The Six Perfections – Milarepa
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For giving, nothing to do
But stop privileging self.
For ethics, nothing to do
But stop being dishonest.
Niguma’s Mystical Wishes
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All beings who have taken a wrong way,
the powerful, the arrogant,
Those who could not be taught by buddhas
throughout all space and time,
May I teach each and every one of them
And lead them in an instant to buddhahood.
A Passage To Light
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When someone close to us dies, our connection with that person is broken and cannot be restored. Yet the web of connections does not disintegrate right away. It gradually unravels — strands release one by one. Each strand is a memory, a recollection, or an association. The purpose of this ceremony is to complete our relationship with the person who has died and, in doing so, to allow the process of letting go to begin.
Mountain Burnt Offering Ritual
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May we acquire all the abilities of the ground, path, and fruition. And clear away all disruptions in outlook, practice, and behavior. In the infinite expanse of the wonderful mind of Ever-present Good, May we take hold of eternal being in the youthful vase body.
Revelations of Ever-Present Good
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When you open and relax,
There is an emptiness that goes beyond true or false.
Here, if you know arising release, natural release and direct release,
You are no different from all the awakened ones.
You are awake and no different from me.
Taking and Sending: Pith Instructions
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As you grow accustomed to this exchange, and that may take a while, you come to rest in a different way, in a profound acceptance of the pain of the world and the struggles that comprise most people’s lives. In that acceptance, there is a quiet joy, a joy in the wonder of life itself.
Teacher-Union Prayer
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Treasured teacher, I pray to you.
Grant me energy for belief in self to fall away.
Grant me energy to see through life’s illusions.
Ever-Present Good’s Prayer of Intention
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Through my awakened intention
When strong aversion arises
In any being in the six states,
May they let it be, without doing anything with it.
As awareness finds its own place,
May they attain the pristine awareness of clarity.
The Sutra of the Heart of the Lady Perfection of Wisdom
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Form is emptiness.
Emptiness is form.
Emptiness is not other than form
Form is not other than emptiness…
The Short Vajradhara Prayer
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The essence of thought is what is, it is taught.
To this meditator who arises as an unceasing play,
Being nothing at all, but arising as anything,
Grant me energy to know that samsara and nirvana are not separate.
The Ship of Freedom
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May the evil, confusion, and misery in other sentient beings
Come into me; may I experience the pain.
Because I experience that pain, may all sentient beings
Never again experience any misery, evil, or confusion.
Recognizing Mind as the Guru
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Because of your great compassion,
Every being is originally placed in full awakening.
Because of your powerful actions,
You engage and master everything in samsara and nirvana.
Ganges Mahamudra
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What joy!
Samsaric ways are senseless:
they are the seeds of suffering.
Conventional ways are pointless.
Focus on what is sound and true.
Majestic outlook is beyond all fixation.
Majestic practice is no distraction.
Majestic behavior is no action or effort.
The fruition is there when you are free from hope and fear.
Opening a Path to the Sea of Awakening Mind
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I and all beings, in their infinities,
Whether demonic, crippling or alien,
Are, in the end, the same in emptiness.
Confused is the person who takes what is empty as real.
