Friday, October 8, 2021

Cultivate Generous Thought and practice giving gifts to the Sanghas.

The Buddha once explained that it is a meritorious act even to throw away the water after washing one's plate with the generous thought: 


"May the particles of food in the washing water be food to the creatures on the ground." 


Even when the waste is discarded with pure thought as it benefits some one, it is also an act of indirect giving and do accumulate merit.
For example, when you throw empty mineral water bottles in dustbin think as above, it bring good virtue as it benefits some waste collectors. 


When, these waste brings so such merits, just think how much merits you will accumulate when you practice giving real gifts.


Giving is one of the essential preliminary steps of Buddhist practice. When practiced in itself, it is a basis of merit or wholesome karma. When coupled with morality, concentration and insight, it leads ultimately to liberation from samsara, the cycle of repeated existence.


So in the practice of giving keep one's mind pure, select the worthiest recipients available ( usually monks) , and choose the most appropriate and generous gifts one can afford.

The Seven Lines that Dispel All Obstacles and Enfold All Profundity by Tertön Rangrik Dorje


This is the practice for the fortunate one. Recite daily to dispel all obstacles. Very short profound prayer and mantra to Guru Rinpoche.

༄༅། །བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་ཟབ་འདུས་ཀུན་ཚིག་བདུན་མ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས། །
The Seven Lines that Dispel All Obstacles and Enfold All Profundity
by Tertön Rangrik Dorje

བྱིན་རླབས་ཀུན་སྩོལ་བླ་མ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་། །
jinlab kün tsol lama pema jung
Bestower of all blessings, the Lotus-Born, Padmākara;


དངོས་གྲུབ་ཀུན་བདག་ཡི་དམ་རྟ་མཆོག་དཔལ། །
ngödrub kün dak yidam tachok pal
Lord of all accomplishments, the iṣṭadevatā, mighty Hayagrīva;


ཕྲིན་ལས་ཀུན་སྟེར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ། །
trinlé kün ter khandro naljorma
Fulfiller of all activities, the ḍākinī Vajrayoginī1;


བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་བཀའ་སྲུང་ལྕམ་དྲལ་སྡེ། །
barché kün sel kasung chamdral dé
Dispeller of all obstacles, the guardians, male and female;


གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་སོ་བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སོལ་ལོ། །
solwa deb so barché kün sol lo
To you we pray. Dispel all our obstacles!


བསམ་པའི་དོན་ཀུན་ཡིད་བཞིན་འགྲུབ་པ་དང་། །
sampé dön kün yishyin drubpa dang
Accomplish all our wishes, just as we desire!


ཕྲལ་ཕུགས་ཀུན་ཏུ་དགེ་ལེགས་ཆར་དུ་སྙིལ། །
tral puk küntu gelek char du nyil
Let virtue and goodness rain upon us, now and forever!


ཨོྃ་ཨཱཿ ཧཱུྃ་གུ་རུ་དེ་བ་ཌཱཀྐི་ནི་དྷརྨ་པ་ལ་སརྦ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ། །
om ah hung guru dewa dakini dharmapala sarva siddhi hung
oṃ āḥ hūṃ guru deva ḍākinī dharmapāla sarva-siddhi hūṃ


ཞེས་རྒྱ་ཆེའི་དོན་འདུས་ཟབ་པའི་གནད། ཐུན་མོང་མ་ཡིན་ཁྱད་པར་ཆེ། སྐལ་ལྡན་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཉམས་སུ་ལོངས། རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཤར་མར་སྤེལ། །
This profound key-point distills the extensive meaning, extraordinary and exalted, and is a practice for the fortunate ones. It was spontaneously written down by Rigpe Dorje.

| Translated by Stefan Mang and Kaleb Yaniger, 2018. Edited by Libby Hogg.
↑ Lit. Fulfiller of all activities, the ḍākinī, the yoginī

Tibetan Eye Chart that is handy today


This timely Tibetan Eye Chart which was developed by Tibetan Lama long ago (before the light was invented ) is now becoming very essential in today’s context.
With the outburst of digital world people literally can’t stay their eyes away from fiddling electronic gadgets. Everyone is seen busy with their Mobile phones most of the time.


Watching anything on small screen strains our important eyes. There is danger of loosing eye sight slowly. All experienced blaring of eyes from time to time on usage of mobile phones.Therefore, we must give exercise to our eyes.

For generations the people of Tibet have used natural methods to correct visual weakness and improve their eyesight. Chief among the methods employed has been the use of certain exercises which have proved useful over long periods of time. 


The figure on this chart was designed by Tibetan Lama Monks to give the necessary corrective exercises and stimulation to the muscles and nerves of the optical system.
The eye Muscles focus similar to a camera shutter.
The purpose of these exercises is to strengthen the eye muscles to improve vision.
A few minutes practice morning and evening will bring immediate effects and over a period of months a most definite improvement will result.



How to Use the Chart


These exercises are to be done without eye glasses or contacts.
Do each movement for 30 seconds while in a sitting position, spine straight and do not move the head side to side. Move only the eyes.


1.) With the palm of each hand cup both closed eyes to relax them.
2.) Move the eyes clockwise around the outer circle of dots
3.) Repeat this movement in a counterclockwise rotation
4.) Move the eyes back and forth between the dots at 2 and 8 o’clock
5.) Repeat this movement back and forth between dots at 4 and 10 o’clock
6.) Blink the eyes briefly and finish therapy with the palming same as exercise as No. 1
Repeat exercises as desired being careful to avoid strain. 



After beginning therapy wear eyeglasses and contacts as little as possible. In time these crutches will become unnecessary.


The process of repair and the reforming of the curvature of the back of the eye require specific exercise and the increase of the nutrients used only by the eye for its repair and maintenance. 


Like any other muscle the more exercise the more nutrients are needed.
So find out which nutrition is good for eyes and consume that.
Hopefully, it will improve your eye sights.


Please take care your eyes.

Daily increase your merits.

Nargarjuna said:


“Since life is full of harms and more impermanent than a water-bubble blown by the wind, it is a wonderful surprise to have the chance to wake up from sleep, breathing in and out.”


Daily when you wake up in the morning think of the impermanence nature of us. Understanding that our life is like a water bubble that can burst at any time it is wise to practice dharma and be compassionate to all sentient beings.


As explained by Buddha in the sutra teachings, if you recite
“OM SAMBHARA SAMBHARA VIMANASARA MAHA JAMBHA HUM”
seven times, it increases any merit you collect during the rest of the day 100,000 times.

ༀ་སམྦྷ་ར་སམྦྷ་ར་བི་མ་ན་ས་ར་མ་ཧཱ་ཛམྦྷ་ཧཱུྃ།།


Mantra source: Arya Parimata Chakra Sutra.