Eliminating Defects of the Eyes

Eliminating Defects of the Eyes

Date Posted:
January 2006

Rinpoche gave the following practice advice on how to cure defects in the eyes.

Motivation

The purpose of my life is not to achieve happiness for myself but to free all livings beings from suffering and its cause and lead them to the peerless happiness of full enlightenment. Therefore, I am going to practice the purification and healing of defects of the eyes.

Visualization

In front of the sky is Blue Tara. Her right hand is holding a vase healing sicknesses of the eye. With this visualization, make the seven-limb offering.

Visualize that on your two eyeballs are the black syllables BAM, the essence of which is the defects of your eyes, defilements and negative karma.

Make a request to Tara to pacify all the defects of the eyes.

At the front of Tara’s heart is a moon disc. In the center of the disc is Tara’s ten-syllable mantra circling clockwise.

Then, white beams of cooling nectar flow from Tara’s vase into your eyes. They eliminate and purify the black BAMs.

The black BAMs, which in essence are the defects of your eyes, all defilements and negative karma are completely purified.

Your eyes become exactly the same as Arya Tara’s transcendental wisdom eyes (seeing directly all phenomena and the past, present, and future).

Then recite the mantra:

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA/ OM SALAY SALAY MUN SALAY KUN HRIK SVAHA/

Recite one mala of this mantra or as many times as you like.

Then, the front deity Tara melts into light and is absorbed into your eyes, completely eliminating and purifying all defects of your eyes, all defilements and negative karma.