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| − | This practice should be done by someone who has previously received a highest yoga tantric initiation. If you do not have a highest yoga tantra initiation (even if you have a lower tantric initiation such as Great Chenrezig), you can still do this practice, but you do not visualize yourself as the deity. Instead, keep your ordinary form and visualize the deity outside of yourself | + | This practice should be done by someone who has previously received a [[highest yoga]] [[tantric]] [[initiation]]. If you do not have a [[highest yoga tantra]] [[initiation]] (even if you have a lower [[tantric]] [[initiation]] such as Great [[Chenrezig]]), you can still do this practice, but you do not [[visualize]] yourself as the [[deity]]. Instead, keep your ordinary [[form]] and [[visualize]] the [[deity]] outside of yourself |
| − | – in the space in front of you, or at the crown of your head. If you are doing the practice with the deity outside of yourself, you will need to modify your visualization as indicated by the instructions in brackets, “[ ]”. | + | – in the [[space]] in front of you, or at the {{Wiki|crown}} of your head. If you are doing the practice with the [[deity]] outside of yourself, you will need to modify your [[visualization]] as indicated by the instructions in brackets, “[ ]”. |
| − | Refuge | + | [[Refuge]] |
| − | I go for refuge to the gurus. | + | I go for [[refuge]] to the [[gurus]]. |
| − | I go for refuge to the buddhas. I go for refuge to the Dharma. | + | I go for [[refuge]] to the [[buddhas]]. I go for [[refuge]] to the [[Dharma]]. |
| − | + | �[[Namo]] [[Guru]] Vajrapaniye | |
| − | I go for refuge to the Sangha. (3x) | + | I go for [[refuge]] to the [[Sangha]]. (3x) |
| − | Bodhichitta | + | [[Bodhichitta]] |
| − | The bodhichitta motivation for the recitation of Black Garuda should be to have a long and healthy life, to be able to serve other sentient beings, and to actualize the path. One should not be doing the practice just for one’s own protection. | + | The [[bodhichitta]] [[motivation]] for the {{Wiki|recitation}} of [[Black Garuda]] should be to have a long and healthy [[life]], to be able to serve other [[sentient beings]], and to actualize the [[path]]. One should not be doing the practice just for one’s own [[protection]]. |
| − | I must achieve full enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings; therefore, I am going to do the practice and recitation of the mantra of Black Garuda. (3x) | + | I must achieve full [[enlightenment]] for the sake of all [[sentient beings]]; therefore, I am going to do the practice and {{Wiki|recitation}} of the [[mantra]] of [[Black Garuda]]. (3x) |
| − | Purify in emptiness with: | + | {{Wiki|Purify}} in [[emptiness]] with: |
| − | OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM | + | OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA [[DHARMA]] SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM |
| − | Everything is empty. | + | Everything is [[empty]]. |
| − | In the very center of a great ocean of poison is a square Mt. Meru of poison, the essence of which contains the poisons of seeing, touch, feeling, i.e., all the different types of poison. | + | In the very center of a great ocean of [[poison]] is a square [[Mt. Meru]] of [[poison]], the [[essence]] of which contains the [[poisons]] of [[seeing]], {{Wiki|touch}}, [[feeling]], i.e., all the different types of [[poison]]. |
| − | (On top of this) there is a lotus, sun disc, and spirit possession. On the seat of a three- piled throne I appear as Black Garuda. [On the seat of a three-piled throne is Black Garuda.] | + | (On top of this) there is a [[lotus]], {{Wiki|sun}} disc, and [[spirit]] possession. On the seat of a three- piled [[throne]] I appear as [[Black Garuda]]. [On the seat of a three-piled [[throne]] is [[Black Garuda]].] |
| − | [Look at Black Garuda with the understanding and devotion that this is actually Buddha, who cherishes you billions of times more than you cherish yourself. Buddha manifests into Black Garuda to protect you and numberless sentient beings from harm and to bring all of you to enlightenment.] | + | [Look at [[Black Garuda]] with the [[understanding]] and [[devotion]] that this is actually [[Buddha]], who cherishes you billions of times more than you cherish yourself. [[Buddha]] [[manifests]] into [[Black Garuda]] to {{Wiki|protect}} you and numberless [[sentient beings]] from harm and to bring all of you to [[enlightenment]].] |
| − | [For the description of the deity, replace “I”, and “my” with “he” and “his”.] | + | [For the description of the [[deity]], replace “I”, and “my” with “he” and “his”.] |
| − | I have a sky iron (meteorite) beak and two horns. At the root of the horns are three- pronged vajras, and at each tip of the horns is a single-pronged vajra. I am in the nature of blazing fire. My head is adorned with jewels, which lie between the two horns. I have golden eyes, swirling and blazing like the sun. My holy mouth is filled with many conch shell teeth. From my wings, which are designed with vajras, 100,000 fire sparks are emitted. My two hands hold vicious types of nagas that are being eaten in my holy | + | I have a sky {{Wiki|iron}} (meteorite) beak and two horns. At the [[root]] of the horns are three- pronged [[vajras]], and at each tip of the horns is a single-pronged [[vajra]]. I am in the [[nature]] of blazing [[fire]]. My head is adorned with [[jewels]], which lie between the two horns. I have golden [[eyes]], swirling and blazing like the {{Wiki|sun}}. My {{Wiki|holy}} {{Wiki|mouth}} is filled with many [[conch shell]] {{Wiki|teeth}}. From my wings, which are designed with [[vajras]], 100,000 [[fire]] sparks are emitted. My two hands hold vicious types of [[nagas]] that are being eaten in my {{Wiki|holy}} |
| − | mouth. From my neck down to my knees, it (my body) is in human form, but my feet are the claws of a bird. | + | {{Wiki|mouth}}. From my neck down to my knees, it (my [[body]]) is in [[human]] [[form]], but my feet are the claws of a bird. |
| − | From my holy body, many fire sparks fly out in the aspect of Black Garudas and sky iron | + | From my {{Wiki|holy}} [[body]], many [[fire]] sparks fly out in the aspect of Black [[Garudas]] and sky {{Wiki|iron}} |
| − | (meteorites), radiating to the ten directions. | + | (meteorites), radiating to the [[ten directions]]. |
| − | All the dangerous landlords and nagas fall unconsciousness with fright. At my [his] crown is a white OM. | + | All the [[dangerous]] landlords and [[nagas]] fall {{Wiki|unconsciousness}} with fright. At my [his] {{Wiki|crown}} is a white OM. |
| − | At my [his] throat is a red AH. | + | At my [his] {{Wiki|throat}} is a red AH. |
| − | At my [his] heart is a blue HUM. | + | At my [his] [[heart]] is a blue HUM. |
| − | From the syllable HUM at my [his] heart beams radiate out and invoke the wisdom beings in an aspect similar to that visualized, along with the initiating deities. | + | From the {{Wiki|syllable}} HUM at my [his] [[heart]] beams radiate out and invoke the [[wisdom]] [[beings]] in an aspect similar to that [[visualized]], along with the {{Wiki|initiating}} [[deities]]. |
JAH HUM BAM HOH | JAH HUM BAM HOH | ||
| − | We [they] become non-dual. | + | We [they] become [[non-dual]]. |
| − | Make the offerings | + | Make the [[offerings]] |
| − | OM VAJRA GARUDA ARGHAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA PADYAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA GANDHE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA | + | OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA ARGHAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA PADYAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA GANDHE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA |
| − | OM VAJRA GARUDA NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA SHAPTA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA | + | OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM [[VAJRA]] GARUDA SHAPTA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA |
Praise | Praise | ||
| − | You, whose wing feathers shake the 3,000 galaxies, Dancing with a blazing beak, | + | You, whose wing feathers shake the 3,000 {{Wiki|galaxies}}, [[Dancing]] with a blazing beak, |
| − | By merely flapping your wings, you instantly destroy the three types of spirit possession,1 | + | By merely flapping your wings, you instantly destroy the three types of [[spirit]] possession,1 |
| − | I praise the controller, Garuda. | + | I praise the controller, [[Garuda]]. |
| − | 1 Spirit possession abiding above (de), abiding in the middle (spirit kings and tsen), and abiding below | + | 1 [[Spirit]] possession abiding above (de), abiding in the middle ([[spirit]] [[kings]] and [[tsen]]), and abiding below |
| − | (nagas and landlords) | + | ([[nagas]] and landlords) |
| − | Visualization | + | [[Visualization]] |
| − | From your [his] heart, garlands of mantras blaze like the fire at the end of time, becoming a great host of fire. All the animate and inanimate2 become in the nature of fire, blazing and burning all the interferers of the upper, middle, and below. All are purified. | + | From your [his] [[heart]], garlands of [[mantras]] blaze like the [[fire]] at the end of [[time]], becoming a great host of [[fire]]. All the animate and inanimate2 become in the [[nature]] of [[fire]], blazing and burning all the interferers of the upper, middle, and below. All are [[purified]]. |
| − | Mantra | + | [[Mantra recitation]] |
| − | Recite this pacifying mantra a few times: | + | Recite this pacifying [[mantra]] a few times: |
OM MANI KYUNG KYUNG THUM THUM BÄ BÄ SVAHA | OM MANI KYUNG KYUNG THUM THUM BÄ BÄ SVAHA | ||
| − | Recite the wrathful mantra as much as possible. | + | Recite the [[wrathful mantra]] as much as possible. |
| − | One can recite this mantra to purify those who have a specific disease and those who do not, including yourself. Think that now it is impossible to be harmed by others. | + | One can recite this [[mantra]] to {{Wiki|purify}} those who have a specific {{Wiki|disease}} and those who do not, including yourself. Think that now it is impossible to be harmed by others. |
| − | [Nectar beams like sunbeams emit from Black Garuda into you and totally illuminate you, dispelling all the sicknesses, spirit harm, negative karma, and obstacles.] | + | [[[Nectar]] beams like sunbeams emit from [[Black Garuda]] into you and totally [[illuminate]] you, dispelling all the sicknesses, [[spirit]] harm, [[negative karma]], and [[obstacles]].] |
NAGPO KALA RAKYA BÄ BÄ / SÖ SÖ / CHHUNG CHHUNG / PUTRI ZANG ZANG / CHAG KYI TERMÖ NYING CHHUNG / NÖ JE DUG PÄ SHA LA ZO / OM HLANG HLANG / TSER TSER / ÜB ÜB SO | NAGPO KALA RAKYA BÄ BÄ / SÖ SÖ / CHHUNG CHHUNG / PUTRI ZANG ZANG / CHAG KYI TERMÖ NYING CHHUNG / NÖ JE DUG PÄ SHA LA ZO / OM HLANG HLANG / TSER TSER / ÜB ÜB SO | ||
| − | [Imagine that you receive all the qualities of Black Garuda – omniscient mind, all the realizations, perfect power, infinite compassion etc. Finally, think, “I have received perfect power so that no other beings can harm me and no sickness can be received.”] | + | [[[Imagine]] that you receive all the qualities of [[Black Garuda]] – [[omniscient]] [[mind]], all the realizations, perfect power, [[infinite compassion]] etc. Finally, think, “I have received perfect power so that no other [[beings]] can harm me and no [[sickness]] can be received.”] |
| − | At the end complete with dedication. | + | At the end complete with [[dedication]]. |
| − | Dedication | + | [[Dedication]] |
| − | Due to these merits may I quickly achieve the enlightened state of Black Garuda and lead every transmigratory being without exception to that enlightenment. | + | Due to these [[merits]] may I quickly achieve the [[enlightened]] state of [[Black Garuda]] and lead every transmigratory being without exception to that [[enlightenment]]. |
| − | However many sick sentient beings there are, may they be immediately liberated from all sicknesses. May all sentient beings never experience sickness. | + | However many sick [[sentient beings]] there are, may they be immediately {{Wiki|liberated}} from all sicknesses. May all [[sentient beings]] never [[experience]] [[sickness]]. |
| − | Dedicate in this way and seal with emptiness. | + | Dedicate in this way and seal with [[emptiness]]. |
| − | Advice regarding this practice from Lama | + | Advice regarding this practice from [[Lama Zopa Rinpoche]] |
| − | This practice can be done before you get the SARS virus as well as after you get the virus. This practice can also be done if one has cancer, leprosy, ulcers, and other epidemic diseases that are related to harmful beings. | + | This practice can be done before you get the SARS virus as well as after you get the virus. This practice can also be done if one has {{Wiki|cancer}}, {{Wiki|leprosy}}, ulcers, and other epidemic {{Wiki|diseases}} that are related to harmful [[beings]]. |
| − | Even if one doesn’t have the actual sickness (SARS), you can visualize that the causes to | + | Even if one doesn’t have the actual [[sickness]] (SARS), you can [[visualize]] that the [[causes]] to |
| − | 2 “animate and | + | 2 “animate and [[inanimate]]” refers to creatures, land, and {{Wiki|planets}}. |
| − | contract the sickness (delusions and karma) are completely purified. Think, “There is not the slightest karma left in my mental continuum.” | + | contract the [[sickness]] ([[delusions]] and [[karma]]) are completely [[purified]]. Think, “There is not the slightest [[karma]] left in my [[mental]] {{Wiki|continuum}}.” |
Colophon: | Colophon: | ||
| − | This was translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kachoe Dechen Ling, 29 March 2003, for | + | This was translated by [[Lama Zopa Rinpoche]] at Kachoe [[Dechen Ling]], 29 March 2003, for |
| − | the outbreak of SARS virus (pneumonia) in Asia. It was scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett and reformatted and lightly edited by Kendall Magnussen, FPMT Education Services, April 2003. | + | the outbreak of SARS virus (pneumonia) in {{Wiki|Asia}}. It was scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett and reformatted and lightly edited by Kendall Magnussen, [[FPMT]] [[Education]] Services, April 2003. |
</poem> | </poem> | ||
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Revision as of 04:29, 7 April 2014
This practice should be done by someone who has previously received a highest yoga tantric initiation. If you do not have a highest yoga tantra initiation (even if you have a lower tantric initiation such as Great Chenrezig), you can still do this practice, but you do not visualize yourself as the deity. Instead, keep your ordinary form and visualize the deity outside of yourself
– in the space in front of you, or at the crown of your head. If you are doing the practice with the deity outside of yourself, you will need to modify your visualization as indicated by the instructions in brackets, “[ ]”.
Refuge
I go for refuge to the gurus.
I go for refuge to the buddhas. I go for refuge to the Dharma.
�Namo Guru Vajrapaniye
I go for refuge to the Sangha. (3x)
Bodhichitta
The bodhichitta motivation for the recitation of Black Garuda should be to have a long and healthy life, to be able to serve other sentient beings, and to actualize the path. One should not be doing the practice just for one’s own protection.
I must achieve full enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings; therefore, I am going to do the practice and recitation of the mantra of Black Garuda. (3x)
Purify in emptiness with:
OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM
Everything is empty.
In the very center of a great ocean of poison is a square Mt. Meru of poison, the essence of which contains the poisons of seeing, touch, feeling, i.e., all the different types of poison.
(On top of this) there is a lotus, sun disc, and spirit possession. On the seat of a three- piled throne I appear as Black Garuda. [On the seat of a three-piled throne is Black Garuda.]
[Look at Black Garuda with the understanding and devotion that this is actually Buddha, who cherishes you billions of times more than you cherish yourself. Buddha manifests into Black Garuda to protect you and numberless sentient beings from harm and to bring all of you to enlightenment.]
[For the description of the deity, replace “I”, and “my” with “he” and “his”.]
I have a sky iron (meteorite) beak and two horns. At the root of the horns are three- pronged vajras, and at each tip of the horns is a single-pronged vajra. I am in the nature of blazing fire. My head is adorned with jewels, which lie between the two horns. I have golden eyes, swirling and blazing like the sun. My holy mouth is filled with many conch shell teeth. From my wings, which are designed with vajras, 100,000 fire sparks are emitted. My two hands hold vicious types of nagas that are being eaten in my holy
mouth. From my neck down to my knees, it (my body) is in human form, but my feet are the claws of a bird.
From my holy body, many fire sparks fly out in the aspect of Black Garudas and sky iron
(meteorites), radiating to the ten directions.
All the dangerous landlords and nagas fall unconsciousness with fright. At my [his] crown is a white OM.
At my [his] throat is a red AH.
At my [his] heart is a blue HUM.
From the syllable HUM at my [his] heart beams radiate out and invoke the wisdom beings in an aspect similar to that visualized, along with the initiating deities.
JAH HUM BAM HOH
We [they] become non-dual.
Make the offerings
OM VAJRA GARUDA ARGHAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA PADYAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA GANDHE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM VAJRA GARUDA NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM VAJRA GARUDA SHAPTA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
Praise
You, whose wing feathers shake the 3,000 galaxies, Dancing with a blazing beak,
By merely flapping your wings, you instantly destroy the three types of spirit possession,1
I praise the controller, Garuda.
1 Spirit possession abiding above (de), abiding in the middle (spirit kings and tsen), and abiding below
(nagas and landlords)
Visualization
From your [his] heart, garlands of mantras blaze like the fire at the end of time, becoming a great host of fire. All the animate and inanimate2 become in the nature of fire, blazing and burning all the interferers of the upper, middle, and below. All are purified.
Mantra recitation
Recite this pacifying mantra a few times:
OM MANI KYUNG KYUNG THUM THUM BÄ BÄ SVAHA
Recite the wrathful mantra as much as possible.
One can recite this mantra to purify those who have a specific disease and those who do not, including yourself. Think that now it is impossible to be harmed by others.
[[[Nectar]] beams like sunbeams emit from Black Garuda into you and totally illuminate you, dispelling all the sicknesses, spirit harm, negative karma, and obstacles.]
NAGPO KALA RAKYA BÄ BÄ / SÖ SÖ / CHHUNG CHHUNG / PUTRI ZANG ZANG / CHAG KYI TERMÖ NYING CHHUNG / NÖ JE DUG PÄ SHA LA ZO / OM HLANG HLANG / TSER TSER / ÜB ÜB SO
[[[Imagine]] that you receive all the qualities of Black Garuda – omniscient mind, all the realizations, perfect power, infinite compassion etc. Finally, think, “I have received perfect power so that no other beings can harm me and no sickness can be received.”]
At the end complete with dedication.
Dedication
Due to these merits may I quickly achieve the enlightened state of Black Garuda and lead every transmigratory being without exception to that enlightenment.
However many sick sentient beings there are, may they be immediately liberated from all sicknesses. May all sentient beings never experience sickness.
Dedicate in this way and seal with emptiness.
Advice regarding this practice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This practice can be done before you get the SARS virus as well as after you get the virus. This practice can also be done if one has cancer, leprosy, ulcers, and other epidemic diseases that are related to harmful beings.
Even if one doesn’t have the actual sickness (SARS), you can visualize that the causes to
2 “animate and inanimate” refers to creatures, land, and planets.
contract the sickness (delusions and karma) are completely purified. Think, “There is not the slightest karma left in my mental continuum.”
Colophon:
This was translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kachoe Dechen Ling, 29 March 2003, for
the outbreak of SARS virus (pneumonia) in Asia. It was scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett and reformatted and lightly edited by Kendall Magnussen, FPMT Education Services, April 2003.
