble woman Dekyong Yeshe Wangmo’s journey to the pure realm of lotus light. Translated by Orgyen Yeshe Phuntsok at Orgyen Dorje Den, S.F., CA. 1990. Possessor of great kindness, essence of all the buddhas, Orgyen Rinpoche, to you I pray. At the very moment this life is over, Bless me that I may take rebirth in the realm of Lotus Light. Written by Jnana. Appearances, sound and awareness (are) experienced as the deity, mantra and the dharmakaya. Within this vast expanse of the display of enlightened embodiments and primordial wisdom, Through the practice of the great yoga of the profound secret May we remain indivisible with essential essence of the one taste of enlightened mind. In all my lifetimes may I meet with perfectly pure spiritual teachers, and Remaining inseparable, may I utilize the glorious dharma! Supremely perfectly all qualities and talents on the stages and paths, May I swiftly achieve the state of the glorious Lama! The Verses of Prayer to the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones If these verses are repeated just once before beginning any kind of activity, whatever is wished for will be accomplished in accordance with one’s needs. Keep this in mind while reciting. In the natural, spontaneously present, perfectly pure phenomenal existence, To all who dwell in the auspicious realms of the ten directions, The Buddhas, Dharma and assemblies of the Noble Sangha. I prostrate and pray that all may be auspicious for myself and all others. To Dronmed, Gyalpo, Tsalten, Dondrub Gong, Japa’I Gyenpal, Geidrag Paldampa, Kunla Gongpa, Gyacher Dragpa-chen, Lhunpo Tarphag, Tsaldrag Pal and Ni, Nobles Ones, known for your consideration of all sentient beings, Noble Ones, known for your superior display of enlightened activities that grant mental satisfaction, Merely hearing your names increases all glory and auspiciousness. I prostrate to the eight Sugatas! To the youthful Manjushri, the glorious Vajra-holder,
The powerful Avalkitesvara, the noble protector Maitreya, Sayi Nyingpo, Dribpa Namparsel, Namkhai Nyingpo, the supreme Noble Kuntuzangpo, Utpal Dorje, Pedkar, Lushing and Norbu Dawa, Raldri Nyima, Holders of the excellent hand emblems of supreme noble good fortune, I prostrate to the eight Bodhisattvas! The supreme jeweled umbrella, the auspicious golden fish, The wishfulfilling vase, the mind-pleasing kamala flower, The conch of fame and glory, the fully endowed endless knot, The eternal victory banner, the all-powerful wheel – You who hold these eight supreme precious signs, Offered to the Conquerors of all directions and times, Attractive maidens of pleasure, to recall your nature increases all that is noble. I prostrate to the eight goddesses of good fortune! Tsangpa Chenpo, Dejung Sedmed-u, Migton Den and Gyalpo Yulkhor Srug, Pagkyei-po and Luwang, Mig Mi-zang, Namto Sei, and Lha-dzei Khorlo, Holders of the trident, short spear and vajra, Vina, sword, stupa and banner of victory, Who make auspiciousness and positivity grow in three realms. I prostrate to the eight guardians of the world! Concerning the activity that myself and others are about to begin, By pacifying all obstructions and unwanted harm, May the noble and meaningful increase and all wishes be accomplished. May good fortune, happiness and prosperity be fully-endowed!! If this prayer is recited upon awakening all that is meaningful will be accomplished. If recited before sleep, excellent dreams will be observed. If recited prior to going to another country or place, there will be victory in all directions. If recited before beginning an activity, the desired purpose will increase. If recited regularly one’s life expectancy, reputation and endowments will increase. Happiness and prosperity will be fully-endowed and one’s purpose wishfullfillingly accomplished. All negativities and obscurations will be cleansed resulting in higher rebirth and ultimate liberation. All these accomplishments are the supreme words of the Conquerors. Thus, in the Year of the Fire Monkey, during the third month under the excellent alignment of the constellations, I, Jampal Gyeipai Dorje (Mipham Rinpoche), found this great wishfulfilling crystal in the lake of my mind. May all be auspicious! Glorious root teacher, precious one Dwelling on the lotus seat on the crown of my head;
Hold me with (your) great kindness. Bestow the accomplishments of body, speech, and mind. The Preliminary Practice of the New Treasure of Dudjom His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Supreme Leader of the Nyingmapa School A Prayer of Calling (the Lama) from Afar: a Spontaneous Song of the Original Nature The Essence, unchanging from the beginning, innate nature free of elaboration, Originally pure and utterly luminous, dwells as the Youthful Vase Body. Dharmakaya Lama, Yeshe Dorje, heed me! Please grant the blessings to attain great confidence in the View. The Nature, an unceasing and unified configuration of luminous clarity, Dwells as the display of the spontaneously present Five Certainties. Sambhogakaya Lama, Dechen Dorje, heed me! Please grant the blessings to perfect great ability in meditation. Compassion without bias, pristine wisdom free from all limitation, Dwells as the essence of all-pervading naked awareness-emptiness. Nirmanakaya Lama, Drodul Lingpa, heed me! Please grant the blessings to accomplish great progress in Action. The original nature of one’s own awareness is unchanging and unmoving. Whatever arises is the expression of the Dharmakaya – neither good nor bad. Since awareness of nowness is actually the Buddha, The completely free serene Lama is revealed in one’s innermost heart. When this original mind is realized as the very nature of the Lama, There is no need for whining, contrived prayers made with grasping and attachment. By letting go in the free, natural flow of uncontrived awareness, Not holding whatever arises, the blessings of self-liberation are obtained. Through fabricated practice, there is no time to achieve enlightenment. This meditation produced through mental analysis and intellect is a deceiving enemy. Now, conceptualization falls apart with the abandon of a mandman. Let this life be spent in a state of uninhibited, naked ease! Whatever one does, joyful – Practictioner of the Great Perfection! In any company, happy – Lineage Son of the Lotus Born! Protector without rival – Great Treasure Revealing Lama! Teachings beyond compare – Heart Essence of the Dakinis! Having dispelled the heart’s darkness, great ignorance, in its own place, The undiminished sun of luminous clarity shines continuously. This good fortune is the kindness of the Lama, the only fathe.
Unrepayable kindness! Remember the Lama! This was spoken as delirious chatter by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje upon request of my foremost Vajra student, Trulku Jigme Choying Don Thamchad Drubpaidei. Sublime Virtue! A Meaningful Guide to this Concise Recitation of the Preliminary Practice of the New Treasure of Dudjom First: The Preparation: the recitation of the four reflections which reverse the mind. NAMO. Homage! Lama, infallible constant protector, (you who) know! The freedoms and the favorable conditions of this (human birth) are extremely difficult to obtain. Everything born is impermanent and bound to die. The results of virtuous and unvirtuous actions (which are causes) are inexorable. The three realms of cyclic existence have the nature of an ocean of suffering. Remembering this, may my mind turn towards the Dharma! Thus, reciting as many times as possible, do the mental training. Second: The actual Preliminary Practice. First: The going for refuge. Believe that the root teacher, himself, in the form of Guru Rinpoche, the essence of the embodiment of the refuge field of the Three Jewels, is actually sitting in front (of one) in the sky. From now until attaining the heart of enlightenment I take refuge in the Lama, the Three Jewels. Thus, with prostrations, recite as much as one can. Second: The generation of bodhicitta: Beseeching the object of refuge to bear witness. From now until Samsara becomes empty I shall accomplish the benefits and happiness of all sentient parent beings. Thus, do the mental training the bodhicitta. Third: The Accumulation of Merit – Mandala Offering: Having actually arranged the mandala configuration as a symbolic example: The bodies, enjoyments, possessions, (and) glories of the succession of all my lifetimes I offer to the Three Jewels in order to complete the two accumulations.
Thus, offer the mandala as many times as possible. Fourth: The Purification of Obscurations: The Meditation of Vajrasattva. Remain in one’s ordinary state. Above one’s head is Vajrasattva, inseparable from the Lama. From (Vajrasattva’s) body, a nectar stream descends, purifying (my obscurations. OM VAJRASATTVA SAMAYA MANUPALA VAJRASATTVA TENOPA TITRA DRIDHO ME BHAWA SUTO KAYO ME BHAWA SUPO KAYO ME BHAWA ANURAKTO ME BHAWA SARWA SIDDHIM ME PRA YATTSA SARWA KARMA SUTSAME TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU HUNG HA HA HA HA HO BHAGAWAN SARWA TATHAGATA VAJRA MAME MUNTSA VAJRI BHAWA MAHA SAMAYASATTVA AH Thus, with the visualization of the nectar descending and purifying, recite the hundred syllables and … OM VAJRASATTVA HUM (Then recite the) six syllable mantra as much as one can. Then … (Vajrasattva) melts into light and becomes mingled in one taste with one’s own perceptions. Thus, having gathered Vajrasattva into oneself, remain in meditation. Fifth: The Swiftly Penetrating Blessings of the Guru Yoga Oneself (is) Vajrayogini, and in the sky in front The root teacher manifests in the form of Padmasambhava. The embodiment of all the buddhas of the three times, without exception, Most excellent root teacher, I pray to you. In this and future lives, and in the bardo, in these three, hold me with your compassion. Bless me ceaselessly throughout the three times. OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM Thus, recite one hundred, one thousand, etc., as much as possible. The blessings and empowerment of body, speech, and mind are completely and perfectly obtained.
VAJRA GURU KAYA WAKA TSITTA SIDDHI HUM Thus take the four empowerments. Then … The teacher dissolves into light, is absorbed into oneself, and (becomes inseparable with one’s own state of being. Behold the Emptiness-Awareness, the true face of the Lama! Thus, absorbing the Guru into oneself, remain in meditation. Sixth: The Transference I pray to the protector Amitabha, the Buddha of limitless light. Grant me the blessing to become accomplished in the profound path of the transference of consciousness. Thus recite as many times as possible, motivate the transference. Seventh: The charity of the body, the dedication of virtues Now, (my) body, possessions, and (the) source of my virtue, all together I give without clinging to all beings who have been my parents. May I accomplish great benefits, unobstructedly, for all beings. Thus, insistently, make prayers of aspiration and so forth. Thus, in order to benefit those who don’t know or are unable to do the Elaborate Recitation of the Preliminary Practice According to the New Treasure, this is a mere synopsis which clarifies the essential meaning of this Concise Recitation of the Preliminary Practice by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje. The Prayer to the Legendary Incarnations, Called “Crystal Pearls” In Kuntuzangpo’s space of the sphere of truth, Unchanging Bliss-Emptiness, Are perfectly arranged clouds of immeasurable knowledge, loving-kindness, and primordial wisdom. Knowledge Holder, like a rainfall of perfectly virtuous compassion, To the all-pervasive lord, Supreme Lama, I supplicate. In this pure land of light known as the fortunate kalpa, You are the crowning tiara of the families of the main one thousand buddhas who guide all beings. Showing the supreme body of a yogi of powerful wealth, To Nuden Dorje Chang, I pray. Sentient beings in this time of disputation have been abandoned by the other buddhas; But you, the sun’s loved one, take them upon yourself.
Inseparable from the Buddha, you are the supreme wisdom being. To Pagpa Sharipu, I pray. By experiencing indestructible, exhaustless, ever-lasting youth, Whatever appears is the single experience of Great Bliss. Sealing the life of the animate and inanimate three realms, To the Brahmin Saraha, I pray. For the Holder of Karma, the one god, Indrabhuti, You enforced his laws, adorned with the crystal rosary of utterance and prophecy, Serving in order to insure benefit and happiness. To the dharma minister Trikna Dzin, I pray. The illusory dance of great bliss of the glorious heruka Actualizes the unchanging, supreme primordial wisdom. Pure awareness holder, accomplished mind of Yang Dag, To Lopon Hung Kara, I pray. In the presence of Padma Kara, the second Buddha, You equaled his nature and enlightened intention and accomplished secret mantras By merely gazing into space, hooking all the birds in the sky. To the lotsawa Drogben Kye’u Chung, I pray. From actually seeing and being held by Maway Sengye, You see the nature of all things as they exist. Great bodhisattva, skillful in activating the methods that liberate beings, To Jowo Mriti Jnana, I pray. Having fully perfected the ten arts and sciences, Gloriously illuminating the Buddha’s doctrine like the daytime sun, Great pandita of Sali Jong (Tibet), To Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo, I pray. From the ocean-like treasure of compassion of the powerful conqueror Padmasambhava Comes the exalted miraculous activity like the sun Of the doctrine of the earlier translation schook, the Kathogpa; To the feet of Dampa Desheg, I pray. As the vessel for Desheg Pagmo, you are the heart son. Having transformed understanding into the expanse through the inner path, The supreme chief heruka of the accomplished ones in Tibet, To Palden Lingje Reypa, I pray. The appearance of inconceivable knowledge and loving-kindness like a blazing sun, Simultaneously opening the lotus of benefit and bliss in Tibet, Manjushri in the form of a human saint, To the protector of sentient beings, Chogyal Pagpa, I pray. The supreme ultimate truth, the dharmata, unaltered, From seeing it as it is, you liberate (beings) from the bondage of existence. Dharma regent of the unmoving Dharmakaya, To Drumgyi Kharnagpa, I pray. From having accomplished the prayer to extensively exercise penance, Subduing the coarse, difficult-to-tame brains,
Possessing great strength, drinking yogurt, holding a vajra weapon, To the feet of the Hepa Chojung, I pray. In the hidden land of Dharma wealth, sacred substances, etc., You are the great owner of hundreds of astonishing concealed treasures; Turning the Dharma Wheel of the accomplishment of the wealth-holder of the ten bhumis, To Dragtung Duddul Dorje, I pray. The actual appearance of Padma Dragpo, Longsal Nying, Holder of all the Dharma and family heritage lineages, Illuminator of the long tradition of the essence of the definitive meaning, To the son of the Buddha, Sodnam De’utsan, I pray. Being held and blessed by the tutelary deity, By the power of previous karma, holding the dakinis’ secret treasure, Leading all who have a connection to Padma Od, To Duddul Rolpa Tsal, I pray. Having achieved the power of non-human self-appearance, Revealer of the mind treasure of Kuntuzangpo from the great expanse, Wrathful yogi of space, in actual nature of the King of Wrath, To Garwang Dudjom Pawo, I pray. From Ngayab Ling, the guru and consort Send the warmth of their enlightened intention to you to breathe and obtain, (from which) You hold all the victory banners of the Doctrine of the Great Secret; To Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, I pray. In order to tame other beings according to their elements, facilities, wishes, and In accordance with their specific abilities and fortune, You will appear whenever to whosoever needs to be tamed. To the transformations without limit, I pray. In the future when the Doctrine of the Buddha is overcome by barbarians, In Shambhala as Dorje Nonpo, You will become the family holder, the exalted king; To you who will destroy the heretics in war, I pray. In the future at the end of this fortunate eon, the guide Will be the tathagata Mopa Od Tayey. From (your) coming, beings will be tamed by the four immeasurables! To you who churns the depths of the realms of sentient beings, I pray. By the force of this heart-felt prayer of unfailing faith, For all lifetimes, you are my chakra protector. By always relying upon you, inseparable, wish-fulfilling crown jewel, May I always possess the fortune to experience your nectar-like speech. By the power of your immeasurably great loving-kindness and compassion, May I be held fast as your heart’s son. May all the miraculous activities have the potential to increase into one-hundred directions And awaken all beings to the inner strength of virtue! In the palace of Ogmin Padma Od,
The enlightened intention of the guide and assembly are inseparably one taste. From actualizing Buddhahood, may I guide sentient beings, who encompass space, And become a great spiritual savior. I have written this history of my past incarnations so as not to disappoint several devoted disciples who have fervently requested it again and again. This account finds its origin in the past treasures and spiritual precepts as well as the mind and speech of those previous vidyadharas (pure-awareness holders). Thus, I, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, have written this down so that good fortune and prosperity may prevail! THE DAILY PRACTICE OF VAJRAKILAYA Pudri Reg Pung The Razor which Destroys at a Touch Revealed by the Terton Garwang Drodul Lingpa Tsal Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje First, recite the eight branch offering. All refuge objects in the ten directions distinctly appear as the mandala of Great Splendor Kilaya. BENZAR SA MA DZA (fills the sky before one.) To the glorious Buddha, the Vajra Master, In whom reside the Buddhas of the three times, to you I pay homage. In the field of truth of the Three Supreme Jewels, With an unwavering mind, I take refuge. I beseech you to partake of the pure offering of Both actual and mentally-emanated riches. All faults and obstacles which impede the river of spiritual attainment, I confess without exception. I rejoice without attachment in the pure Dharma pervading the ten directions; Activity free of attachment and beyond the three spheres, Unflawed by the flour extreme views. Perfect bodhicitta awakens. To the Buddhas of the three times, I offer my body of three-fold purity. Gathering the virtue of lifetimes, I dedicate it to the great, fully-awakened state. DZA HUNG BAM HO. The field of refuge dissolves into oneself. HUNG. The state of vajra wrath severs hatred. The blazing great blue weapon Arises as a bindu in the center of space. Light rays of burning brilliance radiate forth,
Cleansing attachment to the reality of the container of existence and its contents of beings into the space of ultimate truth. The magical display of primordial wisdom is The consecutive stack of elements and Mt. Meru. Upon this, the celestial palace of great liberation Is surrounded by wrathful charnel grounds complete in every aspect. In the center is a blazing wheel. Upon this is a multi-colored lotus, moon, sun and The intertwined male and female Mahadeva. Intrinsic awareness – HUNG – emanates and absorbs. Self-nature arises as the perfect uncontrived deity, Great Splendor Vajra Kumara, Blue-black in color, with three heads and six arms. The right face is white and laughing; the left is red and reviling; and the central one is terrifying. The two right hands of his six arms Brandish a nine-and five-pointed vajra. The two left hands a mass of fire and a trident, and The lower two twirl a Mt. Meru kila. His four legs in the advancing posture Suppress Maha Rudra. Exhibiting the wrathful ferocity of the nine dances. HUNG HUNG is the brilliance of vajra speech. Spreading wings of skillful means and wisdom He is adorned in charnel ground ornaments. The twenty-one thousand hairs of his head swirl upward, and The pores of his body are filled with millions of vajras. His supreme consort, Diptachakra, Light-blue in color and wearing the ornaments of the five mudras, Holds an utpala flower and a skull cup. Joined in union with her right leg is extended and her left leg wrapped about his waist, Their vajra and lotus delight in union. Above their heads soars the great lord of garudas. Standing in the midst of a mass of primordial wisdom fire, Clearly conceive the commitment being and the primordial wisdom being to be inseparable. In the heart is the primordial wisdom being Vajrasattva, white, clear and brilliant. Holding vajra and bell and adorned in Sambhogakaya ornaments, He sits in the half-lotus posture upon a lotus and moon disc. In the center of a tent of light in his heart Is a five-pointed vajra standing upon a sun. In its center Is the essence of life force, a blue HUNG Encircled by the blazing mantra strand.
Inconceivable light rays of recitation emanate, Making offerings to all the Buddhas and gathering all blessings. Through purification of their defilements, all sentient beings become the deity. The mudra of the “Kila of Existence” awakens. The action of Dharma protectors is impelled. The viciousness of the eight classes of demons is annihilated, and The hosts of obstacles and obstructing forces are completely destroyed. Existence arises as the spontaneously-present Body, speech and mind of Great Splendor. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN BAM HUNG PHET Reciting thus, at the end of the session: The entire mandala of the “Kila of Existence” Dissolves into the great bindu of the mind. HUNG HUNG HUNG From the expanse of truth of Great Splendor Arises the luminous mandala of enlightened body, speech and mind. PHET PHET PHET. BENZAR KA WA TSI RAKCHA HAM Thus, the dissolution and re-emergence. May all beings gloriously attain The state of Vajra Kumara, The spontaneously-present body, speech and mind, The nonexistent mandala of primordial wisdom. Thus, engage favorable conduct through the prayer of dedicating merit. I, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, wrote this in order to benefit those who practice. Translated by Yeshe Nyima. Vowels and Consonants (Ah Li Ka Li): AH AH E E OO OO RI RI LI LI AY AY OH OH AM AH KA KHA GA GHA NGA TSA TSHA DZA DZHA NYA TRA THRA DRA DHRA NRA TA TA DA DHA NA PA PA PA BHA MA YA RA LA WA SHA KA SA HA KYA One-Hundred Syllable Mantra: OM VAJRA SATO SAMAYA MANU PALAYA VAJRA SATO TE NO PA TITHRA DRI DHO ME BHA WA SUTO KHAYO ME BHA WA SUPO KHAYO
ME BHA WA ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA SARWA SIDDHIM ME PRA YATTSA SARWA KARMA SU TSA ME TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU HUNG HA HA HA HA HO BHA GA WAN SARWA TATAGATA VAJRA MA ME MUNTSA VAJRI BHA WA MAHA SAMAYA SATO AH Mantra of Interdependent Origination (tendril nyingpo): OM YE DHARMA HE TU PRA BA WA HE TUN TE KHEN TATAGATO HAYA WA DET TE KHEN ZA YO NI RO DHA EWAM BHADI MAHA SHRA MA NRA SO HA To Close the Session (tun-tsam or ton-tsig): Inviting the great, glorious Vajrakilaya and his entourage, I make outer, inner and secret offerings. I praise the miraculous activity of the qualities of your body, speech and mind. I confess dishonesty, inappropriate action and mistakes. I pray for the accomplishment of your mind of love and compassion. Prayer of Good Fortune: A Rainfall of Flowers (ta-shi): HUNG. By the ocean of blessings of the Vidyadharas, holders of skillful activity, By the treasure of all the attainments of Vajrakilaya of existence, By the swift mamos and dakinis who possess miraculous activity, By the deities of the mandala of Vajrakilaya, may there be good fortune. HIS HOLINESS DUDJOM RINPOCHE Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje Supreme Head of the Nyingmapa School
THE MIRACULOUS ACTIVITY SADHANA (TRINLEY) OF VAJRAKILAYA, THE RAZOR WHICH DESTROYS AT A TOUCH A (METHOD) WHICH SUBDUES THE WARRING CLASSES OF DEMONIC FORCES Pudri Reg Pung YESHE MELONG Pacific Region Yeshe Nyingpo Media and Archives LINEAGE PRAYER: To the All-Pervading Lord, the primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, To Vajrasattva, the inseparability of wisdom and magical display, To the blazing form of Vajrakumara. I pray that we may fully accomplish your miraculous activity. To the holder of the secret treasure, the Great (Dakini) Day Way Khorlo To the lotus feet of Odzer Langpo (Prabhahasti), completely accomplished in miraculous activity, To the Glorious Heruka Dorje Thod-Treng Tsal. I pray that we may fully accomplish your miraculous activity. To the secret consort Karchenza entrusted with the prophesized teachings, To the profoundly secret liberated incarnate treasure revealer, To the blessed Lineage Holders, and to the root and lineage lamas, I pray that we may fully accomplish your miraculous activity. (To you who have) the three pure mandalas of form, sound and pure awareness, (To you who have) completely accomplished the four miraculous activities, (To you whose) spontaneous miraculous activities are unobstructed, I pray that I may be victorious over the four demonic forces and attain the supreme accomplishment. Written by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje. May it be auspicious.
First Section: Preparation (jor-wa): The first section is the preparation. The supports for accomplishing the commitments, the outer and inner offerings, and so forth, and all the appropriate articles for puja are arranged according to the method of the text. First, purify the mindstream. CHOK CHU’I KYAB YUL TAM CHEC PAL CHEN PUR PA’I KYIL KHOR GYI KHOR LO’I NAM PAR ROL PA. BENZAR SA MA DZA The deities fill the sky; in their precence, recite: To the glorious Buddha, the Vajra Master, and To the Buddhas of the three times, I pay homage. In the field of true of the Three Supreme Jewels, I take refuge with a mind free of duality. I beseech you to partake of the pure offerings of Actual and mentally-emanated riches. All faults and obstacles which impede the river of spiritual attainment I confess without exception. I rejoice without attachment in the practice of the pure Dharma which pervades the ten directions and the three times. Having purified the four extreme views, The unstained bodhicitta is completely awakened. To the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas I offer the three purities. All virtue that has been acquired in all of my past lifetimes, I amass together and dedicate to the great fully-awakened state. This accumulates merit; then: DZA HUNG BAM HO. The refuge field dissolves into oneself. The Wheel of Protection (tsam-ched-pa): OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA HUNG PHET. RANG NYID KED CHIG GI PAL CHEN DOR JE ZON NU YUM DANG CHEI PA RAB TU BAR WA’I GAR GYI TRIN MI ZED PAR TRO WA’I KUR GYUR Instantly, I become the great glorious Vajrakilaya with consort, their bodies intensely blazing with unbearable clouds of dancing fire. (Consider this.)
Offering the Kar Tor (In the place where you will practice, set out the white torma.) RAM YAM KHAM. TONG PA’I NGANG LEI BHRUM LEI RINPOCHE’I NOD ZAB CHING GYA CHE WA’I NANG DU TORMA KHA DOK DRI RO NU PA PUN SUM TSOK PAR GYUR RAM YAM KHAM cleanses and purifies the offerings. From within the nature of emptiness appears the letter BHRUM which transforms into a vast and deep jeweled vessel, within which is the torma that possesses the power of color, smell, taste and all good things. OM AH HUNG blesses the tormas. (The following part of the Kar Tor is usually done only once on the first day. Go to the Kek Tor.) BHUMI PATI SAPARIWARA BENZAR SA MA DZA invites the Lords of the Land. SA TA NA PATI CHE TRA PA LEN TSA NAMA SARWA TATAGATE BHAYO BI SHA MU KHE SHYA SARWA TA KHAM UTGATE SAPARANA IMAM GA GA NA KHAM SO HA (Repeat three times, which makes offerings.) Whoever is staying here, gods and nagas, Yakshas, rakshas, or any others, In the presence of the mandala, I ask you to please grant this land. (Saying this, believe that the request is granted and that the gods, et al, go back to their own places.) Offering the Gek Tor (In the place where you will practice, set out the red torma.) SARWA BHU TA AH KAR KA YA DZA SARWA BIGHANAN NAMA SARWA TATAGATE BHAYO BI SHA MU KHE BHYA SARWA TA KHAM UTGATE SAPARANA IMAM GA GA NA KHAM GRI HANE DAM BALINGTE SO HA (Repeat three times.) HUNG. Listen, you demonic and deceiving forces,
Do not disobey my command! The secret vajra command --If you defy this, With great wrath and power, Your heads will be shattered into a hundred pieces. So get out now! HUNG HUNG HUNG SARWA BIGHANAN U TSITHRA YA PHET HUNG. A great rain of phurbas flashing like lightening Forms the phurba canopy. Below, gathered phurbas blazing like fire Form the phurba ground. Phurba sparks like shooting stars, And phurbas fill all of space to the boundaries. Do not cross over this phurba boundary! SARWA TIK CHA NA BENZAR DZOLA MA HA KRO DHA RAKCHA RAKCHA HUNG HUNG HUNG Confession (shak-pa): HUNG. All appearances of existence are the nature of body, speech and mind, Primordially free of the stain of defilements. Through ignorance, I am bound by attachment to ordinary perception. I confess to the nature of my own pure awareness and luminosity. SAMAYA SHUDDHE AH The Descent of Blessings (chin-wab-pa): Give rise to splendor by burning incense and playing music. HUNG. Vidyadharas (pure awareness holders) of Vajrakilaya, Transform all existence into the vajra nature. To accomplish the wrathful primordial wisdom being, The Vajrakilaya of existence, Bestow upon us your great blessings. Great powerful ones, bestow upon us empowerment. Mighty ones, please bestow upon us your power. Show us the signs and characteristics of your blessings. Bestow upon us the accomplishment of Vajrakilaya. SARWA SAMAYA JNANA AHBESHAYA HUNG HUNG HUNG
Blessing the Offering Materials (chod-dzei chin-lab): RAM YAM KHAM Instantly, from the sphere of Emptiness, This realm appears as the display of the charnel ground. Massive clouds of unsurpassable outer, inner and secret Offerings pervade space. OM BENZAR ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYA SHABDA PANTSA KAMA GUNA SARWA PUDZA AH HUNG BODHI TSITTA GANA GUHYA PUDZA AH HUNG OM AH HUNG MAHA PANTSA AMARITA RAKTA BALINGTA HUNG HRI TA To bless the offerings, repeat seven times. The Second Section: The Main Practice (ngo-zhi) The Clear Visualization of the Commitment Mandala: HUNG. Vajra wrath severs all anger and hatred. In the center of the space of this blazing Great blue weapon arises a bindu. Light rays of great burning brilliance radiate forth, Cleansing the grasping to the reality of the container (the world) and its essence (beings) into the Sphere of Ultimate Truth. The magical display of primordial wisdom is The consecutive pile of elements and Mount Meru. On top of this, surrounded by the perfectly complete wrathful charnel grounds, Is the celestial mansion of great liberation. In the center of this is a blazing wheel, in whose center Is a variegated lotus, moon and sun disk and The intertwined male and female Mahadeva. Above them is one’s own pure awareness as the letter HUNG, emanating and absorbing. Oneself arises as the complete uncontrived deity, The glorious great Vajrakilaya, Blue-black in color, with three heads and six arms. His right head is white and laughing, the left one is red and reviling, and the central one is terrifying. The two right hands of his six arms Are brandishing a nine-pointed vajra and a five-pointed vajra; The left two a mass of fire and khatvanga.
The last two are twirling a Mount Meru phurba. Standing in the advancing posture, his four legs Are pressing down the head of Maha Rudra. He exhibits the wrathful ferocity of the nine dances. HUNG HUNG, he possesses the brilliance of vajra speech. He raises and spreads the two wings of skillful means and wisdom. Glorious, he is adorned in cemetery ornaments. The twenty-one thousand hairs on his head twirl upward, and The pores of his body are filled with millions of vajras. His great consort, Khorlo Gyeidebma Light-blue in color, holds an utpala flower and a skullcup and Wears the ornaments of the five mudras. Embracing her consort, her right leg is extended, and her left leg is drawn up about his waist. The vajra and lotus are delighting in union. Above their heads is soaring the great lord of the garuda family. They are standing in the midst of a mass of wisdom fire. Surrounding are the twenty-one supreme sons with their emanations, Arisen from the nature of one’s own pure awareness and one’s own creative luminosity. From the union of the yab-yum, clouds of bodhicitta arise, From which globes of light emanate into space. Outside of this, on the spokes of a wheel are Hung Dzed, Nam Gyal, Yug Ngon Chen, Shinje, Mi Yo, Tam Drin Gyal, Dod Gyal, Dud Tsi, Ham Sum Gyal, And tob Po Che, all of whose bodies are blue in color. Intwined in inseparable union with their consorts, They are twirling and stabbing meteorite phurbas. Clouds of zajeds, sojeds, and po-nya are emanating outward. At the four entrances are four female door protectors, the four miraculous activities. Surrounding this are the many Dharma protectors. This skillful display of wisdom is inconceivable. The three places are marked by the three seed syllables. Sealed with the mudras of body, speech and mind, The vessel of the universe, the essence of beings and consciousness being completely pure, One receives initiations from the five wisdoms. OM AH HUNG. HUNG OM TRAM HRI AH. ABHI KHIN TSA HUNG. Invitation of the Wisdom Beings (ye-she-pa kyne-dren-pa): HUNG. To establish the phurba of existence and To receive empowerment and accomplishment, We invite the wrathful primordial wisdom beings to come here.
Inviting the great wrathful one and his entourage, Signs and characteristics are revealed and The accomplishment of Vajrakilaya is bestowed. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA BENZAR SA MA DZA DZA HUNG BAM HO Requesting the Commitment being and the Wisdom Being to Reside Inseparable (dam-ye nyi-med-du-zhuk-su-sol-wa): HUNG. To perform the miraculous activity of the Buddha, You employ the path of skillful means for the sake of sentient beings. Taming beings through love and compassion, Remain very joyful and firm. SAMAYA TITHRA LHEN Homage (chag-cha-wa): HUNG. In order to destroy the poisons of the three realms, You show great vajra pride. To the vajra rakshas, With a single-pointed mind, I pay homage. AH TI PU HO PRA TI TSA HO. Offerings (chod-pa-bul-wa): The Conventional Offering (tun-mong nyerchod): HUNG. Unsurpassable desirable offerings Emanate as a great cloud of bodhicitta The sense fields and their objects of cognition become nondual In the supreme enjoyment of the wealth of great bliss. OM SHRI BENZAR KUMARA SAPARIWARA ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYA SHABDA PANTSA KAMA GUNA PRATITSA SO HA The Special Offerings: Medicine (khyed-par men-chod): HUNG. Self-arisen and primordially pure, The eight thousand herbs of prepared medicines and The supreme samaya of alchemical mercury Are mixed together into one powerful taste. May all the deities of the mandala accept this offering and Bestow the accomplishment of unsurpassable magical transformation.
MAHA PANTSA AMRITA KHA HI The Torma Offering (tor-ma’i chod-pa): HUNG. The marvelous samaya substance of this great torma, Emanated from the expanse of the unborn dharmata, is Marvelously adorned with the five sense qualities. May the glorious one and his entourage be fulfilled. SARWA BALINGTA KHA HI The Rakta Officering (rak-ta’I chod-pa): HUNG. To empty the three realms of existence, The blood of transmigratory existence, whose nature is delusion, Is collected in a red skullcup which I offer to the mouths of the deities of the mandala. MAHA RAKTA KHA HI The Offering of the Three Poisons (dug-sum-gyi chod-pa): HUNG. Heaps upon heaps of the great flesh of ignorance, The flooding ocean of the blood of desire, and Mountains upon mountains of the bones of anger, I offer to the great glorious one and his entourage. MAHA MAMSA RAKTA KINGNI RITI KHARAM KHA HI The Offering of the Liberation of Union (jor-droil gyi chod-pa): HUNG. In the mortar of the blazing wrathful female, By the beat of the vajra hammer, Even gods can be slain. KHATAM KHATAM KHATAM. HUNG HUNG HUNG. PHET PHET PHET. BENZAR YAKSHA KRODHA KHA KHA KHA RAM KHA HI HA HA HUNG HUNG PHET PHET The Praises (tod-pa): HUNG. From the very nature of the peaceful Dharmakaya, comes The Sambhogakaya, the great glorious one, from whom Arises the three mandalas of the Nirmanakaya. To Vajrakilaya, I give praise. The unbearable blue-black raksha body Possessing the nine dances of wrath and rage and The brilliant ferocity of a hundred thousand suns,
To the vajra body, I give praise. With the terrifying HA HA HUNG PHET, The raging roar like a thousand dragons and The vajra laugh which shakes the three realms, To the speech of the heruka, I give praise. All-pervasively profound and clear, without any point of reference, The vajra realm is completely beyond action. Inexpressible great primordial wisdom – To the mind of the wrathful king, I give praise. One’s own expression, the display of magical activity, is The emanating and gathering back of the body, speech and mind, from which Inconceivable wisdom emanations pervade. To all the deities of the mandala, I give praise. The Recitation (dei-pa cha-wa): Exhortation (dzab-kul): OM. In former times you took the great vow To liberate all demons and rudras and To completely ripen all sentient beings. Now I request your skillful miraculous activity. Give rise to the brilliance of the blazing body and The roar of vajra speech. Possessing the life of great wisdom, Quickly bestow the two accomplishments. Visualization (dei-mik): Within my heart as the great Vajrakilaya Is the primordial wisdom being, Vajrasattva, white, clear and bright Holding vajra and bell and dressed according to the Sambhogakaya, He sits in the half lotus posture upon a lotus and moon disc. In the center of a tent of light in his heart Is a five-pointed vajra upon a sun disc, in whose center Is the essence of the life force, a blue HUNG, Encircled by the blazing mantra mala. By recitation, inconceivable light rays emanate, Making offerings to all the Buddhas and gathering all blessings. Through the purification of their defilements, all sentient beings are transformed into deities. The mudra of the phurba of existence awakens. The action of the Dharma protectors is impelled, The viciousness of the eight classes of demons is annihilated, and The hosts of obstacles and obstructing forces are completely destroyed.
Existence arises as the spontaneous accomplishment Of the body, speech and mind of the great, glorious one. Thus, visualize with single-pointed concentration according to the essential instructions. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN BAM HUNG PHET This is the recitation of the root mantra. The Recitations of Vajrakilaya Pudri Reg Pung I. The Recitation of Approach (nyen pa) From the “meditative absorption being” in the heart Arises an unbroken strand of mantric syllables. Passing out of the mouth of the “wisdom being,” It passes into the mouth of the Consort. Passing through the womb, it travels the hollow passageway of the vajra. Passing into the secret place of the “wisdom being,” It dissolves into the vital life force And causes the supreme primordial wisdom of bliss and emptiness to blaze. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN BAM HUNG PHET II. The Recitation of Accomplishment (drup pa) PHET DZA From this point until receiving the final spiritual attainments, all sessions of recitation should begin with PHET DZA in order to open the in-front mandala. After reciting the mantra and visualizing the general recitation visualization, visualize the special visualization for Accomplishment. From the three layered beings in the heart Emanates light that goes to all the Buddhas of the ten directions and To the principal deity and entourage of the in-front mandala. Dissolving into their hearts, offerings are made and they are invoked. The spiritual accomplishments of enlightened body, speech and mind – In the form of a red mantra mala – Passes out of the navels of all the deities, Enters into our own navels, and Dissolves into the life force HUNG. The sound of the mantra resounds everywhere.
With the above, recite the seventeen-syllable mantra, further adding the visualization called “breaking the hive of bees.” OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN BAM HUNG PHET DZA HUNG AH III. The Activity Recitation (leg gyur) At this time, each session should be divided into two sections, the first for the “close approach of the Oath-bound Protectors” and the second for the “close approach of the wrathful mantra.” First: The Recitation of the Approach of the Oath-Bound Protectors (dam chen nye war nyen pa) From the mantra strand of the self and in-front mandalas, Red light in the form of the red syllable DZA emanates forth. All of the male and female Kilaya protectors and Oath-bound Protectors Are hooked by the light and brought before one. Then hot and rough rays of light Wrathfully exhort them to activity. They liberate whatever enemy or Obstructive force that is visualized. Recite the mantra, combining the four essences. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DZA HUNG BAM HO. KATAM KAYE. DZAYE BIDZAYE. ADZITI APARA DZITI. MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET. Second: The Recitation of the Close Approach of the Wrathful Mantra (ngen ngak nye war nyen pa) From the deities of the three mandalas, Small Trowo “Wrathful Ones” and weapons emanate forth. The sound of the mantra resounds like the roar of 1,000 dragons. All obstacles of demonic, deceptive and obstructing forces Are completely burned by the light rays and sparks of fire. They are destroyed into dust. Applying the visualization of “flying sparks from the blacksmith’s anvil,” recite the wrathful razor mantra. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MA RAKMO YAKMO KALA RUPA NYING TSA LA YAM YAM. SOG LA YAM YAM. NYING LA TRIL TRIL. SOG LA CHUM CHUM. TSITTA SOG LA DUNG DUNG. NYING TRAG SOG LA SHED DZA. TUM RI LI LI. NYING TSEG TSEG. UR UR. SHIG SHIG. GUL
GUL. NYAG NYAG. SOD SOD. DHATI MA MA KARMA. SHI GHRAM KARAYE. MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET The numbers of recitation for these two mantras are one-tenth of the total of the Recitation of Close Approach. IV. Long-Life Recitation In the heart of the self and in-front Great Glorious One …, etc., according to the liturgy of the long-life practice. Translated by Yeshe Nyima. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DZA HUNG BAM HO. KATAM KAYE DZAYE BIDZAYE. ADZITI APARA DZITI. MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET This is the four heart mantras combined into one. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MA RAKMO YAKMO. KALA RUPA NYING TSA LA YAM YAM. SOG LA YAM YAM. NYING LA TRIL TRIL. SOG LA CHUM CHUM. TSITTA SOG LA DUNG DUNG. NYING TRAG SOG LA SHED DZA. TUM RI LI LI. NYING TSEG TSEG. UR UR. SHIG SHIG. GUL GUL. NYAG NYAG. SOD SOD. DHATI MA MA KARMA. SHI GHRAM KARAYE. MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET. This is the wrathful razor mantra. Attach the recitation mantra and recite what is appropriate. (If doing Lower Activity, go to Protection – sung-wa) Vowels and Consonants (Ah Li Ka Li): AH AH E E OO OO RI RI LI LI AY AY OH OH AM AH KA KHA GA GHA NGA TSA TSHA DZA DZHA NYA TRA THRA DRA DHRA NRA TA TA DA DHA NA PA PA BA BHA MA YA RA LA WA SHA KA SA HA KYA One-Hundred Syllable Mantra: OM BENZAR SATO SAMAYA MANU PALAYA BENZAR SATO TE NO PA TITHRA DRI DHO ME BHA WA SUTO KHAYO ME BHA WA SUPO KHAYO ME BHA WA ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA SARWA SIDDHIM ME PRA YATTSA SARWA KARMA SU TSA ME TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU HUNG HA HA HA HA HO BHA GA WAN SARWA TATAGATA BENZAR MA ME MUNTSA BENZRI BHA WA MAHA SAMAYA SATO AH
Om is the supreme praise, the Vajrasattva samayas. Grant your protection, Vajrasattva. Remain firm in me. Make me totally satisfied. Increase the positive within me. Be loving towards me. Bestow all the accomplishments, as well as all the activities. Make my mind virtuous! HUNG is the heart essence seed syllable. HA HA HA HA symbolizes the Four Boundless, Four Empowerments, Four Joys and the Four Kayas. HO is the sound of joyous laughter in them. Bhagawan, all the tathagatas, Vajrasattva, don’t abandon me. I pray that I may become a Vajra Holder. Great Samaya Sattva! AH signifies united in nonduality. Mantra of Interdependent Origination (tendril nyingpo): OM YE DHARMA HE TU PRA BA WA HE TUN TE KHEN TATAGATO HAYA WA DET TE KHEN ZA YO NI RO DHA EWAM BHADI MAHA SHRA MA NRA SO HA To Close the Session (tun-tsam): Inviting the great, glorious Vajrakilaya and his entourage, I make outer, inner and secret offerings. I praise the miraculous activity of the qualities of your body, speech and mind. I confess dishonesty, inappropriate action and mistakes. I pray for the accomplishment of your mind of love and compassion. Thus, repair mistakes through offering and praise. (Recite Protectors beginning with the Dam Chen Chi Tor, page 17, Daily Recitation Book, and finish with Confession, page 144 or 155, Daily Recitation Book, or Heruka Confession, page 53 of the sadhana. Afterward, if doing tsok, come back here; if not, go to Stabilizing the Presence, page 53 of the sadhana.) The Third Section: The Stages of Conclusion (jei-kyi-lei-rim) The Tsok Offering (tsok-kyi chod-pa): Sprinkle the offering substances with amrita. OM SARWA DRA CHAM BI SHO DHA NI HUNG PHET HUNG. The primordial wisdom of self-arisen pure awareness arises as The letters RAM YAM KHAM and purifies grasping to reality. From the letter BHRUM arises the skullcup of space. The letters HUNG, OM, TRAM, HRI and AH Transform into the samaya substances of the tathagatas of the five families, Possessing the power of taste, smell and color. OM GANA TSA TRA KAMA GUNA HUNG HRI TA
Thus, the blessing. Invitation of the Tsok Assembly (tsok-zhing chen-drang-wa): HUNG. To establish the phurba of existence and In order to receive empowerment and spiritual accomplishment, We invite the wrathful primordial wisdom being and his entourage To come to this gathering of desirable offerings. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DZA HUNG BAM HO Offering of the First Portion of Tsok (tsok-pud bul-wa): HUNG. From the magical display of the five primordial wisdoms, Inconceivable clouds of desirable offering pervade. In order to complete the collections of ordinary and wisdom merit, We offer this to the deities of the mandala. GANA TSA TRA PUDZA HO Intermediate Offering of Confession (shak-pa): HUNG. From beginningless time until now, Through ignorance and indiscreet actions of my body, speech and mind, I confess having broken my commitments. May you be fulfilled by this wheel of offerings. SAMAYA SHUDDHE AH The Last Offering of Slaying (drel-tab): First, emanating rays of light, say the Power of Truth (den-tob) “Power of Truth”” HOMAGE! Through the power of the truth of the rigdzins, the glorious and sacred root and lineage lamas, the truth of the Buddhas, the truth of the Dharma, and the truth of the Sangha, and the truth of secret mantras, intrinsic awareness mantras, dharani mantras and essence mantras an dmudras and states of Samadhi, and the truth of the infallibilitiy of the cause nad effect of phenomenal reality, through the reality of dharmata has been empty from the beginningless beginning, and especially, through the power of the truth of the yidam Dorje Zhonnu, the glory of samsara an dnirvana alike, together with the subduers of Mara, the ten wrathful deities, the traTab deities, the gate-keepers and the vast ocean of oath-bound ones, by the power of the great truths of all of these, may the general obstructions to the teachings and to beings, and especially the force4s of obstruction ot us, the
rigdzins, together with our patrons and retinues – those who have raised up against us in the past, those who plot future harm and those who are now in our path, those who have forms and those who have no forms but bring harm – may all of these, wherever they may be in the three states of conditioned existence, wherever they have fled, instantly in a single moment, may they be summoned into this focal point for visualization! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA NRI TRI BENZAR AM KU SHA DZA DZA HUNG BAM HO (If doing the Lower Activity, go to Exhorting the Rigdzins, page 63 of the sadhana.) HUNG. Form and formless obstructing forces of ignorance and duality Are destroyed by the weapon of the primordial wisdom phurba and Are transferred into the three liberations, the triangle of the dharmadhatu. Their forms are offered to the mouths of the deities. MA TRAM RUDRA MARAYA MAMSA RAKTA KINGNI RITI KHARAM KHAHI Recitation for Requesting the Spiritual Attainments (Recite the One-Hundred-Syllable Mantra 100 times.) Clearly visualizing self-nature as the Great Glorious Vajrakilaya Yab Yum, the male consort’s secret place is a moon disc and a five-pointed vajra. The opening of the vajra is marked with the essence of gathering, a white syllable OM. The secret place of the female consort is an eight-petaled lotus in whose center is the triangle of the Dharmadhatu. The center of the triangle is marked with the red syllable EH. Their joining in union invokes the five Heruka yab yum – one finger length in height – sitting in the cranium of the female consort. From the activity of their unions, the five male Herukas’ pearl white bodhicitta And the five female Herukas’ brilliant vermillion bodhicitta flows into the central channel of the female consort. Falling to the secret place of the female consort, the white and red bodhicittas mix as the swirling nature of spiritual accomplishment. Transforming into OM, AH and HUNG, these syllables are drawn in through the vajra and dissolve into the life essence HUNG in the heart. Mundane life, merit, glory and fame increase. Appearances are overpowered, Brilliant light blazes, and One becomes like a sixteen-year-old. The supreme spiritual attainment of nonfixated bliss and emptiness of self-arisen primordial wisdom blazes.
OM BENZRA KILI KILAYA HUNG PHET OM AH HUNG SARWA SIDDHI AH Light rays of life force from the heart invoke all of the blessings of the spiritual attainments of body, speech, mind, qualities and activity of all the Buddhas of the ten directions. In particular, the mundane and supreme blessings of the deities of the mandala penetrate into the substance of the spiritual attainments which then arise as a vast ocean of all that could be desired. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA. DZA HUNG BAM HO. KAYA SIDDHI OM. WAKA SIDDHI AH. TSITTA SIDDHI HUNG. SARWA SIDDHI HRI. HUNG. Deities of the mandala of Vajrakilaya, hear me! Assembly of vidyadharas, dakinis, and oath-bound protectors, All of you, please hear me and be my witnesses. First, from the nyen pa recitation through the recitation of accomplishment The two stages of completion and fulfillment according to the root text Purifies me and ripens and liberates my mind stream. Having fulfilled the recitation through time, numbers and signs, Today at the break of dawn when the sun first arises The Vajra Heruka arises and draws near. Now is the time for the precious treasure of the spiritual attainment Of all that can be desired to arise! Assembly of deities in the mandala of Vajrakilaya, In order to benefit beings through skillful means, and To guide beings according to their needs with compassion and kindness, By bringing to perfection the miraculous activities of all the Buddhas, Bestow upon me the empowerment and spiritual attainments of Enlightened body, speech, mind, qualities and activities. May I be filled with good fortune and the deity. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA KAYA WAKA TSITTA GUNA KARMA SIDDHI PALA HO Kangwa Fulfillment to be performed in conjunction with the feast of the great and glorious Kilaya: Arrange amrita, rakta, lamps, dzagad, mamsa, tse, dagyei, bamtsangma, surchen and various foods. They are held up while the following is sung with musical accompaniment.
HUNG. Through the piercing of the phurba of existence, May Vajrakilaya be pleasingly fulfilled. Through sealing off the three realms of samsara, May Khorlo Gyeideb be pleasingly fulfilled. Through annihilating the ten nonvirtues, May the ten male kingly wrathful ones be pleasingly fulfilled. Through embracing the ten virtues, May the ten female wrathful ones be pleasingly fulfilled. Through manifesting emanations into the ten directions, May the twenty tratab be pleasingly fulfilled. Through liberating the poisonous form and formless negative forces, May the twenty-one supreme sons be pleasingly fulfilled. Through the accomplishment of peaceful, enriching, powerful and wrathful activities, May the four miraculous activities be pleasingly fulfilled. Through liberating the enemies of the body of the vajra master, May the four shona sisters be pleasingly fulfilled. Through liberating all enemies of the doctrine, May the four reti sisters be pleasingly fulfilled. Specifically, through liberating the enemies of practitioners, May the four semo be pleasingly fulfilled. Through performing swift wrathful activities, May the three born of precious metals, iron and conch shell be pleasingly fulfilled. Through hooking, drawing, binding and maddening, May the four female gate-keepers be pleasingly fulfilled. Through taming the three classes of rudra, May the eighteen gingchen be pleasingly fulfilled. Through causing the descent of the army into the ten directions, May the seven mamos and four sisters be pleasingly fulfilled. By accomplishing an ocean of miraculous activities, May the twenty-eight wang-chugs be pleasingly fulfilled. And furthermore: Be pleasingly fulfilled for eons of time! May all the deities of the mandala be pleasingly fulfilled! May you be pleasingly fulfilled by the amrita medicine. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by the offering torma. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by the red rakta. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by this gathering of food. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by this sand mandala. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by this offering of tea. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by this lamp of burning fat. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by life force, breath and vitality. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by the smell of burning flesh. May you be pleasingly fulfilled by the sound of musical instruments.
Become fulfilled and bestow empowerment and spiritual attainments. Renew our very powerful commitment. This is the fulfillment Tsok Offering Verse RAM YAM KHAM. OM AH HUNG The torma offerings of pure awareness are displayed in the skull of the Sphere of Truth. The variegated desirable qualities of the rainbow rays and points of the six lights shine. This is the wondrous, inconceivable samaya. To the assembly of the deities of the Three Roots, our self-awareness, This offering is made in the state of nondual equanimity. We confess conditioned thoughts in the Great bindu. The interrupting enemies – the grasper and the grasped – are annihilated in the unborn expanse. May we awaken from confused appearances to understand the foundation and accomplish miraculous activity. Having reached the ultimate wisdom of the spontaneously accomplished four visions, May we be enlightened in the originally pure Youthful Vase Body. (Recite auxiliary prayers, beginning at page 181, Daily Recitation Book.) Then, offering with the appropriate mudra and receiving with the appropriate mudra, enjoy the tsok offerings. Heruka Prayer: HERUKA PAL DRONG KYER DU TSOK KYI KHOR LO WOR WA YI DAG SHEN DRO WA MA LU PA KYIL KHOR CHIG TU DRUB PAR SHOG Giving the Remains (lhag-ma tong-wa): The vajra master adds the “samaya spit” to the remains. OM AH HUNG PANTSA AMRITA HUNG HA HO HRI The collected desirable samaya substances of the remains inconceivably fill the sky.
EH AH RAL LI HRING HRING DZA (This invites the guests.) HUNG. Commanders, servants and messengers, Now is the time to heed your vow. Please come and partake of this torma of the remains. In accordance with your promise of the past, Accomplish your wrathful activities. U TSIKTA BALINGTA KHA HI (If not doing the Lower Activity (medley), finish the Dam Chen Chi Tor, page 28, Daily Recitation Book; then return here.) Recalling the Contract (ched-do tong-wa): HUNG. Formerly in the great charnel ground, You vowed to Vajrakilaya; Subsequently at Parping (Yangleshod), To the three accomplished Vajracharyas; and Finally at the solitary place of Red Rock Mountain (Dragmar), You vowed in the presence of Pedma Tod Treng and Tsogyal And swore oaths of allegiance To hold the vow of Dharma protectors. Partake of this wondrous torma. According to your former vow, Accomplish the four miraculous activities. Offering to the Tenma Goddesses (ten-ma kyang-wa): OM AH HUNG JHYO In the presence of Padmasambhava, You received initiation and commitments. May the four dudmos, four nodchins, The four menmos, and the rest of the tenmas Please come here and partake of the rinsing water of amrita. For the practitioners of Vajrakilaya, Increase your assistance in accomplishing whatever is desired. May there be happiness on the borders and in the center of Tibet. Spread the philosophical explanation and the meditative practice of the teachings. MA MA HRING HRING BALINGTA KHA HI
The Dance of Suppression (dro-nen): EH NRI TRI SARWA SHA TRUM BIGHANAN DZA HUNG BAM HO HUNG. In this mandala of the phurba of existence The beat of the dance of body, speech and mind Destroys the three poisons and form and formless negative forces All dissolve into the dharmadhatu OM LAM HUNG LAM STAM BHA YA NEN Offering (chod-pa bul-wa): HUNG: Unsurpassable desirable offrerings Emanate as a great cloud of bodhicitta. The sense fields and their objects of cognition become nondual In the supreme enjoyment of the wealth of great bliss. OM SHRI BENZAR KUMARA SAPARIWARA ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYA SHABDA PANTSA KAMA GUNA PRATITSA SO HA Praise (tod-pa) HUNG. From the very nature of the peaceful Dharmakaya, comes The Sambhogakaya, the great glorious one, from whom Arises the three mandalas of the Nirmanakaya. To Vajrakilaya, I give praise. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN BAM HUNG PHET (Recite three times.) Requesting the Spiritual Attainments (ngo-drub-kul-wa): HUNG. Great, glorious Vajrakilaya and The great consort, Khorlo Gyeideb, From the center of the secret place of great bliss, Bestow the common and supreme spiritual attainments. Recite the root mantra with this ending appended: OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN BAM HUNG PHET KAYA WAKA TSITTA SARWA SIDDHI HUNG Make offerings and praises in thanks and, feeling remorse about one’s mistakes, recite the one-hundred syllable heruka mantra.
Heruka Confession: OM BENZAR HERUKA SATO SAMAYA. MANU PALAYA BENZAR HERUKA SATO TE NO PA TITHRA DRI DHO ME BHA WA SUTO KHAYO ME BHA WA SUPO KHAYO ME BHA WA ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA SARWA SIDDHIM ME PRA YATTSA SARWA KARMA SU TSA ME TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU HUNG HA HA HA HA HO BHA GA WAN SARWA TATAGATA BENZAR HERUKA MA ME MUNTSA BENZRI HERUKA BHA WA MAHA SAMAYA SATO AH Stabilizing the Presence (ten zhuk): Here, inseparable from these objects, Please remain for as long as samsara exists, Bestowing upon us health, life, wealth, Glory, supreme attainments, and all that is the most excellent and auspicious! OM SUPRA TITHRA BENZAR YE SO HA The Clarification of Eternalism and Nihilism (tag-ched-kyi ta-sal-wa): The entire mandala of the phurba of existence Dissolves into the great bindu of the mind. HUNG HUNG HUNG From the expanse of truth of the great, glorious one Arises the luminous mandala of body, speech and mind. PHET PHET PHET. BENZAR KAWA TSI RAKCHA HAM Prayer to Dedicate the Merit (ngo-mon): Arising as the spontaneous body, speech and mind of The unmanifest mandala of primordial wisdom, The state of Vajrakilaya is obtained. May all beings gloriously attain this level. (Recite three times.) Mantra of Interdependent Origination (tendril nyingpo): OM YE DHARMA HE TU PRA BA WA HE TUN TE KHEN TATAGATO HAYA WA DET TE KHENZA YO NI RO DHA EWAM BHADI MAHA SHRA MA NRA SO HA
Prayer of Good Fortune: A Rainfall of Flowers (ta-shi): HUNG. By the ocean of blessings of the Vidyadharas, holders of skillful activity, By the treasure of all the attainments of Vajrakilaya of existence, By the swift mamos and dakinis who possess miraculous activity, By the deities of the mandala of Vajrakilaya, may there be good fortune. One can say further prayers of auspiciousness to increase the good fortune of beings. (End the session with the last page of Dedication of Merit prayers, page 168, Daily Recitation Book.)
THE MIRACULOUS ACTIVITY SADHANA OF VAJRAKILAYA, THE RAZOR WHICH DESTROYS AT A TOUCH by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje
Main Table of Contents Table of Contents This Page: •
Lower Activity (Medlei) o Preparation o Warding Off Harm o Slaying o Exhorting the Rigdzins o Exhorting the Principal Deities o Exhorting the Oath-Bound Ones o Offering the Golden Drink o Requesting a Fair Witness o Creating the Objects of Visualization o Summoning the Consciousness o Dispatching the Messengers o Depriving Them of Their Defenses
Casting Them Into the Effigy o Binding Them Into Suppression o Rendering Them Mad o Transfixing Them with the Spike o Crushing Them To Dust o Feeding Them to the Mouths of the Deities o Calling Upon the Sacred Bonds o Enjoining the Enlightened Activity that Averts Negativity o The Clapping of Hands o Offering Torma as Power Substance o Opening the Door o Recalling the Contract o Offering the Golden Drink (2) Vajrakilaya Longevity Sadhana Summoning Longevity The Abbreviated Offering Prayer to the Phurba Protectors o
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Lower Activity (Medlei) Preparation: If you wish to enact the activity ritual specific to this deity, use the great red averting torma. Sprinkle poison and blood on the mandala that is the basis of the activity. Place on this either a properly laid-out diagram in colored sand or a painted version of a three-sided chojung with a ring of fire around it and a wheel within it complete with rim and hub. If either of these diagrams is unobtainable, it will be sufficient to use a piece of skin soaked in blood with piles of black grain on it. On a tripod in the center of this in an iron vessel, place a red torma molded of dough made from the raw flour of some black grain moistened with blood. The torma is called "thunderbolt" and has sharp, blade-like edges. Around it are small offering tormas equal in number to the deities, and on top of it is the representation of Vajrakilaya and a garuda, over which is placed a canopy of black silk. As well, wrathful ornaments are arranged in a grand and fierce display: Bowls of blood, fragrant tse grass, mustard seed, red brambles, a plaque marked "XXX" and so forth. Finally, these are surrounded by the wrathful sense offerings (the "great red" for drinking water and so forth). Gather together the necessary articles for the ritual: A phurba, an effigy and the substances for dividing, casting down, suppressing and rendering mad, the power substances, the liberating knife, the hammer, triangular ladles and so on. To begin the preparation, envelop the phurba in gugul smoke while reciting: OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SURU SURU ADHI TITHRA MUG MUG HALA HALA DRA GEK JUNG PO’I TSITTA NYAK MARAYA HUNG PHET Scatter mustard seed over it while reciting:
OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MAGU TALA PRATALA SHATA RATSA HUNG DRA GEK JUNG PO MARAYA HUNG PHET Smear rakta over it while reciting: OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA RAKTA DZOLA MANDALA RAKCHA RAKCHA DRA GEK WASHAM MARAYA HUNG PHET Having increased the grandeur of the phurba with these three acts of smearing and so forth, purify it with: OM MAHA SHUNYATA JNANA BENZAR SOBHAWA ATMAKO HANG From emptiness, from E appears a phurba seat, triangular, blue-black and blazing. In the center of this, on a seat of a lotus, a sun disk and the malevolent forces of dualism, sits a HUNG, which has emanated from my heart. HUNG SAPARANA PHET. SAM HA RANA HUNG. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA HUNG The phurba becomes the form of the great and glorious Dorje Zonnu with consort. Repeat the essence mantra seven times. (Then imagine that) they dissolve into light, from which appears a phurba as a palace, with the great, glorious one at its summit, the ten wrathful deities in thepommel, the zajed and sodjed deities in the haft, the gate-keepers below them, the excellent sons on the shoulders of the blades and the oath-bound ones and guardians on the three sides of the blade. For the main ritual, envision clearly the self-visualization and front visualization simultaneously, repeating the mantra as many times as possible. Conclude with the protection (sung-wa): I myself am the magnificent heruka. The essence of my life force is a vajra with a HUNG in its center. Placed within this are all those to be protected, myself and others, Surrounded by a barrier of reddish white light. From that shines light, filling this entire realm And drawing in all the force and blessings of the victorious ones. These are absorbed into me so that my vajra armor, Cast in a single piece, becomes strong and without a chink. There is the outer protection circle as well, And nothing can cut through or destroy all this.
OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA HUNG. MAMA KAWA TSI RAKCHA KURU BHRUM Repeat this mantra. Warding Off Harm (dok-pa): From the outer protection circle And from every part of my body Issue countless hordes of wrathful emanations. These conquer the dualistic forces of harm and their guardian gods Like tongues of flame burning up chaff. Even their atoms are no longer left. Append to the root mantra: OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA NOD CHED DRA GEK CHED MA LHA SUNG DANG CHEI TAM CHED MARAYA BED JHYO DOK Repeat this mantra. Slaying (sed-pa): From the hearts of the hosts of deities of the self-visualization and front visualization, Shine rays of razor-sharp mantra light Like showers of meteors and forks of wild lightning. These set upon all the dualistic forces of harm And sever their aortas. Repeat the wrathful razor mantra to hone the wrathful edge of the power substances. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MA RAKMO YAKMO. KALA RUPA NYING TSA LA YAM YAM. SOG LA YAM YAM. NYING LA TRIL TRIL. SOG LA CHUM CHUM. TSITTA SOG LA DUNG DUNG. NYING TRAG SOG LA SHED DZA. TUM RI LI LI. NYING TSEG TSEG. UR UR. SHIG SHIG. GUL GUL. NYAG NYAG. SOD SOD. DHATI MA MA KARMA. SHI GHRAM KARAYE. MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET The tsok is then performed up to the second stage, the confession. For the actual ritual of lower activity, the first stage is to call upon the sacred bonds. Exhorting the Rigdzins (rig-dzin kul-wa): HUNG. You who gave rise to excellent bodhicitta
And who represent the legacy of the victorious one of the three times, You rigdzins, your time has come. Help me to accomplish Phurba. Just as you, Lopon Pedma Jungney, In the Sandalwood Grove in India Manifested signs, or have you forgotten? Help me to accomplish Phurba. Just as you, great scholar Bimalamitra, On the banks of the holy Ganges river Manifested signs, or have you forgotten? Help me to accomplish Phurba. Just as you, Shila Mandzu of Nepal, At the quart mountain of Mandhala Manifested signs, or have you forgotten? Help me to accomplish Phurba. Just as you, Kharchen Yeshe Tsogyal, When the black raven was in the sky, Manifested signs, or have you forgotten? Help me to accomplish Phurba. Just as you other rigdzins of the past Gained attainment, I now exhort you. Do not forget! Heed our sacred bond! Marshal the forces of your power and energy! Exhorting the Principal Deities (lha-kul-wa): HUNG. From the three-sided, blazing blue-black mandala Comes the great and glorious Dorje Zhonnu And the great mother consort Khorlo Gyeidebma, With the twenty-one excellent sons, The ten masculine and ten feminine wrathful deities, The hordes of zajed and sodjed, who are the emanations of skillful means and transcendent knowledge, The four gate-keeping tramen goddeses, And the assembled deities of Phurba’s activity. Arise in your forms from undefined basic space. For we who have given rise to excellent bodhicitta And embarked on the unsurpassable path, The harmful forces of dualism cause obstacles and trouble. If you forget to help us in our flawless practice, This will impair our previous sacred bond. The time has come for wrathful activity. Do not forget! Do not forget, chosen deities! With great ferocity arouse your grandeur and blessing. Through the miracle of sublime brilliance, Cut off the forces of darkness at the root.
Perform your wrathful activity to avert and overpower The curses and weapons of negativity unleashed and hurled against us. Exhorting the Oath-Bound Ones (dam-chen kul-wa): HUNG. In the past, in holy places of accomplishment, You hordes of shonas, dagnyids, sadagmas, Khebus, gings, and messengers, You were the emissaries of Phurba. Do not be feeble when I exhort you to act. Accept this red torma, For the time has come to observe our strict and sacred bond. You know what is to be done. Summon the obstructing forces With haste and swiftly liberate them. Accomplish this direct activity of wrath! Offering the Golden Drink (ser-kyem bul-wa): This golden drink becomes a treasure mine of inexhaustible wealth, pleasing to the senses. OM AH HUNG HUNG. Rigdzins, sacred root and lineage lamas, peaceful And wrathful sugatas, deities of the entire, vast array of mandalas, And especially the assembled deities of Dorje Phurba, Accept this golden drink and marshal the forces of this practitioner’s power. Masculine and feminine protectors, vast hordes of oath-bound ones, Defiant generals, samaya-bound guardians of Phurba, Together with attendants, servants and envoys, Accept this golden drink and marshal the forces of this practitioner’s power. As I am a tantric practitioner, O you guardians of my family And you gods of this locale and you of other regions and places, As well as you who control the years, months, days, seasons and times, Accept this golden drink and marshal the forces of this practitioner’s power. Requesting a Fair Witness (zu-pang sol-wa): HUNG. From the mandala of the ten directions of space, O lamas, rigdzins, yidams, And Dorje Zhonnu and retinue, Heed me with your compassion. If I, the rigdzin practitioner who maintains samaya, Should encounter a foe, I have done nothing wrong and owe nothing.
Guardians, believe this! The Three Jewels remain my witnesses fair and true. Gods and demons of the phenomenal world, you decide or make judgment! Those nonvirtuous forces of broken samaya First destroy the integrity of the doctrine, Then they demean the Three Jewels, And finally they tear out the hearts of tantric practitioners. Now they threaten me, the yogin. They contradict the ten virtues And pursue the ten nonvirtues. Since the fruits of their inexpiable deeds have ripened, They are candidates for liberation. O hosts of deities of Dorje Zhonnu, Through you do not waver from the peace of dharmadhatu, The time has come to show your manifestations of rapacious, majestic, compassionate wrath And to liberate the dualistic forces of harm. Do not forget! Do not forget, you with sacred bond! Perform the enlightened activity of liberating dualistic obstructors! Creating the Objects of Visualization (mik-ja kyed-pa): Purify the pit with: OM SOBHAWA SHUDDHO SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA SHUDDHO HAM. From emptiness, in front of me from E appears a triangular structural frame of flaming iron, three-cornered and stepped in nine stages. Its opening is narrow and very deep. In its depths churns a bloody ocean of desire and attachment with the fires of aversion burning around it and the gloom of stupidity closing in from above. At its corners, the mountains of pride are crumbling; inside and out, the red winds of envy swirl; and a rain of disease, poison and weapons falls down. It is an unbearable malestrom of bad signs and omens. This realm is filled with the armies of the minions of Yama, Lord of Death, ravenous like lions, prowling like tigers, wrathful like cannibal demons, roaming like flesh eaters and bellowing like dragons with the sounds "Beat! Beat! Kill! Kill!" Inside this karmic prison of ordinary existence are the letters NRI and TRI, smoke-colored. They change completely into the manifestations of subject-object grasping. Their bodies are naked and emaciated, with swarthy skin, and they are unconscious. They are symbols of pain and sorrow. Blood and pus ooze from their nine orifices. They are stricken down, their breath on the verge of stopping, and they shiver uncontrollably. They are essentially the amalgamation of all sources of harm.
Summoning the Consciousness (nam-shei gug-pa) “Power of Truth” (den-tob): HOMAGE! Through the power of the truth of the rigdzins, the glorious and sacred root and lineage lamas, the truth of the Buddhas, the truth of the Dharma, and the truth of the Sangha, and the truth of secret mantras, intrinsic awareness mantras, dharani mantras and essence mantras and mudras and states of Samadhi, and the truth of the infallibility of the cause and effect of phenomenal reality, though the reality of dharmata has been empty from the beginningless beginning, and especially, through the power of the truth of the yidam Dorje Zhonnu, the glory of samsara and nirvana alike, together with the subduers of Mara, the ten wrathful deities, the tratab deities, the gate-keepers and the vast ocean of oath-bound ones, by the power of the great truths of all of these, may the general obstructions to the teachings and to beings, and especially the forces of obstruction to us, the rigdzins, together with our patrons and retinues – those who have raised up against us in the past, those who plot future harm and those who are now in our path, those who have forms and those who have no forms but bring harm – may all of these, wherever they may be in the three states of conditioned existence, wherever they have fled, instantly in a single moment, may they be summoned into this focal point for visualization! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN SHATRAM AKARKAYA DZA NRI YAM DZA. TRI YAM DZA. DZA HUNG BAM HO Recite the above “Power of Truth” three times or more to summon them. Dispatching the Messengers (po-nya gyed-pa): HUNG DZA. The time has come for the great samaya; The time has come for the great emanations. The time has come for the great female emissaries; The time has come for the shonamukha goddesses. The time has come foar the great dagnyid goddesses; The time has come for the sadag, the great earth goddesses. The time has come for your enlightened activity; The time has come to show your force and energy. HUNG. For us, the rigdzins, Who represent the line of the victorious ones of the three times, There are obstructing forces of dualism that harm us and bear us ill will And hordes of maras and obstacles That injure us and rob us of accomplishment. By the blessing of the supreme wrathful deities, May they be summoned instantly And, through the profound purification of their suffering, be liberated By this direct activity.
OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK DZA HUNG BAM HO SHI GHRAM ANAYA HUNG PHET Depriving Them of Their Defenses (lha-dang tral-wa): Burn gugul and so forth as incense, and perform the separating mudra with raven and owl feathers. HUNG. The time has come for the great samaya; The time has come for your samaya. The time has come to show your force and energy. Those hindrances that obstruct our siddhi And, through the profound purification of their suffering, be liberated By this direct activity. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK DZA HUNG BAM HO SHI GHRAM ANAYA HUNG PHET Depriving Them of Their Defenses (lha-dang tral-wa): Burn gugul and so forth as incense, and perform the separating mudra with raven and owl feathers. HUNG. The time has come for the great samaya; The time has come for your samaya. The time has come to show your force and energy. Those hindrances that obstruct our siddhi And the forces of malevolence and anger – Seize them! Separate them from their allies! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK HASA YARA HASA YARA HRI DENDRA HUNG PHET Casting Them into the Effigy (zuk-la wab-pa): Scatter mustard seed. HUNG. The time has come for the great emanations; The time has come to show your force and energy. Those hindrances that obstruct our siddhi And the forces of malevolence and anger – Cast them down! Overpower them completely! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK ABESHAYA ABESHAYA HUNG PHET
Binding Them Into Suppression (jad-du zhug-pa): Demonstrate binding by rope. HUNG. The time has come for the great female emissaries, The time has come to show your force and energy. Those hindrances that obstruct our siddhi And the forces of malevolence and anger – Hold them! Strike them! Bind them completely! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GTEK SHI GHRAM ANAYA HUNG PHET Rendering Them Mad (nyor-zhug-pa): Springle dugtrag and rakta. HUNG. The time has come for the shonamukha goddesses; The time has come to show your force and energy. Those hindrances that obstruct our siddhi And the forces of malevolence and anger – Summon them swiftly! Render them delirious! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK DZOLA PAYA DZOLA PAYA HUNG PHET Transfixing Them with the Spike (dab-pa’i zer-kha): Hold the phurba of the excellent son. HUNG. I am the great Dorje Zhonnu; The perfection of all Buddhas’ activities is complete within me. My two hands are the Buddhas of the five families, joined in union. Born from a blue-black HUNG The excellent son Yakshakrodha appears. His upper body is that of a terrifying wrathful deity, While his lower body is the blade of a phurba of meteoric iron, Sharp-edged and blazing, a vajra weapon. Merely to brandish it causes trembling in the three states of conditioned existence; Merely to roll it demolishes the three realms. As I rotate it at my crown, I and my retinue are protected; As I rotate it as my waist, negativity will not return; As I roll it to my right, the male classes are tamed; As I roll it to my left, the female classes are tamed; As I stab with it, even the gods are demolished, Not to mention the forces of dualistic obstruction. Aim at the vital energy of harm!
The samaya to liberate with compassion Is not killing, not oppressing. Rather, seal their aggregates into the vajra And meditate that their consciousnesses are vajra nature. OM LAM HUNG LAM STOM BHAYA NEN. MOHA GHATAYA BHAGAWAN HRI KRISHI BIKRI VAJRA. HUNG KARA HUNG. BENZAR KILI KILAYA DZA HUNG BAM HO. SARWA BIGHANAN. BENZAR KILI KILAYA HUNG PHET. BENZAR HUNG KARA HUNG PHET. HUNG KARA HUNG AH PHET. First, absorb their longevity and purify them; then liberate them into basic space. Then, to overcome the basic ground of habitual patterns, hold the activity phurba. HUNG. Whichever nonvirtuous forces transgress The secret vajra command, You great and powerful wrathful deities Must burst into a hundred fragments the very sources of their intellects! The forces of malevolence and anger, Be they devas or maras, Those hindrances that obstruct enlightenment – Make their strength and miraculous powers disappear! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK MARAYA HUNG PHET Repeat the wrathful razor mantra while stabbing at the individual points on the effigy and scattering the various power substances. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MA RAKMO YAKMO KALA RUPA NYING TSA LA YAM YAM SOG LA YAM YAM NYING LA TRIL TRIL SOG LA CHUM CHUM TSITTA SOG LA DUNG DUNG NYING TRAG SOG LA SHED DZA TUM RI LI LI NYING TSEG TSEG UR UR SHIG SHIG GUL GUL NYAG NYAG SOD SOD DHATI MA MA KARMA SHI GHRAM KARAYE MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET Hold the liberating knife. HUNG. Hordes of servants, attendants and messengers, The time has come for your samaya. As you previously promised and swore to do, Perform directly your wrathful enlightened activity. HUNG MAMA PASHAM KURU MATAM NYANA KARA IDEN DHATI MAMA KARMA SHI GHRAM KARAYE HUNG PHET
Chop up the effigy. Crushing Them to Dust (dul-du lag-pa): Demonstrate pounding with a hammer. HUNG. The time has come for the great sadag goddesses; The time has come to show your force and energy. Those hindrances that obstruct our siddhi And the forces of malevolence and anger – Crush their bodies and speech to fine dust! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK DAHAYA HUNG PHET Feeding Them to the Mouths of the Deities (zhal-du tob-pa): Transform the flesh and rakta of those liberated into amrita and feed it to the deities with the triangular ladles. HUNG. Assembly of deities of the majestic one, together with your retinue, Open wide your mouths as big as the sky and earth, Bare your fangs as big as snow mountains, Extend your tongues like forks of lightning And enjoy the offering of the five aggregates of those who have been liberated. Complete this direct wrathful activity. BENZAR YAKSHA KRODHA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI HA HA HA HUNG HUNG HUNG PHET PHET PHET Rinse the triangular ladle with rakta and alcohol and pour this onto the torm for the oath-bound ones. HUNG. The time has come for the great dagnyid goddesses; The time has come to show your force and energy. Those hindrances that obstruct our siddhi And the forces of malevolence and anger – As they are under my power, Make them listen to my commands! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA DRA GEK BHINDHAYA BHINDYAYA HUNG PHET Thus, the oath-bound ones are fed. At this point, enjoy the tsok and perform the remainder ceremony.
Calling Upon the Sacred Bonds (tud-dam kul-wa): In order to gather the forces that avert negativity, serve the effigy together with a drink of rakta to the main torma. HUNG. From the three-sided, blazing blue-black mandala Come the magnificent heruka, the splendid king of wrath, The mother consort who arises from the basic space of the three gates to liberation, The sons emanated from the mind of basic space and intrinsic awareness in union, The ten masculine and ten feminine wrathful deities who tame malevolent forces in the ten directions, The hordes of messengers who emanate from the forms of skillful means and transcendent knowledge, The gate-keepers, guardians, goddesses of power and classes of defiant ones – The assembled deities of Dorje Zhonnu’s mandala. If I the practitioner supplicate you with longing, Arise in your forms from the brilliant basic space of E TRAM. Accept these offerings of the three poisons – flesh, blood nad bones. Arouse your dynamic energy to send forth great wrathful activity; Accomplish the averting of negativity. The time for the sacred bond has come – Samaya! Enjoining the Enlightened Activity That Averts Negativity (dok-pa): HUNG JHYO. In the state of utterly pure pristine awareness, Arise as the form of compassion, O heruka! Great dorje Zhonnu, drinker of rakta, In union with your wisdom consort, And principal deities together with emanations and further emanations, Around your dynamic energy in unstoppable enlightened activity. Act to drive back and transform negativity! For us practitioners and our retinues, Drive back that which harms and obstructs us! Avert the four hundred and four diseases! Drive back the twenty-one thousand malevolent forces! Drive back the eighty thousand hindrances! Drive back the fifteen great malevolent forces affecting children! Avert the three hundred and sixty major dangerous times! Avert the eighty-one kinds of bad signs! Drive back the three hundred and sixty yedrog demons! Avert the eighteen causes of untimely death! Avert negative signs in dreams and inauspicious circumstances! Drive back incursions by the eight classes of gods and demons! Drive back sorcery, black magic, maledictions, imprecations and curses! Drive back the mantras of extremists and barbarians! Drive back the machinations of kingly demons, shape shifters and the demonic
forces of broken samaya! Drive back the harm and injuries caused by the senmo demons of ill fortune! Drive back the teu-rang demons who steal our spirits by stealth! Drive back the harm from blades and weapons, unnatural death and the demons of recurring calamities! Drive back the devouring demons, the demons that cause miscarriages and the hidden demons! Avert gossip, disputes, quarrels and strife! Avert harm to our harvests and herds, and looses from epidemics! Avert bad times of armed insurrections and uprisings! Avert instability and imbalance of the four elements in the outer world! Avert the blockages and disturbances of the channels and subtle energies that causes disease! Avert the mental habits of ignorance! Avert disharmony, estrangement and anxiety! Avert all obstacles and opposition! Drive them back! O great, glorious one, drive them back with your force! Transform them! Transform them through the great red torm! The blade is sharp! Let is mow down all ignorance and dualism! Accomplish the enlightened activity of averting! Avert negativity in this way. The Clapping of Hands (tal-deb): Assembly of deities of the exalted one, together with your retinues, Arouse your grandeur and blessings of wrath, rage and ferocity! Face outward and let the sound of your mantras Thunder like a thousand dragons. From your bodies and mouths come the weapons of annihilation. Diseases, weapons, poisonous vapors and hordes of messengers Shoot like stars and fall like hail. The forces of darkness, The sharp edges of imprecations hurled by others by means of mantra And the bad signs and omens that result from disharmony – Drive back all of these, removing their power! Fall upon the forces of dualistic obstruction! Like tongues of fire consuming straw and chaff, Annihilate them with no trace! After the condensed wrathful razor mantra, append and repeat many times: OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MA RAKMO YAKMO KALA RUPA NYING TSA LA YAM YAM SOG LA YAM YAM NYING LA TRIL TRIL SOG LA CHUM CHUM TSITTA SOG LA DUNG DUNG NYING TRAG SOG LA SHED DZA TUM RI LI LI NYING TSEG TSEG UR UR SHIG SHIG GUL GUL NYAG
NYAG SOD SOD DHATI MA MA KARMA SHI GHRAM KARAYE MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET NOD CHED DRA GEK CHEK MA’I NYING TSA LA MARAYA BED DOK After the “Power of Truth,” recited as before, append the following: HOMAGE! Through the power of the truth of the rigdzins, the glorious and sacred root and lineage lamas, and the truth of the Buddhas, and the truth of the dharma, and the truth of the sangha, and the truth of secret mantras and intrinsic awareness mantras and dharani mantras and essence mantras and mudras and states of Samadhi, and the truth of the infallibility of the cause an defect of phenomenal reality, though the reality of dharmata has been empty from the beginnintgless beginning, and especially, through the power of the truth of the yidam Dorje Zhonnu, the glory of samsara and nirvana alike, together with the subduers of Mara, the ten wrathful deities, the traTab deities, the gate-keepers and the vast ocean of oath-bound ones, by the power of the great truths of all of these – for us practitioners, teachers, students, patrons, and our retinues, all disharmoniouis forces arising from our previoius karma or from present conditions – all negativities, anxieties, imbalances, sorcery, hexes, hurled curses, malevolence and obstacles – all will be turned back on the dualistic forces of harm and obstruction. MARAYA JHYO DOK! (Clap hands) “Power of Truth”: HOMAGE! Through the power of the truth of the rigdzins, the glorious and sacred root and lineage lamas, the truth of the Buddhas, the truth of the dharma, and the truth of the sangha, and the truth of secret mantras, intrinsic awareness mantras, dharani mantras and essence mantras and mudras and states of Samadhi, and the truth of the infallibility of the cause and effect of phenomenal reality, though the reality of dharmata has been empty from the beginningless beginning, and especially, through the power of the truth of the yidam Dorje Zhonnu, the glory of samsara and nirvana alike, together with the subduers of Mara, the ten wrathful deities, the traTab deities, the gate-keepers and the vast ocean of oath-bound ones, by the power of the great truths of all of these, may the general obstructions to the teachings and to beings, and especially the forces of obstruction to us, the rigdzins, together with our patrons and retinues – those who have raised up against us in the past, those who plot future harm and those who are now in our path, those who have forms and those who have no forms but bring harm – may all of these, wherever they may be in the three states of conditioned existence, wherever they have fled, instantly in a single moment, may they be summoned into this focal point for visualization! OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA SARWA BIGHANAN SHATRAM AKARKAYA DZA NRI YAM DZA TRI YAM DZA DZA HUNG BAM HO
Offering Torma as Power Substance (tun-tor tong-wa): Using a red torma, perform the stages of summoning the objects of visualization and dissolving them into the torma. RAM YAM KHAM (This purifies the torma.) From emptiness appears the torma vessel, an enormous red conch skullcup, vast and extensive. Inside are the torma substances, which are obtained from the liberation of the forces of dualistic obstruction: mountains of flesh, oceans of blood, heaps of bones, foaming masses of brains and fat and a complete array, with no omission, of all offerings that are pleasing to the senses and worthy of being samaya substances. In essence, these have the nature of the amrita of the inexhaustible wisdom; inconceivable, they fill the extent of space. OM AH HUNG (This consecrates the torma.) The assembled deities partake ravenously of the torma, which in essence is amrita but in appearance has the characteristics of flesh and blood. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA HUNG PHET SAPARIWARA SARWA BIGHANAN SHATRUM MAHA MAMA RAKTA KINGNI RITI BALINGTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI Repeat this three or seven times to offer the torma. To conclude, visualize the remainder of the torma as a vajra rain of poison and weapons, and send it in the direction of harm with the following. HUNG. I am the great Dorje Zhonnu, The splendor of samsara and nirvana alike None is greater or more severe than I. You who dwell or move in the ten directions, You eight classes of gods, nagas and local spirits – Your minds and bodies will be demolished By my sending out the great torma, weapons, power substances and rays of light. Clear the path and stand aside! My target is the force of dualistic obstruction; It is not my aim to cut down you who are without blame. Help me, all of you! Raise your armies! Having raised your armies, hoist your banners! Crush to a fine dust the bodies Of the harmful and weakened forces of dualistic obstruction! Raise their consciousness into basic unborn space! The time has come! Show your force and energy!
MARAYA BED JHYO DOK (Unless it’s the last day, where one expels the torma, here finish the Dam Chen Chi Tor protector, page 28, Daily Recitation Book, and then perform the chedo-do, page 48 of the practice.) On the final day, when undertaking the activity of expelling the tormas, perform the main ritual of averting (dok-pa), followed by offerings, praises and requests for forbearance to the assembled deities. The pristine awareness deities depart into the sky in front, the commitment deities dissolve into me. Once again, the great torma instantly becomes the majestic Dorje Zhonnu, with an army of the eight classes of defiant gods and demons. With wrathful, fierce and fearsome forms, they fill the three states of conditioned existence and bring down a rain of disease, weapons and poison, rapacious in their activity to liberate the forces of dualistic obstruction. Within this context, repeat the wrathful razor mantra with the additional words appended. OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MA RAKMO YAKMO KALA RUPA NYING TSA LA YAM YAM SOG LA YAM YAM NYING LA TRIL TRIL SOG LA CHUM CHUM TSITTA SOG LA DUNG DUNG NYING TRAG SOG LA SHED DZA TUM RI LI LI NYING TSEG TSEG UR UR SHIG SHIG GUL GUL NYAG NYAG SOD SOD DHATI MA MA KARMA SHI GHRAM KARAYE MARA SENA PRAMAR DHANAYE HUNG PHET NOD CHED DRA GEK CHED MA’I NYING TSA LA MARAYA BED DOK Perform the offering of the torma as before, offering it as appropriate food for warriors. HUNG. O drinker of rakta, great glorious, terrifying Kilaya, Tamer of maras, king of wrath, together with your retinue – Here are the flesh, blood and bones from the liberation of the dualistic forces of obstruction – the three poisons – The five offerings that please the senses and the amrita, rakta and torma. As we offer these, accept them and accomplish Whatever activity we and our retinues may request of you And increase the force of these wrathful substances, the torzor, These obstructions, hindrances, broken samaya, sorcery and the classes of maras – By the power of liberating them forcibly, make them vanish without a trace. Swiftly accomplish the enlightened activity we have commissioned, driving back and transforming
The disharmony of estrangement, anxieties and attacks. The time has come for your sacred bond. Samaya! Enjoin them to act in this way. Opening the Door (go je-wa): Cast out the first portion of the drink. The Three Roots, dharmapalas, oath-bound ones And you tramen who guard the four gates, Accept this purely-prepared golden drink And fling open the door against the forces of dualistic obstruction. The Three Jewels are present as flawless witnesses. All but forces of dualistic obstruction, get out of the way! O drinker of rakta, raise your army of wrathful deities And accomplish this wrathful activity. Clear the way for a swath to be cut. Again perform “Calling Upon the Sacred Bonds.” HUNG. From the three-sided, blazing blue-black mandala Come the magnificent heruka, the splendid king of wrath, The mother consort who arises from the basic space of the three gates to liberation, The sons emanated from the mind of basic space and intrinsic awareness in union, The ten masculine and ten feminine wrathful deities who tame malevolent forces in the ten directions, The hordes of messengers who emanate from the forms of skillful means and transcendent knowledge The gate-keepers, guardians, goddesses of power and classes of defiant ones – The assembled deities of Dorje Zhonnu’s mandala. If I the practitioner supplicate you with longing, Arise in your forms from the brilliant basic space of E TRAM. Accept these offerings of the three poisons – flesh, blood and bones. Arouse your dynamic energy to send forth great wrathful activity; Accomplish the averting of negativity. The time for the sacred bond has come – Samaya! Then recite “Recalling the Contract” (ched-do): Recalling the Contract (chedo-do tong-wa): HUNG. Formerly in the great charnel ground, You vowed to Vajrakilaya; Subsequently at Parping (Yangleshod),
To the three accomplished Vajracharyas; and Finally at the solitary place of Red Rock Mountain (Dragmar), You vowed in the presence of Pedma Tod Treng and Tsogyal And swore oaths of allegiance To hold the vow of Dharma protectors. Partake of this wondrous torma. According to your former vow, Accomplish the four miraculous activities. Next, carry the torzor out to the site selected for disposal, bearing a flag in front of it. Begin with “Offering the Golden Drink.” Then: Offering the Golden Drink (ser-kyem bul-wa) 2: This golden drink becomes a treasure mine of inexhaustible wealth, pleasing to the senses. OM AH HUNG HUNG. Rigdzins, sacred root and lineage lamas, peaceful And wrathful sugatas, deities of the entire, vast array of mandalas, And especially the assembled deities of Dorje Phurba, Accept this golden drink and marshal the forces of this practitioner’s power. Masculine and feminine protectors, vast hordes of oath-bound ones, Defiant generals, samaya-bound guardians of Phurba, Together with attendants, servants and envoys, Accept this golden drink and marshal the forces of this practitioner’s power. As I am a tantric practitioner, O you guardians of my family And you gods of this locale and you of other regions and places, As well as you who control the years, months, days, seasons and times, Accept this golden drink and marshal the forces of this practitioner’s power. HUNG. Mara was defeated by the Buddha, Nondharma by Dharma The extremists were defeated by the sangha And the demigods by Indra. The assembled deities of Dorje Zhonnu Defeat the forces of dualistic obstruction. May the power of truth of the awareness mantras Be accomplished without impediment! Increase your resolve by reciting the “Power of Truth;” then hold up the torzor while reciting HUNG. NGA NI DOR JE ZHON NU CHE …” (page 105) In this way increase wrathful energy. If you wish, perform the ritual of averting. While chanting the wrathful mantra with the appended annihilating words, fling the great
torma away as though cutting a swath. The consciousnesses of the forces of dualistic obstruction are extinguished like lamps being snuffed out, while their bodies and wealth are all demolished without a trace. Clap your hands and perform the dulmo dep. To conclude, in order to remove any traces of the zor ritual, meditate on the protection circle as you exit. The vajra master follows at the rear of the procession. In front of the door of the shrine room, make the offering to the tenma sisters with the amrita of rinse water. Perform the dance of suppression, thinking that the forces of dualistic obstruction and the energy of broken samaya are crushed under the overturned torma vessel. Returning inside, summon longevity and accept siddhis. Perform thanksgiving offerings, praises and a request for forbearance. Then request that the wisdom deities appear in the sky to depart, or dissolve them into the sacred representations. Dissolve the self-visualization and arise in the form of the deity for postmeditation activities. If there is a colored sand mandala, dismantle it while reciting the akaro mantra. Conclude the entire ceremony with aspiration prayers and auspicious wishes. Furthermore, if on certain occasions you wish to perform a more elaborate version of the zor ritual, during the preparation phase arrange the following according to the traditional procedure: torzor, tragzor, dazor, yungzor and dugzor. First, increase your resolve with the “Power of Truth;” then, holding the zor implements in turn, fling them out. JHYO. The great and glorious Dorje Zhonnu’s appointed emissaries, You masters of the zor ritual, Carry out your activity to liberate ignorance and dualism. May the scythe-like energy of the great, red wrathful torma Flash like lightning and fall like a thunderbolt At the target of the forms and minds of the obstructing forces! Cast the torzor while reciting the wrathful razor mantra. Repeat the verse (above), substituting the fourth line: JHYO. The great and glorious Dorje Zhonnu’s appointed emissaries, You masters of the zor ritual, Carry out your activity to liberate ignorance and dualism. May the scythe-like energy of blood, the churching waves, Flash like lightning and fall like a thunderbolt At the target of the forms and minds of the obstructing forces! JHYO. The great and glorious Dorje Zhonnu’s appointed emissaries, You masters of the zor ritual, Carry out your activity to liberate ignorance and dualism. May the scythe-like energy of stones, the toppling mountains Flash like lightning and fall like a thunderbolt At the target of the forms and minds of the obstructing forces! JHYO. The great and glorious Dorje Zhonnu’s appointed emissaries, You masters of the zor ritual,
Carry out your activity to liberate ignorance and dualism. May the scythe-like energy of arrows, sharp, swift and forceful Flash like lightning and fall like a thunderbolt At the target of the forms and minds of the obstructing forces! JHYO. The great and glorious Dorje Zhonnu’s appointed emissaries, You masters of the zor ritual, Carry out your activity to liberate ignorance and dualism. May the scythe-like energy of white mustard, the bristling points of weapons, Flash like lightning and fall like a thunderbolt At the target of the forms and minds of the obstructing forces! JHYO. The great and glorious Dorje Zhonnu’s appointed emissaries, You masters of the zor ritual, Carry out your activity to liberate ignorance and dualism. May the scythe-like energy of poison, the enshrouding darkness Flash like lightning and fall like a thunderbolt At the target of the forms and minds of the obstructing forces! Making these substitutions, append the wrathful razor mantra to each verse; then case the appropriate substance. Finally, cast out the great zor itself. If you wish to perform other stages of activity in connection with this ceremony, such as rituals of suppression or a fire ritual, this elaboration is appropriate, and you should consult elsewhere. The quintessence of ten million tantras on enlightened activity, The refined essence of the condensed practice of the Razor, The blazing weapon of meteoric iron, which destroys at a touch, Was given to me by the heroine who overcomes maras. For the ranks of dragon-like practitioners who are skillful at Bringing down the vajra thunderbolts of wrathful awareness mantras, I have sent this forth as a joyous feast Of complete victory in battle with the ranks of Mara. This, then, was composed for the benefit of myself and a few others who had need of it. Condensing the quintessence of the root text through instructions from direct transmission, I gave it continuity and made it easy to read. This text was composed by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, son of an aristocratic family, in his forth-fifth year, on the third victorious day in the waning phase of the first month known as Kundzin. It was composed at the Cool Grove, the charnel ground of Tibet to the east of the central capital of Lhasa. The text was written down by that learned spiritual friend, the holder of awareness mantras Dondam Cho Chog. May this cause the forces thwarting the teachings of the great secret doctrine to be utterly crushed and the banner of complete victory to be raised! Sarwada mangalam!
Vajrakilaya Longevity Sadhana (tse-drub): If you wish to perform a longevity sadhana in connection with the activity ritual of Vajrakilaya, The Razor That Destroys at a Touch, place longevity symbols within the mandala. For daily practice, visualization alone will suffice. After the basic mantra repetition, recite: I am the great and glorious one. In my heart Is an amule of joined sun and moon disks With a HUNG surrounded by the awareness mantra of longevity. Its repetition invokes the sacred bond with the deity’s enlightened mindstream. Rays of light of the display of pristine awareness Touch the hearts of the messengers – The ten wrathful deities, the excellent sons, the gate-keepers and the rest These fill the entire universe with countless emanations And these with their further emanations. All my broken, scattered spirit and longevity And all the vital essence of samsara and nirvana Are drawn in as amrita And dissolve into my three doors. I become a rigdzin of immortality. Thinking in this way, append the following to the root mantra: OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA HUNG PHET BENZAR AYUKA SOHA Repeat mantra. Summoning the Longevity (tse-guk): HUNG. From basic space comes the self-arising deity, The majestic heruka, the lord of longevity, The deity connected to us from lifetimes past. As we now practice the stages of approach and accomplishment, Through our great, sacred bond, think of us. The time has come to grant us siddhi. Having aroused our motivation for supreme enlightenment, We hold the legacy of the victorious ones of the three times. For us, the rigdzins, Repair, restore and reclaim our spirit and longevity. Amass all virtue, excellent signs and potent purity of samsara and nirvana Here in this place, without hindrance. Dissolve them into the indestructible tigle of enlightened mind. Vajra longevity, without birth or death; A youthful body, free of aging and decrepitude; And life force without a thought of change or alteration:
Grant this eternal and sacred excellence. Request in this way. BHRUM. Pure potencies of samsara and nirvana coalesce into the life force; That dissolves into the HUNG, in the indestructible tigle; This in turn is sealed in the ineffable expanse of pristine purity, In uncontrived deathlessness. BENZAR JNANA RAKCHA AH Thus the seal is applied. Written by Jnana (Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, Dudjom Rinpoche). The Abbreviated Offering Prayer to the Phurba Protectors: RAM YAM KHAM (Purifies the offering) OM AH HUNG (Blesses the offering) From one’s heart, light rays emanate, inviting the Vajrakilaya protectors and their entourages. OM BENZAR ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYA SHAB DA PRATITSA SO HA (General offerings) MA HA PANTA AMRITA KHAHI MA HA RAKTA KHAHI (Offering medicine and rakta) OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MOHA GHATAYA MAMA SHI GHRAM KARMA KARAYE SAPARIWARA IDAM BALINGTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI (Offering the torma by repeating three times.) HUNG. Through the command of drak tung Vajrakumara, Possessors of the vow to protect the doctrine, The shonas, dagnyids, sodagmas, Kyeibus, gingchens and your entourages, Please partake of this offering torma of pleasing substances. Remove all unfavorable circumstances and increase favorable circumstances. Entrusted with this desire,
Accomplish the result of firm activity. Assigning this activity to the protectors, rest in equanimity. Written by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje. Sarwa Mangalam.
THE MIRACULOUS ACTIVITY SADHANA OF VAJRAKILAYA, THE RAZOR WHICH DESTROYS AT A TOUCH
The Protectors The Combined Essence of a Daily Torma Offering to the Three Roots and the Oath Bound Protectors Namo Guru Vajradhara Ye! Set out the torma offerings, principally the samaya substances of meat and alcohol, and sprinkle them with amrita. Maintaining the pride of yourself as a yidam, cleanse and purify by reciting: RAM YAM KHAM From within emptiness, above wind, fire and a hearth of skulls, Are the five meats and five nectars in a skullcup. These boil and dissolve into light, becoming the vital essence of inexhaustible amrita, Billowing forth as massing clouds of an ocean of sense pleasures. Consecrate the offerings with: OM AH HUNG HO HUNG HRI
From the pure realms of the entire vast array of the victorious ones of the three kayas, Lamas, yidams, dakinis, dharma protectors, Nodchin, wealth gods, lords of terma and of localities, Moved by compassion, all of you please approach this place. Invite them with: OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA DEWA DAKINI SARWA DHARMAPALA BASUDEWA NIDHIPATI BHUMIPATI SAPARIWARA BENZAR SA MA DZA Request them to remain with: DZA HUNG BAM HO SAMAYA TIK TREN TU Prostrate to them with the following, and imagine that they grant your request with: AHTI PU HO PRATITTSA HO HUNG. Both actual offerings and those that arise from meditative absorption, The pleasures enjoyed through the senses, medicine, rakta, torma, tsog and so forth, Form clouds of offerings filling the entire vastitude of space. Partake of this offering and grant us sublime and ordinary siddhis! Make the general offerings with: OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA DEWA DAKINI SHRI DHARMAPALA BASUDEWA NIDHIPATI BHUMIPATI SAPARIWARA ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GHENDHE NEWIDYA SHAPDA PRATITSA SO HA MAHA PANTSA AMRITA KHA HI MAHA RAKTA KHA HI For the specific offerings, imagine: The deities draw up the vital essence of the torma through tubes of light rays from their vajra tongues and partake of it. Offer the torma with three or seven repetitions of the following mantra, each time making the offering mudra with vajra palms opening facing upward, ending each with a snap of the fingers. OM AH HUNG BENZAR GURU PEDMA DEWA DAKINI SARWA DHARMA PALA BASU DEWA NIDHI PATI BHUMI PATI SAPARIWARA IDAM BALINGTA KHA KHA KHA HI KHA HI
HUNG HRI Vidyadhara lamas who cause the clouds of blessings to amass, Peaceful and wrathful meditational deities who cause a rain of attainments to descend, Dakas and dakinis who enact unrivaled enlightened activity – I praise you with devotion. Grant us sublime and ordinary siddhis! HUNG The supreme skillful means of great bliss is Legden Nagpo, The four-armed Mahakala, the five classes of Gonpo, Maha Deva, Shenpa, Rahula, Dorje Legpa, Dudgon and son on – I prostrate to and praise the lordly legions of protectors of the masculine lineage. The consort of the sphere of wisdom, Ekadzati, Rangjung Gyalmo, Dur Trod Mamo, The five Tseringma sisters, Dorje Yudronma, the Tenma goddesses and so on – I prostrate to and praise the legions of mamos of phenomenal existence. The powerful Maning of non-dual wisdom. The thirty generals, the feminine and masculine guardians of Vajrakilaya, Nodchin, wealth gods and lords of terma and of localities – I prostrate to and praise all who protect the forces of good. In accepting this torma and an ocean of desired Sense pleasures, each of you in accordance with your intentions, As you were commanded and bound by your oaths to the root and lineage lamas, Bestow on us yogis and our retinues The most sublime form of pacifying activity! Give rise to our splendor and charisma through enriching activity! Subdue the world with your beneficial influence! Tame the forces of dualistic obstruction and harm with wrathful activity. Cause the holders of the teachings to live long! Spread the doctrine and practice of the teachings. Enact activities that will increase the bliss and happiness of all beings! In this way, make offerings and entreat their enlightened activities. HUNG In the center of the celestial mansion, within the play of the terrible charnel ground, Are the wrathful sense offerings that arise from the liberation of the forces of dualistic obstruction, And substances for offering, support, fulfillment and sadhana practice. May this inexhaustible wealth of desirables Fulfill the sacred bond with Legden, the four armed Mahakala, the five classes of glorious Gonpo, Maha Deva, Shenpa Marnag, Rahula, Dudgon and the rest!
May it fulfill the sacred bond with you hosts of lord protectors of the masculine lineage! Tame the hordes of mara with the force of the Vajra cannibal! May it fulfill the sacred bond with Ekadzati, Rangjung Palbarma, Dur Trod Lhamo, the five Tsering sisters and the rest! May it fulfill the sacred bond with you, the ten million mamos of the world of phenomenal appearances! Liberate the forces of dualistic obstruction by the strength of your ardent compassion! May it fulfill the sacred bond with the glorious lord protector Maning, the thirty generals, The feminine and masculine guardians of Vajrakilaya and the powerful ones of the world of all phenomenal appearances. May it fulfill the sacred bond with the whole array of those who protect the forces of good! Cast down the forces that obstruct the teachings! May it fulfill the sacred bond with Namtosei, Dzambala, Tsogkyi Dagpo, Dorje Duddul and the hundreds of thousands of nodchin! May it fulfill the sacred bond with the oceans of jewel-like treasure-holders, Extend our lifespans, enrich our splendor, and increase our wealth of sense pleasures! In brief, may the sacred bond be fulfilled with you hosts of dharma guardians And wealth deities who have made pledges in the presence of the Vidyadhara lamas of the three lineages! May our sacred bond be fulfilled to your delight! At this time, grant us the results to which we yogins aspire! If you wish to include additional protector prayers, insert there here. Finally, sprinkle amrita on the offering torma and say: OM AH HUNG HO The torma, which is the flesh and blood of the forces of dualistic obstruction, emanates forth as massing ocean-like clouds of sense pleasures, which possess thenature of the amrita of primordial wisdom. HUNG Protector Heruka, supreme skillful means of great bliss, Ekadzati, single essence of the sphere of wisdom, Their non-duality arising through the central channel as the black Gonpo Maning, And the hosts of arrogant ones of the three lineages, approach! This is the torma of the mountains of flesh and oceans of blood of the forces of dualistic hindrance, A treasury of sense pleasures, by nature the amrita of primordial wisdom.
I offer these superb clouds of offerings, from which fall a rain of everything delightful, As a great sign of my appreciation for the excellence you have carried out formerly, Accept it now as a token. To reiterate the activities that I presently request – Guard the teachings of the buddhas, extend the lifespans of those who hold these teachings, Protect the communities of sangha and increase benefit and happiness in the world. In particular, we who are teachers and students, patrons and beneficiaries, Guard and protect us undistractedly until we attain enlightenment. Dispel all adverse conditions and bring a rain of supportive conditions! Whether pacifying, enriching, attracting, or liberating, Quickly accomplish whatever enlightened activities I entrust to you! This is an easy-to-use practical beneficial to self and others, compiled from the realizations of many vidyadhara’s into a concise liturgy by Jigdral Yeshe Dorje. OM SHRI BENZAR DHARMAPALA SAPARIWARA ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GHENDE NEWIDYA SHAPDA PRATITSA SO HA In the presence of the glorious Heruka, Just as you promised in the past, now at this time, Guard the doctrine and protect the practitioners. To all the protectors of the doctrine, I render praise! Thus, make offerings and render praise. Whatever unwholesome deeds I have unknowingly committed By not having the ability to act properly, and for Whatever mistakes I have made at this time, For all such shortcomings, please grant forgiveness. Confessing mistakes, recite the one hundred syllable mantra. Here, inseparable from these objects, Please remain for as long as samsara exists, Bestowing upon us health, life, wealth, Glory, and supreme attainments, and all that is the most excellent and auspicious! OM SU PRA TI TRA BENZAR YE SO HA Thus, the commitment being and the primordial wisdom beings dissolve into the support. If there is no support, then: OM. You who accomplish the purpose of all sentient beings,
Accordingly bestow spiritual attainments. Although you return to the Buddha’s pure land, May you return once again to bestow blessings. BENZAR MU The primordial wisdom beings depart and the commitment beings dissolve into oneself. To dismiss the worldly protectors recite: GATSA GATSA SOBHAWA NAM Dedicate the Merit: By this merit, may I swiftly Accomplish the glorious Heruka, and May all beings without exception Accomplish that very status. Prayers of auspicious good fortune: In the past, in the presence of the great teacher from Orgyen, For the purpose of individuals who aspire to accomplish the dharma, You vowed to protect them like a mother protects her only child. May there arise the good fortune of all the dharma protectors and guardians. Persevering in the activity of protecting the Buddha’s doctrine, Assisting all yogins to uphold their vajra words of honor and Accomplishing the orders given by Padmasambhava, May there arise the good fortune of the ocean of oath-bound protectors! Close on a note of well-being and excellence, dedicate the virtue, and recite prayers of auspicious wishes. Both oneself and others benefit from this easy-to-use daily practice, and for this reason I, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, compiled the sources of many vidyadhara’s realization into a concise liturgy. Gya! Dza Yantu! A Concise Torma Offering to the Protectress of the Secret Mantra, Mamo Ngag Sun Ma -- Ekadzati OM SO STI
If you wish to make the torma offering to the goddess of primordial wisdom, the dharma protectress of the meditation cycle of the Profound Path of the Heart Drop of the Dakini – the Zab Lam Khandro Thug Tig, then prepare in the following way. In a clean vessel place a triangular shaped torma adorned with flesh and blood, and carefully arrange the various offering substances of amrita, rakta, and the offerings which please the senses such as flowers, incense, light, perfume and food. Having performed the preliminary generation of self as the primordial wisdom deity, purify the offering torma with: RAM YAM KHAM From a state of emptiness, above wind, fire and a hearth of skulls, Are the five meats and five nectars in a skullcup. Boiling and dissolving into light, they become the vital essence of inexhaustible amrita, Billowing forth as massing clouds of an ocean of sense pleasures. Consecreate with OM AH HUNG Purify the in-front support with: OM SOBHAWA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA SHUDDHO HAM Before me, in the center of a lake of blood whose rocky shore is of white skeletons and bones, Is a red and black triangular pillar of fire and wind, in the center of which, Upon a lotus, sun, moon and corpse seat, From JHYO arises the glorious protectress of mantra. Her body is maroon in color. She is holding a corpse club and a heart. On her forehead is a single eye, in her mouth a single tooth, On her chest a single breast, and a single lock of iron hair flows upward. The great terrifying mother delights in the dance of rage. Inhaling, she steals the life force of enemies, demons and negative obstructing forces. From her three places, light emanates, inviting the primordial wisdom beings. Clearly visualizing in this way, recite: JHYO. The womb of the consort, great bliss Kuntuzangmo, The realm free of elaboration, self arisen primordial wisdom, From the dharmakaya mandala beyond concept, Arises the emanation body of compassion, The great queen of all dakinis,
The subduer of the three realms of existence, Ral Chig Ma. Protectress of the Secret Mantra, consort of liberation, Maroon wrathful mother, please come! Through our devotion and your samaya vow, Only mother, please come! Please come! Invoked by your vajra brother, Oath-bound sister, come now to this place. TRAG RAKSHA SAPRIWARA EH HAYA HI BENZAR SAMA DZA DZA HUNG BAM HO In this way perform the invitation. Request to remain with: SAMAYA TIK TREN TU Make the general offerings with: TRAG RAKSHA SAPARIWARA ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYA SHAPTA PRATITSA SO HA Give amrita and rakta with: MAHA PANTSA MARITA KHA HI MAHA RAKTA KHA HI Offering the torma repeat this three or seven times, then: HUNG MAMA EKADZATI SAMAYA HRING HRING DZA DZA SAPARIWARA IDAM BALINGTA KHA KHA KHA HI KHA HI JHYO. From the charnel ground blazing with volcanic fire, Comes the terrifying slayer, the maroon wrathful mother. Wearing a scarf of clouds on her sky body, She drinks the blood and eats the hearts of vow breakers. Her corpse club shatters the heart of the enemy. The great terrifying mother has a single lock of hair glowing upward. With the single eye on her forehead she sees all that is in the three realms of existence. With her single tooth she kills the enemy. With her single breast she protects the excellent practitioner as her child. Accept this red torma – a wealth of flesh and blood. Through the power of your samaya, execute those who break their vows. Mamo Ekadzati, because of your delight, Accomplish the activities entrusted to you. Now is the time to fulfill your samaya.
Thus, render praise: Ngag Sun Mamo, having fulfilled the sacred bond with you, Increase and spread the great secret doctrine. Pacify our adverse circumstances and increase favorable conditions. Leaving nothing undone, spontaneously accomplish all that is desired. Thus, concerned activity is requested. Having offered the torma, confess all mistakes. Dissolve the primordial wisdom being into the support and absorb the samaya being into oneself. Dedicate the merit and generate happiness and excellence with auspicious wishes. This daily torma offering which is a source of happiness was written by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje. DZA YANTU A Brief Supplication Offering to the Three Protectors: Ekadzati, Rahula and Dorje Legpa HUNG JHYO. Kuntuzangmo, Dharmadhatu Consort, Ralchigma, great protectress of the secret mantra, Encircled by your retinue of hundreds of thousands of mamos of existence, Come here to partake of this offering torma of samaya substances. Protect and care for all the doctrine of the Secret Mantra Great Perfection. Do not forget your compassionate promise. At this time accomplish your activities. HUNG. Terrifying Za Dud Rahula Encircled by your emanations, the eight Za, the four Dongmo, The twenty-eight constellation goddesses and their armies, I invite you here. Delight in this torma of flesh and blood. Don’t be idle, employ your abundantly skillful activity to Quickly liberate the enemies of the Buddha’s doctrine and those who break their vows. Guard the supreme practitioners as your own child. Do not forsake your promise, perform your activity. HUNG. Great noble, Dorje Legpa, Encircled by Kongtsun Tenmo and the remaining cheerful Tenma sisters With their entourages of billions of emanations, I invite you here to partake of this offering torma of agreeable substances.
Increase the dominion of the Great Secret Doctrine and its upholders; Do not allow its power to decrease. Continually befriend and assist. Don’t be idle but quickly accomplish the four activities. Written by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje upon the request of Chogtrul Kunzang Tenpai Gyaltsen. The Prayer to Activate the Miraculous Activity of Marpo Lha Sum Called: “The Indignant Laugh of Blazing Powerful Wrath” HRI DZA. The great Lhachen Wang-Chug, power-wielder of phenomenal existence, Nodchin Shenmar, displayer of unobstructed strength, And the blazing Tsen-god, taking the lives of the Doctrine’s enemies. You three, manifest assemblies and messengers, We invoke you to this place of samaya, please come here. Authorized and installed to remain as permanent protectors of the doctrine, We offer outer, inner, and secret substances, and the flesh and blood of enemies and obstructing forces. By utilizing this exhaustless flow of conducive and desirable substances, Pray, may these offerings fulfill your heart’s promise. Pray, forgive us for whatever mistakes have been made due to confusion. Concerning myself and all other practitioners who rely upon and accomplish you, Grant us constant security and protection in every situation without wavering. Clear all non-conducive circumstances, illness, and demonic force possessions. Through your power and might, increase the dharma in this existence through concerned activity. Overcoming the mental appearances of humans and non-human spirits, Overpower all reverted and harmful enemies of the Doctrine. Liberate the enemies of the lama’s body and the practitioners’ needs. Fierce protector, now demonstrate your strength and display of your power. At this time, may all the great qualities of mantra practice be generated. Do not forget the command and your vow under samaya! Thus, at the request of Ngagton Pedma Wangchen, this was written by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje. If this prayer is carelessly propagated, harm will come to the propagator. The Supplication to Invoke Shenpa Extracted from the Main Terma KYA. In the charnel ground of Hechen Dalwa, Nodchin Shenpa and your entire assembly, Hear this call of faith and pure samaya. Without exception, swiftly come here. Remain in this place as the support for accomplishment.
The desirable outer offerings, as well as medicine, rakta and torma, The five precious materials, brocades and chest of treasures, The flesh, blood, bones, life essence and breath of the enemies and obstructors, And multitudes of conducive materials, are presented to you As offerings to the red-black Nodchin Shenpa And the supreme consort, the red Sodched, And to your action messengers, their emanations and assemblies, As well as to your additional manifestations, to the eight classes of gods and cannibals, And to their hundreds of thousands of assemblies. Through these offerings, be fulfilled and recall your heart’s oath. By constantly guarding me with love and compassion, Enact your peaceful, expansive, powerful, and wrathful activities As miraculous action that has no limit in its spontaneous accomplishment. Do not ignore or postpone your samaya. Nodchin Shenpa Protector Prayer KHYA. With pure devotion and pure samaya, Nodchin Shenpa, consort, and retinue, Swiftly come forth, without obstruction. Be seated upon the seat of great samaya. Authorized and installed as my protector, Outer, inner and secret offerings are made. I fully confess all damaged and broken vows and invoke your heart’s promise. I praise you with the plaintive sound of music and song. Fully accomplish your extensive miraculous activities. Do not waver; do not delay. (Maintain) samaya. The Abbreviated Offering Prayer to the Phurba Protectors: RAM YAM KHAM (Purifies the offering) OM AH HUNG (Blesses the offering) From one’s heart, light rays emanate, inviting the Vajrakilaya protectors and their entourages. OM BENZAR ARGHAM PADYAM PUSHPE DHUPE ALOKE GENDHE NEWIDYA SHABDA PRATITSA SO HA (General offerings) MA HA PANTSA AMRITA KHAHI MA HA RAKTA KHAHI (Offering medicine and rakta) OM BENZAR KILI KILAYA MOHA GHATAYA MAMA SHI GHRAM
KARMA KARAYE SPARIWARA IDAM BALINGTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI (Offering the torma by repeating three times.) HUNG. Through the command of drak tung Vajrakumara, Possessors of the vow to protect the doctrine, The shonas, dagnyids, sodagmas, Kyeibus, gingchens and your entourages, Please partake of this offering torma of pleasing substances. Remove all unfavorable circumstances and increase favorable circumstances. Entrusted with this desire, Accomplish the result of firm activity. Assigning this activity to the protectors, rest in equanimity. Written by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje. The Inexpressible Absolute Confession Behold the self-manifest primordial wisdom mandala encompassing space. OM. The supreme embodiment of primordial wisdom, the natural mandala, Although without elaboration, just like the full moon, Appears as the display of compassion, without bias, equally, like the clear light of the sun, Please come here, listen to me and be seated. Inexpressible wisdom, the immovable dharmakaya, The great bliss sambhogakaya, the five Buddhas and their families, The deities of the play of the vast display of the skillful method of loving kindness, To the peaceful and wrathful nirmanakaya buddhas I bow down. Actual material endowments and those mentally manifest, Like limitless clouds of Samantabhadra’s offerings, Are perfectly arranged throughout the reaches of the pure sphere of space. I offer this ocean of outer, inner, and secret offerings. In the secret womb of Samantabhadri (Kuntuzangmo) Dwell the vast multitudes of the mandalas of the buddhas without exception. Within the one taste of changelessness, Take pleasure in the indivisible awakened mind. The mind’s nature is the great space of the dharmadhatu. All phenomena are perfectly pure as the primordial realm of clear light. The nature of this practice is the sphere beyond thought and speech. I bow down constantly to this awakened mind in the nature of equality. Within the great perfection of Samantabhadra, which has prevailed from the very beginning, Are the great arrangements of outer, inner and secret mandalas.
In the pure display of phenomenal existence as the sphere of male and female deities, All that appears and transforms is the spontaneous expression of male-female. Great Mistress, who possesses the form of the ultimate great secret, In the center of your lotus, the vast expanse of the sphere of space Is the clear light realm of the great bindu of non-duality, The embodiment of the essence of the awakened mind, uncontrived without complexity. All appearances, are the deities of infinite great bliss. This secret mandala devoid of gathering and dispersing, Is the great self-nature as the five Buddha families, male and female, The family of bodhisattvas, the hosts of male and female wrathful deities, The assembly of vajra goddesses and the lords, masters of the assemblies, The five glorious herukas of the five Buddha families, the ten wrathful deities and their consorts, The four gate keepers of the sacred places and countries, The many assemblies of primordial wisdom emanation deities, Who are as loving as mothers and as affectionate as sisters, The dakinis who weigh good and evil and pronounce the judgments of samaya, and Hosts of outer and inner dakinis and yoginis. All of you who uphold the vajra commitment, please bear witness to me. Descendants of the vajra lineage pure-awareness holders, myself and others, Who generate the awakened mind for the purpose of all beings, In order to reach the unsurpassed state of awakening, We practice the various individual disciplines of the ocean of teachings, Maintain the supreme vow of the union of body, speech and mind, and The vajra samaya, not lightly transgressed and necessary to maintain. All general and extraordinary samaya, That I successively received and swore to preserve, Were never intended to be lost or transgressed. With no intention to deviate or abandon them, yet Due to laziness, I have postponed the practices. Without achieving accomplishment, my meditation potential is feeble. Lacking mindfulness and overpowered by carelessness, I have not persevered in meditation, and have been distracted during mantra recitation. Concerning the root samaya of body, speech and mind, Overpowered by my lack of awareness, both knowingly and unknowingly, I have transgressed my teacher’s words and contradicted the vows. Any practitioner who has allowed samaya to deteriorate Should not be associated with, even for an instant. Although stated in the scriptures, this is difficult to adhere to. The secret path is difficult to define, and so hard to understand clearly. Lacking omniscience, it is difficult to discern who is at fault. I have associated with transgressors in feast and fulfillment restoration ceremonies. I have spoken about Dharma to transgressors and improper vessels, and
I have failed to be conscientious about deteriorations, their faults and so forth. I have befriended transgressors. And due to all of this, These faults of the obscuration of defilement, whatever they may be, Are the cause of obstructing conditions in this life and will obscure the future. With a mind of overwhelming regret and remorse I completely confess. Please pay heed to me with your loving compassion and Place me firmly in the sphere of non-duality. Although you abide in the state of equanimity free of conceptualization, Please bestow perfectly the blessings of absolute non-duality. If non-conceptual absolute truth is free from elaboration, Whatever thought formations exist, become non-conceptual. Due to the power of conventional truth, which is merely illusory, For the faults committed, with personal remorse I request forgiveness. This extract is the fourth chapter of the Confession Tantra, The Stainless King. Translated into Tibetan by Vimalamitra and Nyak Jnanakumara. SAMAYA (Repeat the One-Hundred Syllable Mantra.) From the Stainless Secret of Vajrasattva: The Doctrine of the King of Purification, the Essence of Confession OM. Buddha Kuntuzangpo, the primordial ground, Vajrasattva, the Vajra Tathagata, Great Daka (Hero), protector of beings, Look upon me with your gaze of wisdom and loving intent. AH. Though primordially unborn and pure from the beginning, In the face of sudden confusion, all discursive thoughts arise. Through this condition of the appearance of ignorance’s duality, all deteriorations I confess in the expanse of the great pure consort of the dharmadhatu. BENZAR. Secret lord, proclaimer of the vajra samaya, Every broken vow and damaged pledge of the One-hundred thousand body, speech, mind, and secret samayas, I confess with absolute shame and remorse. SATTVA. Having passed the time limit when violations become faults, Which are the cause of harsh punishment, At the command of the vajra dakinis, the monitors of karma, I confess the accumulated causes of the great hells that obscure this life and the next. HUNG. Great Vajra, Primordial King, Inconceivable, free of damage and confession, Kuntuzangpo, the expanse of pure awareness, perfect from the beginning,
Within the expanse of the dharmadhatu, without gathering or separation – AH. (Repeat the one hundred syllable mantra.) This King of Confessions, in just a few words, can stir samsara from its depths like alchemy applied to iron. It is an oral instruction to protect beings who have fallen subject to ignorance and thus violations of samaya. This arose from the sphere of the mind of Samantabhadra and was written down in code script for the sake of future generations. May it meet with my heart son, an emanation of myself. SAMAYA GYA GYA GYA This was established from code script by Trakthung Pawo. (Do Khentse Yeshe Dorje) All deteriorated and broken samaya (are purified) By the power of reciting this king of confessions. By stirring the depths of the three realms of samsara, May (all beings) attain the enlightened expanse of the three kayas.
