Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 49-minute Chenrezig empowerment, Kyabje Rinpoche guides practitioners through taking Bodhisattva vows before Chenrezig and the assembled deities, followed by a visualization practice. You develop a white moon disc at your heart, a sun disc at your navel, and a white eight-spoke wheel at your crown, receiving light and nectars that purify negativities and generate profound bliss. A distinctive element is the method for determining your personal connection to one of the five Buddha families: you hold a stick between your hands and drop it on a board to discover which family you relate to most strongly, enabling you to work with that celestial being for rapid attainment. Aimed at practitioners who have received Chenrezig initiation.
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File: 1990-07-28 – 1B – Empowerment – KR.mp3
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Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Chenrezig
Date: 1990-07-28
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~785
Okay. You come here, and I’m going to show show you the secret mantra, and I’m going to explain I’m I’m going to explain secret mantra to you well. Qualities and having them turn the mind to Dharma. And we would be able to benefit infinite numbers of sentient beings and making it in this way, we trying to understand the the great preciousness of mantra, and thereby generate a sense of joy in this occasion. Of conditions to foster the vows within our mind.
And this entails a development of positive potential from our side. So then the next line of this of this verse is that I rejoice in the skillful actions of all — that is to say sentient beings. And simply by, you know, when we see someone doing positive action, when we see them practicing the Dharma, developing a sense of joy in their practice. And this is an extremely easy way to create positive And the final line is that to proceed in So we should seek him and taking these Bodhisattva vows to develop the motivation that I am going to practice in this fashion until the attainment of Buddhahood. We are taking these vows before not only the central deity within the mandala, Chenrezig, but also all the various spiritual masters, monks, and deities as an entire space before us is filled with clouds of various holy beings.
Taken the vows previously, but they have degenerated, then we should imagine that we have revived them. And if the fact that we have taken them previously, and they are not degenerated, we should imagine that they have developed higher and higher. That we are to seek this undertaking at all times and fulfill the great meanings of both one’s temporal and ultimate purposes of both oneself and others. Developing this transformed into a moon disc, a moon disc at one’s heart, white in color.
So that thought is I think, one’s heart gets shaped in the form of the white moon disc at one’s heart. At the center or the navel of this Vajra, the center is a sun disc. At the center of the of the Vajra is a sun disc, And at the crown of your head, on top of your head, there is a white eight spoke wheel. A white eight spoke wheel. At the hub of the wheel is a a moon disc.
And upon So we’ll make a light. Blessed by the desired master, and they radiate out life and nectars, filling your entire body. And just as the sun, the rays of the sun dispel darkness, these nectars and lights eliminate all the negativities and obscurations within yourself, and you you generate the experience of great bliss. You should imagine that you are blessed, have the three places blessed to the eventual attainment of Buddha’s body, speech, and mind, and this is a very precious experience. All of you.
We’re going to make an examination of which of the five Buddha families that we have a a particular relationship with, a significant relationship with. There are five Buddha families. And we each of these five Buddha families is associated with one of the five powerful attainments. So if in determining which of the five Buddha families that we have a relationship with, then in relying upon that particular family celestial being, we can attain that particular powerful attainment very quickly. And we’re going to so you should you should make a prayer within yourself.
May I be shown which of the five Buddha families I have a particular significant relationship with. And you’re going to take the throwing stick, and place it between your hands. And you’re just simply going to drop it in the middle of lotus on on the board there. And depending on which direction it falls to, this will determine which of the five families that you have a particular significant relationship with. And so you should be thinking within your mind, you know, praying, may I be shown which of the five Buddha families that I Classification?
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And as you drop it, don’t hold it too high. Just hold it near that. Supreme. Yeah. Yeah.
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And we’re gonna cleanse your mouth out. And spit this out. And then we’re going to begin a pot full of water, the water. Speech,