Vajrayogini Tea Offering

by Ngülchu Dharmabhadra

Practice Requirements You must have received a highest yoga tantra empowerment of Vajrayogini in order to read or engage in this practice.

Line drawing of Vajrayogini by Andy Weber. All other line drawings by Robert Beer. Used here with permission.

Tea Offering

[This tea offering can be done before drinking your daily tea or coff ee or in a more elaborate way with a proper tea offering set. Ask your teacher for further clarification about this practice.

OM AH HUM

As I visualize myself as the deity At the center of the dharmachakra, Extremely red within a Double tetrahedral reality source, On a stainless moon mandala seat Resides the all-encompassing refuge assembly of guru-deities.

In a beautifully shaped container filled with the essences of ingredients Made from precious celestial substances, this vast drink, delicious in taste, Reddish yellow in color, with the scent of camphor, I off er to the assembly of father, root, and lineage gurus. Please bless my three doors.

I off er to the assembly of powerful mother yoginis. Please lead me to the field of Khachö pure land.

I off er to the assembly of peaceful and wrathful mind-sealed deities. Please bestow all the supreme and general att ainments.

I off er to the objects of refuge, the Three Rare Sublime Ones. Please protect me from the fearful enemies of samsara and nirvana’s peace.

Tea Offering to Vajrayogini

4 Extracted from Initial Practices of Vajrayogini

I off er to the assembly of supporters, dakinis, and Dharma protectors. Please actualize all activities, whatever is wished for.

I off er to the assembly of siblings, the six types of transmigratory beings. Please pacify the suffering of my mind’s hallucinated appearances.

Clarifying myself as the mind-sealed deity, which appears while empty, And enjoying the food, with the taste of nectar, My mind enters into the sphere of great bliss and emptiness.

EH MA HO! How eminently fortunate I am!

Colophon: This tea offering to Vajrayogini, composed by Ngülchu Dharmabhadra, was translated at Khachö Dechen Ling in Aptos, California on August 11, 2003, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven. Tsenla. Scribed and lightly edited by Ven. Lhundup Damchö. Edited and Tibetan phoneti cs checked against the Tibetan by Ven.