Maha Cundi Personal Deity Yoga
First empty the mind, visualize the Root Guru appearing above your crown and radiating light on everyone present. Chant the Root Guru Heart mantra 7 times. Pray to the Root Guru to empower you so that the practice will be auspicious. Visualize your parent, children, relatives, friends, and enemies join you in this practice.
Wake Up Call: Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.
1. Recite the Purification Mantra
Speech Purification: Om, syo-lee syo-lee, ma-ha syo-lee, syo-syo-lee, so-ha.
Body Purification: Om, syo-do-lee, syo-do-lee, syo-mo-lee, syo-mo-lee, so-ha.
Mind Purification: Om, wa-dzi-la-dam, ho ho hum.
Earth God Mantra: Man sam-man-do, moo-toh-nam, om, doo-loo doo-loo dei-wei, so-ha.
2. Recite the Invocation Mantra
Om ah hum, so-ha. (3 times)
We sincerely invoke:
Namo Root Guru Living Buddha Lian-shen
Namo Great White Padmakumara
Namo Lotus Light Self-Mastery Buddha
Namo the lineage gurus of True Buddha School
( In the place of this note, each local chapter may invoke the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Dharma Protectiors enshrined at its altar accordingly. When practicing at home, one may invoke the deities present at one’s shrine.)
Namo all Buddha of the Ten Directions and Three Times, all Bodhisattvas.
3. Great Homage Using Visualization
4. Mandala Offering
5. Fourfold Refuge
6. Armor Protection:
7. Recite the High King Avalokitesvara Sutra:
8. Recite the Rebirth Mantra:
9. Recite the Root Guru (Padmakumara) Heart Mantra
10.Mudra and Visualization
Maha Cundi Root Mudra: Interlace the little fingers and ring fingers of both hands inside the palms. Extend the middle fingers so their tips touch. Maneuver the index finger of each hand to press upon the back of each corresponding middle finger.
Bring the thums together so they touch side by side. Hold the mudra in front of the chest.
Visualization: First empty the mind.
Chant the Emptiness Mantra
Om, si-ba-wa, su-da, sa-er-wa, da-er-ma, si-ba-wa, su-do-hang. (3 times)
- (1) Above an expanse of ocean is a stretch of clear sunny sky. A moon disc rises from the ocean into the sky. Inside the moon disc is the yellow “Sanskrit seed syllable “zhun”, emitting great white light.
- (2) The seed syllable inside the moon disc revolves and transforms into Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Avalokitesvara’s body is a brilliant white and he wears a Five-Buddha Crown and a cassock. Sitting on a many petalled lotus, Ksitigarbha holds a bright precious pearl with both hands.
- (3) Visualize the precious pearl sending forth a brilliant white light that travels in an arc to enter one’s body through the crown chakra. As a result, one’s entire body is purified.
- (2). The seed syllable inside the moon disc revolves and transforms into a majestic Maha Cundi Bodhisattva whose body is light-yellow. Wearing a crown adorned with the image of a Buddha. Maha Cundi has three eyes and eighteen arms. She wears a white celestial garment and her arms are adorned with ornaments. While the original pair of hands hold the Root Mudra, the other sixteen hands hold the following implememts in a clockwise direction: wish-fulfilling pennant, lotus, bathing vase, lasso, eight-spoke wheel, conch, precious vase, wisdom chest, headdress, vajra scepter, hook, axe, heavenly fruit, mala beads, wisdom sword, and Fearless Mudra.
- (3). Visualize the third eye of Mala Cundi Bodhisattva emitting a brilliant white light that arches and enters one’s body through the crown chakra, purifying the body into crystal white.
- (4) Visualzie the third eye at Mala Cundi Bodhisattva’s brow-point shine a brilliant light into one’s third eye. Dwell on his visualization with utmost effort. (If one desire to open one’s third eye, one needs to work on this visualization until there is a tingling sensation at brow-point.)
11.Recite the Mala Cundi Heart Mantra
Hold mala beads in front of the chest and move each bead with the thumb during chanting. Visualize the left hand transform into a vajra bell and the right hand into a vajra scepter. The mother bead or emblem transforms into the Many Jewels-Buddha’s Stupa and the four “ divider deads” transform into the Four Deva Kings. The tassel transforms into a “lotus hand” while the string threading through the breads transforms into a circle of inherent white light of Vajrasattva. During mantra chanting, when a bead is moved, visualize Mala Cundi appear inside the bead and become to the forefront.
Mantra: Om, dze-lee dzu-lee,zhun-tee, so-ha. (108 times)
12. Entering Samadhi
(Nine clcle Breathing, Entering of the Deity into Oneself, Release of Oneself into the Cosmic Consciousness, Breath Counting)
13.Emerging from Samadhi:
Praise Verse
Ocean deep are the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha
Not attaining Boddhahood until the hell realms are empty
Benefiting humans as well as devas
Realizing Boddhahood when all beings are liberated.
Di-zang ben-yuan shen-ru-hai
Di-yu bu-kong bu-cheng-fo
Li-yi ren-tian da-pu-sa
Zhong-sheng du-jin zheng pu-ti
14. Chant the Principal Heart Mantras:
(Amitabha Buddha Heart Mantra)
(Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)
Om, pun-lah-moh lin-toh-lin, so-ha
(Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mantra that removes Fixed Karma)
Om, ha ha ha, wei sam-mo-yeh, so-ha
(Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)
Om, dze-lee dzu-lee, zhun-tee, so-ha
(Maha Cundi Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)
Om, jum-bah-lah, chan-lan chah-nah-yeh, so-ha
( Yellow Jambhala Heart Mantra)
Om ah hum, be-dza, gu-ru, beh-ma, sid-dhi, hum, she
(Guru Padmasambahva Heart Mantra)
Om ah hum, gu-ru-bei, ah-ha-sa-sa-ma-ha, lian-sheng sid-dhi-hum
(Padmakumara Boddhisattva Heart Mantra)
(medicine Buddha Heart mantra)
15. Recite the Buddha’s Name:
Namo the 36 trillion 119 thousand and 500 Amitabha Buddhas. (108 times)
Na-mo san-shi-liu-yi yi-shi-yi-wan jiu-qian-wu-bai tong-ming-tong-hao ah-mi-tuo-fo
16. Dedication:
May I attain stability, wisdom, and enlightenment
May I attain the opening of the third eye
With the manifestation of the Pure land of maha Cundi
May all beings arrive at the Buddha’s Path
May all who uphold the name of Amitabha Buddha
Be born together in the Pure Land of His Western Paradise
Repaying the Fourfold Generosity from above
And aiding those who suffer in the Three Paths below
May I be liberated from the cycle of birth and the death
And may I develop the qualities of Buddhahood
And thus free all who suffer
I,______ (your name), dedicate the merits of this practice to the Root Guru, May the Root Guru always be healthy, remain in Samsara, never enter Nirvana, and forever turn the Dharma Wheel. May everyone be healthy, free of hindrances, strong in cultivation, and may all circumstances become auspicious.
May all supplications be completely fulfilled
May hindrances be removed. Wun!
17.Recite the Hundred Syllable Mantra:
Om, be-dza, sah-do sa-ma-ya, ma-nu bah-la-ya, be-dza sah-do deh-nu-pahdeh- cha, zhe-jo mi-bah-wa, soo-do ka-yu mi-bah-wa, soo-poo ka-yu mi-bahwa, an-nu-la-do mi-bah-wa, sa-er-wa, sid-di, mi-bu-la-ya-cha, sa-er-wa, kaer- ma, soo-cha-mi, ji-ta-moo, see-li-yam, gu-ru hum, ha-ha-ha-ha-hoh, bahga- wan, sa-er-wa, da-ta-ga-ta, be-dza, ma-mee mun-cha, be-dzi-ba-wa, ma-ha sa-ma-ya, sah-do-ah, hum, pei. (3 times)
18.Great Homage Using Visualization: (Same as step 3)
19.Recite the Completion Mantra: Om, bu lin. (3 times)
Dismissal:
Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.
End of Practice:
May all endeavors be auspicious.
