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A Short HayagrivaPractice

By Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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Practice Requirements

There are no empowerments required to do this practi ce. It can be performed by anyone with faith.

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Meditation on the Graded Path to Enlightenment

Combined withHayagriva Visualization

by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Motivation

Contemplate:

The purpose of my life is to free all senti ent beings from obscura-ti ons and their causes, and lead them to not only the happiness of self-liberati on (freedom from suff ering), but to peerless enlighten-ment.

I have the responsibility to bring happiness to all beings and free them from all suff ering. How? Because if I generate compassion now it will make me benefi t others – at least they won’t receive harm from me. So I am responsible for the happiness of all senti ent beings, because whether I help or harm them is completely depen-dent on my own mind having compassion or not.

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Since the ulti mate purpose of my life is to work purely for others, Ineed to achieve enlightenment. To do that, I need to achieve the path to enlightenment. Therefore I’m going to do the direct medi-tati on on the Graded Path to Enlightenment.

Visualization of Guru Hayagriva

Every aspect of the visualizati on is made of light – transparent, intangible and radiant.

At the level of your forehead, about six feet away, appears the em-bodiment of all the buddhas’ omniscient mind, which is the ulti -mate guru, in the aspect of Guru Hayagriva, who has purifi ed all defi lements and att ained all perfect realizati ons.

His holy body is red with three faces and six arms. His central face is red, his right green, and his left is white. He has three, dark-green, horse heads above the central face. They are looking upwards withmouths open and emit a sound that covers the six realms. Fire fl ames issue forth from the horses’ manes. These fl ames form a vajra tent and fence that envelops all of samsara from the peak of the Brahma realm to the lowest hell realm. Each of his faces has three eyes. His mouth is open and grinning showing bared fangs.

In his fi rst right hand he holds a vajra, in the second a trident and inthe third a sword. His fi rst left hand is in the threatening mudra. Inhis second left hand he holds a short spear, and in the third a lassomade from intesti nes.

Standing on a lotus and sun disc, his eight legs press down on eightsnakes. Each of his heads are adorned with a crown of fi ve humanskulls. He wears a garland of fi ft y fresh human heads, a ti ger skin and human skin with the hands ti ed at the front. He also wears a

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fresh elephant skin and the six types of bone ornaments. Drops of blood cover his body and arms. His hands and fi ngers are dripping with grease. Parts of his body have heaps of human ash and he is adorned with black snake ornaments.

He stands in the center of a transcendental wisdom fi re of violentfl ames like the fi re at the end of an eon.

From below the throat to above the lower organs, the holy body iscovered with wrathful manifestati ons similar to Hayagriva. His three places are adorned with OM AH HUM. Above the HUM on a sun disc is HRIH and from that the transcendental wisdom fi re radiates out.

Refuge and Bodhichitta

To the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha,I go for refuge unti l I am enlightened.By the merit I create by practi cing generosity and the other perfecti ons,May I att ain Buddhahood in order to benefi t all senti ent beings (3x)

The Four Immeasurable Thoughts

How wonderful it would be if all the senti ent beings were to abide in equanimity, free of hatred and att achment!May they abide in equanimity!I myself will cause them to abide in equanimity!Please, Guru-deity grant me blessings to be able to do this.

How wonderful it would be if all senti ent beings had happiness and the causes of happiness!

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May they have happiness and its causes!I myself will cause them to have happiness and its causes!Please, Guru-deity grant me blessings to be able to do this.

How wonderful it would be if all senti ent beings were free of suff ering and its causes!May they be free of suff ering and its causes!I myself will cause them to be free of suff ering and its causes!Please, Guru-deity grant me blessings to be able to do this.

How wonderful it would be if all senti ent beings were never separated from the happiness of higher rebirth and liberati on!May they never be separated from these!I myself will cause them never to be separated from these!Please, Guru-deity grant me blessings to be able to do this.

Seven-Limb Prayer

Reverently I prostrate with my body, speech and mind,And present clouds of every type of off ering, actual and mentally transformed.I confess all my negati ve acti ons accumulated since beginningless ti me,And rejoice in the virtues of all holy and ordinary beings.Please remain unti l samsara ends,And turn the wheel of Dharma for senti ent beings.I dedicate all the virtues of myself and others to the great enlightenment.

Short Mandala Offering

This ground, anointed with perfume, fl owers strewn,Mount Meru, four lands, sun and moon,

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Imagined as a Buddha land and off ered to youMay all beings enjoy this pure land.

Prayer of the Three Great Purposes

I prostrate and go for refuge to the guru and the Three Precious Rare Sublime Jewels. Please bless my mental conti nuum.Please grant me blessings to cease immediately all wrong concep-

ti ons, from incorrect devoti on to the guru up to the subtle dual view of the white appearance, red increasing, black near att ain-

ment.Please grant blessings to actualize immediately all the correct realizati ons from guru devoti on up to the unifi cati on of no-

more-learning.Please pacify immediately all outer and inner obstacles.

IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRYATAYAMI

Requests

Glorious and precious root guru, sit upon the lotus and moon seat on my crown. Guiding me with your great kindness, bestow upon me the att ainments of your body, speech, and mind.

Whose holy body is created by millions of virtues and goodness; whose holy speech fulfi ls the wishes of all senti ent beings; whose holy mind sees every existence exactly – at the holy feet of the Principal of the Sakyas, I request.

Guru Vajradhara who encompasses all three objects of refuge, tak-ing the form of the virtuous friend in whatever way it can subdue, and granti ng common and sublime realizati ons – to you the kind gurus, I make request.

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Short Prayer of the Graded Path to Enlightenment

Please bless me to see that proper devoti on to my kind master is the foundati on of all good qualiti es and is the root of the path, and to devote myself to him with great eff ort and respect.

Please bless me to understand that this excellent fortunate rebirth is found but once and is most rare and precious, and to develop night and day the mind that unceasingly grasps its essence.

Please bless me to be mindful of death, when my unstable body and life will be quickly destroyed like a bubble, and to be fi rmly convinced that aft er death, results follow acti ons - black or white - just as a shadow follows the body.

Please bless me to train with strong enthusiasti c perseverance, in the practi ce to be always alert to abandon even the slightest ac-cumulati on of wrong acti ons and in accomplishing the vast accu-mulati on of virtue.

Please bless me to understand the faults of samsaric perfecti ons: they can never sati sfy, they are the door to all suff ering, and they cannot be trusted. Let striving for the bliss of freedom grow strong-ly within me.

Please bless me to have the greatest mindfulness and awareness induced by this pure moti vati on. May I practi ce the essence of theprati moksha, the root of the doctrine.

Please bless me to see that just as I have fallen into the sea of samsara, so have all mother migrators. May I train in the supreme bodhicitt a that bears the burden of freeing all beings.

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Please bless me to perceive well that if I produce the mere wish but lack practi ce in the three types of morality, I shall not achieve enlightenment. Let me train with strong eff ort in the bodhisatt va vows.

Please bless me to calm distracti on towards wrong objects, and to investi gate correctly the meaning of reality. May there quickly arise in my mind the path uniti ng calm abiding and higher seeing.

Having trained in the common path, and when I become a suitablevessel, please bless me to enter with ease the noble entrance for fortunate beings, the highest of all vehicles, the adamanti ne ve-hicle.

Please bless me to understand correctly the essence of the four classes of tantra and the points of the two stages. May I practi ce the holy teachings and not be lazy in practi cing the four session yoga.

Thus, may the gurus who show the excellent path and the help-ers of true practi ti oners all live long. May all hindrances, inner and outer, be pacifi ed. I pray, please grant such blessings.

In all my rebirths may I never be parted from perfect gurus and may I enjoy an abundance of the Dharma. May I perfect all quali-ti es of the stages and the paths and may I quickly att ain the state of Vajradhara.

Mantra Recitation

Visualize that light and nectar beams, white in color, fl ow from theheart of Guru Hayagriva. These enter your body, speech and mind,

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purifying disease, spirit harms, negati ve karma and obscurati ons. They are washed out of you just as dirt leaves clothes when they are washed. Also, you can visualize all senti ent beings on a very large moon-disc at your heart, and that they are purifi ed along with you.

Do this visualizati on while reciti ng Guru Hayagriva’s mantra for 50 or 100 ti mes.

HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT (50x or 100x)

or

OM VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT (50x or 100x)

Then, conti nuing to recite the mantra, visualize yellow light and nectar fl owing from Guru Hayagriva’s heart and entering your body, speech, and mind. You receive all the qualiti es of the Bud-dha’s holy body, speech and mind. In parti cular, concentrate that your mind has become the Buddha’s omniscient mind. Think that you have received the perfect power, compassion, and wisdom to be able to fulfi ll the wishes of all senti ent beings and to bring them to the highest happiness. All senti ent beings on the moon disc at your heart also receive all the Buddha’s qualiti es.

Feel how the suff ering of senti ent beings is unbearable. Feel how unbearable it is that even one senti ent being must experience so many problems, and that even one minute of suff ering in samsara is like the suff ering of many eons. Have a strong wish and determi-nati on to free every senti ent being from suff ering and its causes. Not only that, but also feel how wonderful it would be completely to take upon yourself that being’s karma, delusions, suff erings and problems! Even more than that: feel happy to take on the suff er-ing and causes of suff ering of all the senti ent beings in all realms,

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and to let them have the peerless happiness of ulti mate liberati on, complete enlightenment.

Feel determined that you will live your life in this way, with the good heart: having great compassion and loving-kindness for all senti ent beings, and being committ ed to freeing them from all suf-fering and causes of suff ering, and bringing them to the state of enlightenment.

Final absorption and blessing

Imagine that Buddha Hayagriva is extremely pleased with you be-cause you have generated this thought to benefi t all beings, the good heart, and because you are making your life worthwhile. Then visualize that Buddha Hayagriva melts into light which then absorbs between your eye-brows, thus blessing your body, speech and mind.

Dedication

Due to all the merits of the three ti mes and the merits of all the buddhas and bodhisatt vas,May the altruisti c wish to achieve enlightenment be generated in my mind and in the mind of all senti ent beings,And for those who have it may it not decrease but increase.

Whatever suff ering senti ent beings have, may I experience it.Whatever merit I have accumulated, may others experience it.

Due to the merit accumulated by myself, the buddhas and bodhisatt vas over the three ti mes, who are empty from their

own side,May the I, which is empty from its own side,

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Achieve the state of Shakyamuni Buddha’s enlightenment, which is empty from its own side,And lead all senti ent beings, who are empty from their own side,

to that state, by myself alone.

Due to all the merits of the three ti mes,Accumulated by myself and by others, may any being just bySeeing, hearing, remembering, touching and talking to me,Be freed in that very second from all their suff erings andAbide in happiness forever.

May the glorious gurus’ lives be long and stable.May all the beings equaling the extent of space have happiness.May I and others without excepti on accumulate merit and purify negati viti es,And may we be blessed to quickly att ain Buddhahood.

Due to the merits of the three ti mes createdBy myself and others, bodhisatt vas and buddhas,May we be able to meet perfectly qualifi edMahayana virtuous friends in all our future lives.

From our side may we always see them as enlightened.May we always do acti ons only pleasing toThe holy mind of the virtuous friends.May we always be able to fulfi ll their holy wishes immediately.

Due to these merits may my acti ons never causeEven the slightest of harm to any senti ent being,Instead may they only bring the greatest of benefi t.

Whatever experience - suff ering or happiness - that I have,May it only be of great benefi t to others.

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Just as the brave Manjushri and SamantabhadraHave realized things as they are,I dedicate all these virtues in the best way,That I may follow aft er them.

Whatever dedicati on the Victorious Ones Gone-To-BlissOf the three ti mes have admired as best,I also perfectly dedicate all these roots of virtueIn the same way, so that I may perform good works.

May I and all others be able to live a life of pure moral conduct (like Lama Tsongkhapa himself),Train the mind in bodhichitt a, and live in pure view and conduct.In this way may we be able to complete our livesWithout corrupti ng the pure wisdom of the second Buddha’s teachings.

Additional Dedication Prayers (Optional)

It is only from the kindness of my gurus that I have met the unequalled teachings of Buddha,I dedicate all this meritSo that all migratory beings without excepti onMay be guided in the future by kind and holy gurus.

Unti l samsara ends, may the teaching that benefi tsNot be moved away by the wind of the evil supersti ti ons.

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May the whole world be always fi lled up with people having understoodAnd found stable faith in the true teachings.

May I pass the ti me, day and night,Thinking and examining by what meansThis teaching can spread in the mindsOf all senti ent beings and me.

Colophon

The basic practi ce was compiled by the Venerable Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Taipei, March 1992. It was adjusted for practi ce with Hayagriva in accordance with instructi ons from Lama Zopa Rinpoche by Murray Wright, FPMT Central Offi ce, August 1992. Lightly edited by Kendall Magnussen FPMT Educati on Services, July 2003.

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