The Extremely Secret Dakini of Naropa by Dechen Nyingpo Pabongkha

Author:Dechen Nyingpo Pabongkha
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisdom Publications

The Actual Mantra Recitation

I have arranged the way to engage in the visualization [during mantra] recitation in my manual for performing a great retreat for this [practice]. If you are able, recite the mantra once you have imagined at the heart of the principal goddess of the body mandala a phenomena source, moon, syllable BAM, and mantra rosary. If you can’t manage that much, then generate the Principal Mother together with the four heart yoginis from the short A and YA, RA, LA, and WA and the thirty-two dakinis from the three-OM mantra. Then recite the mantra with the phenomena source, moon, syllable BAM, and mantra rosary at the heart of outer Vajrayogini.

In the Sakya tradition [they have different names for the mantra recitation]. The heap recitation is referred to as “the arranged recitation.” The commitment recitation is “the emanating and withdrawing recitation.” The mental recitation is called “cessation recitation.” The reason for the term cessation recitation is that through binding the winds with vitality and exertion they cease. The Melodious Drum explains that [there are two reasons for the term commitment recitation]: one is because it is the means of protecting the commitments that we promised to keep during the empowerment, and the other is that it maintains our general commitment to work for enlightenment to fulfill our own aims and the aims of others.

There are two terminologies used in the Sakya tradition for verbal recitation: “the emanating and withdrawing recitation” and “the arranged recitation.” The first of these accomplishes our own welfare by sequentially making offerings to the buddhas, and the other visualization accomplishes the welfare of others by establishing living beings in the state of Vajrayogini.

First, accomplishing the welfare of oneself. Limitless red light rays radiate from the syllable BAM and mantra rosary at the heart of the Principal Mother of the body mandala and fill your entire body. These light rays radiate outward, and upon their tips emanate offering goddesses who present offerings to all the buddhas in the ten directions. These light rays invoke the blessings of the three secrets [body, speech, and mind of all buddhas] and all the attainments of [outer and inner] Dakini Land in the aspect of deity bodies, BAMs, and hand symbols.110 Imagine drawing those light rays back; they dissolve into you, whereby the blessings are absorbed. You can also radiate and absorb the deities of either the five wheels or three.111

Accomplishing the welfare of others consists of emanating light rays as before, illuminating everything from the Principal Mother of the body mandala up to the outer Vajrayogini body and moving progressively outward. From there the [light rays] emanate outward, striking the six classes of living beings, including those in the intermediate state. This purifies their two obstructions together with their imprints as well as the faults and defects of the environment and its beings. All environments transform into a phenomena source, and all the inhabitant living beings transform into the body of Vajrayogini. Imagine that all these Vajrayoginis recite the three-OM mantra and that its sound resonates and pervades everywhere.

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