བཞི་སྔོན་འགོག་སྟོབས་བཞི། The Four Opponent Powers

༡ བརྟེན་པའི་སྟོབས།
1. The Power of Support

རང་གི་བླ་མ་དང་ནམ་མཁའི་སྐྱབས་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་དབྱེར་མེད་དུ་མདུན་དུ་བཞུགས་པར་དྲན་པ་ཉེ་བར་བཞག་པ་སྟེ།
To think that one’s own guru and Vajrasattva are inseparably present before oneself, and to keep the mind focused without distraction.
(This refers to relying on a sacred object or being as the basis for purification. One can confess before one’s guru, the Buddha, a yidam deity, the Three Jewels, or even fellow Dharma practitioners. This reliance provides the foundation for the purification practice).

༢ ངེས་འབྱུང་གི་སྟོབས།
2. The Power of Regret

ནམ་མཁའི་སྐྱབས་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཞལ་དུ་སྡིག་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་སྙིང་ཐག་པ་ནས་འགྱོད་པ་དྲག་པོས་བཤགས་པ་བྱ་བ་སྟེ།
To sincerely confess all negative actions with deep remorse before Vajrasattva, for only with genuine regret can non-virtue be purified.
(This involves feeling deep remorse for all negative actions one has committed. As stated in the Sutra of the Four Dharmas, if a bodhisattva possesses four qualities, they can overcome all accumulated negative karma, the first of which is the power of regret. This sincere regret is indispensable for purification).

༣ ལྡོག་པའི་སྟོབས།
3. The Power of Restraint

ད་ནས་བཟུང་སྲོག་ལ་བབ་ཀྱང་སྡིག་པའི་ལས་མི་བྱེད་པར་དམ་བཅའ་བ་སྟེ།
To make a firm resolve that, from this day forward, even at the cost of one’s life, one will not commit negative actions.
(This is the firm resolve not to commit negative actions again in the future. After recognizing one’s faults and feeling regret, one must make a strong commitment to refrain from such actions, at the very least trying one’s best).

༤ སྤྱོད་པའི་སྟོབས།
4. The Power of Application

རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་བསྒོམ་བཟླས་དང་། མཎྜལ་འབུལ་བ། སྔགས་བཟླས་ལ་སོགས་དགེ་བའི་ལས་ལ་འབད་པ་སྟེ།
To diligently apply oneself to virtuous actions, such as meditating on and reciting Vajrasattva’s mantra, making offerings, turning prayer wheels, and accumulating merit.

(This refers to actively engaging in virtuous practices to purify negative karma. Examples include reciting mantras, performing prostrations, circumambulating sacred objects, and engaging in other meritorious deeds. These actions directly counteract the effects of negative karma).

These Four Opponent Powers are considered essential for effective purification in Vajrayana Buddhism. By applying them sincerely, practitioners can cleanse their negative karma and progress on the path to enlightenment.

𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 and commented 𝙗𝙮 𝙋𝙝𝙪𝙗 𝘿𝙤𝙧𝙟𝙞 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙜

As Bodhicitta is so precious,
May those without it now create it.
May those who have it not destroy it,
And may it ever grow and flourish.