Chenrezig – The Practice of Compassion

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.

Prayer from the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Through your blessing, grace, and guidance, through the power of the light that streams from you
May all my negative karma, destructive emotions, obscurations, and blockages be purified and removed

An Aspiration Prayer by Shantideva

May I be a guard for those who are without protection.
A guide for those who journey on the road.
For those who wish to go across the water,
May I be a boat, a raft, a bridge.

Dedication prayer

Through the wholesomeness of this practice, May all defilements be overcome and May all beings be liberated from the ocean of Samsara, Stirred by the waves of birth, aging, sickness and death.

The Four Immeasurables

May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the causes of happiness, Be free from suffering and the causes of suffering, May they never be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering May they dwell in the great equanimity that is free from attachment and aversion.

Refuge and Bodhisattva vows

Refuge and Bodhisattva Vows x3 In the Buddha, Dharma and Supreme Sangha, I take refuge until attaining enlightenment. Through the merit of generosity and other practices, May I attain Buddhahood for the benefit of beings. Just as all the Buddhas of the past Embraced the awakened attitude of mind, And in the precepts of the…

Buddha Amitabha

Dewachen Aspiration Prayer

E MA HO
NGO TSHAR SANG GYE NANG WA THA YE DANG
Wondrous Buddha Amitabha,
YE SU JO WO THUK JE CHEN PO DANG
On your right, Lord of Great Compassion,

Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara)- the practice of Compassion

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