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Sumber: 空靈的光明 Light of Formless Spirit

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Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

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蓮生活佛 > 師尊文集 > 70_蓮花放光 Book 70 - Lotus Emit Light

空靈的光明（代序）
　　這本書的出版，將是舉世的大震撼。
因為，這本書中的照片，均是「奇蹟中的奇蹟」的放光照片。

　 「蓮生活佛」實實在在的告訴大家，這些放光，正是修行的鍛鍊，博大精深生命力的演化，這些「放光」的呈現，就是人類文明進化的無比瑰寶的證明，我們從這些「放光」之中，可以發現蘊藏人心亙古的佛性。

　 「放光」有莊嚴的一面，因為放光可以令人「啟信」，由於相信，而深入佛智。
[Memancarkan Cahaya] punya sisi keagungannya tersendiri, karena ia mampu [Membangkitkan Iman] orang-orang, dan dari Iman Kepercayaan ini maka mereka mau menyelami kebijaksanaan Buddha dengan lebih mendalam.

　 「放光」有空靈的一面，這放光從何而來？
從虛空中來！從心靈中來！這瀚海的世界，何其奧妙！
[Memancarkan Cahaya] juga punya sisi kebatinannya yang tak berwujud. Dari mana datangnya sinar ini?
Dari Kekosongan yang Ilusif! Dari Kekuatan Batin! Sebuah dunia yang penuh keagungan, sungguh-sungguh unik dan penuh rahasia!

　 我要這「人世界」的眾生，去頌略生命的力量，對宇宙自然及自身固有的心靈，有深切的認識。

　 這些「放光照片」，表現出了具體的空間形象語言，巧妙的說明了修行者的「法力」，這些將留給讀者去仔細的品味。
Foto-foto yang memperlihatkan Bola-bola Sinar yang memancarkan cahaya, menampilkan bahasa khusus alam semesta, terutama sedang menjelaskan [Kekuatan Dharma] si sadhaka, tergantung bagaimana si pembaca mampu menelitinya dengan detil.

　 這些「放光照片」，是自然而然的攝影及洗晒出來的，不是刻意的去捕捉，也非故意的創作，不是精心的結構與設計，不是「藝術照片」更非名家鏡頭，而是平平凡凡的攝影顯現。

　 我祇能如此的說，這些「放光」是憑空的，是廣闊的，是無從想像的， (Cahaya yang terpancar dari kekosongan, menyebar dengan luas dan sungguh tak terbayangkan)
是攝影者本身沒有經歷渦的，根本沒有類似的經驗。但是，「放光照片」卻是一張又一張的呈現了出來。

　 在這本書中，想告訴大家的是，我們每一個人均能放光，假如大家皈依真佛，實修「真佛密法」，其心腥力量的擴展，將會得到「顯明真實」的相應，這種「相應」，不祇是單單豐富及美化精神內涵而已。
Setiap orang mampu memancarkan Cahaya selama ia melatih [Dharma Tantra Satya Buddha]. Dengan memperluas kekuatan batin, kemudian akan mencapai keberhasilan Yoga [Mengungkapkan & Menunjukkan Kebenaran]. Yoga ini tak hanya memperkaya batin, namun juga turut mempereloknya.

　 「真佛密法」的實修，說明了「法力」的功用，說明了「自力」與「他力」的真實融合，這種「小我」融入「大我」的光光相照境界，事實上是無法用文字表達出來的。
[Dharma Tantra Satya Buddha] bila dilatih dengan tekun, akan menunjukkan fungsi [Kemampuan/Kesaktian Dharma-nya], juga menunjukkan kebenaran dari penyatuan [Kekuatan Diri] dengan [Kekuatan Lain], Alam Cahaya [Diri yang kecil] melebur ke dalam [Diri yang besar], sungguh tak bisa dijelaskan dengan kata-kata.

　 「真佛密法」是「蓮生活佛」傳承的佛法，有真實的傳承，有修法秘密內涵，可算承先啟後，其包容如瀚海，在這無數的「密乘法海」之中，是「一枝獨秀」的，在「萬壑爭流」之中，是盡善盡美的法派，其成就，正是有目共睹的，景觀非凡。

　 當然，「放光照片」祇是象徵了「法力」的附屬品，並不能直接顯示「法力」的真諦，但是，這其中說明了種種外象，有了內涵，才能夠傳達到象外之意，這是互相激盪的，「放光照片」可透過畫面，使讀者或多或少得到感動。

　 我常常如此說，真佛密法，是我實修密法的結晶，是確實有法力的，能開悟的，可以達彼岸的，可以成佛的，能明心見性的，自主生死的。

但是我光是說，若無具體事實當後盾，佛緣較遲鈍者，仍然無法深入相信。

於是，我開始「放光」，我也收集弟子們的「放光照片」，我要把深沉的「空靈光明」表現在照片上，用意境來呈現給大家。

　 「放光照片」與「真佛密法」配合，是密密切切的，是相得益彰的，是「法力」與「實景」的契合。

　 最後，我要聲明的是：

　 這些「放光照片」，沒有一張是我自己攝影的。

　 這些「放光照片」，沒有一張是我自己洗晒的。

　 作者是「弟子們。」

　 地點是「許多國度。」

　 攝影機「殊多不同。」

寫一首小詩，紀念此書的出版：

 無盡的法流，終於又串成一顆顆的珠串。
Aliran Dharma yang tiada batasnya, pada akhirnya membentuk seuntaian manik-manik lagi.

　 閃爍的鎂光燈下，
Di bawah cemerlangnya cahaya (sinar yang muncul seperti saat magnesium yang bereaksi dengan api),

　 竟然是一張張放光法相。
Akan menampilkan citra Pancaran Sinar yang banyaknya tak terhingga.

　 信心可以慰藉，
Mampu mengangkat imanmu,

　 這世界將有光亮。
Dan demikianlah dunia ini akan memiliki Kecemerlangan.

　 一九八七年五月于美國華盛頓州雷門真佛密苑
Mei 1987

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Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

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2015-03-14《蓮生法王開示》毀謗跟讚揚完全泯滅 就是聲灌頂

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<蓮生法王盧勝彥2015年3月14日台灣雷藏寺週六「大隨求菩薩護摩大法會」大圓滿法第129講開示>

首先我們敬禮傳承祖師，敬禮了鳴和尚，敬禮薩迦證空上師，敬禮十六世大寶法王噶瑪巴，敬禮吐登達爾吉上師，敬禮壇城三寶，敬禮今天的護摩主尊大隨求菩薩

「嗡。摩訶鉢拉底。薩落。梭哈。嗡。

摩訶鉢拉底。薩落。梭哈。嗡。摩訶鉢拉底。薩落。梭哈。」

另外我們做大法會，也做得不錯，上星期六做阿達爾瑪佛的護摩，星期天在中正紀念堂做大幻化網金剛大法會。天垂異相很多，星期天在做的時候，本來氣象報告講90%會下雨，結果沒有下，等到法會做完的時候才下。

還有，優人神鼓的表演也非常的好。當我們在繞塔的時候，有看到塔上有很多的飛鳥一樣也在繞塔，大家都看得到。法會那一天，虛空中，有出現憤怒的紅色眼睛。另外還照到般若光，在虛空之中的雲層裡面，也顯現出一條龍，非常清楚。

祂們都是來參加法會，而且贊助法會，為法會祝福。天上的都到了，只有地上的沒有到。

所以要做祈福，或者要做甚麼，都要天、地、人配合在一起，天已經賜福了，人不去求等於沒有，人沒有求的話也沒有。

你說十隻老鷹在天上排成一排，你看到在天上旋轉的鳥是屬於老鷹嗎？

喔！分兩批，上面是鷹，下面是鳥，不是鳥歸鳥，鷹歸鷹，老鷹也是鳥。

不管怎麼樣，天上的鳥都來了。

祈福法會，必須要人、天跟整個地，天氣一起配合，天、地、人三者一起配合祈福，三合一的祈福，這樣才算圓滿。

如果天祝福了，我們真佛宗的弟子到了，我們的人到了，但是另外的人沒有到的話，那就是打折扣，half and half，意思就是一半一半，也就是天有賜福，人沒有承受，就是這樣，有很多因緣。

今天蓮店上師跟我講，她發覺我們雷藏寺的法會，最高首長就是廖東周大使。到了中正紀念堂，最高首長還是廖東周大使，廖大使是我們True Buddha School真佛宗forever，就是永遠的中堅分子。

祈福，必須是我們對這個大地，愛這個大地，愛台灣。

有一次我在美國的餐館吃飯，那老闆問我：「你愛台灣嗎？」我說我愛。因為我是台灣出生的，我一定愛台灣。老闆就反問我：「台灣愛你嗎？」（愛。）

我想一想，我在測量界，在軍中十年，被監視了五年，因為在軍中時，我信仰了宗教，信佛了以後，大概軍中也知道。所以保防官一直派一個「保防細胞」在我旁邊，我們在軍中叫他為「保防細胞」，「保防細胞」也是做保防官的工作，但是他是監視人的。

我離開軍中以後，到了社會工作，變成警察，也就是太平分處所的所長跟警察夜訪我的家。

另外，還有其他的單位。

我實在是被弄煩了，沒辦法，我才離開台灣移民到美國。

那時還是在戒嚴時期。

想一想，台灣是生我、養我、育我的地方，還是愛啊！

雖然在台灣也有很多的痛苦，事實上我還是愛台灣。

我們希望，阿達爾瑪佛和大幻化網金剛都能幫助台灣。

最近我也有一個感嘆，覺得人生真的是非常的無常。

坦白講，我去到西雅圖的時候，我一樣的幫助慈濟功德會，我有捐款，我捐了慈濟功德會不少，嘉義大林醫院那邊的會員跟我募款，我給了五千美元。

我每年寄到花蓮慈濟功德會的供養，我一年一年保存下來，每年寄給慈濟功德會的單子，我一直有留下來。

我每一年都會將所有的加拿大幣，集合起來全部匯給慈濟功德會，我那時候是這樣做的。

直到有一天，慈濟有一份雜誌叫做《慈濟道侶》是報紙型的，主編是陳慧劍，他批判兩個人，第一個就是蓮生活佛盧勝彥，第二個人就是青海無上師。

我被批判了以後，我心裡很難過。

我想我每年都贊助，每一年都將集中起來的錢贊助，結果在《慈濟道侶》上被批判。

我心裡這樣想：「沒關係，因為他不認識我，不知道我曾經幫助慈濟功德會。」

我有一張連單，從某一年開始一直到某一年，差不多將近六年的時間，我匯款給慈濟功德會的匯款單，我將匯款單照成照片出來。

不知有誰看過？

我放在美國西雅圖，我有拿出來給人家看過，沒有人看過嗎？

喔！蓮翰看過。常仁也看過。

那是在很早很早以前我幫助慈濟功德會的。

後來慈濟功德會發展的很快，非常迅速的一直發展，我內心想，人家發展的很快，實在是很了不起，非常好；慈濟功德會的發展很了不起。

有一天，我去了潭子的醫院，因為師母的大姐夫，也是屬於我的大姐夫，他的攝護腺開刀，我就去潭子的醫院探視他。

一進去，我一看到大殿，那個大殿非常的大，從高速公路我看到的就像布達拉宮一樣的那種窗戶，千窗萬窗這樣的窗戶；再進到大殿裡面一看，非常寬敞的大廳，比電影院還大上十倍的大廳。

我看到以後有一個感覺，回來後，我說：「我們真佛宗不要做了，不要再做了。」

為甚麼？

我們True Buddha School真佛宗絕對沒有辦法做得到。

電視台，我們沒有辦法做得到；學校，我們沒有辦法做得到；醫院，我們更沒有辦法做得到，可憐啊！

True Buddha School真佛宗！

我們有那麼多的弟子，但是我們做不到。

人家那麼多的錢，1439億，我們連人家的尾巴都沒有。

所以我昨天就跟我們真佛宗宗委會的處長講：「我們散了吧！你們乾脆統統都還俗。」

我覺得我們True Buddha School真佛宗沒有希望。

不過事實上，我也知道慈濟最近有風暴，我在電視上有看到，內心很難過。

無常！

就是佛講的無常，有很多很多的無常，你在這裡就看到了無常，你說是不是無常？

另外，蓮涯上師的大嫂，她就是在聯合報大樓那裡教英文的一個老師。

蓮涯上師的大嫂從美國留學回來，她是教英文的老師，她在那裡跟一個學生家長講話時，聯合報大樓外面貼的磁磚掉下來，剛好就掉在蓮涯上師的大嫂頭上，當場就死亡。

當場過世的那一位美語老師就是蓮涯上師的大嫂。

我昨天晚上聽到，我就感嘆，無常啊！

無常，真的，這麼多的無常。

像不會倒的功德會，今天有了風暴，無常！

人好好的，四十幾歲的蓮涯上師的大嫂，就在那裡，一個磁磚下來就將她打死了，才四十歲。只是蓮涯上師的大嫂是這樣，他跟我們講她甚麼都不信，他的哥哥也信，他的兄弟都信，爸爸媽媽也信，就是這個大嫂不信。無常！

我自己最近也發生一些事情，稍微跟大家提一下，我去黃帝雷藏寺做法會的那一天，非常的冷，我坐的位子的旁邊，有一個冷氣開得最強一直在吹我，我一直忍，一直運功跟冷氣對抗。

外面的冷風進來，到了牆又反射回來，我的背上都是冷的。

一直到一個小時以後，等我講話時我才講，請她將冷氣關掉，法會一直進行，我已經吹了一個小時。

我的五個手指頭，現在有一點麻。

這隻手剛好在冷氣機旁吹最冷的，這隻手的血管全部變小，血液幾乎凍掉。

我這幾天才感覺到手指頭凍麻，底下發疼，整個手臂幾乎都廢掉。

這幾天睡覺的時候，感覺到這隻手（左手）還是活的，這隻手（右手）是死的。

這就是無常。

現在還是能動，但是手指頭有麻木的感覺，這邊痛（手肘下方）跟肩膀這邊也痛。

我活了七十歲，從來沒痛過，從來沒進大醫院全身檢查過，從來沒有，從來沒有痛過，第一次有痛的感覺，真的是無常！

所以能保證一個人能活多久，我不敢說。

True Buddha School真佛宗能夠擋多久，不敢說。

人的生命能夠活多久，不敢說。

所以佛陀早就講「諸行無常」，這是很重要的認知。

我們求佛菩薩保佑，我天天求，哪一天不修法？

哪一天不求？

這隻手也會有這種狀況出來，豈不是很奇怪的事情？

難道佛菩薩沒有保佑嗎？

大隨求觀音菩薩有來，我的四個師父，吐登達爾吉上師、薩迦證空上師、十六世大寶法王噶瑪巴、了鳴和尚四個上師都住頂了，今天的法會，四個上師都到了。

我今天特別在自己家裡的壇城特別畫符，自己畫符自己吃。

我說：「今天下午有法會，祢一定要讓我的手能結手印，不能麻，不能痛。」

不能像昨天晚上那樣，肩膀痛，手肘底下也痛，指頭也麻，這樣我就不能結手印，不能寫文章。

我求瑤池金母，自己畫符自己吃下去，現在感覺還好，肩膀這邊不痛，手肘這邊不痛。

不過很奇怪的，晚上就特別痛，一般痛都是晚上在痛。

像五十肩，是不是晚上痛得很厲害，晚上壓到會比較痛，白天比較不痛。

所以現在還不要太高興，等今天晚上。

你看很多事情，像慈濟功德會，屹立如山不動搖的，也是有這些風暴出來；舉一個最簡單的，昨天聯合報大樓掉下磁磚，蓮涯上師的大嫂就這樣走了；舉我最近的法會，我一個手臂快廢掉了，快報廢了，還是無常啊！

佛菩薩並不是沒有保佑啊！

我天天修法啊！天天求啊！

天天打坐，仍然會這樣，可見大家還是會有很多的無常。

真的！

很多的無常，不管是經濟上的無常，經濟也會無常，生命也會無常，身體健康也會無常，一個group也會無常，我舉這些例子就是在講「無常」。

所以人生啊！

我們有誠心，佛菩薩一定給我們感應。

就我這隻手臂，也不知是甚麼原因，知道是那一天吹了以後應該要熱敷才對，我沒熱敷，有時候自己的身體也還是應該要珍重，自己要保重。

跟大家講，每一個人雖然有佛菩薩保佑，但是自己也要謹慎自己的健康。

我們常常求身體健康，萬事如意，道心堅固，逢凶化吉，希望能夠躲過這些災難。

真佛宗也算是一個佛教的團體，因為慈濟功德會的關係，現在幾乎所有佛教的團體都被波及了，第二名的是佛光山，第三名的是中台，第四名的是法鼓山，我們在十名之外的，可能是沒有名的。

可能在排名一百名的宗教團體裡面，看看真佛宗有沒有，會不會出現。

因為我們真的是沒有。

我在2010年才回到台灣來，然後每半年回到台灣，每一次半年。

剛剛回來的時候，台灣雷藏寺的鋼筋都突出來生鏽了，那時候是保證台灣雷藏寺蓋不起來的。

我五年前回來的時候，台灣雷藏寺蓋起來了沒有？

是蓋起來，台灣雷藏寺是蓋起來，但是鋼筋還是露出來，是生鏽的。

那一次將本來要蓋的廢掉，雷藏寺完成初步工程，這五年來，台灣雷藏寺才有一滴滴的，不是很多，師尊回來就幫台灣雷藏寺，幫了一滴滴。

你看，我們台灣雷藏寺不在十名之內，輸給行天宮，還輸給很多的廟，不少廟都贏過我們，我們真佛宗是名氣大，名很大，但是是丐幫啦！

我一看，十名之內我們都沒有，二十名之內也沒有，我們也輸給龍山寺，也輸給松山慈惠堂，還有很多大廟，像南鯤鯓代天府、台南大天后宮，大甲鎮瀾宮，那些都是很有錢的廟。

真的，想一想，無常！

我們台灣雷藏寺，我們True Buddha School真佛宗仗著佛菩薩的加持，我們在天上是第一富豪。（眾熱烈鼓掌）

今天是做大隨求菩薩的護摩，師尊也跟大家講出心中的話，在地上，真的很多事情我們沒辦法做到。但是在天上，佛菩薩賜福給我們非常非常的豐盛。大隨求觀音是隨求隨應。

上一回，在《密教大圓滿》中提到「聲灌頂」。

師尊修行，在「聲灌頂」上，師尊有修到毀譽不動於心。

這五年來毀謗師尊的有多少？

我都沒關係，都不動，這就叫做「聲灌頂」。

讚揚的有多少？也很多。

毀謗的有多少？也很多。

毀謗跟讚揚的都完全泯滅，這就是「聲灌頂」。

人家讚揚的聲音、毀謗的聲音，都不會撼動我的心，只是想到佛陀的三法印：

諸行無常，這法印就會撼動我的心，的確是無常，佛陀講的就是這個真理，你看，在「聲灌頂」裡就有，師尊一切做到了。

講一個笑話吧！

有一對夫妻，他們結婚了很多年，太太都在家裡煮飯給先生吃，先生就在家吃了好多年。有一天他實在忍不住了，他跟太太講：「我們到外面去吃好嗎？」

太太回答：「可以。」

第二天，看到先生拿著一碗飯坐在門口吃。

我們窮得不能常常在外面吃飯，只好在家裡吃飯。

在家裡吃不好嗎？

一定要到外面吃嗎？

應該是這樣講，在哪裡吃飯都好，在哪裡吃飯都可以。

這裡提到「香灌頂」，「香灌頂」是這樣的，沒有說是在家裡吃，也沒有說是在哪裡吃，「香灌頂」是都是一樣的。

有一個酒醉的人走回自己的住家，但是他怎麼樣都開不了門，剛好有一個警察路過，警察就問：「先生，你需要我幫忙嗎？」

醉鬼高興的回答：「太好了！警察先生，你來得正好，請你幫忙將房子扶正，免得它轉來轉去，害我找不到鑰匙孔可以開門。」

這笑話有甚麼意義？

慧君上師講有人喝醉酒，那還要你講嗎？

跟妳講一句話，這房子是正的，人是歪的。

我們要做一個正的人，不要做歪的人。

我們學佛，就是要做一個正的人，不要做一個歪的人。

在「香灌頂」裡面有講，要將「香」整個都泯滅，一樣的，都變成正常的。

如果你太偏執，以健康來講，你太偏食，你的身體就是偏的。

你正常飲食，甚麼都吃，不管是你喜歡吃的，還是不喜歡吃的你都吃，你就是一個正人，這才是營養均衡。

做任何事都不能夠偏，你偏一邊，毛病就出來，酒醉的人已經偏了。

所以對於人世間的事情，我們的看法都是用正觀來看，不應該偏哪一邊。

很多時候，都是一種偏見，有的見解都是一種偏見，不要你喜歡你自己喜歡的，你不喜歡的就不喜歡。

像我在西雅圖的真佛密苑問事，一個全身充滿香息的人進來，我會跟她多談一點。

一個全身發臭的人進來，他自己的體味臭得要死，我那房間又很小，一個問事房，小房間而已，三個禢禢米大，一進來，整個房間都臭，我壇城所供的佛菩薩聞到你身上的臭味，全部都跑了，連我都要閉住呼吸講話。

有口臭，有腋臭，而且全身都是汗，汗發出來的那種腐臭，全身體臭，還有香港腳的臭、沒有洗澡的臭。

天啊！但是做一個師父，還是要「阿彌陀佛！你有甚麼事嗎？」

他說：「師尊，我的事情非常的祕密，我一定要靠在祢這邊講。」

一講，啊～趕快想起自己的「香灌頂」，還是要忍耐等到他講完。

他跟我講：「師尊，我有肺結核。」

天啊！我已經吸進很多口了，我還可以閉住呼吸啊！

也有肝炎的、感冒的、癌症的，還有全身發臭的、肺炎的，甚麼炎在身上的，還有舌癌。

我說：「舌癌？我從來沒看過。」

他的舌頭伸出來，往上一看。

整個爛掉，像爛泥巴一樣的舌頭，味道一出來，熏到我的鼻子。

啊！「香灌頂」。

問事那麼辛苦，偶然碰到一個漂亮的小姐進來，花枝招展，像一朵花盛開，渾身都是香氣，想跟她多講幾句，但是兩三句話，她就走了。

「香灌頂」就是不能這樣取捨，都要有慈悲心，同樣發菩提心。

有香息的人進來，還要問甚麼？

她一切都是很好的。

就是這些痛苦的人，渾身發出的味道很濃很濃的，這才是痛苦的人，就必須要很仔細的問候，對他多一個問候，多一份關懷，不能閉住呼吸的。

這就是「香灌頂」。

講一個笑話，有一次遇見一個護士在練習打針，遇見一位熟睡病人，一針又一針，不知不覺從頭打到腳，就在護士小姐香汗淋漓想再找位置打針時，病人一躍而起，大聲的罵：「你真當我死人？從頭打到腳！」

護士小姐落荒而逃。

第二天上班，院長握著護士小姐手說：「醫院唯一睡了八年的植物人被你打針給治好了！」睡了八年的植物人，居然被護士用針這樣打，打到後來就醒過來。

師尊也是這樣，忍辱波羅蜜，忍住那一種呼吸。

晚上還有摩頂，很多摩頂的都是病患。

但是師尊不怕，現在手也好了，應該沒有問題。

真的，摩頂的有多少人，經過的時候就知道，一個一個的，摸腳的、摸頭的、摸背的、摸肚子的、摸脹氣的，甚麼樣的病，你們沒看過，師尊都看過。

從年紀輕的一直到老的阿嬤、阿公。

我自己也是阿公，不要講別人阿公，我已經七十幾了，但是我覺得七十幾、八十幾、九十幾，或者是坐在輪椅上的，都要我親自去呵護，親自摩他的頂。

乞丐不好，也是要這樣對他，這就是在修「香灌頂」。

要彎下腰來摸人家的腳；彎下腰來摸他的腿；彎下腰來摸他的背、肚子，他的任何地方。我摸過一個先生，他是攝護腺有問題，他要我摸，我就摸他的攝護腺，我聞到尿的味道，很重很重。

我問：「這是甚麼？」

他跟我講：「我是尿失禁。」

從頭到尾他是包尿片，他已經尿了八次、九次，十次以上，所以，我去摸他的攝護腺的時候，我就聞到尿的味道。

我也不能停止呼吸，也是一樣聞啊！

任何味道都要聞，平等視眾生，這才是能忍。

釋迦牟尼佛就是「能仁」，不是忍耐的忍，是仁愛的仁，就是要這樣。

像Saint Teresa（泰瑞莎修女），她就是這樣做；師尊就是這樣做。

講一個笑話，法文課的時候，老師完全以法文講解，學生不大聽得懂，要求他加一點中文補充，老師站在訓練學生聽力的觀點上說：「不要害怕聽不懂，學語言就是要多聽，你們每天聽我說法文，久了自然就明白了。」

這時有個學生突然說：「可是我每天聽小狗叫，也不知道牠在說什麼。」

這跟「香灌頂」有甚麼關係？

因為一點關係也沒有。

有時候用比喻的方式，很多人喜歡用比喻，但是不管怎麼比喻，不一定會是正的。

甚麼是正見？

甚麼是偏見？

你們在這裡要仔細的想一想。

所以這裡的「五塵灌頂」，色、聲、香、味、觸五種灌頂是最基本的，就是要你關掉你的眼、耳、鼻、舌、身，將這五個關掉，你就不受污染，你就完全會有正見。

嗡嘛呢唄咪吽。

8-3-2015 Heruka Event - GM Lu's Speech Part 1

Selective translation into English by Lotuschef.
Please feel free to do your own for a version that you can understand.
Please check out the underlined texts.

Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

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2015-03-08《蓮生法王開示》身不動是守戒 心不動氣凝固 意念不動是凝神


<蓮生法王盧勝彥2015年3月8日中正紀念堂週日「大幻化網金剛大法會」傳法開示>

我們首先敬禮傳承祖師，敬禮虛空遍法界了鳴和尚，敬禮薩迦證空上師，敬禮十六世大寶法王噶瑪巴，敬禮吐登達爾吉上師，敬禮壇城三寶，敬禮今天法會的主尊大幻化網金剛

(Heruka's mantra)「嗡。別炸。卓大。嘛哈些。西利。赫嚕嘎。吽呸。」

向大幻化網金剛敬禮，致敬大幻化網金剛，尊貴大幻化網金剛，無上大幻化網金剛，感謝三次降臨！


今天我們是做大幻化網金剛法會，沒想到今天結的手印統統不同，是一樣的手印，不過真的是Maha（嘛哈），Maha（嘛哈）就是「大」，很大的一種力量。

我這一生活到七十一歲，第一次感應到大幻化網金剛進到壇城裡面，文武百尊進到壇城裡面，然後在我的身上，三次的進來，三次的出去，最大最大的power力量。

我相信今天的與會大眾，都蒙受到大幻化網金剛的加持！

今天來這裡的所有信眾，你們身上的病業、病苦，在一剎那之間，祂幫你清除掉！

我本人有這個感應。

我們昨天做阿達爾瑪佛法會，今天做大幻化網金剛法會。

本來有一個group團體，也是等於一個很大的團體，他們修了很凶惡的法，要破除這個法會，要對這個法會有所傷害。

我本來不願意講，不好意思，但是還是講了，尤其是對我本人，經過大幻化網金剛「嗡。別炸。卓大。嘛哈些。西利。赫嚕嘎。吽呸。」

這很大威力的三進三出，我覺得一切都OK。

沒事了！我是經常這樣轉化的，所有傷害，一切都化解掉。

以前我在美國西雅圖開著一部車，它最後的號碼是「五四六」，這個諧音就變成「我死了」。我坐了那一部車子以後，沒有死。

所以我現在知道，「我死了」就是「沒事了」；「五四六」就是「沒事了」，統統沒事了。

所以今天我把大家所有的困難，我自己本身的困難，全部在大幻化網金剛之下，全部把它化解開。

昨天我們傳授原始佛的法，也就是本初佛阿達爾瑪佛普賢王如來的法，天空上出現了佛的眼睛──佛眼，蓮店上師那邊有佛的眼睛顯現在虛空之中的相片，希望大家都能看到這佛的眼睛在虛空之中，在真佛宗官網上面有這佛的眼睛相片，今天你們如果向虛空中攝影，一樣會有大幻化網金剛的顯現！

告訴大家，今天大幻化網金剛出現的時候，非常的威猛，也就是我這一生，活了七十一歲，第一次感受那麼大的法流，強力的灌下來，在我身上三進三出。

相信大家都可以覺受這一次「嗡。別炸。卓大。嘛哈些。西利。赫嚕嘎。吽呸。」的威力。

在今年2015年的春天，我有兩場最大的法會，一場是在台灣雷藏寺的本初佛阿達爾瑪佛法會，一場是在中正紀念堂自由廣場的大幻化網金剛法會。

這兩尊佛很少在媒體資訊中找到，找到的只是小部分而已，也少有人傳授這樣的法。

所以今天法緣殊勝，得到大幻化網金剛的灌頂，七世可以成佛，而且永不入三惡道。

在唐朝盛行的《高王觀世音真經》裡面，其第一尊佛的名字是「淨光祕密佛」，眾人不知是誰，我說這就是本初佛阿達爾瑪佛，及其化身大幻化網金剛。

我將來在書上會畫出大幻化網金剛的一個標誌，上面一個圈圈，一個點就是本初佛，是一切佛的標誌，下面像「川」一樣的標誌是象徵大幻化網，是一切的演化。

大幻化網也就是本初佛所化現出來的，其形象具有二十一個面孔，四十二個手臂，八個足；佛母有九面，十臂，四個足，其手中各持著明鏡，鏡內有四十二個寂靜尊，四十二個寂靜尊包含五部如來、五佛母、八大菩薩、八大佛母、四明王、四個忿怒母、六個釋迦能仁，再加上本初佛及大自在佛母，一共四十二尊，這四十二尊就叫做寂靜尊，另有忿怒尊五十八尊，加起來是寂靜忿怒百尊，又稱為「文武百尊」。

祂們剛剛一樣的下降在大幻化網金剛的壇城。

祂的手印就代表「川」字，不過這個「川」是分開來的，但手印是結起來的手印。

有了手印，有了大幻化網金剛的形象，還有祂的咒語「嗡。別炸。卓大。嘛哈些。西利。赫嚕嘎。吽呸。」

昨天晚上大幻化網金剛來跟我講，原來我的咒語是「嗡。別炸。卓大嘛。些。西利。赫嚕嘎。吽呸。」祂說加一個「哈」字，在「嘛、些」的中間，加一個「哈」字，「嗡。別炸。卓大。嘛哈些。西利。赫嚕嘎。吽呸。」

大幻化網金剛的本義是什麼？

What is the elemental meaning of Heruka?

有兩個字，從最初的變化為最多的，現在要從最多的回到原點，這個是很特殊的。

Two words, from primordial transform to the most, now from the most return to Origin, this is very unique.

為什麼是這樣子？Why is this so?

所有的人修行，都是從最多的回到原點。

All Cultivators, starts from Most and return back to Origin.

今天不管是佛教的修行，道家的修行，密教的修行，都是從最多的回到「一」，一又回到「零」，零又回到「佛」，跟「道」合一。

我現在所看到的就是人間，現在所看到的整個中正紀念堂自由廣場，全部滿滿都是人，只要盧師尊所傳的法，全部都是座無虛席的。

人間是什麼？

人間就是大幻，一切的現象就是幻。

今天也很特別，本來不知中正紀念堂在修理牌樓，等到我們為法會開始建立壇城的時候，它才做出牌樓旁邊的網（工程用鷹架），所以象徵相應，出現了所有的網──大幻化網！

返本就是修回，能得到三身的成就；大幻化網金剛的最主要的機密，就是我們人修回到本初佛阿達爾瑪佛，修回到大幻化網金剛。

中國道家有一句話講：「道生一，一生二，二生三，三化萬物。」

這是「道」，從「道」那裡出來，現在我們要回到「道」裡面去；

就是要從很多的，回到最寂靜的原點，也就是變成「道」。

修行就是把你自己跟道合一，你自己變成「道」。

如何修行？

其實它的重點就在這裡！

我講出這個法最重要的口訣，因為有了大幻化網金剛的形象，有祂的咒語，再有祂的手印，這三個合一，就成為一個念誦法，將來可以做出念誦法的儀軌，讓大家能夠修。

我本人知道這世間是大幻，萬象是化網，因此悟佛性。

明心見性的大道理就是在這裡面。

在這世間上，事實上是無所得。

《心經》裡面講的最重要的一句話：無所得。

為什麼無所得？

你能夠得到甚麼？

根本得不到，所以稱為無所得。

無所住，你住的地方也是無所住，只不過讓你暫時住，最終是無所住。

無所謂，所發生的一切事情，最終都會過去，所以是無所謂，最後，還來個無生。

今天我講盧勝彥現在坐在這裡，這位坐在椅子上的就代表著盧勝彥嗎？

不是。

我有過去出生的照片、小學的照片、初中的照片，我在大學畢業戴學士帽的照片，還有我年輕瀟灑時的照片，跟現在坐在這裡的盧勝彥是同一個人，沒有錯，是同一個人，但也不是同一個人。

因為以前的盧勝彥全部都過去了，現在的盧勝彥坐在這裡，未來的盧勝彥也會無生，不存在的，你由這樣悟進去便知道甚麼叫做空性，這才叫做開悟。

(未完待續) To be continued....

Pure Karma Qing Ming Event Scheduled on 5 April 2015

The above: For Ancestor Offering.

Below: Pure Karma Charity Pack - Offering to Homeless Spirits; Earth & City Deities; Fortune Deities......

Above: Individual's Special Dedication packages to Dragon Kings & Court; Earth & City Deities.
Below: The prepared tubs of lotuses for the event.

We will conduct "Ancestors Offering Event" to celebrate Qing Ming Festival on 5th April 2015.
Time: 2 pm Sharp.

Yidams:
The White Maha Padmakumara 大白莲花童子,
Amitabha Buddha 阿彌陀佛,
Ksitigarbharaja Bodhisattva 地藏王普薩,
Golden Mother of the Primordial Jade Pond 瑤池金母,
Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava 莲花生大士,
High King Avalokiteshvara 高王觀世音菩薩,
Bhaisajyaguru Buddha 藥師佛,
The Great White Parasol Sitatapatra 大白傘蓋佛母

We will be invoking the above Yidams with their individual's mantra and relevant Hand mudra and visualisation accordingly.

Please be reminded that Attendance in Person is strictly as per Pure Karma's regulations and No Complaints or whatsoever will be entertain.

For those that wish to practice, please do so on your own.

Follow the standard Sadhana and chant each Individual Yidam's Mantra at least 21 times.

But do remember that you can only chant mantra of those yidam which you have received Gm Lu's Abhiseka, when you are on your own.

Dedicating a Practice session to all is Dharma Charity.

Have Fun!

Cheers All

Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom

Lama Lotuschef

又是人间游戏 It's Sentient Games Again!

Terjemahan Bahasa: Lagi-lagi Permainan Duniawi 又是人间游戏!

Yesterday, GM Lu said that the book signing and Hada offering not much, therefore the event can start early. :)

Now, draw forward what GM Lu said few years back: He said cannot asked Personal Matters (Wen-shi) but can ask about cultivation and for Abhiseka.

He also said that he has to draw a chair and lock himself in the toilet to catch a much needed nap, when at Huang Ti LZS in Tao Yuan, Taiwan.

He also said that the Entertainment arrangements deprived him of leisure time and even his afternoon nap. He also said that the food offered has become monotonous and he really don't have the appetite to partake of them and what more the constant questions of personal enhancement launch by the attendees to get their dues back in Personal Consultation!


Hahaha!

Do you understand what GM is trying to tell you?

From the resumption of "Wen-shi" for personal matters immediately thereafter, we know that GM Lu's words or golden advice has "gone down the drains"!

Most people also think that as reverends, we owe them and have to pamper to all their sentient and selfish demands too!

Hahaha!

Do bear in mind that GM Lu said: You don't owe me and I don't owe you, you don't need to take refuge with me too.

Question: When will you wake up to the fact that all you need is within you?

When will you realised that instead of seeking answers for Sentient enhancement, seeking Dharma is your way to Break Free and succour yourself?

AH! O!

Unlike GM Lu that is managed by self proclaimed caregivers, I do not need to pamper to your sentient demands or orders.

Grateful thanks to GM Lu, I am Freed.

Also thanks to the School Admin that think that Hostile moves and delisting from their reverend's list can harm me.
Hahaha! The delisting only Freed me from further Sentient Demands only!

Merci beaucoup!
Domo Arigato!
谢谢！
Thank you.
Terima kasih!
Motto Gracia!

If you understand what GM Lu shared yesterday, You will truly realised that You have not managed to control him for even a single second or nano seconds.

Control is for Sentient beings, Auto or natural is for the Divine!

Hahaha!

You think I talked bad about you or criticised you?

Think again!

I am warning you not to venture into the Lion's playground and hasten your demise only!

Hilarious!

:) :) :)

A humble suggestion to all: Don't Lie or attempt to do so with GM Lu or True Yogi.
The combination of Heavenly, Dharma, Wisdom eye, can read you through and through, At A Glance!


Cheers all


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

神变 Transformation or Yoga

The above is screenshot captured during today's homa in Taiwan.
Look closely at GM and compare with the one of yidam below.
You can watch the video when available and check out when GM transformed!

Cheers all


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

真/假比丘? True/False Monk? [3]

Terjemahan Indonesia: Bhiksu Sejati/Palsu? [3]

Also read:

• 真/假比丘? True/False Monk? [1]
• 真/假比丘? True/False Monk? [2]

[ Look closely at those that uses Doctrines to get their ways!
Hahaha! they have yet to understand and apply what Dharma truly is!
They still think of a Supremacy over others they considered as "lesser beings", like they kick the dog wandering on the streets without a collar but praise the one on a leash all dolled up by its owner.
It is all about control and maintaining the control they crave so much over others.

In other words: Keeping you always under their controls.

I humbly suggest you look closely at the Monks and the Nuns.
Some monks have a female behavior while some nuns are very male.
As one cultivate, one already drop the differentiation of Gender far behind as one can Transform at Will.
Hahaha! Believe it or not, truly up to you.

One's body truly undergoes physical as well as spiritual changes along the path of cultivation.]

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Dear all,

If you understand what happened to us after dying, then you will be free from Fixation and insisting that the Rules & Disciplines Must be adhered to, As per your Personal Interpretation! 

Hahaha!

I still recall an incident at Xiang Hua LZS before GM Lu's arrival.

Arriving late, monk Z grabbed a chair and regardless of those already sitting, he moved swiftly with that chair and brushed roughly past Nun Y, and the chair in his hand almost hit Nun Y on her head.

When Nun Y told him to watch his way carefully, Monk X glared angrily and condescendingly back at Nun Y then telling her "How dare she a nun voices criticism at him, a Monk".

I have shared this incident in this blog before.

This is about the 8 Respect Practices 八敬法， during Sakyamuni's lifetime.

Hahaha! 

Disciplines in Buddhism, are Guidelines for Self, to prevent One from straying off the Bodhi Path!

Anyone attempting to use these to subdue, control or dictate to others are Truly False Monks or Nuns!

Also, being a ordained longer than others, if not exhibiting any results of due diligence in cultivation, these reverends are False too! 

Now, why did GM Lu bring up those that are successful in cultivation and these yogi are laypersons too!

Being ordained is not an automatic to being a True Yogi!

After a long period of being ordained, say more than 10 years, if you still have lots of or full of Human Traits of the various poisons or non-virtue, You are a great failure!

I humbly suggest that You keep quiet and don't brag, but use your time fruitfully to put diligent efforts in cultivation!

Isn't it real sad to waste your lifetime with a Human Shell away?

As per GM Lu, he is much sadden with those that drop deep into Hell and Timeless Hell at that and impossible to save them!

Someone asked: Are you going to do Bardo delivery for AA?

I said: It depends on Affinity of AA with Buddha, not up to me to choose.

From his photo, AA has already undergone great changes to the negative and bound for Hell.

We do not interfere with anyone's Karmic Course!

Astral or Transcendental Powers? 

No! Can't be use if the subject has no sincerity in Repentance!

The 49 days period of Bardo existence?

If Affinity arises, well after the 49 days, we can deliver these spirits with ease too!

GM Lu said after homa event several times: So and so came and walked into the Homa Fire, got Cleanse and delivered!

So those with Affinity can come to our Homa events, and get Cleanse and Delivered too! :)

Look closely at the Homa fires, you might be able to pick out figures of various spirits too!

But, be Wise, only those True Yogi can invoke the presence of divinities to grace their events and do the necessary in Blessing and Delivery!

Cheers all.

Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom

Lama Lotuschef

The Annotated Repentance Sadhana [Shri Vajrasattva Sadhana of the Four Preliminary Practices] ~ Version 3

Terjemahan Indonesia: Sadhana Pertobatan & Penyucian Kembali [Sadhana Vajrasattva dari Empat Prayoga dengan tambahan anotasi]

Shri Baghavan

Maha Acharya Vajrasattva

Sadhana

of the Four Preliminary Practices

A TRUE BUDDHA SCHOOL SADHANA TEXT

Transmitted by Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu.

With annotations by Lotuschef Lama.

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About Living Buddha Lian-sheng

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Living Buddha Lian-sheng, also revered as Grand Master, is the root lineage guru of True Buddha School. His emanation is from Mahavairocana to Locana to Padmakumara. Grand Master holds lineages from the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

He is a prominent religious figure throughout the world. As of 2006, over 5 million people have taken refuge in his True Buddha School. With over 300 chapters worldwide, the True Buddha School is recognised as a major component in Buddhism today. Living Buddha Lian-sheng has written over 220 books in Chinese on topics such as Tantric Buddhism, Geomancy, Zen Buddhism, and Taoism. Many of these books are now being translated into English and various other languages.

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Caveat

Anyone who wishes to engage in any practice (sadhana) in this article must first take refuge in True Buddha School and receive empowerment from Living Buddha Lian-sheng.

In this article, mantras are translated using simple English phonetics. Sutras, verses, and praises are translated using both English and Han Yu pinyin. Students should not assume that the translations can possibly emulate the exact pronunciations of the Root Guru. It is highly recommended that students obtain mantra tapes from local True Buddha temples or chapters.

This article serves as a guideline for your daily practice and please read the content with Open Mind. These are to be used as reference only, therefore you use it at your own risk if you do not have the proper empowerment or have not built the relevant foundations yet.

May the compassionate Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Dharma Protectors bless this translated sadhana. May the True Buddha Tantric Dharma liberate all beings in the Six Realms of Transmigration.

For more information and other True Buddha material, please visit the following websites:
www.tbsn.org
www.padmakumara.org

Transmitted by Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu.
Original translation by Janny Chow, Luljeta Subasic, and Alice Yang.


Edited with annotations by Lotuschef Lama and Lotus Nino.
Copyright © Pure Karma.
www.lotuschef.blogspot.com
www.purekarmavihara.org

If you own one or more of the images that appear(s) in this article, please contact us and we will gladly put your name as the copyright owner or remove them if you want so.

Version 3 – as per March 27, 2015

Credits: Vajrasattva © Yoji Nishi

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Table of Contents 

1. The Preliminaries
2. The Four Immeasurables Visualisation
3. Purification
4. Invocation
5. The Great Homage
6. The Great Mandala Offering
7. The Fourfold Refuge
8. Armour Protection
9. High King Avalokiteshvara Sutra
10. Amitabha Rebirth Dharani
11. The Four Immeasurable Vows
12. The Repentance Verse & Mantra
13. Guru Yoga
14. Vajrasattva Yoga of Purification
15. Emergence from Samadhi and the Praise
16. The Heart Mantra of The Eight Principal Deities
17. Homage to Amitabha Buddha
18. Dedication of Merits
19. The Great Homage
20. The Completion Mantras
21. Addendum

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1. The Preliminaries

Before starting the cultivation, as a form of cleansing, take a bath and change your clothes, or you can wash your hands.
Afterwards, sit in a relaxed manner, straighten your spine, your tongue touching the roof of your mouth, and your eyes facing forward.

Start to hollow out by throwing away the stale air, stagnant air, and all the unhappiness.
In order to do so, you can yell “Ai” (Chinese word for “Love”) loudly.
You take a deep breath, hollow out from your Dantian (wiki: Elixir field, sea of qi), that is three to four fingers below your umbilical.
At your own timing, shout out “Ai” 3 times.

You should feel light, happy, and in the joyful mood.
You should be in this frame of mind before starting the cultivation.

Now take three deep breaths.
With each breath, visualise you draw in great amount of white light, slowly filling your body.
By using your mind or your “Will Power”, move this light to your hand and move your fingers a little bit, slowly move it downwards to your feet, toes, and move your toes a little bit.
All the time (while spreading the Light or Qi ) you are holding your breath!
And when your body is filled with this light, you should feel good.
When you can’t hold this breath any longer, again with your mind visualise you open all skin pores and emit the light outwards.

Just now you have thrown away all the black things, all the unhappy things.
So when you draw in the white light, it fills you, and you in turn give out the white light, so there is no more darkness.
As you have already thrown away the darkness, you are now lighted just like a light tube or light bulb.
When you switch on the electricity, that means you bring the light into you. It fills you and then you shine the lights outwards.
Like the energy-saving bulb, you get brighter and brighter.

So when you chant the Guru's mantra or other mantra, just visualise that you are that light bulb or that lamp, it becomes brighter and brighter – this means that you are sharing the goodness of the universe, the light, the energy, the brightness, and everything that is good with everybody.
Bear that in mind, Sharing! And you will do fine.

Now perform the three deep breathings and enter the cultivation.

2. The Four Immeasurables Visualisation

First, visualise the True Buddha Lineage:
Namo Vairochana Buddha, Buddha Locani, Amitabha Buddha, The White Maha Padmakumara, and Living Buddha Lian Sheng.

Visualise that they bless us with great amount of light.
Visualise the light fills all sentient beings up and in turn we also share this light by emitting them through our skin pores to all sentient beings.
Remember: we do not choose who to give to, we give to all without discrimination, differentiation, segregation!
This is the part of Bodhicitta – the Dharma Charity.

Feels good? You should!

The Padmakumara Mudra

Form the Padmakumara Mudra and recite the Root Guru long mantra:

OM. AH. HOM. GURU BEI. A-HE-SHA-SA-MA-HA. LIEN-SHEN. SIDDHI. HOM. (7x)

3. Purification

Wake Up Call Mudra: 

Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.

With the Purification Mantras, we are purifying the body, speech, and mind.
As you recite each one, visualise the corresponding part brightens up.
If you have done the previous visualisation well, you are actually quite clean and pure by now.
We will recite the earth deity’s mantra too.

Speech Purification:
OM, SYULEE SYULEE, MAHA SYULEE, SYUSYULEE, SOHA.

Body Purification:    
OM, SYUTOLEE, SYUTOLEE, SYUMOLEE, SYUMOLEE, SOHA.

Mind Purification:    
OM, WADZILA DAM, HO HO HUM.

Earth God Mantra:  
NAMO SAMMANTO, MOTOHNAM, OM, TULU TULU TEIWEI, SOHA.

4. Invocation

We visualise that we shoot a beam of great white light towards the universe as if out-stretching both hands to humbly request the Root Guru and all Divinities and Deities to descend and grace our altar, accept our offerings and bless all of our endeavours, so that all may be auspicious and fulfilling for all of us.

Maintain this visualisation, and we recite invocation mantra.

Recite: OM. AH. HOM. SOHA. (3x)

We sincerely invoke:
Namo The Holy Red Crown Vajra Root Guru Living Buddha Lian-sheng.
Namo The White Maha Padmakumara.
Namo Lotus Light Self-Mastery Buddha.
Namo All of the Lineage Masters of the True Buddha School and the True Buddha Assembly.
Namo Shri Vajrasattva.
Namo the Five Dhyani Buddhas.
Namo all deities residing in the altar, and that of the surrounding area.
Namo all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Dharma Protectors, Vajra Herukas, Deities of the Dragon Heavens, Dakas and Dakinis, saints and divinities of the three times and in ten directions.
Namo Maha Prajnaparamita.

5. The Great Homage

The Buddha Shrine Mudra

First, homage to the Root Guru and all Buddhas in all times and directions by using the Buddha Shrine Mudra.

Visualise in the space before and above you the Root Guru, all past lineagemasters , the eight Personal Deities, all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Dharma Protectors. They appear like multitudes of twinkling stars, pervading the Empty Space.

[Left-Right] Touching the Third-eye Chakra – Throat Chakra – Heart Chakra

Touch the third-eye chakra with the mudra and visualise the Root Guru emitting a white beam of light from his third-eye chakra to your third-eye chakra.

Touch the throat chakra with the mudra and visualise the Root Guru emitting a red beam of light from his throat chakra to your throat chakra.

Touch the heart chakra with the mudra and visualise the Root Guru emitting a blue beam of light from his heart chakra to your heart chakra.

Touch the third-eye chakra again and then release the mudra.

If you are performing the Great Prostration by using visualisation, visualise yourself prostrating fully on the floor to pay homage to the Root Guru and Buddhas in all times and directions.

The Lotus Mudra

Second, homage to all Bodhisattvas by using Lotus Mudra.

Employ the mudra and repeat as above to pay homage to all Bodhisattvas and Mahasattvas.

The Vajra Clasp Mudra

Third, homage to all Dharma Protectors, Vajra Herukas, Deities of the Dragon Heavens, Dakas and Dakinis by using Vajra Clasp Mudra.
Employ the mudra and repeat as above to pay homage to all Protectors.

The Equanimity Mudra

Fourth, half-bow to the Sages and Sanghas by using Equanimity Mudra.

Bow and touch the mudra against the third-eye chakra before releasing it.

6. The Great Mandala Offering

The Mandala Offering Mudra

Form and then place the Offering Mudra in front of the chest. 

Visualisation: 

Visualise the offerings multiply to first form a row, then multiply again to form a field, and multiply once more to fill all space. 

We visualise the offerings of incense, tea, lamp, flower, fruit, and then fragrance, bath liquid, treasure conch. From the treasure conch spills all kinds of precious gem and treasure, gold, silver, bronze, crystal, jade; nice clothings, gowns, suits, heavenly silks and brocades; all kinds of food, grain, sweet, rice, meats from pigs, cows, chickens, fishes, crabs, prawns and all nicely prepared cuisines; heavenly music, heavenly dances, heavenly songs; and all offerings that you bring yourself.

Visualise glad acceptance from root guru, lineage masters, the yidam of this session (Shri Vajrasattva), and all buddhas, bodhisattva, of the three times and ten directions.
The whole universe is now filled with golden yellow lights.

We also offer them to all heavenly beings, and also “transform” the offerings to all beings in the six realms in the form of rain of white light.
And as this white light touches all sentient beings, it “transforms” into multi-coloured lights. It means that all beings receive what they want and what they need.
We can also visualise that we can hear the happy laughter, signifying the glad acceptance from all beings in the six realms.

Maintain this visualisation, we chant the verse and the mantra.

Recite the Offering Verse:   

Mount Sumeru together with the Four Continents, the sun and the moon, 

Transforms into precious treasures to offer to the Buddhas. 

May the immeasurable merits that arise from these offerings
Serve to purify us and further our bodhi realisation. 

Recite the Offering Mantra:  

OM, SAERWA, TATHAGATA, EEDAMUH, GURU LANA, MENCHALA, KAN, NELEYEH, DAHYEMI.

Bring the mudra to touch upon the third-eye chakra before release.

7. The Fourfold Refuge 

We visualise root guru, lineage masters, buddhas, dharmas, shanghas, of the three times and ten directions merge into a great white light that empowers you.
Visualise the light fills you up, and in turn you share it with all beings around you.
Remember: this is dharma sharing as well!

We can visualise that we, all around us, transform into light, forming like an ocean of light. 
In this, there is no differentiation or discrimination, because all are light – light as a whole, so we are all one.

Recite the Fourfold Refuge Mantra:
NAMO GURU-BEI, NAMO BUDDHA-YE, NAMO DHARMA-YE, NAMO SANGHA-YE. (3x)

8. Armour Protection

Form the Vajra Clasp Mudra before the third-eye chakra. Visualise we draw a beam of dazzling white light downwards, filling us, engulfing us.

The Vajra Clasp Mudra

Recite the mantra:  OM, BO LEE LAN ZE LEE. (7x)

After recitation, bring the mudra to touch the third-eye chakra, then throat chakra, heart chakra, left shoulder, right shoulder, then back to the third-eye chakra.
Visualise that you are now actually a lighted up Crossed-Dorje.

The Crossed Dorje (Vishva-Vajra)

At the moment of releasing the mudra, we visualise that we shoot a beam of medium blue light towards the universe; and we in turn draw it down, placing it to the front, back, left and right of us.
Visualise it in a form of blue light, starting to rotate in a clockwise direction.
It starts to spin faster and faster – this means that the Dharma Protectors are protecting you all the time.
We thank all dharmapalas for guiding us, protecting us, all around the clock.

9. High King Avalokiteshvara Sutra

The High King Avalokiteshvara wearing
the Seven-Buddha Crown

We visualise the eight-petalled lotus, in milky white colour and in our heart chakra slowly blooms, and in the centre sits the High King Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. All around the Bodhisattva within the lotus are the buddhas and bodhisattvas mentioned in this sutra.

We now have a lotus in our heart chakra filled with dazzling light like that of the stars shining brightly, and we have actually the mandala of High King Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva – that means pure land!

When you have pure land in your heart chakra, you have no more darkness, worries, sufferings, cravings, desires, angers, hatreds, aversions; and all you have are wisdom, compassion, bodhicitta for all beings.

Maintain this visualisation, and we chant High King sutra.
**If you chant more than once, you can proceed with visualising yourself enlarging gradually and merging into the Universe.

The High King Avalokiteshvara sutra:

觀世音菩薩。
Namo Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa.
Homage to Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

南無佛。南無法。南無僧。
Namo Fo. Namo Fa. Namo Seng.
Namo Buddhaya, Namo Dharmaya, Namo Sanghaya.

佛國有緣。
Fo Guo You Yuan.
I have affinity with the Pure Lands and

佛法相因。
Fo Fa Xiang Yin.
I attain yoga with the Dharma.

常樂我淨。
Chang Le Wo Jing.
I am always happy, pure and at peace.

有緣佛法。
You Yuan Fo Fa.
I have affinity with the Dharma.

南無摩訶般若波羅蜜。是大神咒。
Namo Mohe Boye Boluomi. Shi Da Shen Zhou.
Namo Maha Prajna Paramita, a great spiritual mantra.

南無摩訶般若波羅蜜。是大明咒。
Namo Mohe Boye Boluomi. Shi Da Ming Zhou.
Namo Maha Prajna Paramita, a great wisdom mantra.

南無摩訶般若波羅蜜。是無上咒。
Namo Mohe Boye Boluomi. Shi Wu Shang Zhou.
Namo Maha Prajna Paramita, a supreme mantra.

南無摩訶般若波羅蜜。是無等等咒。
Namo Mohe Boye Boluomi. Shi Wu Deng Deng Zhou.
Namo Maha Prajna Paramita, an unequaled mantra.

南無淨光秘密佛。
Namo Jing Guang Mi Mi Fo,
Namo the Pure Light Secret Buddha,

法藏佛。
Fa Zang Fo,
the Dharma Treasury Buddha,

獅子吼神足幽王佛。
Shi Zi Hou Shen Zu You Wang Fo,
the Tranquil King Buddha with Lion’s roar and divine speed,

佛告須彌燈王佛。
Fo Gao Xu Mi Deng Wang Fo,
the Sumeru Light King Buddha announced by Buddha,

法護佛。
Fa Hu Fo,
the Dharma Protector Buddha,

金剛藏獅子遊戲佛。
Jin Gang Zang Shi Zi You Xi Fo,
the Vajra Treasury Roaming Lion Buddha,

寳勝佛。
Bao Sheng Fo,
the Precious Victory Buddha,

神通佛。
Shen Tong Fo,
the Supernatural Power Buddha,

藥師琉璃光王佛。
Yao Shi Liu Li Guang Wang Fo,
the Medicine Crystal Light King Buddha,

普光功德山王佛。
Pu Guang Gong De Shan Wang Fo,
the Universal Light Merit Mountain King Buddha,

善住功德寳王佛。
Shan Zhu Gong De Bao Wang Fo,
the Merit Retaining Jewel King Buddha,

過去七佛。
Guo Qu Qi Fo,
the Seven Past Buddhas,

未來賢劫千佛。
Wei Lai Xian Jie Qian Fo,
the Future Thousand Buddhas of this fortunate eon,

千五百佛。
Qian Wu Bai Fo,
the Fifteen Hundred Buddhas,

萬五千佛。
Wan Wu Qian Fo,
the Fifteen Thousand Buddhas,

五百花勝佛。
Wu Bai Hua Sheng Fo,
the Five Hundred Flower Victory Buddhas,

百億金剛藏佛。
Bai Yi Jin Gang Zang Fo,
the Ten Billion Vajra Treasury Buddhas,

定光佛。
Ding Guang Fo.
and the Samadhi Light Buddha.

六方六佛名號。
Liu Fang Liu Fo Ming Hao:
The Buddhas of Six Directions:

東方寳光月殿月妙尊音王佛。
Dong Fang Bao Guang Yue Dian Yue Miao Zun Yin Wang Fo,
To the East the Precious Light Moon Palace Venerable Wonderful Voice King Buddha,

南方樹根華王佛。
Nan Fang Shu Gen Hua Wang Fo,
To the South the Tree-Root Flower King Buddha,

西方皂王神通燄花王佛。
Xi Fang Zao Wang Shen Tong Yan Hua Wang Fo,
To the West the Spiritual Power Flower Blazing King Buddha,

北方月殿情淨佛。
Bei Fang Yue Dian Qing Jing Fo,
To the North the Moon Palace Purity Buddha,

上方無數精進寳首佛。
Shang Fang Wu Shu Jing Jin Bao Shou Fo,
Above, the countless Vigor Jewel Crown Buddhas,

下方善寂月音王佛。
Xia Fang Shan Ji Yue Yin Wang Fo.
Below, the Tranquil Moon Sound King Buddha.

無量諸佛。
Wu Liang Zhu Fo,
All the Immeasurable Buddhas,

多寳佛。釋迦牟尼佛。
Duo Bao Fo, Shi Jia Mou Ni Fo,
Prabhutaratna Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha,

彌勒佛。阿閦佛。彌陀佛。
Mi Le Fo, A Chu Fo, Mi Tuo Fo.
Maitreya Buddha, Aksobhya Buddha, Amitabha Buddha.

中央一切眾生。在佛世界中者。
Zhong Yang Yi Qie Zhong Sheng, Zai Fo Shi Jie Zhong Zhe,
All beings in the Central Realm, and those in the Pure Lands,

行住於地上。及在虛空中。
Xing Zhu Yu Di Shang. Ji Zai Xu Kong Zhong
while moving upon the Earth and through the Heavens,

慈憂於一切眾生。各令安穩休息。
Ci You Yu Yi Qie Zhong Sheng, Ge Ling An Wen Xiu Xi,
shower limitless compassion upon all beings, affording them equanimity and peace,

晝夜修持。
Zhou Ye Xiu Chi.
that they might cultivate day and night.

心常求誦此經。
Xin Chang Qiu Song Ci Jing,
By constantly invoking this sutra,

能滅生死苦。
Neng Mie Sheng Si Ku,
one is liberated from the suffering of birth and death,

消除諸毒害。
Xiao Chu Zhu Du Hai.
and freed from all the many kinds of suffering.

南無大明觀世音。觀明觀世音。
Na Mo Da Ming Guan Shi Yin, Guan Ming Guan Shi Yin,
Namo the great wisdom Avalokiteshvara, the observant Avalokiteshvara,

高明觀世音。開明觀世音。
Gao Ming Guan Shi Yin, Kai Ming Guan Shi Yin.
the noble Avalokiteshvara, the expansively-minded Avalokiteshvara.

藥王菩薩。藥上菩薩。
Yao Wang Pu Sa, Yao Shang Pu Sa,
the Medicine King Bodhisattva,  the Supreme Medicine Bodhisattva,

文殊師利菩薩。普賢菩薩。
Wen Shu Shi Li Pu Sa, Pu Xian Pu Sa,
Manjushri Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva,

虛空藏菩薩。地藏王菩薩。
Xu Kong Zang Pu Sa, Di Zang Wang Pu Sa,
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Raja Bodhisattva,

清涼寶山億萬菩薩。
Qing Liang Bao Shan Yi Wan Pu Sa,
the billions of Clear Cool Treasure Mountain Bodhisattvas,

普光王如來化勝菩薩。
Pu Guang Wang Ru Lai Hua Sheng Pu Sa.
the Universal Light Venerable King Tathagata Bodhisattva.

念念誦此經。
Nian Nian Song Ci Jing,
Chanting this sutra continually,

七佛世尊。即說咒曰。
Qi Fo Shi Zun. Ji Shuo Zhou Yue:
the Seven World-Honored Buddhas recite this mantra:

(7x:) 離婆離婆帝。求訶求訶帝。陀羅尼帝。你訶羅帝。

Li Po Li Po Di. Qiu He Qiu He Di. Tuo Luo Ni Di. Ni He Luo Di.

毗黎尼帝。摩訶迦帝。真陵乾帝。梭哈。

Pi Li Ni Di. Mo He Jia Di. Zhen Ling Qian Di. Suo Ha.

10. Amitabha Rebirth Dharani

The Great Sea of Deliverance Mudra

Form the Great Sea Deliverance Mudra (like forming the Vajra Mudra and you turn the fingers inside).

We visualise Amitabha Buddha appears from the Universe.
From his heart chakra, a strong beam of pinkish light (combination of red, pink and white colours) radiates and blesses all the beings we knowingly or unknowingly harm during the course of our daily activities.
These are animals like pig, cow, lamb, chicken, duck, fish, crab, prawn, ants, cockroaches; bacteria, virus, and so on.

When all these beings receive light blessings from Amitabha Buddha, visualise their karma are cleansed by the light and their karmic differences are resolved (visualise they are shaking hands and hugging each other).
Their karmic negatives are neutralised and all unhappiness of other beings are neutralised too.
They become crystal-like pure, and we can visualise they happily sit upon lotus dharma boats.

Visualise these golden lotus dharma boats transform into golden dots of light, forming a golden river flowing into Amitabha's heart chakra.

Maintain this visualisation and recite the following dharani:

NAMO AMEE-TO POYE, TOTA KYA TOYE, TOTE YETA,
AMEE-LEE-TO POPEE, AMEE-LEE-TO SYE THAN POPEE,
AMEE-LEE-TO PEGYA-LANTE, AMEE-LEE-TO PEGYA-LANTO,
KYANEENEE, KYAKYANA, ZHEEDO KYALEE, SOHA. (7x)

11. The Four Immeasurable Vows

Visualise all beings around you as you sincerely share with all of them when making the following Bodhicitta vows:

May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness; this is immeasurable loving-kindness.
May all beings be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering; this is immeasurable compassion.
May all beings be free of suffering and always stay happy; this is immeasurable joy.
May all beings be free of grasping and aversion towards others, develop faith and equality; this is immeasurable equanimity.

Recite the Bodhicitta Verse:

Student Lotus [your name] shall take refuge in the Root Guru and Triple Jewels until reaching enlightenment. I will never recede on the path. May all my virtues be dedicated to all beings for their speedy enlightenment.

Recite the Bodhicitta Mantra:
OM, BODHICITTA, BEDZA, SAMAYA, AH HUM. (3x)

12. Repentance Verse & Mantra

Kneel and humbly repent. Visualise great white light cleansing all of our negative karma.

Recite the Repentance Verse:

All my transgressions committed since time immemorial which originated from countless greed, hatred, and ignorance; and that manifested through my body, speech, and mind; these I sincerely confess and repent them altogether. (3x)

Recite the Repentance Mantra:
OM, BEDZA, SAMAYA, SU-TE-A. (108x)

13. Guru Yoga

The Padmakumara Mudra

Form Padmakumara's hand mudra.

Visualise Padmakumara appears from the universe, blessing us with white (from his third-eye chakra), red (from his throat chakra) and blue lights (from his heart chakra). These lights cleanse the sins from the past lives and the present one.
Remember to sit up straight, keep your spine straight, then you can get the blessing!

Now visualise a HOM seed syllable from the mantra wheel in Padmakumara's heart chakra spinning and shooting a beam of great white light directed at your heart chakra.
The HOM seed syllable is now duplicated in your heart chakra (this seed is nurtured and will grow by your recitation of mantra and bodhicitta).

Optionally, you can transform the HOM syllable into a white-lighted lotus. It continues to emit great white light, filling you and spreading outwards. You are sharing this light with all.

Alternatively still, you can visualise yourself abiding serenely in the Maha Twin Lotus Pond of the Western Paradise.

We maintain this visualisation and we chant Guru's mantra.

Now remember, you are like the light bulb! 
Once you are lighted, you continue to give out lights.

You can actually time your breathing to draw in and give out the light.
It is up to how you want to do it, but once you are lighted, you stay lighted – like a bulb, when you switch on the electricity, it is lighted until you switch it off.
Once you light it, don't switch it off. Continue to stay lighted!

We start to chant mantra.

Recite: OM. GURU. LIEN-SHEN. SIDDHI. HOM. (108x)

[Feels good?
Once you’re lighted up, you feel lighter, feel brighter, there is a joy coming from within that oozes outwards, now maintain this visualisation.]

14. Vajrasattva Yoga of Purification

Recite the Emptiness (Shunyata) Mantra:
OM, SOBAWA, SUTA, SAERWA, DAERMA, SOBAWA, SUTO-HANG. (3x)

The Vajrasattva Mudra

Shri Bhagavan Maha Acharya Vajrasattva.
Image © Yoji Nishi

Form the Vajrasattva Mudra and cross it in front of the chest.
Visualise that Shri Vajrasattva appears from the universe, blessing us with white, red and blue lights.
You should have become very much brighter now!

The Tibetan "HOM" Syllable

The 100-Syllable Dharani Wheel

Now we visualise within His heart chakra there is a wheel of 100-syllable mantra. This mantra surrounds his heart chakra, revolves, and radiates brilliant white light, and within it there is a seed syllable HOM.

This great white light arcs over and down, pouring through your crown and flooding your entire body. Your whole body now exhibits a great white light, and negative karma and thoughts are expelled as black smoke through all skin pores.
Your body becomes crystal clear, radiating light.
You now enter into a state of joy in meditation.

Alternatively: You can just go straight to the transformation into a crystal-clear mani stone sitting upon a white lotus within our chakra., radiating brilliant and dazzling white light.

Or you can transform into the 100-syllable mantra wheel that keeps rotating in clockwise manner, churning and sharing lots of great white light.

Choose one from the above alternatives, as this also means that you have transformed into the Yidam deity itself and entered into Samadhi already.

We maintain the chosen visualisation, we recite the hundred-syllable dharani.

Please sit up straight, draw in the goodness and share it with all around you.
Remember: you are lighted up, and getting brighter and brighter as you chant mantra.

ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ས་མ་ཡ་མ་ནུ་པ་ལ་ཡ།  བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ཏྭེ་ནོ་པ་ཏིཥྛ།

དྲྀ་ཌྷོ་མེ་བྷ་བ།   སུ་ཏོ་ ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་བ།  སུ་པོ་ ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་བ།

ཨ་ནུ་ར་ཀྟོ་མེ་བྷ་བ།  ས་རྦ་སི་དྡྷི་མེ་པྲ་ཡ་ཙྪ།  ས་རྦ་ཀ་རྨ་སུ་ཙ་མེ

ཙི་ཏྟཾ༌ཤེ་ཡཿ་ཀུ་རུ་ཧཱུྂ།  ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧོཿ  བྷ་ག་བ་ན  ས་རྦ

ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་བཛྲ་མཱ་མེ་མུ་ཉྩ།  བཛྲཱི་བྷ་བ་མ་ཧཱ་ས་མ་ཡ་སཏྭ  ཨཱཿ །།

ཧཱུྂ ཕ་ཊ

Om, bedza, sato samaya, manu palaya, bedza sato tenupa teecha, 

checo meebawa, suto kayu meebawa, supo kayu meebawa,
annulato meebawa, saerwa, siddhi, meebulayecha,
saerwa, kaerma, suchamee, cheetamu, sheleeren, 

guru hom, ha ha ha ha he, 

bagha-wen, saerwa, tathagata, bedza, mamee mencha, pechebawa, 

maha samaya, sato a, hom, phei! 

(21 or 49x)

15. Emergence from Samadhi and the Praise

Recite the following praise:

Living Buddha Lian-sheng teaches the Great Tantric Practice,
Vajrasattva transforming into Vajra-Heart (Vajracitta),
An authentic spiritual response when the two merge into one,
Eradicating negative hindrances, therefore attaining purity. 

16. The Heart Mantra of the Eight Principal Deities 

OM, AMI TEHWAH SEH.
(Amitabha Buddha Heart Mantra)

OM, MANI PEMI HUM.
(Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)

OM, PENLAMO LEEN-TO-LEEN, SOHA.
(Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mantra that Removes Fixed Karma) 

OM, HA HA HA, WEI, SAMMODEI, SOHA.
(Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)

OM, CHALE CHULE, CHUNDEE, SOHA.
(Maha Cundi Bodhisattva Heart Mantra) 

OM, CEMPALA, CHALEN CHANAYA, SOHA.
(Yellow Jambhala Heart Mantra)

OM AH HUM, BEDZA GURU PEMA SIDDHI, HUM, SEH.
(Guru Padmasambhava Heart Mantra) 

OM AH HUM, GURU BEI, AH-HE-SHA-SA-MA-HA, LIEN-SHEN SIDDHI HUM.
(Padmakumara Bodhisattva Heart Mantra – the long version) 

TEYATHA, OM, BEKACHE-YE, BEKACHE-YE, MAHA BEKACHE-YE,
LADZA SAMOGATE-HEY, SOHA.
(Medicine Buddha Heart Mantra)

17. Homage to Amitabha Buddha

Recite the following:

Namo the 36 trillion 119 thousand and 500 Amitabha Buddhas with the same name and identification. (3x)

18. Dedication of Merits

Recite the dedication verse:

May all who uphold the name of Amitabha Buddha
Be born together in the Pure Land of His Western Paradise.
Repaying the Fourfold Generosity from above,
And aiding those who suffer in the Three Paths below.
Upon seeing the Buddha,
May I be liberated from the cycle of birth and death,
And may I develop the qualities of Buddhahood,
And thus free all who suffer.

I, [your name], dedicate the merits of this practice to the Root Guru, Living Buddha Lian-sheng. May the Root Guru always be happy, healthy, and at ease
I also dedicate the merits to all sentient beings. May all beings live in harmony. May all beings leave the evil path and enter the right path. May all beings cultivate to attainment; be happy, healthy and at ease.

Now draw a circle of white light with your vajra dorje and visualise white-lighted lotus with the lighted crossed-dorje sitting upon it.

While holding your vajra dorje with your right hand and vajra bell with your left hand, recite the following:

O gods of the heaven, O gods of the earth, may we be far from all calamities and may all calamities abandon us. May all disasters turn into dust and enmities begone.

We beam light from the dorje we are holding that the crossed dorje and the lotus burst into great light and spreading wider and wider with the sound of the vajra bell. [Shout “WUN!”]

19. The Great Homage 

The same as step 5.

[Great prostration to all Buddhas] We thank all buddhas for blessing us all the time.

[Great prostration to all Bodhisattvas] We thank all bodhisattvas for blessing us all the time.

[Great prostration to all Dharmapalas] We thank all dharmapalas for guiding us and protecting us all the time.

20. The Completion Mantras

Recite:
OM, BU LIN. (3x)
OM MANI PADME HOM.

Dismissal mudra:
Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.

End of Practice:
May all endeavors be auspicious.
Xiu-fa yuan-man, ru-yi ji-xiang.


[The End Part of the Sadhana]

———

Verses of dedication and the vow of salvation from The High King Avalokiteshvara Sutra

The following part is the continuation of the sutra, elucidating the dedication and the vow of salvation from reciting the High King Avalokiteshvara sutra. You may recite it if you wish so:

十方觀世音　　一切諸菩薩　　誓願救眾生　　稱名悉解脫
Shí fāng guānshìyīn yīqiè zhū púsà shìyuàn jiù zhòngshēng chēng-míng xī jiětuō
Avalokiteshvaras of the ten directions, together with the bodhisattvas, have vowed to guide sentient beings, liberating them through the method of reciting the holy epithets.

若有智慧者　　慇懃為解說　　但是有因緣　　讀誦口不綴
Ruò yǒu zhìhuì zhě yīnqín wèi jiěshuō dànshì yǒu yīnyuán dú-sòng kǒu bù zhui
Sentient beings with wisdom shall propagate it, and those with affinity shall recite perpetually.

誦經滿千遍　　念念心不絕　　火燄不能傷　　刀兵立摧折
Sòng jīng mǎn qiān-biàn niàn-niàn xin bù-jué huǒyàn bùnéng shāng dāobīng lì cuīzhé
With the completion of 1000 times of recitation, and yet keeping constant recitation in the heart, fires hence cannot injure one, and all weapons shall be rendered harmless.

恚怒生歡喜　　死者變成活　　莫言此是虛　　諸佛不妄說
Huì-nù shēng huānxǐ sǐzhě biànchéng huó mòyán cǐ shì xū zhū fo bù wàngshuō
The furious shall turn joyful, and the dead be resurrected. Never say that these all are falsity, as all Buddhas do not lie.

高王觀世音　　能救諸苦危　　臨危急難中　　死者變成活
Gāo-wáng guānshìyīn néng jiù zhū kǔ wēi lín wéi jínàn zhōng sǐzhě biànchéng huó
The High King Avalokiteshvara is capable of succouring one from any kind of sufferings and perils; and bestowing firm conviction.

諸佛語不虛　　是故應頂禮　　持誦滿千遍　　重罪皆消滅
Zhū fo yǔ bù xū shì gù yīng dǐnglǐ chí sòng mǎn qiān biàn zhòngzuì jiē xiāomiè
What Buddhas say are no mendacity, therefore one should pay homage, recite it thousands times, thus all heavy sins get abolished. 

薄福不信者　　專貢受持經
Bo fú bùxìn zhě zhuān gòng shòu chí jīng
Those who have no conviction from lacking good merits are advised to pass this sutra to those who aspire to practise.

念八大菩薩名號
Niàn bādà púsà mínghào:
Chanting the names of the Eight Bodhisattvas:

南無觀世音菩薩摩訶薩　　南無彌勒菩薩摩訶薩
Námó guānshìyīn púsà móhēsà, Námó mílè púsà móhēsà
Namo Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Mahasattva, Namo Maitreya Bodhisattva Mahasattva

南無虛空藏菩薩摩訶薩　　南無普賢菩薩摩訶薩
Námó xūkōngzáng púsà móhēsà, Námó pǔxián púsà móhēsà
Namo Akasagarbha Bodhisattva Mahasattva, Namo Samantabhadra Bodhisattva Mahasattva

南無金剛手菩薩摩訶薩　　南無妙吉祥菩薩摩訶薩
Námó jīngāngshǒu púsà móhēsà, Námó miàojíxiáng púsà móhēsà
Namo Vajrapani Bodhisattva Mahasattva, Namo Manjushri Bodhisattva Mahasattva

南無除蓋障菩薩摩訶薩　　南無地藏王菩薩摩訶薩
Námó chú gàizhàng púsà móhēsà, Námó di záng wáng púsà móhēsà
Namo Sarva-nivarana-viskambhin Bodhisattva Mahasattva, Namo Ksitigarbha-raja Bodhisattva Mahasattva

南無諸尊菩薩摩訶薩
Námó zhū zūn púsà móhēsà
Namo Sarva Bodhisattva Mahasattva

願以此功德　　普及於一切　　誦滿一千遍　　重罪皆消滅
Yuàn yǐ cǐ gōngdé pǔjí yú yīqiè sòng mǎn yīqiān biàn zhòngzuì jiē xiāomiè
May all the good merits be dedicated to all sentient beings, that with the completion of 1000 times of recitation, all heavy sins disappear.

———

How to Take Refuge in Buddha Guru Lian-sheng

(1) In person

Make an appointment ahead of time to visit the True Buddha Quarter in Redmond, Washington, USA or to travel to the location where His Holiness will be teaching the dharma to receive a direct empowerment from him.

(2) By “Remote Empowerment”

It is not often possible for someone who lives far away to take refuge in person. Students who desire to take refuge can, on the first or fifteenth of any lunar month, at 7:00 a.m., while facing the direction of the rising sun, recite the Fourfold Refuge Mantra three times: “Namo Guru bei, Namo Buddha ye, Namo Dharma ye, Namo Sangha ye. Seeking Living Buddha Lian-sheng’s guidance, I am taking refuge in the True Buddha” and prostrate three times.

On the first or fifteenth of every lunar month, His Holiness performs a ceremony of “remote empowerment” at the True Buddha Quarter to give the empowerment to all students who could not journey there in person.

A student who takes refuge from a distance after performing the rites at home, only needs to send a letter to the True Buddha Quarter stating one’s intent to seek refuge, along with one’s name, address, age, and an offering in any amount to the Buddhas.

Upon receiving the letter, His Holiness will send a certificate, a picture of the guru, and a note stating the level of practice that one should begin with.

(3) Through local chapters of True Buddha School

Contact nearby local chapters of True Buddha School to request assistance in taking refuge.

Address of the True Buddha Quarter:

Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu

17102 NE 40th Ct.

Redmond, WA 98052-5479

U.S.A.