Buddha Akshobhya Prayers

Buddha Akshobhya (Mitrugpa) Mantra by H.H. 17th Karmapa

*”Namo bhagavate Akṣhobhāya, 

tathāgatāyārhate saṃyaksaṃbuddhyāya.

Tadyathā: Oṃ kaṃkani kaṃkani. Rochani rochani.

Troṭani troṭani. Trāsani trāsani. 

Pratihana pratihana.

Sarva karma paraṃparāṇime sarva sattvānañcha svāhā.”

*Short mantra: Om Akshobhya Hum

Akshobhya is the embodiment of 'mirror knowledge' (Sanskrit: ādarśa-jñāna; refer Panchajnana). This may be described as a knowledge of what is real, and what is illusion, or a mere reflection of actual reality. The mirror may be likened to the mind itself. It is clear like the sky and empty, yet luminous. 

It holds all the images of space and time, yet it is untouched by them. Its brilliance illuminates the darkness of ignorance and its sharpness cuts through the confusion. Akshobhya represents this eternal mind, and the Vajra family is similarly associated with it.

The Vajra family, is also associated with the element of water, hence the two colors of the Vajra is blue, like the depths of the ocean; or bright white, like sunlight reflecting off water. Even if the surface of the ocean is blown crashing waves, the depths remain undisturbed, imperturbable. Although water may seem ethereal and weightless, in truth, it is extremely heavy.

Water flows into the lowest place and settles there. It carves through solid rock, but calmly, without violence. When frozen, it is hard, sharp, and clear like the intellect, but to reach its full potential, it must also be fluid and adaptable like a flowing river. These are all the essential qualities of Akshobhya.

Many wrathful, Tantric beings are represented as blue in colour because they embody the transmuted energy of hatred and aggression into wisdom and enlightenment.

Akshobhya is one of the five Dhyani Buddhas (wisdom Buddhas), along with Vairocana, Amitabha, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi.

He is occasionally merged with Acala, a protective deity, particularly in Shingon traditions.

Akshobhya Buddha (“Immovable One”) symbolizes the overcoming of passions such as anger and hatred towards other beings.

He was given charge over the eastern paradise Abhirati.

He is easily recognized in illustrations by having a blue body.

He was given charge over the eastern paradise Abhirati.

He is easily recognized in illustrations by having a blue body color and the left hand supporting an upright Vajra scepter.

Sanskrit for this land translates to the joyous; therefore, it is the land of the most joyous.

It is believed that those who are reborn in this realm can never fall back to lower realms of consciousness and are never to be born again.

Therefore, it is said that all believers should seek to follow and fulfill the vow of Akshobhya.

The Vajra family, to which Akshobhya belongs, is associated with the element of water.

According to the scripture of The Buddha-land of Akshobhya, a Monk wished to practice the Dharma in the eastern World of delight and made a vow to think no Anger or malice towards any being until the Enlightenment.

He duly proved “immovable,” and when he succeeded, he became The Buddha Akshobhya.

The Benefits of Chanting Buddha Akshobhya Mantra:

1. Especially powerful to liberate and purify all negative Karmas of our past, present, and future mind streams.
2. It can liberate, not only the practitioner for fear of inauspicious rebirth, but other sentient beings as well.
3. Effective in removing our outer, inner, and secret obstacles.
4. Overcome our hatred and anger towards other sentient beings
5. Repay our gratitude to our departed ones. Pray that they be free from suffering and be reborn in the Eastern Pure Land.
6. Good health, happiness, decreased negative Karma, and increased wisdom for the living by the offering of auspicious lamps.

In the Akshobhya sutra, Gautama Buddha himself extolled the perseverance of Buddha Akshobhya in actualizing this intention so powerfully that numerous sentient beings have been saved from the intense suffering of the lower states of existence.

This version of Buddha Akshobhya Mantra is interpreted by H.H. 17th Karmapa – the head of the Karma Kagyu.

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* Footnote 

For those who had received the empowerment of this Tantric practice, you are reminded not intentionally or unintentionally to disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practice, and by disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors. 

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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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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