Taking Refuge
We take refuge continually in our own supreme awareness within the wisdom Dakini , Tara.
This unrealized deluded mind clings. to duality. We release into the enlightened mind as the Great Self-liberation. 3X
I and the infinite space of all beings take refuge
In the glorious lamas from this
Moment until we reach enlightenment!
We take refuge in the Perfect Buddhas!
We take refuge in the Dharma!
We take refuge in the Sangha! ( 3X to 7X)
Request to the Gurus of the Close Lineage for Blessings and Inspiration
Visualize Arya Tara and the ten gurus of the close lineage on the crown of your head. Make requests to them and absorb them one by one.
NAMO GURU ARYA TAREYA
Homage to Guru Arya Tara
Source of the most perfect actions of all the infinite buddhas, Having the body of a fascinating and beautiful goddess,
To the Divine Mother, liberated from the fears of samsara and nirvana,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
To you Gargyi Wangpo, who is guided by the Divine Mother And has reached the stage of the eight powers,
To the treasure-hold of the vast and profound holy Dharma of Losang Gyälwa,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Rva-la Lozang Tenpe
To the powerful lama who bestows highest realizations like a wish-granting tree,
Which arise from the indestructible root of wisdom and the branches of magnificent understanding.
Holding the fresh and sweet flavor of teaching and practice,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Yongdzin Yeshe Gyasto
To the powerful jewel ornament of the nagas, embracing all existence,
Who is skillful in causing the four streams of activity to flow From the vast ocean of his mind, with the waves of deep
and clear understanding,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Shartse Ngawang Luntog
To the wish-granting gem, treasure room of precious oral teachings and realizations, rich in pure morality,
Who ripens all sentient beings’ wishes and fulfills them like a fall of rain,
Thus leading them to liberation,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Jedrung Lozang Tenzin
Your magnificent wisdom is like one thousand eyes, Seeing completely all sutras and tantras of the Buddha.
These transcendental teachings are like the secret treasure. To the powerful one who holds the dorje,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Zhapdrung Ngawang Geleg Tenpäi Gyältsen
To the most divine and powerful mahasiddha,
Who is like a perfect victory banner and guide to all sentient beings, Who holds unceasingly to the perfect teachings of Jampäl Nyingpo,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations
Takpu Ngawang Lozang Jamphel Tenpäi Ngodrup
To the one rich in realizations, unrivaled in preserving the essence Of the method and wisdom teachings of Losang Jampälyang, Who causes rain of great siddhis to fall.
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Je Pabongkha Jampa Tenzin Trinläi Gyatso
To you who is the magnificent ornament of all those holding the essence of Losang Gyälwa’s teachings,
Having great realizations of wisdom and loving-kindness, Your divine actions are like a limitless ocean,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Trijang Rinpoche and Losang Yeshe
To Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Losang Yeshe, vajra-holder,
You are a treasury of ripening and liberating instructions about the vajra-queen,
The supreme quick path for achieving the vajra enlightened state.
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Song Rinpoche
To Kyabje Song Rinpoche, Losang Tsöndru, within the state Of all the winds of discursive thought conquered
into the central nadi,
You have achieved the consummation of the bliss chakra.
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
To my most kind and precious root Guru, [fill in name], Your body incorporates all the infinite buddhas,
without exception,
You are a master in giving discourses on the definite path to enlightenment
To all beings as extensive as space, out of your intense loving compassion,
To you I make this request: Bestow on me the highest and common realizations.
Thus by the blessing and the power of the Hiram and guru,
may I purify my mind well by the common path,
then realizing the insights of the deep path’s two stages
in unity soon see the Arya Mother’s own face.
If I cannot do this, then when I come to die,
at the end of the path blending basic path and the four voids
by the quick path technique of uniting clear light and illusion ( illusory body)
may I pull out by their roots the enemy hosts the four maras.
In all my rebirths, not parted from perfect gurus,
may I enjoy the splendor of the dharma;
perfecting all qualities of the stages and paths´
may I quickly attain the rank of Vajradhara.
The Uncommon Guru Yoga Method
Invocation
From [my Lama’s] heart, light radiates and invokes all refuge ob- jects [and] the supreme wisdom energy of all the tathagatas. These melt into light, are absorbed into my Lama’s heart, and become oneness. [The Guru becomes in actuality the unity of all existing refuge objects.]
Seven-Limb Prayer
Stay on the jewel crown [of my head] until I discover enlightenment
With faith, I prostrate with my body, speech, and mind.
I make each and every offering including those really performed and those mentally transformed.
I confess every negative action collected from the beginninglessness of samsaric life
And rejoice in all ordinary beings’ and noble beings’ virtuous actions. Please, Buddha, by living as our guide until samsara ends
Reveal the teachings to sentient beings.
I dedicate my own virtues and those of others to the great enlightenment.
Mantra Recitation
Contemplating the TAM and mantra syllables in the heart [of my Lama and yidam] is the concentration being [the seed syllable TAM in the tigle of the HUM].
Contemplate this.
Standing on the moon in a counter-clockwise direction are the letters of the ten-syllable mantra.
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA ( Recite as many as possible)
OM AH GURU VAYRADHARMA ( SARVA) SIDDHI HUM X21 times
enters [brow, throat, and heart], purifying them of all negativities. The vase, secret, and wisdom empowerments are received.
Then again, from the [OM, AH, HUM, and] SVA and HA [at the navel and lower chakra], various colored light rays emanate [like a rainbow] and enter my five places [purifying the five specific delu- sions]. I receive the four empowerments that enable me to achieve the four kayas [of a buddha].
You must do these visualizations of receiving the four empow- erments and the Guru entering your heart. This guru yoga is like the central pillar of the path or a staircase leading to liberation. You must not be without it. Since all blessings and realizations arise from devotion to your Guru, you should definitely prac- tice it.
The Guru Entering the Heart
Glorious and precious, magnificent root Guru, Stay at the lotus in my heart.
With your great kindness, take care of me, and I request you, Please grant me the powerful realizations of your divine body, speech, and mind.
The Guru becomes smaller and smaller. He sinks down through the crown of my head, down my central channel, and absorbs into my heart.
Self-Generation as Tara
Here one should meditate on the death evolution and the three kayas.
I immediately transform myself into divine transcendental Mother Tara.