Yellow Jambhala Personal Deity Yoga
First empty the mind, visualize the Root Guru appearing above your crown and radiating light on everyone present. Chant the Root Guru Heart mantra 7 times. Pray to the Root Guru to empower you so that the practice will be auspicious. Visualize your parent, children, relatives, friends, and enemies join you in this practice.
Wake Up Call: Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.
1. Recite the Purification Mantra
Speech Purification: Om, syo-lee syo-lee, ma-ha syo-lee, syo-syo-lee, so-ha.
Body Purification: Om, syo-do-lee, syo-do-lee, syo-mo-lee, syo-mo-lee, so-ha.
Mind Purification: Om, wa-dzi-la-dam, ho ho hum.
Earth God Mantra: Man sam-man-do, moo-toh-nam, om, doo-loo doo-loo dei-wei, so-ha.
2. Recite the Invocation Mantra
Om ah hum, so-ha. (3 times)
We sincerely invoke:
Namo Root Guru Living Buddha Lian-shen
Namo Great White Padmakumara
Namo Lotus Light Self-Mastery Buddha
Namo the lineage gurus of True Buddha School
( In the place of this note, each local chapter may invoke the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Dharma Protectiors enshrined at its altar accordingly. When practicing at home, one may invoke the deities present at one’s shrine.)
Namo all Buddha of the Ten Directions and Three Times, all Bodhisattvas.
3. Great Homage Using Visualization
4. Mandala Offering
5. Fourfold Refuge
6. Armor Protection:
7. Recite the High King Avalokitesvara Sutra:
8. Recite the Rebirth Mantra:
9. Recite the Root Guru (Padmakumara) Heart Mantra
10. Mudra and Visualization
Vajra Mudra: Hold the Mudra in front of the chest.
Visualization: First empty the mind.
Chant the Emptiness Mantra
Om, si-ba-wa, su-da, sa-er-wa, da-er-ma, si-ba-wa, su-do-hang. (3 times)
- (1) Above an expanse of ocean is a stretch of clear sunny sky. A moon disc rises from the ocean into the sky. Inside the moon disc is the yellow “Sanskrit seed syllable “jum”, emitting great yellow light.
- (2) The seed syllable inside the moon disc revolves and transforms into Yellow Jambhala. His body is yellow and he sits in a half-lotus posture. Wearing a gemstone crown and gewstone chains on his body, Yellow Jambhala’s round face appears prosperous and slightly fierce. His right hand holds a pear-shaped treasure object and his left hand holds a treasure-spounting mongoose.
- (3). Visualize the big toe of Yellow Jambhala’s right extended foot swelling up, causing him great pain. At this time, chant in one’s heart “Om, ah hum, so-ha” 3 times to invoke the Five Buddhas to appear in the Empty Space above.
- (4). Visualize each of the Five Buddhas emit a beam of light to empower yellow Jambhala. Chant the Empower mantra “ Om hum jum she ya” 3 times.The empowerment from the Five Buddhas reduces the swelling of his right big toe until the swelling disappears. Yellow Jambhala smiles and his mongoose opens its mouth to spew gold onto the rice platter, turning the mound of rice into a mountain of gold.
- (5). At this time, one may visualize the object of one’s desire being spewed out of the mongoose’s mouth.
Mantra: Om, jum-bah-lah, chan-lan, chah-nah-yeh, so-ha. (108 times).
12.Entering Samadhi
(Nine cycle Breathing, Entering of the Deity into Oneself, Release of Oneself into the Cosmic Consciousness, Breath Counting)
13.Emerging from Samadhi:
Praise Verse
The Prosperous Deva-king of the North
And Great Dharma Protector of the Buddha path
Showers us countless riches and treasures
Fulfilling all wishes with prosperity abound.
Bei-fang tian-wang xian fu-zu
Yi-qie cai-bao jiang wu-shu
Xian-qian yi-qie jie yuan-man
Shi-wei Fo-meng Hu-fa zhu
14. Chant the Principal Heart Mantras:
(Amitabha Buddha Heart Mantra)
(Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)
Om, pun-lah-moh lin-toh-lin, so-ha
(Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mantra that removes Fixed Karma)
Om, ha ha ha, wei sam-mo-yeh, so-ha
(Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)
Om, dze-lee dzu-lee, zhun-tee, so-ha
(Maha Cundi Bodhisattva Heart Mantra)
Om, jum-bah-lah, chan-lan chah-nah-yeh, so-ha
( Yellow Jambhala Heart Mantra)
Om ah hum, be-dza, gu-ru, beh-ma, sid-dhi, hum, she
(Guru Padmasambahva Heart Mantra)
Om ah hum, gu-ru-bei, ah-ha-sa-sa-ma-ha, lian-sheng sid-dhi-hum
(Padmakumara Boddhisattva Heart Mantra)
(medicine Buddha Heart mantra)
15. Recite the Buddha’s Name:
Namo the 36 trillion 119 thousand and 500 Amitabha Buddhas. (108 times)
Na-mo san-shi-liu-yi yi-shi-yi-wan jiu-qian-wu-bai tong-ming-tong-hao ah-mi-tuo-fo
16. Dedication:
May I become a Dharma Protector and rise up to the Northern Heaven
May I enter the holy realm with praise and offerings
Attaining great wealth and eternal abundance
Bestowing dharma treasure to help all beings
May all who uphold the name of Amitabha Buddha
Be born together in the Pure Land of His Western Paradise
Repaying the Fourfold Generosity from above
And aiding those who suffer in the Three Paths below
May I be liberated from the cycle of birth and the death
And may I develop the qualities of Buddhahood
And thus free all who suffer
I,______ (your name), dedicate the merits of this practice to the Root Guru, May the Root Guru always be healthy, remain in Samsara, never enter Nirvana, and forever turn the Dharma Wheel. May everyone be healthy, free of hindrances, strong in cultivation, and may all circumstances become auspicious.
May all supplications be completely fulfilled
May hindrances be removed. Wun!
17.Recite the Hundred Syllable Mantra:
Om, be-dza, sah-do sa-ma-ya, ma-nu bah-la-ya, be-dza sah-do deh-nu-pahdeh- cha, zhe-jo mi-bah-wa, soo-do ka-yu mi-bah-wa, soo-poo ka-yu mi-bahwa, an-nu-la-do mi-bah-wa, sa-er-wa, sid-di, mi-bu-la-ya-cha, sa-er-wa, kaer- ma, soo-cha-mi, ji-ta-moo, see-li-yam, gu-ru hum, ha-ha-ha-ha-hoh, bahga- wan, sa-er-wa, da-ta-ga-ta, be-dza, ma-mee mun-cha, be-dzi-ba-wa, ma-ha sa-ma-ya, sah-do-ah, hum, pei. (3 times)
18.Great Homage Using Visualization: (Same as step 3)
19.Recite the Completion Mantra: Om, bu lin. (3 times)
Dismissal:
Clap twice, then cross hands and snap thumbs and middle fingers.
End of Practice:
May all endeavors be auspicious.