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The guru is Buddha, the guru is Dharma
The guru is Sangha also
The guru is the creator of all (happiness)
To all gurus I go for refuge (3x)
Generating Bodhicitta
To accomplish my own and others aim
I generate the mind seeking enlightenment (3x)
Purifying the Place
Everywhere may the ground be pure
Free of the roughness of pebbles and so forth
May it be in the nature of lapis lazuli
And as smooth as the palm of one's hand
Offering Prayer
May human and divine offerings
Actually arranged and mentally created
Clouds of finest Samantabhadra offerings
Fill the entire place.
OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VAJRA SARA PRAMARDANE / TATHAGATAYA / ARHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA / TADYATHA / OM VAJRE VAJRE / MAHA VAJRE / MAHA TEJA VAJRE / MAHA VIDYA VAJRE / MAHA BODHICITTA VAJRE / MAHA BODHI MANDO PASAM KRAMANA VAJRE / SARVA KARMA AVARANA VISHO DHANA VAJRE SHAVA (3X)
The Power of Truth
Of the blessings of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas
By the power of the great might of the completed two collections
And of the completely pure, inconceivable sphere of reality
May all these offerings become just so
Invocation
Protector of all beings without exception
Divine destroyer of the intractable legions of Mara
Perfect knower of all things
Bhagavan and retinue, please come here
Seven-limb Prayer
Reverently, I prostrate with my body, speech and mind
I present clouds of every type of offering, actual and imagined
I declare all my negative actions accumulated since beginningless time
And rejoice in the merit of all holy and ordinary beings
Please remain until end of cyclic existence
And turn the wheel of Dharma for living beings
I dedicate my own merits and those of all others to the great enlightenment
Brief Mandala Offering
This ground, anointed with perfume, strewn with flowers
Adorned with
I imagine this as a Buddha-field and offer it
May all living beings enjoy this pure land!
The objects of my attachment, aversion and ignorance
Friends, enemies, strangers – and my body, wealth and enjoyments
Without any sense of loss I offer this collection
Please accept it with pleasure and bless me with freedom from the three poisons
IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRTAYAMI
Make three prostrations, reciting this mantra with each one ;
Having made three prostrations, kneel on your knee with your hands together in prostration mudra and your head and shoulders bowed, visualize Guru Avalokitshvara before you, generate the profound bodhicitta motivation for taking the precepts, and repeat three times;
All buddhas and bodhisattvas, dwelling in the ten directions, please pay attention to me. Just as the previous Tathagatas, foe destroyers, perfectly completed buddhas who, like the divine wise horse and the great elephant, did what had to be done, perform actions, laid down the burden, subsequently attained their own welfare, completely exhausted the fetters to existence, and had perfect speech, well-liberated minds, and well liberated wisdom, for the welfare of all sentient beings, in order to benefit, in order to liberate, in order to eliminate famine, in order to eliminate sickness, in order to fully completely the thirty-seven practices harmonious with enlightenment, and in order to definitely actualize the unsurpassed result of perfect, completely enlightenment; similarly, also I, who am called [say your name], from this time until sunrise tomorrow, for the welfare of all sentient beings, in order to benefit, in order to liberate, in order to eliminate famine, in order to eliminate sickness, in order to fully complete the thirty-seven practices harmonious with enlightenment, and in order to definitely actualize the unsurpassed result of perfect, completely enlightenment, shall perfectly undertake the restoring and purifying ordination.
Upon completing the third recitation, think that you have received the vows in your continuum and rejoice. Then generate the thought of bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration to attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings, by thinking:
Just as the foe destroyers of the past have abandoned all misconduct of body, speech and mind such as taking lives of others, so shall I, for the sake of all beings, abandoned for one day these wrong actions and devote myself to the pure practice of the training.
The Commitment Prayer to Keep the Precepts
From now on I shall not kill
Steal others' possession
Engage in sexual activity
Or speak false words
I shall avoid intoxicants
From which many mistakes arise
I shall not sit on large, high and expensive beds
I shall not eat food at the wrong times
I shall avoid singing, dancing and playing music
And I shall not wear perfumes, garlands or ornaments
Just as the arhats have avoided wrong actions such as taking the lives of others
So shall I avoid wrong actions such as taking the lives of others
May I quickly attain enlightenment
And may the living beings who are experiencing the various sufferings
Be released from the ocean of cyclic existence
The Mantra of Pure Morality
OM AMOGHASHILA SAMBHARA /BHARA BHARA / MAHA SHUDDHA SATTVA PADMA BIBHUSHITA BHUDZA / DHARA DHARA / SAMANTA / AVALOKITE HUM PHAT SVAHA (21X)
Prayer to Keep Pure Morality
May I maintain faultless morality of the rules
And immaculate morality
May the perfection of moral conduct be completed
By keeping morality purely and untainted by pride
Make three prostrations
Dedication Prayers
May the supreme jewel bodhicitta
That has not arisen, arise and grow
And may that which has arisen not diminish
Increase more and more
Source – Essential Buddhist Prayers, Kopan Prayer Book
