Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 7-minute practice session, Ven Jamyang guides listeners through Buddhist foundational practices centered on prostrations and confession. Beginning with refuge formulas, the session moves into extended prostrations to the Buddhas—first to Śākyamūni and a series of thirty-five Buddhas, then to the Seven Medicine Buddhas—with the traditional refrain “I prostrate” after each invocation. The core section is a detailed confession practice in which the practitioner acknowledges negative actions accumulated through countless lifetimes, from stealing and killing to wrongful conduct and broken vows, explicitly requesting forgiveness and vowing to refrain from these actions in the future. The session concludes with a comprehensive dedication of merit, directing the accumulated virtue toward enlightenment. The practice follows a classical Buddhist form and is accessible to anyone familiar with basic Buddhist refuge practices.
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Teacher: Ven Jamyang
Collection: Deity Practice (Ven Jamyang)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 7.1 minutes
Words: ~967
Homage to the confession of the bodhisattva’s downfalls. I, throughout all times, take refuge in the guru. I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dharma. I take refuge in the Sangha.
I, throughout all times, take refuge in the Guru. I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dharma. I take refuge in the Sangha. I, throughout all times, take refuge in the Guru.
I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dharma, I take refuge in the Sangha. To the founder, Bhagavan Tathagatas Arhat, perfectly, completely Buddha, glorious conqueror Śākyamūni Buddha, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas thoroughly destroying with vajra essence, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas radiant jewel, I prostrate.
To the Tathagatas King Lord of the Nagas, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas Army of Heroes, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas Delighted Hero, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas Jewel Moonlight, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas Meaningful to Behold, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas Jewel Moon, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas Stainless One, I prostrate. To the Tathagatas Bestowed with Courage, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Pure One, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Bestowed with Purity, I prostrate.
To the Tathāgata Water God, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Deity of the Water God, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Glorious Goodness, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Sun of Non-Craving, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Glorious Flower, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Pure Glorious Wealth, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Glorious Mindfulness, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Glorious Name Widely Renowned, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata King Holding the Victory Banner of Foremost Power, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Glorious One Totally Subduing, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata Glorious Manifestation Illuminating All, I prostrate.
To the Tathāgata All-Subduing Jewel Lotus, I prostrate. To the Tathāgata, Arhat, perfectly completed Buddha, King of the Lord of Mountains, firmly seated on jewel and lotus, I prostrate. Prostrations to the Seven Medicine Buddhas. To the Bhagavan Tathāgata Arhat, perfectly completed Buddha, renowned glorious king of excellent signs, I prostrate. To the Bhagavan Tathāgata Arhat, perfectly completed Buddha, king of melodious sound, brilliant radiance of skill, adorned with jewels, moon and lotus, I prostrate.
To the Bhagavan Tathagatas Arhad perfectly completed Buddha, stainless excellent gold, illuminating jewel who accomplishes all conduct, I prostrate. To the Bhagavan Tathagatas Arhat, perfectly completed Buddha, glorious Supreme One, free from sorrow, I prostrate. To the Bhagavan Tathagatas Arhat, perfectly completed Buddha, melodious ocean of proclaimed Dharma, I prostrate. To the Bhagavan Tathagatas Arhat perfectly completed Buddha clearly knowing by the play of supreme wisdom of an ocean of Dharma, I prostrate. To the Bhagavan Tathagatas Arhat perfectly completed Buddha medicine guru, king of lapis lazuli light, I prostrate.
All those, your thirty five Buddhas and others, as many Tathagatas, Arhats perfectly completed Buddhas as they are existing, sustaining and residing in all the world systems of the ten directions, all you Buddha Bhagavans, please pay attention to me. In this life and in all states of rebirth, in which I have circled in saṃsāra throughout beginningless lives, whatever negative actions I have created, made others create or rejoice in the creation of, whatever possessions of stupas, possessions of the sangha or possessions of the sangha of the ten directions that I have appropriated, made others appropriate or rejoice in the appropriation of whichever among the five actions of immediate retribution I have done, caused to be done, or rejoiced in the doing of which ever path of the ten non virtuous actions I have engaged in, caused others to engage in, or rejoiced in engaging in. Whatever I have created, being obscured by these karmas causes me and sentient beings to be born in the hell realms, in the animal realm and in the preta realm, in irreligious countries, as barbarians or as long-life gods, with imperfect faculties, holding wrong views or not being pleased with the presence of the Buddha Bhagavans who are transcendental wisdom, who are eyes, who are witnesses, who are valid, and I see with omniscient consciousness, I am admitting and confessing all these negativities.
I will not conceal them nor hide them, and from now on in the future I will abstain and refrain from committing them again. O Buddha Bhagavans, please pay attention to me. In this life and in all other states of rebirth in which I have circled in saṃsāra throughout beginningless lives. Whatever roots of virtue I have created by generosity, even as little as giving just one mouthful of food to beings born in the animal realm. Whatever roots of virtue I have created by guarding morality.
Whatever roots of virtue I have created by following pure conduct whatever roots of virtue I have created by fully ripening sentient beings whatever roots of virtue I have created by generating bodhicitta and whatever roots of virtue I have created by my unsurpassed transcendental wisdom. All these assembled and gathered combined together, are fully dedicated to the unsurpassed, the unexcelled, that higher than the high that superior to the superior. Thus, I completely dedicate to the highest perfectly complete enlightenment. Just as the previous Bhagavans have fully dedicated, just as the future Buddha Bhagavans will fully dedicate, and just as the presently abiding Buddha Bhagavans are fully dedicating, like that I too dedicate fully. I confess all negativities individually.
I rejoice in all the merits. I urge and implore all Buddhas to grant my request. May I receive the highest, most sublime transcendental wisdom. To the conquerors, the best of humans, those who are living in the present time, those who have lived in the past, and those who will likewise come, to all those who have qualities as vast as an infinite ocean, with hands folded, I approach for refuge.