Mantra Recitations

My very dear, most kind, most precious, most wish-fulfilling mother,

Thank you very much for your kind letter. I just arrived from Mongolia, where they did a 108 million Mani Retreat. There were more than 60 Westerners, mostly nuns, and many Mongolians, who did extremely well. They recited 108 million OM MANI PADME HUM mantras.

This is incredible, unbelievable purification, purifying negative karma collected from beginningless time. This is the way to collect most extensive merits up to enlightenment and particularly to purify many negative karmas, disease and problems. Many difficult things that are not easy to get rid of can be purified with this mantra, and particularly we can develop compassion for all living beings—numberless hell beings, numberless preta beings, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings. That compassion for all beings is what makes us achieve peerless happiness up to enlightenment, to be able to do perfect works for others.

Please continue your life with a good heart to others, as you already have. This is where all the satisfaction comes from.

With much love and prayers...

Most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling Anna,
Numberless thanks for your long-life mantras; now I should try to make my life most beneficial for sentient beings.

This practice also makes your life positive and pacifies life obstacles. This is so important because human life is most precious, especially a perfect human rebirth. It is most precious.

Please continue to live your life as much as possible with a good heart.

With much love and prayers...

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one, and also your father,
Skies of numberless thanks and best wishes to your father and to you, it is unbelievable. This is exactly what is needed generally, but especially now, because there are local problems, country problems, and all the individual problems, like suicide, so it’s important.

The antidote is compassion for all the six realm sentient beings—the numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless sura beings, numberless asura beings and numberless intermediate state beings —all the sentient beings in this world, country, city, family and yourself.

OM MANI PADME HUM is to generate compassion—this is the real antidote. Not only that, it is the greatest way to purify the negative karma collected since beginningless rebirth and especially to develop compassion for the numberless sentient beings, so that brings us to enlightenment quickly.

Please continue to live your life with the thought of bodhicitta in every action that you do, day and night. That is the best life.

With much love and prayers...

Any object used for making sound offerings can be blessed by recitation of OM PADMO USHNISHA BIMALE HUM PHAT seven times and by the breath [blowing on the instrument.] Then for whoever hears that sound, the five heinous crimes [and lighter negative actions] are purified. This applies even to drums and bells, even though the advice was given by Domo Geshe Rinpoche in relation to small cymbals. In actuality, it applies to any sound.

There are three methods:

1. The Exalted Zung Called "Thoroughly Pacifying Hatred"

KÖN CHHOG SUM LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO
   To the Three Rare Sublime Ones, I prostrate.

CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ KÜN DU ZIG LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO
   To the Destroyer Qualified Gone-Beyond One, Foe Destroyer, Fully Completed Buddha, All-Seeing One, I prostrate.

TADYATHA / DIRITISTHA / TASKARA VADDHOSI / MACALA MACALA SVAHA (7X)

If you pray to Arya Manjushri, everyone will become loving to you. This is the mantra extremely pacifying all hatred. If you have to talk to a person who is angry with you, wear it on your body.

[Refer to The Exalted Zung Called "Thoroughly Pacifying Hatred" for the latest version of this practice. You can also find links to a PDF of the practice in the FPMT Catalogue.]

2. You can also recite this short mantra for success. Recite this mantra seven times, if you can.

TADYATHA NAKSHEDE SAPHA DITTHI MUTENA SHATRANI MESA MITA DAHNI BAHPHENTU SVAHA

3. Bodhisattva Akashagarbha’s mantra. Merely by wearing, reading or revealing it to others, or by reciting it daily, all your wishes and hopes will be fulfilled. Anyone who has to go to see people, neighbors or government officers should chant four malas of this mantra.

OM SVASTI KAMALAKSI VIPULA SAMBHAVA / DHARMADHATU GOCARA SVAHA

AH AAH SHA SA MA HA

Recite this mantra to liberate those who are born in the lower realms. You can place the mantra on the dying body, to purify that being’s negative karma and transfer the consciousness to a pure land or a higher realm.

This mantra purifies and blesses the environment. Like the mani mantra (OM MANI PADME HUM), just seeing this mantra purifies the five uninterrupted karmas and defilements, and plants the seed of enlightenment. This means that it causes us to attain the whole path, from guru devotion up to enlightenment. We are able to actualize the whole path in the minds of sentient beings, especially the compassionate mind of bodhicitta, and in this way, we can bring countless beings to the peerless happiness of full enlightenment.

Put this mantra in your house where people can see it—in the dining room or kitchen, inside or outside. You can also put it by the road or on signposts. Just by seeing this mantra, sentient beings move closer to enlightenment and their negative karma is purified, even without their knowledge.