Lama Zopa Rinpoche wanted to send this message out to all
Centers and students that may be affected by the tsunami. Rinpoche
is advising to recite the Ksitibharba mantra and prayer and also to
recite Buddhas name mantra, taking strong refuge and making strong
prayers. Rinpoche said this is beneficial to for others who are
being affected, even if you are not.
Guru Shakyamuni Prayer and Mantra
La ma tön pa chom dän dä
De zhin sheg pa dra chom pa
Yang dag par dzog päi sang gyä
Päl gyäl wa shakya thub pa la
Chhag tshäl lo chhö do kyab su chhi wo
Jin gyi lab tu söl
To the guru, founder, bhagavan, tathagata, arhat, perfectly
completed buddha, glorious conqueror Shakyamuni Buddha, I
prostrate, make offerings, and go for refuge. Please grant me your
blessings. Recite as much as you can (not just 3 times)
Kshitigarbha Practice
I prostrate, go for refuge, and make offerings to the
bodhisattva Kshitigarbha who has unbearable compassion for me and
all sentient beings who are suffering and whose minds are obscured,
who has qualities like the sky and liberates sentient beings from
all suffering and gives every happiness. Please grant blessings!
(3x)
With hands folded in prostration, you can visualize doing the
prostration to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas – that becomes
prostration when you say the word “prostration.” When you say
“refuge,” think that you are asking to be free from the two
obscurations (to be able to achieve enlightenment). When you say
the word “offering,” think all the offerings that you have are then
offered. Then, when you ask for “blessings,” think in the mind the
whole path to enlightenment – this is the blessing to be received.
So the extensive benefits of this mantra will be translated. This
is the mantra that Kshitigarbha heard from buddhas equaling the
number of sand grains of the river Ganga (in India). He made
offerings to them and then received this mantra. This is the story
of the mantra – how to receive all of the benefits. This mantra is
to be used for any difficulties of problems. It is the best one to
do for any problems in any situation. Even reciting it only four or
five times – just a few times – is very powerful. It speaks so much
of power, showing how important the bodhisattva is. Even to recite
or just to think of the name of the bodhisattva is very, very
powerful.
Long Mantra:
CHHIM BHO CHHIM BHO CHIM CHHIM BHO / AKASHA CHHIM BHO / VAKARA
CHHIM BHO / AMAVARA CHHIM BHO / VARA CHHIM BHO / VACHIRA CHHIM BHO
/ AROGA CHHIM BHO / DHARMA CHHIM BHO / SATEVA CHHIM BHO / SATENI
HALA CHHIM BHO / VIVA ROKA SHAVA CHHIM BHO / UVA SHAMA CHHIM BHO /
NAYANA CHHIM BHO / PRAJÑA SAMA MONI RATNA CHHIM BHO / KSHANA CHHIM
BHO / VISHEMA VARIYA CHHIM BHO / SHASI TALA MAVA CHHIM BHO / VI AH
DRASO TAMA HELE / DAM VE YAM VE / CHAKRASE / CHAKRA VASILE / KSHILI
PHILE KARAVA / VARA VARITE / HASERE PRARAVE / PARECHARA BHANDHANE /
ARADANE / PHANARA / CHA CHI CHA CHA / HILE MILE AKHATA THAGEKHE /
THAGAKHI LO / THHARE THHARE MILE MADHE / NANTE KULE MILE / ANG KU
CHITABHE / ARAI GYIRE VARA GYIRE / KUTA SHAMAMALE /TONAGYE TONAGYE
/ TONAGULE / HURU HURU HURU / KULO STO MILE / MORITO / MIRITA /
BHANDHATA / KARA KHAM REM / HURU HURU
Short Mantra: OM AH KSHITI GARBHA THALENG HUM
Buddha’s Praise of Kshitigarbha You have generated stability of
thought and the pure altruistic thought of bodhichitta and have
eliminated the sufferings of immeasurable sentient beings. I see
(sentient beings) receiving happiness as from a wish-granting
jewel, and like the vajra you cut the nets of others’ doubts. You
offer holy offerings to the foe destroyers, the qualified ones gone
beyond, with great compassionate thought and perseverance. You
liberate sentient beings from their sufferings with oceans of
wisdom. Because you have no fear (delusions), you have gone beyond
samsara. Brahma heard this mantra and then said to the entire
assembly, “Please rejoice in the mantra I have now said.” And
Buddha said, “Great, great.”
This practice is especially beneficial for those who have heavy
problems, serious health problems, big projects, or financial
difficulties. I suggest it is extremely powerful to recite every
day for protection, at least four or five times or more, depending
on how crucial it is. This practice is effective even to grow crops
well and to protect land and crops. In the sutra of the bodhisattva
Kshitigarbha are explained the extensive benefits and qualities:
they are like the sky, like skies of benefit to all beings. There
have been experiences, similar benefits (to those spoken of in the
sutra) received by those who practice Kshitigarbha.