Thursday, December 15, 2022

The importance of practicing the Tibetan Treasure Vase

According to the traditional Tibetan Buddhism, the Treasure Vases are sacred objects empowered to magnetize abundance, prosperity and healing in your home, business, or property. In accordance with the Vajrayana texts, each vase is carefully filled with rare blessed substances collected over many years by Buddhist Masters.

Incurable diseases, inescapable weapons of mass destruction, and a weakening of the earth's elements due to pollutants and poisons in the environment. Sound familiar? Padmasambhava, the 9th century founder of Tibetan Buddhism, prophesied what sounds a lot like our world.

Through Guru Rinpoche wisdom and compassion, Padmasambava gave specific instructions for the creation of treasure vases to assist with the healing of the environment and the restoration of vital energy during these degenerate times.

The treasure vase is an ancient remedy that can replenish the essence of the elements—earth, air, fire, water, and space. When the outer environment is purified, beings are released from suffering caused by pollution and are therefore rejuvenated. This restores the energy to all realms.

In the human realm, the treasure vase has the power to magnetize wealth and abundance, improve health, and remove obstacles to long life. Its effects help pacify anger and warfare and increase wisdom and compassion for all.
Padmasambava prescribed the sacred objects that fill the treasure vase. The conch shell supports the life essence of the god realm of joy. Turquoise supports the life essence of the human realm of intelligence. Crystal supports the life essence of the naga realm of wealth. The cowrie shell supports the life essence of the dakinis, and iron pyrite supports the life essence of the local protectors of the environment and the practitioners within it.

The vases are filled to the brim with medicine balls whose most important ingredient is "mother pills." The main substances in mother pills are called yang-dzay rilbu (essential wealth substance pills.) Padmasambava originally hid these substances for future generations of beings.
Many treasure revelers discovered these hidden substances. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche collected the substances from the ten-gam (treasure collections) of Mipham Rinpoche, Mindroling Terchen, and Khyentse Rinpoche, and many other precious substances created by sublime beings. From these substances Dudjom Rinpoche made the original "mother pill."

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche received original "mother pills" from Dudjom Rinpoche and expanded them. He added the twenty-five precious substances: the five precious jewels, the five precious essences, the five precious medicines, the five precious scents, and the five precious grains; plus tsa-sum (three roots), tsi-zhi (four flower essences), nyingpo-nga (five essences) and zangpo-druk (six excellences).

He also added a very rich collection of jewels and minerals: opals, diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, turquoise, coral, pearl, dzi stone, chong stone, gold silver, copper, and so on: and additional precious substances such as soil, stone, and water collected from many of the world's holy and famous places.
Also inside the vases are dutsi (a holy substance that transforms all negativity into wisdom), ten-du rilbu (a collection of relics from countless Buddhas), pictures of the wealth deity Khandro Norlha, wealth mantras, and khorlos (written diagrams expressing wealth potential), which increase merit, prosperity, and abundance with the intention to benefit all beings. Upon completion, the treasure vases are consecrated in a seven day ceremony.

For centuries, Tibetans have kept treasure vases in their homes, buried them in the earth, or placed them in bodies of water.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Zangdokpalri - A Prayer of Aspiration for the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory

Zangdokpalri - The Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory is the pure land where Guru Rinpoche now dwells, said to be located in Ngayab Ling. At the peak of the Copper-Coloured Mountain, Padmasambhava liberated the king of the rakshasas, Raksha Thötreng, and assumed his form. Now he dwells in Zangdokpalri as a ‘vidyadhara of spontaneous presence,’ the fourth vidyadhara level.

There,” writes Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche, "he manifested the inconceivable Palace of Lotus Light, and presides as a king, with one of his emanations in each of the eight continents of the rakshasas, giving teachings like the Eight Great Methods of Attainment of the Kagyé, and protecting the people of this world of Jambudvipa from fears for their life.
Even to this day, he reigns as the regent of Vajradhara, the ‘vidyadhara of spontaneous accomplishment of the ultimate path’; and thus he will remain, without ever moving, until the end of the universe.

About the Copper - Colored Mountain
While Pure Land Buddhism is generally thought of as an East Asian tradition with an Indian origin, the Copper-Colored Mountain is in fact the first and only pure land with scriptural origins entirely in the Tibetan tradition. 

It represents Tibetan culture’s fascinating intersection of traditional history with the liturgical Tantric practice. The Copper-Colored Mountain is understood to be the current abode of Padmasambhava, the Indian master credited with first bringing Buddhism to Tibet and founding Tibet’s first monastery, Samye.
After leaving Tibet, it is said that Padmasambhava set up residence on Cāmara, one of the two islands on either side of the continent of Jambudvipa, our world according to Buddhist cosmology. After taming the resident ogres of Cāmara and converting them to Buddhism, he then built an octagonal palace where Buddhist practitioners may be transported in visions and dreams or reborn through aspiration prayers.

Zangdokpalri - A Prayer of Aspiration for the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory
(By Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa)

Dömé shi dang yermé pema jung
Lotus-Born, you are inseparable from our original nature.

Rangnang dakpé zangdok palri zhing
Your realm, the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory, is our experience in its purity.

Nang rik yermé machö nyukmé ngang
May we take birth in this primordially pure realm.

Döné namdak zhing du kyewar shok
May all be born in the original pureland.
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Prayer To Guru Rinpoche - To Clear Away Obstacles On The Path

Precious guru, embodiment of all Buddhas of the three times; Great bliss, the lord of all accomplishments; Wrathful power, who dispels all hindrances and subdues demons; Pray bestow your blessings. Please remove the outer, inner, and secret obstacles and grant your blessings to accomplish the wishes spontaneously.

When, due to the obstacles of the elements, earth, water, fire and wind, This illusory body, which is rented, is meeting the time to be perished. Requesting undoubtedly, without two pointed mind to Padmasambhava and the Goddess of the Elements, [there is] no doubt the four elements get naturally pacified. 

I request, Orgyen, the One Arising From the Lotus (Orgyen Pädma Chung Nä), Please bless the wishes to succeed naturally.

Hung urgyen yulgi nubchang tsam. Pema gesar dongpo la. 
In the northwest country of orgyen appearing miraculously on the stamen of a lotus stalk

Yat sen chogi ngodrup nye. Pema jungne she su dra.
Prossessed of the supreme accomplishment. Your are called pema jungne - the lotus born

Khordu khandro mangpo kor. Kyeki jesu dagdrup kyi.
Surrounded by a retinue of many dakinis, please come to this place and bless that i may follow after you.
Chingyi lopchir shegsu sol.Nechog diro chinpob la.
Bless this sublime place.

Drubchog dagla wongshi kur. Gegdang logtren barche sol.
Bestow the four empowerments to me the sublime practioner. Clear away obstructions and misleading forces.

Chogdang thunmong ngodrup tsol.
Pray and bestow the ordinary and supreme accomplishments

Om ah hung bendza guru pema siddhi hung.

Om ah hung bendza guru pema thotreng tsal bendza samaya dza dza sarwa siddhi phala hung ah hri ma hari nisa ratsa hri ya tsitta hrim hrim dza dza.

Guru kandroi tsokche kyi. Dakchak mopei bunam la.
Guru, host of dakinis and so on, to i and all your faithful sons

Lula kuyi chingyi lop. Ngak la sungi chingyi lop.
Bless our body by your body. Bless our speech by your speech,
Yidla thukkyi chingyi lop. Wangshi kurwar chingyi lop.
Bless our mind by your mind. Bestow the blessing of the four empowerments.

Gyushi takpar chingyi lop. Lamshi chongpar chingyi lop.
Bless us to purify the four streams. Bless us to traverse the four paths.

Kushi thoppar chingyi lop. 
Bless us to attain the four bodies.

Om ah hung bendza guru pema dewa dakini kaya abhikentsa om waka abhikentsa ah tsitta abhikentsa hung sarwa abhikentsa hri.

"Om ah hung bendza guru pema siddhi hung"
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