Ushnisha Vijaya - The goddess of immortality and healing for diseases

[For Mother's Day with love editions]

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds that influence of mothers in society. I will be very glad indeed to share with you for more Tibetan female goddess, Yogini, Dakini and Deities to honor and tribute to our beloved Mother.

Ushnisha Vijaya in Tibetan is known as Namgyalma or Namgyelma. She is one of the three revered deities of longevity, along with the White Tara and Amitayus Buddha. Ushnisha Vijaya combines aspects of three deities (for this reason her three heads), each associated with a Sadhana (wish).

Ushnisha Vijaya has a white colored body, three faces and eight arms. The middle face is white, symbolizing the elimination for all misfortunes, the right face is yellow manifests her Compassion for all beings, and the left face is blue and to some extent wrathful signifies her skill at cutting through ignorance through wrathful means.

Her three faces, each has three eyes, the yellow one with the gently pursed lips is charming and beautiful, the principal white one somewhat open and moderately wrathful, while the blue face bares its fangs in a display of ferocious wrath. Coils of hair symmetrically fall across her two shoulders. A green scarf embellished with gold engulfs her with a flourish, acting as a halo.

The first right hand holds a crossed Vajra at the heart. The second holds a lotus on top of which sits Amitabha Buddha. The third holds an arrow. The fourth is in the gesture of supreme generosity.

The first left hand is in the threatening Mudra, holding a Vajra noose. The second holds a bow. The third is in the gesture of giving refuge. The fourth is in the meditation gesture, holding a precious vase filled with the nectar of immortality. Ushnisha Vijaya goddess sits on a single lotus seat in front of, but metaphorically within, a Stupa (reliquary mound), which is dictated by her iconography.

If one recites the Ushnisha Vijaya mantra into the ear of an animal, you ensure that this is its last animal rebirth. If somebody suffering from a heavy disease that physicians are unable to diagnose, the Lord Buddha taught the ** Deva Denpa, he or she will be liberated from that disease. Bring to an end all future rebirths in the lower realms and after death be reborn in a blissful pure land.

** There is a story during the time Shakyamuni Buddha, the dying god named Deva Denpa, due to his Karma, and when he starts experiencing the signs of his near death and he predicted his future life is about to be reborn in an animal realm, Deva Denpa very worried and he approach the Buddha Shakyamuni for help, the Buddha manifested as the deity Ushnisha Vijaya and gave him the empowerment of the mantra. Deva Denpa recited the mantra six times daily and in seven days completely changed his karma and he did not have to be reborn in an animal realm. 

Reciting Namgyalma’s mantra with your devotion and faiths. Even if you are in danger of dying because of the karma that determines your lifespan is running out, clean your body, wear clean clothes and abiding in the Vajrayana Sojong practice of confessions or the Mahayana Eight Precepts, recite the Ushnisha Vijaya mantra for thousand times daily, you can increase your lifespan and purify your obscurations and free from diseases that manifest from the bad karma.

If you put the mantra and the banner above the doorway, whoever passes beneath it is purified and not reborn in the lower realms. In Tibet, paper with this mantra written on it was touched to the dead people’s bodies, the mantra purifying their karma and preventing rebirth in the lower realms.  

The Ushnisha Vijaya mantra, it grants victory over illness and receiving blessings for a long and meaningful life benefiting others. This three faced goddess with eight arms is incredibly powerful for granting extension of one’s life through recovery of illness and avoiding premature death through accidents and disasters.  

The Ushnisha Vijaya practice is considered to be extremely effective not only for eliminating obstacles to long life, but also for purifying the negative results of unwholesome actions of body, speech and mind motivated by the poisonous delusions.

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.

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For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Marichi , The Goddest of Golden Rays of Light.

[For Mother's Day with love series]

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds that influence of mothers in society. I am very glad indeed to share with you for more Tibetan female goddess, female Yogini, female Dakini and Deity to honor and tribute to our beloved Mother.

Be glad today. Be brave today.

Tomorrow may bring tears,

There is no darkness,

So dense, so menacing,

So difficult that it can not be overcome by night,

The darkest night will pass,

And the golden rays of light will usher in the dawn.

Marichi, In Tibetan word is known as “Odzer Canma” literally means “The Goddess Endowed with the Rays of Light” Marichi she is peaceful in appearance, her body is endowed with the golden radian color which signifies the light rays of the dawn, with three faces and eight hands. 

She is regarded as the guardian of all nations, whom she is protects from the fury of war.  She is seated in a chariot drawn by savage boars. The seven savage boars are symbolizes of removing all obstacles to happiness and well-being. The goddess of Marichi is very popular in Tibet, Mongolia and there are several shrines dedicated to her in Tibet.

Every morning, the goddess of Marichi is invoked by the Lamas of Tibet about the time of sun-rise, which shows her connection with the sun.  Recite her ritual * prayer once and mantra as many as possible, this is to invoke Marichi her power of blessing and to remove our obstacles and to bring great blessing and pleasure.

In mantra recitation, a practitioner visualizes the rays in the shape of the Goddess of Marichi that emerge from her to purify all sentient beings. The rays return the practitioner bringing good qualities, such as compassion and wisdom.

The rays of Marichi also reaching out to all evil spirits, demons, and let the power of rays of light that can blind all the harmful evil spirits, demons and take away their evil desire and intention that bring harm to the practitioners or the affected love ones and friends.

To complete the ritual prayer, and wish is expressed that the merit gained from the ritual will bring into enlightenment.

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and profit.

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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The Living Journal - The power of the Dakini

A courtesy update, today is the 25th day of the Tibetan  calendar , and it’s the Dakini prayers day according to the Vajrayana traditions.

The Three Roots in Tibetan words known as the “tsa sum”. The secret forms of the Triple Gems refuge formulation of Tibetan Buddhism, which originated in India, formulation from the time of Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava. These alternative refuge formulations are employed by those undertaking Deity Yoga and other Tantric practices within the Tibetan Buddhism as a means of recognizing the universality of Buddha nature. 

The functions of the Three Roots are:

· The Outer refuge  – The Guru or Lama is the root of blessing.

· The Inner refuge  – The Yidam is the root of accomplishments.

· The secret refuge – The Dakini is the root of protections and activity.

Dakinis are depicting in a female form and the Sanskrit word is Dakini. In Tibetan its literally means “Khandro”. Khan,  meaning sky and Dro meaning traveling. Taking it together, Khandro means one that can move or travel through the sky or space. It's very important we think about this literal meaning in trying to understand the enlightened Dakinis.

There are many different and levels of Dakinis and the enlightened Dakinis in general can be a guiding light along the path, removing physical and spiritual hindrances and they can play a great part in an individual's attainment of enlightenment.

They are the forces that awaken dormant (hidden) qualities of spiritual impulses or desire hidden in the subconscious. It is the Dakini's inspirational or motivation influence that can open one and remove obstacles, but it is the Wisdom Dakinis that we should be interested in learning about and who we can rely on to truly release us from Samsara. 

Examples of the enlightened wisdom Dakinis:

1] Green Tara

2] White Tara

3] Kurukulle

4] Vajrayogini

5] Singhamukha

6] Machig Labdron

Arya Green and White Tara are the manifestation of the Avalokitesvara, (Chenrizig in Tibetan) (Kuan Yin Pusa in Chinese) both Arya Taras can be functioned and practiced as the form or an enlightened Dakini.

A female practitioner who has attained some capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding and accomplished with some insight skilled of the Buddha nature, but not yet fully liberated and still caught in the cyclic world of Samsara and she is considered to be the earthly Dakini.

Both the worldly and enlightened wisdom Dakinis can have supernatural powers. The Enlightened and worldly Dakinis both can be found in human form as well as in the astral (lunar) form and could have a form of a beautiful fairy-like being or a wrathful and demonic flesh-eating being.

From their look you might think they are evils and the demonic terrifying appearance, but the enlightened wrathful form of Dakinis are the manifestation of the compassion of the Buddha and Bodhisattva who protects the precious Buddha’s teachings and Dharma. Their terrifying appearance is meant to frighten forces of evil.

There are many females Tibetan practitioners who had attained the highest level of realizations and become a highly powerful Tantric Yogini or a wisdom enlightened Dakini and some become an earthly Dakini (Unenlightened Dakini). 

Tsok offering on Dakini day

The Tibetan word of Tsok is tsok kyi khorlo which is literally meant an accumulation or gathering. The Meaning of Tsok is a method for gathering the accumulations of merits and wisdom.  Tsok offering can be performed on the 10^th day of Guru Rinpoche day and 25^th day of Dakini day respectively of the Tibetan calendar. 

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interest. 

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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The Tibetan Yogini - Machig Labdron

International Women Day March 08,2018. It is to commemorate the movement for honoring the women's rights, as well as women who inspired and influence in our  society. [Featuring The Tibetan Yogini, Maichig Labdron] 

                           

Confess your hidden faults.
Approach what you find repulsive.
Help those you think you cannot help.
Anything you are attached to, give that.
Go to the places that scare you.

[The famous slogans of Machig Labdron]

As long as there is an ego, there are demons.

When there is no more ego,
There are no more demons either.
[The Chod teachings of Machig Labdron]

The Buddhist teachings that came from India were considered authentic and it was believed there were none that originated in Tibet. All the Dharmas originated in India, and later spread to Tibet. 

Only Machig Labdron's teaching and practice that made its way back to India from Tibet, it is an extremely effective and quick tantric method for attaining realizations of the path to enlightenment.

Machig Labdron ,In Tibetan is “ma gcig lab sgron” literally means “unique Mother” was a renowned 11th-century Tibetan Tantric Buddhist practitioner, teacher and Yogini who originated several Tibetan lineages of the Vajrayana practice of Chod.

Machig Labdron is often depicted with the attributes of a Dakini, a representation of enlightened female energy. She holds a drum in her right hand and a bell in her left. Her right leg is often lifted and the standing left leg is bent in motion. 

Machig Labdron is white in color with three eyes and wears the Six Bone Ornaments of the charnel grounds, which is traditional for a practicing Yogini. The different between Yogini and Dakini, the Yogini wears the six bones Ornaments and the Dakini wears five bones Ornaments and both are the wisdom beings.

As a child and young woman, Machig Labdron made a living as a liturgy reader. She was fortunate to be educated and patrons would hire her to read the Prajnaparamita Sutra or 'The Perfection of Wisdom', a Mahayana sutra text, in their homes as a form of blessing and to gain spiritual merit. 

Machig Labdron was known to be a very fast reader and so was in much demand as this meant that she could complete the entire text quickly and her patrons would have to pay for fewer meals for her while she read.

Even though Machig Labdron spent some time living with monastic, she was not a celibate nun; she partnered and had both daughters and sons who became lineage holders. One of her sons, even started out as a thief. Machig Labdron was eventually able to bring him to the Dharma and became his teacher.

Machig Labdron famous teachings to her son:-

You may think that the Gods are the one's who give you benefits and Demons cause damage; but it may be the other way round. Those who cause pain teach you to be patient, and those who give you presents may keep you from practicing the Dharma. So it depends on their effect on you if they are Gods or Demons. 

The Chod - The cutting through lineage
This is a field of merit from the Chod (cutting through) lineage. It features the Yogini namely Machig Labdron in the center of this Tangka printing. 

She is surrounded by other lineage masters and as well surrounded by the other semi-wrathful divine beings, the Dharma protectors from this lineage and the great kings appearing and the Buddhas of the three times are indicated above of Machig Labdron. With great Mother of Prajnaparamita and gifts bearing gods and goddesses are shown in this Tangka printing.

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.

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Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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