100,000 Recitations On Merit Accumulation Prayers
Accumulation of
merits is very important regardless if you are a Buddhist, Christian
or Muslim. There are many approaches in accumulating merits.
Buddhism such as Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana has its own
methods to accumulate merits. Without accumulating merits, it is
nearly impossible to attain enlightenment. As stated by the Lord
Buddha, even for our present lives' happiness, we need a vast
accumulation of merits and this is commonly believed by all
Buddhists. There are numerous ways (either difficult or easy) in
accumulating merits. As in difficult way, Siddhartha left the
palace and kingdom behind and engaged in an ascetic path, without
food and movement, vowing to exert himself in his meditation until
he reached his goal of enlightenment. Buddha also sacrificed his
body as food for a hungry mother tiger and her cubs. In this modern
generation, such hard practice is no longer existed. Of course they
are many people who forego marriage and renounce their personal
ownership, become monks and nuns and stay in retreat for 3 years, 6
years or 9 years and their intentions are to accumulate merits in
order to attain enlightenment. In this degenerate age, it is very
difficult for a lay person to practice in such a way. Therefore,
one needs to generate and accumulate inconceivable merits by making
offerings, reciting mantras, sponsoring and supporting the sanghas
and helping the poor.
We are honoured to
have the presence of Rinpoche in conducting this puja. Needless to
say, with Rinpoche’s tireless quest and compassionate vision to
benefit all sentient beings, thus, this puja is organised. It is
arranged in the easiest manner to accumulate extensive merits by
just reciting few lines of powerful offering prayers and this will
bring tremendous and extraordinary blessings. Rinpoche encourages
all his dharma disciples, devotees and fervent supporters not to
miss this golden opportunity to participate the puja. The purpose
of this puja is to accumulate merits for the happiness of present
life and for the sake of attaining enlightenment.
累积功德在任何宗教是重要的，不论是佛教徒或其他教徒，分别是不同人有不同的方法来累积功德。在佛教里，亦有很多方法如小乘，大乘和金刚乘，各有不同的方法来累积功德以聚集善根，福德，因缘，得成佛道。于今世的快乐亦需要聚集功德，这是如佛所教，
亦是一切佛教徒的共同点。在修功德的方法来讲，有无量的道路，或是容易，或是艰苦。如艰苦方法，佛陀在没成道前，六年苦行，无食物，无行动，或如过世拾身救老虎和它的幼儿。但是，在今天我们不需要这种修持法。现在，许多出家男众，女众，拾弃家庭，到深山闭关三年，六年，九年，目的是集聚功德求成道。在居家众，这样的修行是不可能的，所以在家居众，求功德的方法有供养，持咒，供出家人及帮穷人，以上是比较容易修持的方法。
在藏密金刚乘，有最方便容易的方法，只要你修持十万次以上就可得到大力的加持。我期望一切法兄弟，姐妹不要错失这好机会来集聚福功德，可帮我们今世或来世成道。这一套法的名号是《十万大荟供》需供养十万次十方诸法菩萨。
The Benefits Of The Puja
The
100,000 recitations on merit accumulation prayers, also known as
TSHOG BUM is the highest offerings in Ati-Yoga. Through Rinpoche's
dharmadhatu meditation and the recitation of yidam's (Krodikali)
mantra, all holy ingredients which fill the sphere will be blessed
and transformed into great blissful amrita and the five blissful
sounds.
With Rinpoche's
powerful meditation, the spheres of offerings which primordially
free from elaboration are offered to Gurus of three times in the 10
directions, Yidams, Dakinis, Dharmapalas, wealth deities, land Gods
and so forth. The Tshog Bum is based on a short version and it will
be done in 100,000 recitations and visualizations of offering
prayers.
The
benefits of joining the puja :
***
Remove outer, inner and secret obstacles.
i) Outer obstacles -
Purifiy the disorders by the
four physical elements such as catastrophe, lightning, weapons,
robbery and save from the attack by the demons, elephants, wild
animals.
ii) Inner obstacles
- Free from the multitude of sufferings inflicted by evil forces,
contagious diseases and poisons.
iii) Secret
obstacles - Eliminate the 5 poisons (desire, hatred, ignorant, pride
& jealousy).
*** All one's wishes
will be accomplished and one's activities fulfilled.
*** Improve luck and
fortune.
*** Increase in
wisdom and goodness.
*** Remove
negativities and obstructions to prosperity, good health, success
and spiritual growth.
*** Attain supreme
and mundane realizations (common and uncommon siddhis)
*** Receives great
enjoyment of wealth.
*** Bring peace and
prosperity to the country.
The
Krodikali Initiation
The Krodikali puja
is derived from the many practices of Dudjom New Treasure Lineage.
It is actually a CHOD, a Tibetan term means "to sever". This
practice severs the transmigrations in samsara. The benefits of
this puja are of two folds. To a keen dharma practitioner, this
practice severs ego and eliminates the three poisons (greed, hatred
and ignorance). To the public who attending this puja, by just
hearing the chanting, the sound of damarus and the sound of "PHET"
pronounces by the Vajra Master, obstacles and undesirable elements
will be abolished. Chod is a powerful means of accumulating merit
because one is practicing the generosity of offering one's body.
This practice emphasizes cutting through grasping at the dualistic
mind to realize complete selfless compassion.
In
Vajrayana, women are held to be the essence of wisdom and numerous
female manifestations of different energies are known as dakinis.
These dakinis played a key role in the life of many of the great
masters of the past. "The body is the basis of the
accomplishment of wisdom. And the gross bodies of men and women
are equally suited. But is a woman has strong aspiration, she has
higher potential." (page 86, Dowman, K., Sky Dancer; The
secret life and songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyal, Routledge & Kegan
Paul,1984) This verse is quoted by Guru Padmasambhava. Namkhai
Norbu Rinpoche explains that women have a natural affinity for
working with energy and visional and Garab Dorje, the founder of
the Dzogchen teachings, went so far as to say that the body of
light or rainbow body would be women.
Recognizing
the body as the root of one's attachment to self, Krodikali
formulated 'The Quintessential Accomplishment in Accordance with
the Lineage of the Vajra Essence' to be a practice that would
destroy this fundamental attachment and simultaneously develop
compassion for all beings. On the surface, Krodikali seems to be
an offering of only the body. Nevertheless, during the
visualization the body has been identified with the universe,
and consequently the offering means the offering of all things
desirable. Thus, it is not just aiming at reduction of
attachment to body but also of all attachment.
Krodikali
practice could be characterized as a practice which frees one;
-
outwardly from attachments
to the body
-
inwardly to sensual objects
-
secretly to all desires and
enjoyments
-
and most secretly to
self-centeredness
In the practice
of 'The Quintessential Accomplishment in Accordance with the
Lineage of the Vajra Essence', from pure vision, there is the
laughter of Troma which overcomes and suppresses through
splendor. The natural display of primordial wisdom, as the
magical manifestation of boundless dakinis, shatters the gods
and demons of duality within the uncontrived fundamental nature
of the nonexistent self.
By the truth of
refuge in the Triple Gems, the compassionate love of the dakinis
of the three enlightened embodiments and the blessing of the
five great mothers, the ruling male demonic forces are overcome,
the demoness female forces are overcome, the earth lords and
subterranean demonic forces are overcome and the demonic forces
of the place and body are overcome. All are completely
suppressed by splendor.
The central
practice of this Trogma Nagmo is to cut away the false concept
of ego by offering one's own body to the divine and the demons.
This practice can help one to reduce one's karmic debt, thus
eliminating innumerable obstacles in worldly life. It would also
improve one's state of mind by generating the understanding of
emptiness, thus developing that profound wisdom.
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