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[A]
[A1]
I take safe direction, till my purified state,
From the
Buddhas, the Dharma, and the Highest Assembly.
By the positive force
of my giving and so on,
May I actualize Buddhahood to help those who
wander.
[3x, only for the first
repetition]
May all beings be parted from clinging and aversion,
feeling close
to some and distant from others,
May they gain the joy that is
specially sublime.
May they find release from the ocean of their
unbearable problems.
May they never be parted from liberation’s pure
bliss.
To free from the fears of samsara and complacent nirvana
all
wandering beings,
I take hold of the mind that wishes to gain an
enlightened state,
And from this moment on, till becoming a Buddha,
I shall never forsake it, though my life be at stake.
Just as the Blissfully Progressed of the past reaffirmed their
bodhichitta aim
And lived by the stages of bodhisattva training,
I
too reaffirm my bodhichitta aim, to help those who wander,
And shall
train in the stages of bodhisattva training.
[3x, only for the first repetition]
Now my life has become truly fruitful,
For having wonderfully
attained a human existence,
Today I have awakened my Buddha-nature
And now have become a Buddhas’ spiritual child.
Now in whatever way possible
I shall undertake actions that accord
with its traits,
And never defile this impeccable nature that lacks
any flaw.
[A-X]
In the sky before me, on a breath-taking throne of jewels,
On top of a water-born lotus, and mandala-discs of a sun and full
moon,
Sits my root guru, Vajradhara, ruler of the all-pervasive,
With a blue-colored body, one face and two arms,
Holding vajra and
bell, and embracing a motherly likeness of himself.
Emblazoned with
the signs and exemplary features of a Buddha,
Adorned with lavish
jeweled ornaments,
Draped with fine garments of enchanting, heavenly
scarves –
The mere remembrance of you dispels all my torment.
With
a nature encompassing every superlative source of direction,
You sit
in the vajra position,
Your body’s three spots marked with three
syllables.
By rays of light from the HUM,
Guru Vajradhara from
his natural abode –
Jah hum bam hoh – becomes non-dual with
you.
[A2]
Your kindness heralds in an instant
A dawn of great bliss.
O jewel-like guru, Holder of the Vajras,
I bow at your lotus-feet.
I present you with an ocean of clouds
Of assorted outer, inner, and
hidden offerings:
These I possess and those that nobody owns,
Both
actually arrayed and mentally created.
Anything physical, verbal, or mental that I or others enjoy,
And
the network of my constructive acts throughout the three times,
A
splendid jeweled mandala, with a host of Samantabhadra offerings –
Taking these to mind, I present them to you,
My guru, my yidam, my
Three Supreme Gems.
Accept them, please, by the power of compassion.
I humbly request you for inspiration.
Just as the Blissfully Progressed have tamed,
Throughout the three
times and the ten directions,
You likewise enact, in a play of
saffron,
A Triumphant One’s deeds in countless realms.
O precious
guru, I make you requests.
Highly praised by Vajradhara, for us of lesser capacity,
As an
exceptional field for thought more holy than
The endless circles of
infinite Triumphant,
O precious guru, I make you requests.
All supreme and common actual attainments, without exception,
Follow upon correctly relating to you, my guide, in a healthy manner.
Seeing this, I fully devote my body and even my life:
Inspire me
to practice what only will please you.
[B]
[B-X]
Requested like this, my supreme guru
Alights on the crown
of my head.
We merge – samaja.
[B1]
Once more you gladly become
Of a singular taste with me.
With the pride of a Vajrasattva, holding vajra and bell,
Symbolic
of the hidden factors of co-arising great bliss
And the state by
nature fantasy-free,
I embrace Bhagavati.
My body and likewise my wealth,
And as massive a network of
constructive acts
As I have built up throughout the three times,
I
give, from now on, without sense of a loss,
To help limited beings,
who have all been my mothers.
I shall not transgress, even in my dreams,
The most minor training
concerning the proscriptions
That keep my pratimoksha, bodhisattva,
and tantric vows pure.
I shall practice in accord with the Triumphant Ones’ words.
I shall fully uphold all the verbal and realized hallowed Dharma,
without exception,
As gathered in the three sutra vehicles and
four tantra sets,
In exact accord with the meanings that the
Triumphant intended.
I shall totally liberate wandering beings by means that suit each.
[C]
Through the lustrous positive force deriving from this,
May I never
transgress, throughout all my lives,
The bounds proscribed by
Vajradhara’s authority.
May I complete the stages of the twofold path.
[If reciting 6x each day in the manner of 3x each
morning and 3x each evening, recite the following sequence:
[A] three
times, omitting the [A-X] section for the second and third repetitions,
[B] three times, omitting the [B-X] section for the second and third
repetitions,
[C] one time.]
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