Prayers and Aspirations

Good Fortune

Good fortune grant this maṇḍala
Day's good fortune blazes, ta la la
Night's good fortune blazes, kyi li li
Always grant good fortune, happy be!

From Sky Dharma

Verses of Eight Nobles Auspicious Ones

OṂ! Appearance and existence are perfectly pure, natural, and spontaneous
For those who dwell in the auspicious buddha-fields of ten directions
To Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, all assemblies of noble ones
Let's join our hands and pray for all auspiciousness

King of Light, Potent Steadfast All-Accomplishing Mind
Glorious Ornament of Love, Virtuous Fame and Holiness
Extensively Famous One Whose Mind's For All
Mountain-like Nobility Potent Glory and Fame
Mind For All Beings Renowned and Glorious
Granting Satisfaction Potent Glorious Fame
Hearing just their names increases glory and auspiciousness
We join our hands and pray to Eight Bliss Gone Ones

Gentle Glory Youth, Glorious Vajra Keep
Lord Looking Eyes, Protector Love's Glory
Earth Store, Obscurations Totally Clear
Sky Store, Noble and Supreme All-Good
Their hand emblems of utpala, scepter, white lotus, nāga tree
Jewel, moon, sword and sun hold well
For the greatest glory and auspiciousness
We join our hands and pray to Spiritual Heroes Eight

Precious Supreme Parasol, Auspicious Golden Fish
Fine Wish-Fulfilling Vase, Pleasing Kamala
Ear-Famed Conch, Complete and Glorious Knot
Unflagging Victory Banner, Powerfully Transformative Wheel
Precious supreme symbols, Eight Ladies' hand-held signs
Bring delight to Victorious Ones of space and time
Glory spreads when recalling the essence of their charms
We join our hands and pray to Eight Ladies of Auspiciousness

Cosmic Prince, Bliss Source, Waters Bide
Thousand-Eyed; and Kings—Uplifting Rule
High Fertility, Nāga Lord Grave Eye
Heir Who Hears All: hold talismans divine
Wheel, trident, short spear, scepter
Vīnā, sword, stūpa and victory banner
Spreading virtue and excellence throughout three earthly realms
We join our hands and pray to Eight World Guards

For we here today, with our activities to commence
Through exactly pacifying all obstructions and harm
May the glory and benefit of our wishes and thoughts come true
Auspiciousness, happiness and excellence are perfectly complete

If recited upon awakening, all that is meaningful will be accomplished
If recited before sleep, good dreams will be observed
If recited before going to another country, there will be victory in all directions
If recited before beginning an activity, the purpose will succeed
If recited regularly, there will be excellence of glory, fame and wealth
Perfection of goodness and accomplishments as desired
All negativities and obscurations will be cleansed, resulting in higher rebirth and ultimate liberationThis was spoken by the supreme Conqueror

Thus, in the Year of Fire Monkey, during the third month under the excellent alignment of the planets, I, Jampal Gyepa'i Dorje, found this great wish-fulfilling crystal in the lake of my mind. SARVA-MANGALAṂ

Reversal of Negativity

After having resounded the "Heart Sutra," recite:

To the Guru we join our hands and pray.
To the Buddha we join our hands and pray. 
To the Dharma we join our hands and pray. 
To the Sangha we join our hands and pray. 
To the Great Mother Prajñāpāramitā we join our hands and pray. 

Please make these honest words of mine come true.

Just as the chief of gods, Indra Kauśika, commits the profound meaning of prajñāpāramitā within the mind, relying upon the recitation of its words in order to reverse the disharmonies of demonic negativities in all directions; so too, may my commitment of the profound meaning of prajñāpāramitā within the mind, my reliance upon the recitation of its words reverse the disharmonies of demonic negativities in all directions.

Make them naught!  Make them cool!  Make them super cool!‍

IN CONCLUSION

Whatever arises in relation
Does not stop, is not born
Does not nihilate, nor last
Does not come, does not go,
Is not many, nor is one—
Pacifying complexity reveals peace—
Buddha in completion said such things
To that holy one we join our hands and pray!‍

Having recited such words, express dedications and prayers.

Prayer to be Born in Bliss

EMAHO! Wondrous Buddha Infinitely Bright
On his right Lord Great Compassion stands
On his left Hero Great Power Gaind
Countless buddhas, heroes circle place
Joy and gladness, wonderment abound
In this pure land known as "Bliss," in which
One another, once our lives have passed
Quick before another intervenes
Bear to Bliss, behold the face of Bright
Thus these words are cast as pray'rs and pleas
That all buddhas, heroes everywhere
Bless come true without impediment!

TADYAThĀ PAÑCADRIYA AVABODhANAYE SVĀHĀ!

From Sky Dharma.

Request to Remain Firm

As the single source of benefit and happiness
May the period of the doctrine long abide
Those who hold the doctrine, specially born
Be firm as vict'ry banners in their bodies, lives!

Glory! As the gurus' bodies, lives hold firm
May all beneath the sky be happy, well
As one another — all of us — collect and purify
Quickly place us on the buddha ground!

The gurus' personae be excellent, we pray
Their best of bodies be long-lived, we pray
Activities expand and flourish, pray
Bless that we will never separate!

We and the infinity of souls
On this root of virtue do depend
Wholly purifying the karma of successive lives
Frees us in the vast, profound, expansive dharma treasury!

Dedication of Merit

By this merit omniscience attains
Defeats enemies of wrongdoing
From born-old-sick-dead's turbulent sea
Souls be free from oceanic planes

By these precious virtues all the souls
Be in touch with sacred truth fore'er
One another's purpose being complete
Dharma drumbeats beautify the world

Buddha's doctrine's spreading, it expands
Ev'ry sentient being is joyful, glad
Day and night engaging in dharma
One another's purpose be fulfill'd

In all lifetimes, never separate
From pure gurus; dharma's glories rouse
Grounds' and paths' qual'ties excel complete
Glorious guru's level's quickly reach'd!

Holy Man’s Mantric Malediction

AN ASPIRATION PRAYER PLEADING & INVOKING SACRED PLEDGES TO REVERSE THE INSTABILITY & CONFLICT OF EVIL TIMES

NAMO  GURU  RATNATRAYA !

Universal guide of this Good Eon, Śākya’s Crown Jewel 
Second Buddha, Lake-born, Lord of Oḍḍiyāna 
Supremely Noble Avalokiteśvara and Melodious Manjuśrī
Vajrapāṇi and the rest of the Eight Close Sons, Spiritual Heroes 
Twenty-one Tārās; the assembly of Noble Elders
Root and lineage Gurus; Deities of Peace and Wrath 
Ḍākinīs of the Three Abodes, gnostic Mistresses of Activities 
Dharma Defenders, Protectors of the Ways, Seventy Glorious Guards
Possessors of clairvoyance, miraculous ability, and power 
We plead you look and think on beings in strife! 

A great reservoir awash with evil karmic fruits
Are common living beings of these extremely evil times 
Who slip away from realms of light as demonic forces of the dark
Roil the roots of authoritarians’, mighty beings’, powerful people’s minds
Atomic war presents the ruin of Apple Earth
With backward aspirations being the gale that carries such extraordinary weaponry 
The world and its beings could turn to ash, instantly 
And we’ll have lost it all: close is the messenger of evil omen
Though it’s obviously apparent in sight, sound, and rationale
Beings are unaware, clouded in exhaustive doubt 
Extremely stifled, still more, they’ve no worry or care at all 
Merely hearing and recollecting should sound alarm
A state transition would be as if our Apple Earth had never risen 
And not a thing to do about it, an irreversibly hopeless situation!

To you, undeceiving Three Jewels and Three Roots
As a child calls to their parents, this expressive incantation 
Pleads! Wails!! Calls!!! If this is so 
You can’t forget your past commitments 
You must stretch out your compassionate hand, swift as lightning
Defend and protect such vulnerable creatures, free us from our fears!

The happiness and wellness of Apple Earth’s inhabitants is robbed
When powerful barbarians prepare for war
With the heads all gathered in their situation rooms
Do not enable them, but halt their harmful, coarse, and evil thoughts 
Transform them into realms of peace and happiness, harmony please
Pacify adverse conditions, the very bases of war 
Repel and disarm demonic nuclear bombs!

Through the power of your deeds, on this great island, Apple Earth 
May doctrine holders’ feet be firm, their teaching and success spread far and wide 
Empty the world of enemies to the doctrine and to life, whether human or non-human 
Empty all the gangs of darkness: don’t even let their names remain!

For the whole of Apple Earth, may happiness and excellence 
The glory of Four Sections of Complete Goodness* reach its peak 
Once complete, at the very same time, may there be an end to the troubles & quarrels of war 
With all beings absorbed in the dance of happiness and joy!

By the power of the three supreme sources of refuge, oceans of compassion 
And the totality of the dharma-sphere in all of its truth and excellence 
By the purity of our intentions, and the honest pleas we’ve cast 
Just like that: may each and every aspiration of the wish-fulfilling mind present! 

TADYAThĀ PAÑCADRIYA AVABODhANAYE SVĀHĀ!

To reiterate, this great land of Apple Earth is the holy place of our Teacher, the Victorious One, and the life-force of living beings. The great virtue of this vessel and its inhabitants, without exception, could be destroyed in an instant. Having set such poisonous weapons of great atomic force on hair-trigger alert, humanity is at risk of being swept away by such ferocious and unprecedented weaponry and warfare. The time of its arising is not long off, the capability and indicatory signs are near — each is increasing and dependent on living beings. Without a care for the amount of forbearance required, with fear and loathing, and terrible panic, being completely powerless on one’s own, reach out for support like a small boy crying out to his mother, but rather to such a one on Earth who can actually do something to stop it: Oḍḍiyana Padma. Reciting every day, one should make urgent pleas to the essential point of the sacred pledge of this oceanic jewel and source of refuge. Thinking of the great need and immense benefit in writing prayers on silken flags, and hoisting them upon mountain-tops and bridges, trust in me. Keep it in mind. 

By the gypsy-bee, Buddha Vajra, in the fifteenth year of the excellent cycle, Water Pig, with Spica Verginis above the moon, on the 13th day, this was composed for virtue: may it be a cause for prolongment and a benefit for barbarians to gather within the foundation of the Teaching. 

Translated by Steven RA Johnson in the ‘shire during the Great American Eclipse in the summer of Fire Bird.

* Four Sections of Complete Goodness: 1) DhARMA, righteousness; 2) ARThA, prosperity; 3) KAMA, pleasure; 4) MOKŚA, liberation

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