Mantra Recitations

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.

Dear one,
For you it comes out very good to do Chenrezig practice; reciting OM MANI PADME HUM very much. If you have the great Chenrezig initiation, you can use the short version sadhana from France, from the retreat there. Also there is one short practice from Kopan Library.

Recite ten malas of OM MANI PADME HUM per day. Also learn the benefits, know them.

Without initiation, use a picture or thangka. Nectar beams come from the actual Chenrezig, entering your body and mind and purifying diseases, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements ( the last two most important) from beginningless rebirths, like milk coming through a glass pipe. All the dirt and garbage comes out. Do this for seven malas, then the eighth mala purifies numberless sentient beings in the six realms. Purification is the main process. Then the ninth mala: all realizations and qualities are received from Chenrezig—omniscience, compassion and power—perfect, without mistakes. Then the last mala: all sentient beings receive all the qualities.

Before reciting the 1,000 short mantras, recite the long mantra 21 times if possible. If not, no problem.

If we recite ten malas every day, there is unbelievable purification. Eons and eons of negative karma are purified, especially if the practice is done with bodhicitta—for numberless hell beings, numberless pretas, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless gods and demigods to be purified and for all beings to achieve enlightenment.

That means we come closer to enlightenment. Then, when walking on the road and the wind touches us, it is blessed. Then, when this wind touches others, they are purified and don’t have to experience the lower realms. By touching our body, others are purified. When we stand on a hill and those below look up, or if we are at the football stadium and others look at us, they are purified. We become meaningful to behold. Similarly, in the ocean, beings that live there or play in the water are purified.

When the body is burned, whoever is touched by the smoke is purified. The benefits are infinite. Then, when we die, Chenrezig stretches his hand out to us and helps us.

With much love and prayer ...

The Mantra Promised by the Arya Mother Liberator Herself
for Dispelling Obstacles and Achieving Success

In Sanskrit: Ārya tārā svapratijñā nāma dhāraṇī
In Tibetan: phag ma dröl ma rang gi dam chä pa zhe ja wäi zung
In English: The Mantra Promised by Arya Mother Liberator Herself

I prostrate to Arya Mother Liberator.

Then recite the mantra promised by Arya Mother Liberator herself:

TADYATHĀ / OṂ TĀRE TĀRĀYAI / HŪṂ HŪṂ HŪṂ / SAMAYA STHITE / BHARA BHARA / SARVĀ BHARAṆA / VIBHŪṢITE / PADMANI PADMA / MAHĀ PADMA / ĀSANA STHITE / HASA HASA / TRAILOKYA VARADE / SARVA DEVA DĀNAPA / PŪJITE SMADĀHI / BHAGAVATI TĀRE / SMARĀHĪ / BHAGAVĀNTA / TATHĀGATASYA / PURATAḤ / SAMAYAṂ / DHARA DHARA / MAHĀSATVA AVALOKITE / MAṆIKANIKA / VICI TRĀBHARAṆE / OṂ VILOKĀYA (insert the name of the person who needs success) BHAGAVATE / TĀRE / HRĪṂ HRĪṂ HRĪṂ PHAṬ SVĀHĀ

Just by remembering this mantra, all fears will be dispelled. You will achieve all realizations. You will have control over all sentient beings. Make extensive offerings to Arya Tara on the white dates of the 8th and 15th [of the Tibetan lunar month], then recite the mantra until you see Tara directly. Whatever you wish will be granted. All sublime realizations will be granted. If this doesn’t happen, it means that I, [Tara], have committed the five heavy negative karmas without break. In addition, you will receive inconceivable benefits.

This came from the Tantra of the Sublime Vajra.

Thus, The Mantra Promised by the Arya Mother Liberator Herself is completed.

Colophon

Translation of Ārya tārā svapratijñā nāma dhāraṇī, 'phags ma sgrol ma rang gi dam bcas pa'i gzungs, in sde dge bka' 'gyur, vol. 101, BDRC W22084, Chengdu: s.n., s.d., 319—320, dictated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 30th May 1997, and checked with Ven. Sarah Thresher, 13th June 2013, Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India. Checked against the Tibetan, lightly edited by Ven. Joan Nicell, FPMT Education Services, June 2018. Revised by Joona Repo and Ven. Tenzin Tsomo, FPMT Education Services, September 2021.