Aspiration Prayer

Dear Nalandabodhi Sangha,

As we prepare for increased activity in the coming months at Nalanda West and within the entire Nalandabodhi mandala, please make aspiration prayers that Nalanda West and the network of Nalandabodhi centers will receive all the financial and human resources they need to accomplish the vast vision of our teachers, His Holiness Karmapa, Khenchen Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and our beloved guru, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.

On Chotrul Duchen and throughout the year when you recite "The Aspiration Prayer of the Victorious Ones" (included in this message) and do other practices, please think specifically about strengthening Nalanda West, Maitrivana, and all Nalandabodhi centers and study groups for the benefit of limitless sentient beings.

Rinpoche has taught that these intentions are the tendrel, or auspicious causes and conditions, for our fruition on the Mahayana journey. With that in mind, may we join together in the aspiration for fulfillment of the wondrous opportunities now arising in the Nalandabodhi Mandala. Please include this prayer in your liturgy today, on Chotrul Duchen, celebrating Buddha Shakyamuni’s display of fifteen days of miracles to spur devotion and increase the merit of his current and future disciples. How appropriate!

With great appreciation for this Nalandabodhi Family,

Lynne Conrad Marvet/ Robert Fors/ Lama Karma Gyaltsen

Nalanda West Directors

Kim McMeans

Chair, Nalandabodhi Executive Council, Canada

Mark Power

Chair, Nalandabodhi Executive Council, US

ASPIRATION PRAYER TO THE VICTORIOUS ONES OF THE TEN DIRECTIONS AND FOUR TIMES

NAMO GURU

In the monkey month of the monkey year, on the tenth day, in the middle floor of Samye in the Turquoise Room, at the time of opening the Vajradhatu Mandala, the one from Uddiyana uttered this aspiration. Just as the king and his disciples then did continuously, those of future generations should make this aspiration one-pointedly as their heart practice.

Victorious ones of the ten directions and four times and your heirs,
Assemblies of gurus, yidams, dakinis and dharmapalas,
Innumerable as the atoms in all realms without exception, please approach
And take your seat upon the lotus and moon in the sky before us.

Respectfully, we prostrate in body, speech and mind.
We present you with outer, inner, secret and suchness offerings.

In the presence of the sugatas, the supreme support,
We are ashamed of the accumulation of our past wrong doings
And with regret, we fully confess our present negativity.
From now on, we vow to refrain from these.

We rejoice in all accumulations of merit and virtue
And beseech you, victorious ones, to not pass into parinirvana,
But turn the wheel of dharma of the tripitaka and the unsurpassable vehicle.
We dedicate the accumulation of virtue to the mindstreams of all beings without exception:
May they travel to the ground of unexcelled liberation.

Buddhas and your heirs, please think of us.
May this supreme aspiration that we compose to you
Be equal to that of the victorious Samantabhadra and his heirs,
And may our knowledge be like that of the noble Manjushri.
May we train in the footsteps of them all.

May the precious gurus, the glory of the teachings,
Pervade everywhere like space,
Illuminate all, like the sun and moon
And like mountains, remain eternally stable.

May the sangha, the ground of the teachings,
Be of harmonious mind, pure conduct, and rich in the three trainings.

May the retreat practitioners of secret mantra, the essence of the teachings,
Keep their samayas and reach perfection in creation and completion.

May the sovereigns of the dharma, the patrons of the teachings,
See their domains expand, and may the teachings thus be benefited.

May the royal ministers, the servants of the teachings,
Their intelligence flourishing, be effective in their endeavours.

May fortunate householders, the nourishers of the teachings,
Have material comfort and be free of all harm.

May everyone in all countries throughout the word who have faith in the teachings
Be happy and free of obstacles.

Moreover, we yogis and yoginis who abide on the path,
May our samaya not decline and may our wishes be fulfilled.

May everyone with whom we have good or bad connections
Be both immediately and ultimately accepted by the victorious ones.

May all beings, having entered the door of the unsurpassable vehicle,
Attain the great kingdom of Samantabhadra.

Vigorously make this aspiration throughout the six phases.

SAMAYA GYA.

This was extracted as a public terma by an emanation of Price Murub, the great treasure-revealer Chogyur Dechen Lingpa, from the lower part of the Snow Grouse Pass on Jewel Rock Mountain, the right side of the supreme sacred place called Great Lion Sky Cliff. The text, written upon the silk dharma robes of Vairocana by Tsogyal in dakini script, was then immediately copied down correctly by Pema Garwang Lodro Thaye. May virtue and goodness increase.

Under the guidance of The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and based on explanations by Lama Tashi Dondrup, translated by Tyler Dewar.

© 2001 by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Nalandabodhi and Tyler Dewar.