The Buddha Book: Buddhas, blessings, prayers, and rituals to grant you love, wisdom, and healing
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Lillian Too. The Buddha Book: Buddhas, blessings, prayers, and rituals to grant you love, wisdom, and healing
Lillian Too. The Buddha Book. Buddhas, blessings, prayers and rituals to grant you love, wisdom, and healing Inspired by the teachings of Lama Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Epigraph
Table of Contents
On Life
Introduction Meeting a Living Buddha
REMEMBERING A PAST LIFE
PAST LIVES AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
CONNECTING AGAIN IN THIS LIFE
THE MULTITUDE OF BUDDHAS
MEETING BUDDHA
IT BEGAN IN BODHGAYA
Chapter 1 Meeting the Founder-Buddha, Shakyamuni
Shakyamuni Buddha’s meditation and visualization
BUDDHA’S HOLY MANTRA
The path to enlightenment
The story of Shaykamuni Buddha
BUDDHA’S TWELVE DEEDS
Shakyamuni’s teachings
BUDDHA AND STUPAS
Basic Buddhism
THE FOUR IMMEASURABLE THOUGHTS
THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
THE EIGHTFOLD PATH
Seeking the Buddha’s emanation: the guru
THE TEN QUALITIES OF A HIGH LAMA
Chapter 2 Five Tantric Buddhas for Spiritual Transformation
The Dhyani Families
THE DHYANI BUDDHAS AS FIVE SYMBOLS OF PURIFICATION
Tantric Buddhism and the root guru
THE MERIT FIELD MEDITATION
The Five Dhyani buddhas
THE DHYANI BUDDHA VISUALIZATIONS
BUDDHA AKSHOBHYA
THE SPECIAL PRACTICE OF BUDDHA AKSHOBHYA
BUDDHA MITRUGPA’S DAILY MANTRA
BUDDHA RATNASAMBHAVA
BUDDHA AMITABHA
BUDDHA AMOGHASIDDHI
BUDDHA VAIROCHANA
Chapter 3 Purifying Negativity: Vajrasattva and the thirty-five Confession Buddhas
Purifying the mind
SIX WAYS TO PURIFY NEGATIVE KARMA
THE SIX REALMS OF EXISTENCE
THE HELL (NARAK) REALMS
THE HUNGRY GHOST (PRETA) REALM
THE ANIMAL REALM
THE DEMI-GOD (ASURA) REALM
THE GOD REALM
THE HUMAN REALM
Retreat at Kopan in the Kathmandu valley
The Buddha of Purification: Vajrasattva
THE PRELIMINARIES
VISUALIZATION AND RECITATION OF THE MANTRA
GENERATING A FEELING OF REGRET
The thirty-five Confession buddhas’ visualization
Prostrations to the thirty-five Confession buddhas
MAKING PROSTRATIONS TO THE BUDDHAS
THE FULL PROSTRATION TO THE THIRTY-FIVE CONFESSION BUDDHAS
THE PRAYER TO THE THIRTY-FIVE CONFESSION BUDDHAS
THE CONFESSION TO THE THIRTY-FIVE BUDDHAS
Chapter 4 Meeting the Medicine Buddha
THE MEDICINE BUDDHA’S HOLY MANTRA
Medicine of a divine kind
The image of the Medicine Buddha
Benefits of the Medicine Buddha practice
SOLVING ANY PROBLEM
BENEFITING ANIMALS AND INSECTS
The Medicine Buddha and Tibetan medicine
The root of all diseases
The Medicine Buddha sadhana
INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDICINE BUDDHA VISUALIZATION
THE PRACTICE
VISUALIZATIONS AND MEDITATIONS
THE SEVEN-LIMBED PRAYER
SUPPLICATION TO THE MEDICINE BUDDHA
THE VISUALIZATION OF THE SEVEN MEDICINE BUDDHAS
REQUESTS TO THE MEDICINE BUDDHAS
VISUALIZATION FOR THE LONG MEDICINE BUDDHA MANTRA
THE MEDICINE BUDDHA’S LONG MANTRA
DEDICATIONS
Chapter 5 Meeting the Compassion Buddha, Avalokiteshvara
AVALOKITESHVARA’S MANTRA
The great jewel in the lotus
JOURNEY TO VULTURE’S PEAK
The story of thousand-armed Chenrezig
NYUNG NAY AND THE MAHAYANA PRECEPTS
The goddess of mercy, Kuan Yin
Prayer to Kuan Yin
Meditation on 1,000-armed Chenrezig
REQUEST PRAYER
THE EIGHT VERSES OF THOUGHT TRANSFORMATION
CHENREZIG’S PURIFICATION MEDITATION AND LONG MANTRA RECITATION
DAILY ACTIVITIES
A VISUALIZATION FOR PROSTRATIONS
Chapter 6 The Trinity of Longevity Buddhas: White Tara, Amitayus, and Namgyalma
The gift of longevity
Long-life pujas
THE PRECIOUSNESS OF HUMAN REBIRTH
LAM-RIM MEDITATION AND PRAYER
Meeting White Tara
LONG-LIFE WHITE TARA PRACTICE
WHITE TARA’S MANTRA
Meeting Buddha Amitayus
LONG-LIFE MEDITATION OF BUDDHA AMITAYUS
THE MANTRA OF AMITAYUS
THE SHORT MANTRA OF AMITAYUS
Meeting Namgyalma
THE MANTRA OF NAMGYALMA
Chapter 7 Meeting Green Tara, Mother Goddess
GREEN TARA’S HOLY MANTRA
Tara, mother of all the buddhas
Answering every prayer
The benefits of Tara practice
The visualization of Tara
EIGHT OFFERINGS TO MOTHER TARA
Three different practices to Tara
THE ABBREVIATED PRAISE TO TARA
THE PRACTICE OF TARA’S PROMISE
TARA MANTRA FOR SUCCESS AND DISPELLING OBSTACLES
PRAISES TO THE TWENTY-ONE TARAS
A DESCRIPTION OF THE TWENTY-ONE TARAS
Chapter 8 Meeting the Wealth Buddhas
The legend of Jambhala
The Five Jambhalas for Abundance
Water offerings to the Jambhalas
WATER OFFERING TO THE WHITE JAMBHALA
WATER OFFERING TO THE YELLOW JAMBHALA
WATER OFFERING TO THE BLACK JAMBHALA
Making water charity to the pretas
WIDENING THE PRACTICE
The White Jambhala daily practice
WHITE JAMBHALA’S MANTRA
THE MANTRAS OF THE FOUR DAKINIS
THE EIGHT WATER-BOWL OFFERINGS
The Yellow Jambhala daily practice
DEDICATIONS
Chapter 9 Meeting Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future
THE MANTRA OF MAITREYA
Building the Buddha of Love
The practice of Maitreya Buddha
Chobgye Rinpoche’s revelation
Seeing Maitreya
The tradition and everlasting benefits of holy objects
Appendices
Making Mandala Offerings
THE MANDALA OFFERING RITUAL
THE MANDALA SET
CREATING THE MANDALA
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
Worldwide FPMT Offices
Worldwide FPMT Centers and Study Groups
Maitreya Project Offices
FPMT Libraries
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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I dedicate whatever merit arises from this book to the long life of most precious guru, Lama Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche, to whom I prostrate, make offerings and go for refuge. May all his holy wishes be fulfilled immediately. May His Dharma inspired projects in India, Mongolia, Australia, United States, Asia and Europe to benefit sentient beings actualize and meet with success, including the building of the world’s largest Buddha statue of Maitreya Buddha in India.
When you know the nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled. Whatever pain, pleasure, or other feeling you experience, it is all an expression of your mind. When you discover that true satisfaction comes only from the mind, you realize you can extend this experience without limit, and then it is possible to discover everlasting happiness … so it is actually very simple.
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Buddha passed away at the age of eighty in the village of Kushinagar, in what is today the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. There he lay in the lion posture, on his right side, with his right hand supporting his head and his other hand placed lightly on his left thigh. His last words reminded his disciples that “all compounded things are by nature impermanent,” and he advised them “in mindfulness” to strive on. It is recorded that on his deathbed, when asked by Ananda what should be done with his earthly remains, Buddha answered that, like those of a king, the remains of a tathagata (an exalted one) should be enshrined in a stupa (reliquary). To satisfy the demands of the kings and princes of the surrounding states, Buddha’s relics were eventually divided into eight parts and placed in eight golden boxes (and so today there are eight types of stupa, each different in design). When the boxes were laid on the altar table, it is recorded that three rainbows arose from them. Below the relics were placed the five offerings of the senses: incense (sense of smell); food (sense of taste); flowers (sense of sight); music (sense of sound), and beautiful objects (sense of touch).
Ananda’s records also reveal Buddha’s advice on stupas. Buddha explains that when anyone sees a stupa and merely thinks, “This is the stupa of the Exalted One,” the heart of that person will become calm and happy, and they would be reborn in the happy realms of the Pure Land (the western paradise of the Buddha Amitabha, see here). Even today, one of the most significant rituals that Buddhists of all traditions observe is circumambulation of the holy stupa. There are beautiful stupas in Borobodur in Indonesia and Myanmar (Burma). The two that I love to visit and highly recommend are Bouddhanath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Mahabodhi stupa in Bodhgaya, India.
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