Every night, before going to bed, do Vajrasattva practice,
reciting one mala, a half mala, or at least twenty-one repetitions
of the long mantra. If you can combine your recitation with
prostrations, it will be very, very powerful; two powerful
practices combined. You will collect extensive merit and purify
unbelievably heavy karma. Otherwise, you can do your Vajrasattva
practice while seated. It depends on whether or not you have the
opportunity to do prostrations and on how you feel. You can decide
for yourself. You can begin your evening Vajrasattva practice with
prostrations to the thirty-five Confession Buddhas, going straight
through and not necessarily repeating each buddha’s name over and
over with each prostration as in the morning practice, that will be
very powerful because reciting each buddha’s name even once
purifies many thousands of eons of negative karma. This practice is
unbelievably powerful. OM VAJRASATTVA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA /
VAJRASATTVA TVENOPATISHTHA / DRIDHO ME BHAVA / SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA /
SUPOSHYO ME BHAVA / ANURAKTO ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA
/ SARVA KARMA SU CHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA HA HA HA HO
/ BHAGAVAN SARVA TATHAGATA / VAJRA MAME MUNCHA / VAJRA BHAVA MAHA
SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHAT There are three ways to make purification
while reciting the mantra. One can do all three or only one,
whatever is most comfortable and depending on one’s individual
practice. The first method Visualize the white blissful kundalini
energy flows down from Vajrasattva father/mother in union into your
central channel. It spreads throughout your nervous system, flowing
very strongly like water coming from a hose or like a very powerful
shower, and flushes out all negativities of your body, speech, and
mind through the openings and pores of the lower part of your body.
All this negative energy is expelled in the form of snakes,
scorpions, ants, long worms, etc. or as black tar or dirty black
oil. Feel that you are completely purified, clean clear, especially
your gross negativities, and overcome with blissful energy.
The second method The blissful kundalini energy slowly fills
your body starting from below. As the level of amrita rises, your
negativities start to rise as well, floating on top of the nectar,
like oil floating on water. Your negativities and defilements are
slowly pushed upward by the pure amrita kundalini energy; it
gradually overflows out of your body through all your upper
orifices and your crown chakra. You experience great bliss.
The third method An immense amount of powerful light energy,
limitless blissful kundalini energy in the form of light, radiates
from Vajrasattva’s heart. Immediately as it makes contact with your
crown chakra, the negative energy, especially your ignorant
attachment energy, completely disappears, just as when a bright
light is switched on in a dark room, the darkness instantly and
completely disappears. You cannot say that the darkness leaves
through the window or through the door when a light is turned on.
It just disappears, no longer existing anywhere at all.
Detailed explanation of the meaning of the mantra
OM - the qualities of buddha’s holy body, speech, and mind; all
that is auspicious and of great value VAJRA SATTVA - the being who
has the wisdom of inseparable bliss and emptiness SAMAYA - a pledge
that must not be transgressed MANU PALAYA - lead me along the path
you took to enlightenment VAJRA SATTVA TVENOPATISHTHA - make me
abide closer to Vajrasattva’s vajra holy mind DRIDHO ME BHAVA -
please grant me a firm and stable realization of the ultimate
nature of phenomena SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA - please grant me the
blessing of being extremely pleased with me SUPOSHYO ME BHAVA -
bless me with the nature of well-developed great bliss ANURAKTO ME
BHAVA - bless me with the nature of the love that leads me to your
state SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA - please grant all powerful
attainments SARVA KARMA SUCHAME - please grant all virtuous actions
CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU - please grant your glorious qualities HUM -
the vajra holy mind HA HA HA HA HOH - the five transcendental
wisdoms BHAGAVAN - one who has destroyed every obscuration,
attained all realizations, and passed beyond suffering SARVA
TATHAGATA VAJRA - all those who have realized emptiness, knowing
things just as they are MAME MUNCHA do not abandon me VAJRA BHAVA -
the nature of indestructible inseparability MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA -
the great pledge being; the great being who has the pledge, the
vajra holy mind AH - the vajra holy speech HUM - the transcendental
wisdom of great bliss PHAT - clarifying the transcendental wisdom
of inseparable bliss and emptiness and destroying the dualistic
mind that obstructs it