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Soundfile 19960827GRSRWT_01

Speaker Gelek Rimpoche

Location Summer Retreat

Topic White Tara

Transcriber Glenn Powers

Date 2020-12-31

There’s two, one long one and one short one. Somehow, we got mixed up here. What was originally planned, the long one’s not to be distributed here. But somehow, lack of co-ordination, particularly in the printer’s part. So, we had this happened. So just totally ignore… Unless those who are having a usual practice, usual Tara practice with the full initiations. Otherwise, just forget about the long one. We will doing the short one. Thank you. 0:02:56.9

[Tibetan] 0:03:11.2 Now, you focus, focus in the in front of you, Lama Buddha Tara. And then you yourself is, each one of you should think you yourself is the leader of all sentient beings who are seeking refuge to Buddha, dharma and sangha and particularly to the mandala of Tara. 0:04:17.8

Those of you who have understanding of refuge, you should apply here. Those of you who do not have understanding of refuge, you simply focus and seeking help from all those enlightened beings in one physical form of White Tara, which is body is sangha, speech is dharma, mind is Buddha. So, Buddha, dhrama and sangha together in one physical form. That is, in the form of Lama Tara. The reasons we take refuge, because we need protection. Protection from all difficulties, sufferings in general, particularly sufferings that we have mental, physical, emotional and rely on the Tara, who had all the capability of healing from all different illnesses. So, with that mind, we take refuge three times.

With Audience: I and all sentient beings take refuge in Buddha, dharma, sangha, Tara and her mandala.

Now, second here is generating a pure thought. Pure thought, generating, meaning generating a motivation. The motivation is extremely important for our life. No matter whatever you do, the key to become a perfect practice, perfect help, is totally lies on your motivation. I’m not going to make this a teaching speech. But, the teaching is normally, all the teachings, will give you material what to meditate and to support the meditation instructions that we giving. That’s what the teachings are really for. It’s showing you path. So now, the motivation. Here, what we request, is motivation generated through love and compassion. Love and compassion is extremely important. We all know that. We’re not talking here an ordinary love or ordinary compassion. We are talking here unlimited, unconditioned love and compassion. Unlimited, the focus of the love, to whom you give the love is unlimited. All beings, that’s what it means, unlimited. Unconditioned here is also not the usual question of what in there for me. What’s in there for me? It is going beyond that, for helping all the beings. Their ultimate help. So, the Buddha and the Tibetan Buddhism recommended the ultimate help, they say, bring them to the level of enlightenment and that is sure, ultimate enlightenment, ultimate help. Do we have the capacity to do this right this moment? No. That doesn’t matter. Even you’re incapable, even we are incapable of handling right now, but we can work for it. We can work of it and we can wish for it. So, ultimately, we would like to help all of them, unlimited beings, all beings we call it. All beings and like to help them ultimately, bring them to the level of total enlightenment. Total awareness. Buddha state. That is the most you can do. That’s most what they needed. So, at least we wish, we would like to do that. And for that reason, we going to spend seven days here. For that reason, we going to have this session here. For that reason, we would like to… we’ve been saying this Tara practice, not only healing for ourselves, but all beings. And that is motivation. We’re required and recommended, so meditate and generate that thought by yourself. 0:11:10.8

While thinking that, we will say this:

With Audience: For the benefit of all sentient beings, in order to obtain the state of perfection, I shall practice the sadhana of Arya Tara. (3x)

Rimpoche: Thank you. Once again, I would still like to remind you, here is the motivation. It is extremely important. Even you can’t think much, whatever I do, I would like to be helpful to all, unlimited beings, whatever come cross with me. I will try to help them, whatever I could. So, at least that much you should think. Give yourself a commitment that you’ll always be, you’ll not forget love and compassion. Everything, whatever you do, it should have influence of love and compassion. 0:12:57.3

So, after making that motivation, now the actual practice. You generate Tara in front of you. Though, we have Tara picture on the altar, you can see it. However, we recommend you to visualize. One of the Vajrayana technique is visualization. The visualization is mind training. Once your mind get properly trained, you don’t depend on the outside picture or image or any symbolic things. So, that’s why it is important have mind training rather than eye training. Anyway, whatever the word says here. Even you can’t think of detail, you just see in huge, vast space in front of you, then the Tara is here. At least that much you can think. 0:14:08.7

Audience: In the space before me, appears a white louts, upon it a moon disc and upon that the love and compassion of all enlightened beings appears as noble, wish fulfilling Tara. She sits on a lotus and moon cushion, a lumnious moon halo at her back. Youthful and radiant, her right hand gestures an invitation to liberation, her left hand holding an upala flower, indicates the protection of the three jewels, bringing courage and assurance to those dominated by fear. At here crown, a white OM, at her throat a red AH, at her heart a white TAM, marked by a blue HUM. Light radiates from the heart syllable, inviting the wisdom beings and empowering deities. The wisdom beings unite inseparably with Tara. The empowering deities confer Abisheka. A buddha of infinite light from the lotus crown. 0:15:20.4

Rimpoche: So, after visualizing Tara in front of you, now you have object of refuge or you have field of merit. Field of merit. So, we will practice seven limb here. I’m not going to explain because most of you know.

Audience: I bow down in body, speech and mind. I present offerings, both actually arranged and mentally created. I purify all deluded actions. I rejoice in all pure activities. I request you to remain until total enlightenment. I request wise and compassionate guidance. I dedicate my merit for the benefit of all beings. 0:16:14.4

Rimpoche: From now, the actual time of doing the actual practice.

Audience: Brilliant light radiates from the syllable TAM, collecting back the essence of inexhaustible vitality and power blessings of body, speech and mind. Light streams forth from Tara’s heart and body. I and all beings [..] this nectar of light. I cleanse and revitalize [..]

Rimpoche: So, that’s your visualization. Once again, I remind you, Tara in front of you. Tremendous amount of light going from the heart of the Tara, there’s mantra mala and all this. If you cannot visualize, that okay. Heart represents or symbolize the mind. So, from the mind of the Tara, millions of light goes out, collects all the blessings of the enlightened beings, in the form of white colored nectar, light and dissolve to yourself and the people surrounding you. Whoever you’re leading, your family members, your friends, your children, your parents and so and forth. And then, all sentient beings. 0:18:01.4

As well as from the Tara’s body, equal amount of light and liquid coming, dissolving to ourself. Just by the touch of light and liquid, itself, it is powerful enough to clear all our obstacles, negative karma, illnesses, everything. Like a sunshine in the morning, from the east, removes all the darknesses. Or, switching on the light removes darkness in the room. In that manner, just by the touch of the light andliquid does the job. With that visualization,

Audience: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA (..x) 0:26:16.1

Rimpoche: With this, we visualize we not only obtained the blessings of all the enlightened beings, blessings in general and particularly that of healing power, wisdom, and anything, whatever you need. Not only have we obtained the blessings, we should also think here that we really received in full and we are also really full of great things. Almost that our body is completely filled up, nothing but by the blessings of the Buddha, dharma and sangha, love-compassion, healing power, etc. Even our look should be great being. 0:27:44.0

Next is also generating light from Tara, going every ground in this and multi-galaxy, universe. Collecting the power of all earth energy, bringing to ourself, dissolving to our body and by doing so, our earth element power has been rejuvenated. Just for the sake of introduction, if you look in our physical body, which is our bones and flesh and all of them are the earth element. 0:28:49.9

Then, next will be the water element. That all the fluid in our body is the water element. Then, the heat in our body. All the heat, digestive power, all of this are the fire element. All our circulations and movement within our body is air element. Then the space, the openness, the place in between. All of them, the place where they move. All of them are the space element within ourself. So, Tara here is connecting the basic, simple, small child-like elements connecting with the basic, the total elements, mother-like that of universal thing. All universe, different universe. The earth element, sort of connecting the sources. So, the earth are connecting. The water connecting. Fire connecting. All of those in that manner. 0:30:35.6

The first will focus on the earth element only. So, the light going out from Tara’s heart, bringing all the power that you need of earth element, in the form of yellow, golden yellow colored light and liquid and dissolving to ourself and also from the Tara’s body, sending tremendous amount of golden light, it’s sort of golden orange light and receiving by ourself and rejuvenating all earth element within us. 0:31:33.8

Audience: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA (..x)

Rimpoche: Element within our body is completely rejuvenated and all the faults has been cleared. Next is water element. Light goes out from the heart of Tara, reach to the great source of water, everywhere. Collect energy, essence energy of the water in the form of milk look like liquid and light form. Dissolve to ourself and from Tara’s body, we receive similar type of light and liquid, dissolved to our body, rejuvenated all the water element within our body.

Audience: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA (..x)

0:37:09.6

Rimpoche: With this, we rejuvenated all the water element within our body. Next is the fire element. Light goes out, Tara generates tremendous amount of light, reach to the source of great heat and fire in different variety of universe, including those solar energies. All of them are collected in the form of bright, orange, red colored light and liquid form, dissolve to our body, rejuvenates all the fire element within our body. Likewise, from the Tara’s body we receive tremendous amount of light of bright red, orange color just by the touch to our body, rejuvenated all our heat energy within us, digestive power, etc. It is like the old style gas burner. When you turn the gas on, touch a little match light, it burns. Like that manner, light comes from the body of the Tara, just touch in our body, it is rejuvenated.

Audience: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA (..x)

0:40:52.8

Rimpoche: With this, we rejuvenated fire element within our body. Next is air. Light goes from the Tara’s heart, in other words, Tara generates tremendous amount of light. Reach to the magnetic power. All of those have magnetic power. Reach to all different universe. The essence energy of movement, which is air, collected in the form of green, it is light green colored light and liquid dissolve to our body. Same time, from the Tara’s body, in reality it is love, it is compassion manifested in the physical form of different elemental energies. This one happens to be green, air energy. Just receiving it, just touch gives tremendous boost to our air energy and our circulation has completely improved. You should have very strong circulation within our body. Any blocks of energy traveling area, such as artery or any other. By this power, it straight away push through and give total circulation and that means rejuvenating the air element within our body.

Audience: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA (..x)

0:45:53.3

Rimpoche: One of my late masters even used to say, you should think the circulation so strong within your body, even your toes should feel heat. And, they say you meditate and say this mantra till the toes feel heat. Sort of that strong you should do.

Now, the next is space energy. Actually, it is energy collecting from various enlightened sources and different variety of universe into multi-galaxy universe in the huge space. So, all the purity of all the elements completely and collecting in, instead of blue here, today we will do rainbow colored light and liquid form collecting from all different multi-galaxy of their earth, water, fire, air 0:47:36.3

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We also receive from the Tara in front of us, who are representing the enlightened beings, all their energy is also coming in.

Audience: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA (..x)

0:49:39.2

In final conclusion, whatever the blessings and energy, power that we have collected, it may remain with us permanently and work perfectly in balance. And, we would like say few more mantras. We will say number more. And also, every time when you are chanting and saying mantras, if you can, you think there was zillions of different people are all saying together. It’s maybe yourself, but multiply a zillion forms. So, they’re all saying together.

Audience: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA (..x)

OM I and all prostrated to the liberator, the fully realized trnascendental [..]

I prostrated to your glorious mind who liberates with TARE

Mother who liberates all fears with TUTTARE

The mother who grants all success with TURE

To SOHA and the other syllables [..]

If forseeing signs of premature death, may I clearly perceive Yi Zhin Korlo and achieve the realization of deathlessness. By this virtue, may I [..] obtain the essence of Noble Tara and secure every being without exception in that state.

Rimpoche: [Tibetan] 0:51:51.0

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