A Commentary by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche.
A complete approach for generating and working with loving kindness and compassion in our every day lives, making ourselves, and the world, a better place. The book is beautifully illustrated with colour diagrams to aid visualisation and includes both a drawing and print of a traditional Tibetan painting of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion, by the renowned thangka painter R. D. Salga.
Size: 170mm x 170mm – 160pp
ISBN: 978-0-9568133-0-5
The book is in three sections:
The Commentary: Ringu Tulku’s accessible commentary on the sadhana is full of clarity, sound advice and warmth of language on how we can enhance and extend our loving kindness and compassion. How to feel, how to visualize, how to aspire to our true compassionate nature; how to clear our negativities and let our inner selves shine out and benefit ourselves and all other beings; and to open up our hearts and minds to greater loving kindness.
The Sadhana: The sadhana is complete with the Tibetan script, the phonetics for this script and the English translation. This makes it easy to understand and to chant or say in Tibetan or English.
The Commemoration of Rigul: The third part of this book is commemorating Rigul, Kham, Tibet, the birthplace and homeland of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, the abbot of Rigul Monastery. It is with such good news of the flourishing of the Dharma in Rigul that this book has come into being.
Chenrezig mantra: OM MANI PADME HUM (Sanskrit) OM MANI PEME HUNG (Tibetan)
The Meaning of the Mantra by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
There is not a single aspect of the eighty-four thousand sections of the Buddha’s teaching that is not contained in Avalokiteshvara’s (Chenrezig) six syllable mantra, “OM MANI PADME HUM”, and as such the qualities of the mani are praised again and again in the Sutras and the Tantras. Whether happy or sad, if we take the mani as our refuge, Chenrezig will never forsake us, spontaneous devotion will arise in our minds and the Great Vehicle will be effortlessly realized.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones.
OM MANI PADME HUM with Prayers by His Holiness Dalai Lama
It is good to recite the mantra OM MANI OADME HUM, but while chanting recall the meaning of the six syllables.
OM is the most sacred sound symbolising the infinite energy of divinity.
In this chant OM represents progress from an impure body, speech and mind progressing to the pure exalted body, speech and mind of a Buddha.
How is this done?
The path is indicated by the next 4 syllables.
MANI, meaning jewel, symbolises the intention to become enlightened, compassion and love.
PADME, the lotus symbolises wisdom, the wisdom that realises the emptiness of inherent existence.
Purity must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolised by the final syllable HUM, which indicates indivisibility.
Seek not Buddhahood outside of yourself; the substances for achievement of Buddhahood are within.
Now let us pray:
May all beings everywhere, plagued by sufferings of body and mind, obtain an ocean of happiness and joy by virtue of my merits.
May the powerless find power, and may people think of benefiting each other.
May no living creatures suffer, commit evil or ever fall ill.
May no one be afraid or belittled with a mind weighed down by depression.
May the blind see forms. May the deaf hear sounds.
May those whose bodies are worn with toil, be restored in finding repose.
May the naked find clothing, the hungry find food.
May the thirsty find water and delicious drinks.
May the frightened cease to be afraid, and those bound be free.
May the poor find wealth, those weak with sorrow find joy.
May the forlorn find hope, constant happiness and prosperity.
May there be timely rains and bountiful harvests
May all medicines be effective, and wholesome prayers bear fruit.
May all who are sick or ill quickly be freed from their ailments.
Whatever diseases there are in the world, may they never occur again.
