Teacher-Union Prayer
Practice Material
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
Practice Material
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
Practice Material
Form is emptiness.
Emptiness is form.
Emptiness is not other than form
Form is not other than emptiness…
The Short Vajradhara Prayer
Practice Material
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
Practice Material
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
Practice Material
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
Practice Material
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
Practice Material
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.
Mind Training in Eight Verses
Practice Material
No matter where, no matter who,
In no way am I better, I deem.
As for others, in my heart
I hold them humbly in high esteem.
Milarepa's Song to Lady Paldarboom
Practice Material
Ah, Lady Paldarboom
Fortunate and devoted student,
Take the sky as an example,
Practice without any sense of limit or position.
Take the sun and moon as examples,
Practice without any sense of clarity or distortion.
Longchenpa's 30 Pieces of Sincere Advice
Practice Material
You make an effort at practice and become a good and knowledgeable person.
You may even master some particular capabilities.
But whatever you attach to will tie you up.
Be unbiased and know how to let things be – that’s my sincere advice
How I Live The Practice
Practice Material
I wander in the state of no coming or going.
The zombies of appearances of the eight concerns,
The cannibal demons of compliance with social convention,
The sirens of meaningful projects to undertake,
The whole crowd of emotional reactions to anything that arises,
All become my servants and are swept away in the vast ocean of pure being.
Eight Thoughts of Great Individuals
Practice Material
As long as I dwell in the world, may not a single thought of harming others arise in my mind.
May I strive energetically for the welfare of beings, not faltering even for a moment from discouragement or fatigue.
Devotion Pierces My Heart
Practice Material
Even with a free and well-favored birth, I waste this life.
The meaningless activities of conventional life constantly distract me.
When I work at freedom, which is truly important, laziness carries me away.
Because I am turning away from a land of jewels with my hands empty,
Guru, think of me: look upon me quickly with compassion.
Grant me energy to make my life worthwhile.
