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Sutra and Mantra Recitations
- Sutra and Mantra Recitations
- Sanghata Sutra
- Sutra of Golden Light
- The Diamond Cutter Sutra
- Arya Mahalakshinii Sutra
- The Exalted Zung of Norbu Sangpo
- The Mantra Encompassing the Essence of the Kangyur
Sutra and Mantra Recitations
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The Mantra Called Sublime One Extremely Pacifying All Hatred, Completely |
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| Rinpoche gave the following mantra to a nun who had an angry boss. Rinpoche gave her the mantra to pacify the boss’s anger and dislike toward her. | |
Visualize Manjushri.
I prostrate to the Three Sublime Ones.
CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ KÜN TU ZIG LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO
TADYATHA DIRI TISHTA TASKARA BADUSI MACHALA MACHALA SVAHA (Recite 7x)
If you make requests to Arya Manjushri, then all human beings will have affectionate love toward you.
Colophon:
Suggested by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Ven. Lhundrup Drolma at Deer Park on 13 July 2003.
This was some advice given to one nun at Deer Park because her boss in the jail where she works disliked her advice to one prisoner who had been having suicidal thoughts. Rinpoche gave this mantra to her to pacify the boss’s anger and dislike toward her, and also to use if the prisoners were to get angry at her.
This mantra can also be used when there are problems in families, for people who are angry at you, in your work or in organizations, anywhere. Whenever you encounter problems, you can use this to change people’s minds and make them have affectionate love toward you.
Formatted and lightly edited by Ven. Constance Miller, FPMT Education Department, 30 September 2003. The mantra phonetics have NOT been checked against the Tibetan text for accuracy.
| Making Life Meaningful |
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| Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student, with three sutras (the Sutra of Golden Light, the Sanghata Sutra, and the Diamond Cutter Sutra). | |
Dear Sue,
Reading these holy texts is the happiest life for you; all your wishes will be fulfilled, including enlightenment. Also, sometimes please read the Heart Sutra. You can also print copies of the longlife sutra that I have just finished translating. Before printing it, read it mindfully. From time to time, you can also print the Arya Sanghata Sutra and the Diamond Cutter Sutra.
Please do this especially when you have financial difficulties with projects.
If you read the Golden Light Sutra, it becomes healing for all the sick people in the city where you are living. It stops violence, brings peace and happiness to the country, brings protection from others to the country, from harm, war, terrorist attacks, and so forth. It gives power to the leader of the country. It also directs your life towards enlightenment.
HA HA HI HI!
I also suggest that you write out the Diamond Cutter Sutra, the Arya Sanghata Sutra, or the Sutra of Golden Light, or one after another. This creates unbelievable merit.
With much love and prayers...
| Sutras |
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| Rinpoche sent the following letter to a student. He had previously sent her three sutras (the Sutra of Golden Light, the Sanghata Sutra, and Vajra Cutter Sutra). After reading the Sanghata Sutra, she wrote to Rinpoche with a question: “Where is the sutra in the sutra? Which part is the sutra?” | |
My dearest Rachel,
I am very happy that you are very happy and that the card I sent you brought you so much happiness. Now all the companies that make the cards are so meaningful, because they are making some sentient being in the corner of the world happy.
I am very happy to hear that you immediately rushed to read the sutras. That made me so extremely happy. That means you are truly a very devoted student, maybe not quite truly existent. Please keep reading the sutras, even one line or one page a day. It has so much meaning.
Your friend mentioned you called and had questions about the sutras (sorry, this was some time ago. Sorry for the long delay in replying). I went through this as well, just like what you said, quite a few times, thinking that there was something else. But, actually, when the Buddha is talking in the sutras, that is the sutra.
Reading the sutras will help you so much. It is the easiest way to direct your life toward enlightenment and toward enlightening all sentient beings, so it has so much benefit, even benefit for your nose.
Take good care, with bodhicitta, as I am sure you will. Take care with emptiness.
With much love and prayers, and I hope to see you soon.
Lama Zopa
PS. One time I tried to call you, but the telephone had a lady speaking saying you were not there. I think I tried to call six times to leave a message. I don’t know if it worked, as I was dialing myself, so I’m not sure what was happening. Maybe you were in samadhi or off in another world to liberate others.
| White Umbrella Mantra and Deity | |
| Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recommended reciting this mantra for protection from fear. | |
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| From the Ogelthorpe University Museum of Art's Mystical Arts of Tibet Gallery. |
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like him in his elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Her mantra is:
OM SIT TA TA PA TREY HUM PHET
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