The Actual Practice: Blessing the Offering
E MA HO! DE TONG NANG LÄ THÖ PÄI NANG
Food, drink, five meats, five nectars – that which is in the skull –
ZA THUNG SHA NGA DÜ TSI NGA
is in the nature of bliss and voidness.
DOR JE SUM GYI JANG TOG BAR
Purified, actualized, and increased by the three vajras,
ZAG ME DÜ TSI GYA TSHOR GYUR
it becomes an ocean of uncontaminated nectar.
OM AH HUM
(3x)
Multi plies the offerings so they become numberless
OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VAJRA SARA PRAMARDANE TATHAGATAYA / ARHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA / TADYATHA / OM VAJRE VAJRE / MAHA VAJRE / MAHA TEJA VAJRE / MAHA VIDYA VAJRE / MAHA BODHICHITTA VAJRE / MAHA BODHI MÄNDO PASAM KRAMANA VAJRE / SARVA KARMA AVARANA VISHO DHANA VAJRE SVAHA
(3x)
Extensive Power of Truth
Blesses the offerings, thus enabling the buddhas to actually receive them.
KÖN CHHOG SUM GYI DEN PA DANG
By the power of truth of the Three Rare Sublime Ones,
SANG GYÄ DANG JANG CHHUB SEM PA THAM CHÄ KYI JIN GYI LAB DANG
The blessings of all the buddhas and bodhisatt vas,
TSHOG NYI YONG SU DZOG PÄI NGA THANG CHHEN PO DANG
The great wealth of the completed two collecti ons,
CHHÖ KYI YING NAM PAR DAG CHING SAM GYI MI KHYAB PÄI TOB KYI
And the sphere of phenomena being pure and inconceivable;
CHHOG CHU NA ZHUG PÄI SANG GYÄ DANG JANG CHHUB SEM PA THAM CHÄ DANG PHAG PA JAM PÄL DANG KUN TU ZANG PO LA SOG PÄI NAM PAR CHHÖ PÄI TRIN GYI PHUNG PO SAM GYI MI KHYAB PA ZÄ MI SHE PA NAM KHA GANG WAR GYUR
May these piles of clouds of offerings arising through transformation by the bodhisattvas Arya Samantabhadra, Manjushri, and so forth – unimaginable and inexhaustible, equaling the sky – arise and, in the eyes of the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions, be received.
Think that numberless buddhas receive numberless offerings and generate great bliss. Then, with hands in the mudra of prostration, do the following offering practice with three steps for each group of offerings: visualize prostrating, making offerings, and then generate great bliss in the guru’s holy mind.
Extensive Offerings I prostrate and make offerings to all direct and indirect gurus in the Lama Chöpa merit fi eld, I prostrate and make offerings to all the buddhas of the ten directions,
I prostrate and make off erings to all the statues, stupas, scriptures, and thangkas throughout all worlds. All these are in essence my root guru – they are empty from their own side.
I prostrate and make offerings, and the guru’s holy mind experiences great bliss. Making charity to sentient beings I make offerings to all beings in the six realms.
(Think that they are liberated and att ain enlightenment in the aspect of the guru-deity.)
Yoga of Eating the Food as Tsog
The following text may be chanted to the tune of the chantable English version of Nagarjuna’s Praise of Four–Face Mahakala.
NYING WÜ CHHÖ KYI KHOR LO RÜ HO!
At Dharmachakra center of the heart,
MI SHIG THRA WÄI LUNG SEM DANG
Indestructible subtle wind and mind,
YER ME SÖ NAM SHING GI CHHOG
Inseparable with supreme merit field,
LA MA YI DAM LHA TSHOG LA
Guru’s assemblies mind–sealed deities,
DÖ YÖN TSHOG KYI KHOR LO DI
To you we offer desire enjoyments
BÜL LO DE CHHEN NGANG DÜ SHE
Of this circle of magnifient tsog.
GYÄ SHING TSHIM NE DAG CHANG LA
Please take by being pleased and satisfied,
KÜ SUNG THUG KYI NGÖ DRUB TSÖL
In state of uncontaminated bliss.
THAB DANG SHE RAB YER ME PÄI
Grant us the holy body, speech, and mind.
DOR JE NÄL JOR ZAB MO YI
Please grant blessings to achieve in this life
ZUNG JUG CHHAG GYÄ CHHEN PÖI NÄ
Mahamudra profound vajra yoga,
TSE DIR THÖ PAR JIN GYI LOB
Inseparable with method and wisdom.
With every mouthful, continue the yoga of eating and drinking with the meditation above. Then, dedicate, using any of the dedication prayers that begin on p. 31.
