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Authors: Jeffrey Hopkins

Tags: #Health & Fitness, #Yoga, #Body; Mind & Spirit, #Meditation, #Religion, #Buddhism, #General, #Tibetan

1. 1. 1. I have respect for you.
      O
      ṃ
      sarvatath
      ā
      gata-avalokite
      ś
      vara-sapariv
      ā
      ra sarvadevat
      ā
      -acinta-am
      ṛ
      ta sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
      Mentally offer clothing and adornments; offer music, and mentally raise up melodies of praise.
      With the perfume seal (seal 31), offer perfume, saying:
      With faith I offer these perfumes

1. 1. 1. Of wholesome divine substances Arisen from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
      O
      ṃ
      sarvatath
      ā
      gata-avalokite
      ś
      vara-sapariv
      ā
      ra
      ā
      hara
      ā
      hara sarvavidy
      ā
      dhari p
      ū
      jite sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
      With the flower seal (seal 32), offer flowers, saying:
      With faith I offer these flowers

1. 1. 1. Of auspicious divine substance, Grown from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
      O
      ṃ
      sarvatath
      ā
      gata-avalokite
      ś
      vara-sapariv
      ā
      ra
      ā
      hara
      ā
      hara sarvavidy
      ā
      dhari p
      ū
      jite sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
      With the incense seal (seal 33), offer incense, saying:
      With faith I offer divine substances

1. 1. 1. Made with perfume,
      Pleasant essences of the forest. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
      O
      ṃ
      sarvatath
      ā
      gata-avalokite
      ś
      vara-sapariv
      ā
      ra
      ā
      hara
      ā
      hara sarvavidy
      ā
      dhari p
      ū
      jite sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
      With the seal of divine food (seal 34), offer food, saying:
      With faith I offer

1. 1. 1. These foods of mantra, Pleasant medicinal essences.
      Receiving them, be pleased with me.
      O
      ṃ
      sarvatath
      ā
      gata-avalokite
      ś
      vara-sapariv
      ā
      ra
      ā
      hara
      ā
      hara sarvavidy
      ā
      dhari p
      ū
      jite sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
      With the lamp seal (seal 35), offer lamps, saying:
      With faith I offer these dispellers

1. 1. 1. Of darkness, conquering harmers, Auspicious and virtuous.
      I beg you to receive these lamps.
      O
      ṃ
      sarvatath
      ā
      gata-avalokite
      ś
      vara-sapariv
      ā
      ra
      ā
      lok
      ā
      ya
      ā
      lok
      ā
      ya vidh
      ā
      dhare p
      ū
      jite sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
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      179
      Repeat one hundred times the mantra of blessing the place into magnificence:
      Nama
      ḥ
      sarvatath
      ā
      gat
      ā
      n
      āṃ
      sarvath
      ā
      udgate sphara
      ṇ
      ahima
      ṃ
      gaganakha
      ṃ
      sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
      Praise the Three Jewels—Buddha, his doctrine, and the spiritual community:

1. 1. 1. Homage to the One-Gone-Thus, Protector with great compassion, Omniscient teacher,
      Oceanic field of merit and attainments.

1. 1. 1. Homage to the pacifying doctrine, Through purity separating from desire,
      Through virtue liberating from bad transmigrations, In all ways the supreme ultimate.

1. 1. 1. Respectful homage to the spiritual community, Liberated, teaching the path of liberation, Completely dwelling in the precepts,
      Excellent field of merit, endowed with attainments.
      Praise the lords of the three lineages—Mañjushr
      ī
      , who is the physical manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas; Avalokiteshvara, who is the physical manifestation of the compassion of all Buddhas; and Vajrap
      āṇ
      i, who is the physical manifestation of the power of all Buddhas:

1. 1. 1. Homage also to Mañjushr
      ī
      ,
      Bearer of the appearance of a youth, Vividly adorned with the lamp of wisdom, Dispeller of the three worlds’ darkness.

1. 1. 1. Homage to the always merciful, Whose name is Avalokiteshvara, Composite of all excellent qualities, Strongly praised by all Buddhas.
      Homage to Vajrap
      āṇ
      i, Powerful and fierce,

1. 1. 1. Virtuous king of knowledge-mantra, Tamer of the hard to tame.
      Make praises specifically of Avalokiteshvara, and repeat one hundred times the mantra of bringing forth praise:
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      Nama
      ḥ
      sarvabuddha-bodhisattv
      ā
      n
      āṃ
      , sarvatra sa
      ṃ
      kurumita avijñ
      ā
      - r
      āś
      ini namo stute sv
      ā
      h
      ā
      .
      Disclose ill deeds with an attitude of contrition and future restraint:
      Ones-Gone-Thus residing

1. 1. 1. In all directions of the worlds, Foe Destroyers, and Bodhisattvas, I ask you to heed me.
      Whatever ill deeds

1. 1. 1. I have committed in any lifetime, Or, disturbed by the power of desire,
      Stupidity, or anger in cyclic existence In former lives or in this life, Whatever ill deeds I have done,

1. 1. 1. Asked others to do, or admired even a little, Even slight ones unconscientiously done With body, speech, or mind
      To Buddha, doctrine, or spiritual community, Or gurus, father and mother,

1. 1. 1. Foe Destroyers, Bodhisattvas, Or any object of giving,
      Or to other sentient beings— Educated or uneducated—

1. 1. 1. Having mentally collected all these, I bow down in great respect
      To the perfect Buddhas and their children Manifest before me now

1. 1. 1. And disclose individually And repeatedly my mistakes
      With pressed palms and saddened mind.

1. 1. 1. Just as the perfect Buddhas know The ill deeds that I have committed, I make individual disclosure.
      Henceforth I will not do such.
      Take refuge in Buddha, his doctrine, and the spiritual community with strong intent:

1. 1. 1. So that the sufferings of beings might be pacified I respectfully go for true refuge
      To Buddha, Doctrine, and Spiritual Community As long as I remain alive.
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      181
      Admire your own and others’ virtues:
      Set in equipoise, I take admiration

1. 1. 1. In the varieties of practical implementation of doctrine.
      Entreat the Buddhas to remain teaching and supplicate them not to withdraw physical appearance so beneficial to the world:

1. 1. 1. To generate nonconceptual pristine wisdom I entreat you to turn the wheel of doctrine And not to pass away from sorrow
      Until trainees are satisfied.
      Make prayer-wishes:

1. 1. 1. Just as the earlier Buddha-children Made prayer-wishes,
      I also with a virtuous mind Plant prayer-wishes in that way.

1. 1. 1. May all beings have happiness, Peace, and freedom from disease. May I be capable in all activities And also possess all good qualities.
      May I be wealthy, generous, Intelligent, and patient, Having faith in virtue, memory

1. 1. 1. Of former births in all lives, and mercy.
      Cultivate the four immeasurables—compassion, love, joy, and the equanimity that is devoid of the conceptions of subject and object as inherently existent:

1. 1. 1. May all sentient beings be free from all suffering.
      May all sentient beings be endowed with all happiness.

1. 1. 1. May all sentient beings be blissful with the bliss of Buddhahood.
      May all sentient beings pass from sorrow with the unsurpassed nirv
      āṇ
      a of a Buddha.
      Generate an altruistic intention to become enlightened such that it definitely suffuses your mental continuum:
      Foundational Step: Equality

1. 1. 1. 1. From their own point of view, friends, enemies, and neutral beings equally want happiness and do not want suffering.
      2. From my own point of view, each and every one of them has been my friend limitless times over beginningless cyclic existence and will definitely help me again in the future; each
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