Serkyem Offering Prayers

*Serkyem Offering Prayers ( Bless the serkyem. Then recite:)

Hung, lama yidam khandro dang

Hum! All gurus, yidams, dakinis,

Chosung drekpa de gyebtsok

Dharmapalas, and the assembly of eight classes of arrogant spirits,

Serkyem chopa di zhye la

Please, accept this serkyem offering, and

Dak gi dodon drubpar dzo

Fulfill all our wishes.

* 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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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.

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What is Chod practice? Attributed to the great Tibetan Yogini Machig Labdron

 

What is Chod practice?

The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards, and visualisation of offering their bodies in a tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test.

The Tibetan word “Chod” means “to cut off” or “to slay.” The traditional practice of chod cuts off self-cherishing and grasping at a truly existent “I.” It creates the conditions under which one can develop the mind of conventional bodhichitta, which holds others as more dear than oneself, and the mind of ultimate bodhichitta, which sees reality as it truly is.

Attributed to the great Tibetan Yogini Machig Labdron, and the only 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.

Chod is a spiritual practice found primarily in the Yundrung Bön tradition as well as in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism (where it is classed as Anuttarayoga Tantra).

It's also known as "cutting through the ego, the practices are based on the Prajnaparamita or "Perfection of Wisdom" sutras, which expound the "emptiness" concept of Buddhist philosophy.

According to Mahayana Buddhists, emptiness is the ultimate wisdom of understanding that all things lack inherent existence. Chod combines Prajnaparamita philosophy with specific meditation methods and Tantric ritual. The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards, and visualisation of offering their bodies in a Tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test.

Key elements

Chod literally mean "cutting through". It cuts through hindrances and obscurations, sometimes called 'demons' or 'gods'. Examples of demons are ignorant, anger and, in particular, the dualism of perceiving the self as inherently meaningful, contrary to the Buddhist doctrine of anatta (non-self).

This is done in a powerful meditative ritual which includes "a stunning array of visualizations, song, music, and prayer, it engages every aspect of one’s being and effects a powerful transformation of the interior landscape.

According to Machig Labdron, the main goal of chod is cutting through ego clinging:

What we call devils are not materially existing individuals . A devil means anything which hinders us in our achievement of liberation. Consequently, even kind and loving friends and companions may become devils as far as liberation is concerned. 

In particular, there is no greater devil than this present ego-clinging, and because of this all the devils will rear their ugly heads as long as one has not severed this clinging to ego.

When somebody tells you something that really hurts your mind, that is the most beneficial thing for your mind because it goes straight in your heart and touches your ego.

This is what shows you, like a mirror, like a teaching from the Buddha, one’s own mistaken thoughts, especially the ego; it shows that there is ego, and because there is ego, it hurts.

If there is no ego, then it would never hurt. When people say what your mistakes are, or say words which hurt you, that is the real Chöd practice. This is what makes you see your “I,” the emotional “I” – in Western psychological terms – the object of ignorance, the root of Samsara, which is holding this “I” as truly existent.

Normally one is not aware of this, but by doing the practice of Chöd, inviting the spirits, they create violence and it makes you see the “I,” the object of ignorance, the object to be refuted – the truly existent “I” – clearly. They show the “I” to you very clearly and then you are able to recognize that it is false, an object of ignorance; you are able to use your reasoning, logical reasoning, that the “I” doesn’t exist because it is a dependant arising, or merely imputed. 

It is merely imputed relating to the aggregates, the base, etc. There are so many other reasonings you can use. You recognize the object to be refuted at that minute. That it is what doesn’t exist at all; it is totally non-existent. 

Chod, like all Tantric systems, has outer, inner and secret aspects. They are described in an evocation sung to Nyama Paldabum by Milarepa:

What we call devils are not materially existing individuals. A devil means anything which hinders us in our achievement of liberation. Consequently, even kind and loving friends and companions may become devils as far as liberation is concerned. In particular, there is no greater devil than this present ego-clinging, and because of this all the devils will rear their ugly heads as long as one has not severed this clinging to ego.

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* Footnote 

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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.

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.

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 Glorious Vajra Claws - Dorje Dermo Dakini 金剛利爪母

*Vajra Claw—Dorje Dermo Dakini 金剛利爪母

Vajra Claw is a wrathful female activity Dakini. The Buddha originally revealed Vajra Claw to be a powerful guardian and protector. Accordingly, Vajra Claw is invoked to this day in order to protect the practitioners’ domestic space, their family, their friends and their allies and to avert any obstacles that might threaten them.

Vajra Claw she is a wrathful female activity Dakini. Within the Vajrakilaya tradition, she is the consort of Niladanda of The Ten Wrathful Ones. Her name translates as Vajra Claws into English and may be restored in Sanskrit as Vajra Nakhi. Her mantra has a long history and can be found in a variety of forms in the Guhyasamaja, the Vajravarahi, and the Vajrakilaya traditions.

In this context Dorje Dermo’s mantra is recited in connection to the ritual of the liberation of obstacles. Over time and especially within Tibet, Dorje Dermo became a deity independently invoked as to protect the practitioners’ domestic space, their family, their friends and their allies and to avert any obstacles that might threaten them.

History of Vajra Claw Dorje Dermo Dakini

According to The Incantation of Glorious Vajra Claws, the Buddha revealed the method for invoking Dorje Dermo in a place called the Vajra Palace to an assembly of monks and Tantric practitioners. There the Buddha advised them, that if the Dharani is recited, Dorje Dermo will become their guardian and protector, they will obtain many qualities and encounter only favourable circumstances.

At the end of the Dharani, Dorje Dermo recounts that countless aeons ago, she took birth as a female practitioner. At that time the Buddha called "Dridha-shura-sena-prabha-raja" (Sanskirt: Drdhasurasenapraharaṇaraja) visited the world. When Dorje Dermo met this Buddha, Buddha placed his hand upon her head and entrusted her with the Dharani. Buddha foretold her that if she continues recites the dharani, in future she will become known as the deity Dorje Dermo and bring great benefit and happiness to all sentient beings.

The Power of Vajra Claw Practice

The lamas mentioned that this practice is considered very powerful. They explained that Vajra Claw is a wrathful ḍakini whose activity is related to pacifying negative obstructing forces. In particular, Vajra Claw’s dharaṇi has the power to stop or block these forces, whether they appear in the form of external forces in nature.

Other people’s negative actions, our body sicknesses, fears or mental problems. It also has incredible benefits, all of which are described in detail in the text. According to the text, this dharaṇi protects by wearing it, reading it, or placing it where the problem is taking place.

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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.

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.

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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Serkyem and Torma Offering (2/2)

Serkyem (Golden Drink Offering) is also known as Dharmapala Offering. Serkyem are used for ritual offering to Protector deities and guardian. Serkyems comprises of two pieces, a chalice and a basin for overflowing. A serkyem is most commonly filled w/ tea or wine and other tsok substances and offered to the Dharma protectors for the continuous protection and spread of the holy teachings of the Buddha. In the Tibetan language "Ser" means gold and "Kyem" means drink.

The Serkyem Offering Container

When we make our offering to the Guardians of the Dharma, we use what is known as a serkyem (gser skyem, the golden beverage).  A serkyem consists of two pieces stacked;  a tall, thin chalice placed inside a container. 

How to Arrange the Offering

When you are making offerings to the Protectors, the cup/chalice should be placed upright and black tea or dark alcohol (like dark rum) is poured in and a small amount of raw mixed grains is added. The liquid is poured into the top of the chalice and allowed to overflow into the bottom. The top offering represents the offering to the Three Roots—Lama, Yidam and Dakini and the bottom the offering to the Protectors.

You let the tea run over into the bottom from the top symbolizing the offering from the Three Roots to the Protectors.  Add some mixed grains to both the top and bottom of the serkyem representing food offerings.  The offering should be arranged in a calm and respectful manner.  When it is placed on the shrine it is always offered together with incense.  

When the serkyem is not being used the chalice should be cleaned and placed on its side within the bottom dish beside the shrine (not on the shrine). It is important to not leave the cup upright and empty on the shrine because this would be inauspicious.

Making the Offering

When it is time to perform the Protectors’ offering prayer,  the serkyem is offered while visualizing ourselves as the deity. While maintaining the Vajra pride of being the deity, light rays issue forth from your heart purifying, consecrating, and vastly multiplying your offering. Your offering has now been transformed into the drink of nectar that delights the senses. 

Once you have completed all the closing prayers, take the serkyem outside and hold the top in one hand and the bottom in the other. First offer the top liquid in an upward motion away from you. While you are doing this visualize that you are making offerings to the Three Roots and they are receiving it and then offer the bottom liquid in the same way, however, this time you visualize that you are making offerings to the Protectors.

In both cases, feel that they are delighted with your offerings and accept your offering of the golden drink and food. If circumstances don't permit you to make the offering outside right away pour the liquid into a clean container and make the offering in a nearby park when you have time. You can let it accumulate for a few days.  In a group practice, the Chopon makes the offering outside immediately after the Protector’s practice is completed. 

In summation, through the power of our offering we are beseeching and commanding the Protectors to uphold their vow to support the flourishing and the spread of the Dharma teachings and support practitioners by making everything auspicious. Protectors are very lineage specific and are like allied energies supporting the Dharma. 

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May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

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By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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Benefits Verses of Praises to the 21 Taras

Praises to the Twenty-One Taras is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. Tara is also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. 

Benefit verses

Lha mo la goo yang dak den pei. Lo den gang gi rab den jo peh.

It should be recited with perfect reverence and attitude to the Deity (Dolma).

So dang thaw rang lang par cheh neh. Dren peh mi jig tam cheh tab ter.

By remembering it at dusk and dawn as one rises, it gives perfect protection from all fears.

Dig pa tam cheh rab too shi was. Ngen dro tam cheh jom pa nyi do.

Calming all karma and preventing birth into lower realms.

Gyal wa cheh wa trak doon nam kyi. Nyur too wang ni our war gyur la.

One quickly receives the empowerment from the 70 million Buddhas.

Di leh cheh wa nyi ni tob ching. Sang gyeh go phang tar too der dro.

So that everything here shows increase and one proceeds towards ultimate Buddhahood.

De yi dug ni drag po chhen po. Tan na pa am zhan yang dro wa.

If affected by the most terrible poison. Whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being.

Zo pa dang ni thung pa nyi kyang. Dran pa rab tu sel wa nyi thob.

Just by remembering. Will one be thoroughly cleansed.

Don dang rim dang dug gi zir wai. Dui ngai tshog ni nam par pong te. 

The suffering from serious affliction by demons, contagious diseases, and poison is left behind.

Sem chan zhan pa nam la yang ngo. Nyi sum dun du ngon par jo na.

Also for others - by means of 7 repetitions in 3 sessions before noon and 3 sessions afternoon.

Bu do pa ni bu thob gyur zhing. Nor do pa ni nor nam nyi thob.

Then if a son is wished for, a son will be obtained, if wealth is required, will be obtained.

Do pa tham cha thob par gyur la. Geg nam me ching so sor jom gyur chig.

All that is wished for will be obtained. Hindrances will be negated and destroyed individually.

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No.21 Emanation of Taras - Lhamo Ozer Chenma / Marichi (21/21)

 

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. 

There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary. 

Homage to The No. 21 Taras - Lhamo Ozer Chenma / Marichi   

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MARITSE YE TSE BHRUM NRI DZA SVAHA

Goddess Endowed With Light Who Replenishes the Longevity and Life Force of the Sick

Lhamo Ozer Chenma – Divine Mother of Brilliant Light Rays. The 21st of Atisha’s 21 Taras is peaceful and white in color. This emanation of Tara offers protection from the depletion of energy and vitality by replenishing life force and increasing longevity. She also safeguards the well-being of animals. Golden fish rest upon the utpala flower by her left ear.

Lhamo Ozer Chenma is peaceful and white in color. She radiates light, instantly summoning all evil spirits who steal the vitality and longevity of the sick. Upon her utpala flower is a golden fish. Light radiates from the three syllables OM AH HUNG of her body, speech, and mind, completely pacifying all obstacles: outer forces, inner imbalance of the elements, and secret obstacles of dualistic grasping at afflictive emotions. 

Tara Ozer Chenma is the divine great Mother of “brilliant light rays”, Ozer. She is particularly beneficial to us because she can protect our longevity. She helps us when our energy, vitality, or life force is endangered. She is also renowned as a protector of animals.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chaktsal den yi sum nam ko pe

Homage to you, adorned with three natures

Shi we tu dang yang dak den ma

Perfectly endowed with peaceful strength

Don dang ro lang no jin tsok nam

You destroy demons, zombies, and yakshas

Jom pa tu re rab chok nyi ma

O TURE, most exalted and sublime

Tsa we ngak kyi to pa di dang

I praise with this root mantra

Chak tsal wa ni nyi shu tsa chik

and pay homage twenty one times

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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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.

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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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No.17 Emanation of Taras - Pagme Nonma (17/21)

Photo credit : Alan Kozlowski

Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. 

There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary. 

Homage to The No.17 Taras - Pagme Nonma

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE HUNG HUNG BAM HO SVAHA

Boundless Subduer Who Binds Enemies, Robbers, Thieves, and Hunters

Pagme Nonma means “immeasurable, countless” and Nonma means “stopping”. So this is the Tara who stops countless violent activities. Tara Pagme Nonma protects against obstacle associated with robberies, gangsters, and hunters. She brings beings into a state of calm and tranquillity, so she is the Tara of non-violence.

Pagme Nonma is peaceful and golden red in color like clouds at sunrise. With her magical power, she subjugates bandits, robbers, thieves, hunters, and all enemies, establishing sentient beings in bliss. Upon her utpala flower is a stupa. From the HUNG in her heart, rays of light in the form of countless HUNG syllables radiate out. Peaceful and quick to tame sentient beings, she stamps her two feet on the earth.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chak tsal de ma ge ma shi ma

Homage to the blissful, virtuous, peaceful one

Nya ngen de shi cho yul nyi ma

Object of practice, nirvana’s peace

So ha om dang yang dak den pe

Perfectly endowed with SOHA and OM

Dik pa chen po jom pa nyi ma

Overcoming all the great evils

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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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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