Secret teaching from Guru Padmasambava
about taking refuge asked by lady tsogyal
source : from the Book Dakini Teaching
There are eight trainings.
First there are the three special trainings :
1. Having taken refuge in the guru, you should not feel ill will toward him or even the intention to deride him.
2. Having taking refuge in the yidam, you should not interrupt the meditation of the yidam's form or its recitation.
3. Having taken refuge in the dakini, you should not break the periodical offering days.
The five general trainings are the following.
1.Consecrate as nectar,
the first part of whatever you eat or drink. Offer it visualizing the guru above your head. offer it visualizing the yidam in your heart center and the dakini in your navel center. You should train in partaking of food in this way.
2. In whichever direction you go, supplicate the guru, yidam, and dakini. Visualize the guru above your head, Visualize yourself as the yidam and visualize the dakini and the dharma protectors as your escorts. This training in walking.
3. Even the cost of your life or limb. You should train in regarding the guru to be as dear as your heart, the yidam as dear as your eyes, and the dakini as dear as your body.
4. No matter what happens, such as sickness, difficulty or ease, joy or sorrow, you should train in the supplicating the guru, making offering to the yidam. and giving feasts and torma to the dakini. Other than that, you should not pursue other means such as soothsaying and shamanistic rituals.
5. Recollecting the virtues of the guru, yidam and dakini, you should take refuge again and again, By taking refuge in the guru, obstacles are cleared away. By taking refuge in the yidam the body of mahamudra will be attained. By taking refuge in the dakini you will receive the siddhis.
Kamis, 03 Februari 2011
Minggu, 02 Januari 2011
The Protection Method and Boundary Method
Written by Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by Cheng Yew Chung edited by Victor Hazen
True Buddha Translation Teams
When the Vajrayana practitioner engages in the cultivation of all ...Vajrayana practices, it is very important to practice the protection method the boundary method. If one does not set a boundary around one’s mandala shrine and perform Armor Protection, one is vulnerable to the attack of the Mara demon.
In the True Buddha School, we teach the practice of Armor Protection. During every practice session, the practitioner forms the Vajra Handclasp Mudra and chants the heart mantra of Vajrapani, and presses the mudra upon the forehead, followed by the throat, the heart, the left shoulder, and the right shoulder. This creates the Armor Protection.
The practitioner may also take threads of string weaved together by young children (or strings purified over fire). Recite the Vajra Mantra once and tie a knot. Complete twenty-one knots, and hang the string of knots around your neck or tie it around your arm. This can protect you from all evil spirits and demons. Thus, this is also a method of protection.
All protective strings and protective amulets have protection power. It is best to recite the mantra twenty-one times every two weeks and pray to the wrathful protectors to empower the strings and amulets. If you do this, they shall be effective.
When the practitioner sets a boundary in the mandala shrine, he may use a bottle of pure water or perfume, and offer it at the mandala shrine. He should recite the wrathful protector’s mantra one hundred and eight times or one thousand and eighty times. He should visualize the protector radiating lights to bless the pure water or perfume. He should take the perfume and sprinkle it in all ten directions around the shrine to set the boundary. Within the parameter of the sprinkled region, no evil spirits and demons would dare enter.
This boundary method is suitable for the mandala shrine, or for the house. You can even set a boundary around larger land areas with this method. But to achieve results you need to strengthen this boundary by practicing the method bi-monthly.
Some have used this protection method on the body of a patient, spraying the perfume onto the body and reciting the vajra protector’s mantra. The patient may react with a loud cry, and any illness due to the possession of evil spirits and demons shall be healed immediately.
Translated by Cheng Yew Chung edited by Victor Hazen
True Buddha Translation Teams
When the Vajrayana practitioner engages in the cultivation of all ...Vajrayana practices, it is very important to practice the protection method the boundary method. If one does not set a boundary around one’s mandala shrine and perform Armor Protection, one is vulnerable to the attack of the Mara demon.
In the True Buddha School, we teach the practice of Armor Protection. During every practice session, the practitioner forms the Vajra Handclasp Mudra and chants the heart mantra of Vajrapani, and presses the mudra upon the forehead, followed by the throat, the heart, the left shoulder, and the right shoulder. This creates the Armor Protection.
The practitioner may also take threads of string weaved together by young children (or strings purified over fire). Recite the Vajra Mantra once and tie a knot. Complete twenty-one knots, and hang the string of knots around your neck or tie it around your arm. This can protect you from all evil spirits and demons. Thus, this is also a method of protection.
All protective strings and protective amulets have protection power. It is best to recite the mantra twenty-one times every two weeks and pray to the wrathful protectors to empower the strings and amulets. If you do this, they shall be effective.
When the practitioner sets a boundary in the mandala shrine, he may use a bottle of pure water or perfume, and offer it at the mandala shrine. He should recite the wrathful protector’s mantra one hundred and eight times or one thousand and eighty times. He should visualize the protector radiating lights to bless the pure water or perfume. He should take the perfume and sprinkle it in all ten directions around the shrine to set the boundary. Within the parameter of the sprinkled region, no evil spirits and demons would dare enter.
This boundary method is suitable for the mandala shrine, or for the house. You can even set a boundary around larger land areas with this method. But to achieve results you need to strengthen this boundary by practicing the method bi-monthly.
Some have used this protection method on the body of a patient, spraying the perfume onto the body and reciting the vajra protector’s mantra. The patient may react with a loud cry, and any illness due to the possession of evil spirits and demons shall be healed immediately.
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