Je Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Abridged) - Foundation of All Perfections
Je Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Abridged) - Foundation of All Perfections
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Following a kind master, foundation of all perfections,
Is the very root and basis of the path.
Inspire me to see this clearly
And to make every effort to follow well.
Precious human life, gained but once,
Has great potential but is easily lost.
Inspire me to remember this constantly
And to think day and night of taking its essence.
I must remember that death is quick to strike,
For spirit quivers in flesh like a bubble in water,
And after death one’s good and evil deeds
Trail after one like the shadow trails the body.
Understanding that this most certainly is true,
May I discard every level of wrong,
And generate an infinite mass of goodness;
Inspire me to be thus continually aware.
Sensual gluttony is a gate to suffering
And is not worthy of a lucid mind.
Inspire me to realize the shortcomings of samsara
And to give birth to the great wish for blissful freedom.
And inspire me that with mindfulness and alertness
Born from thoughts ultimately pure,
I may live in accord with the holy dharma,
The ways leading to personal liberation.
Just as I myself have fallen into samsara’s waters,
So have all other sentient beings.
Inspire me to see this and really to practice
Bodhi-mind, that carries the weight of freeing them.
Yet without habituation in the three types of morality,
Thought-training accomplishes no enlightenment.
Inspire me to know this deeply, and to train intensely
In the various ways of the great bodhisattvas.
And inspire me to pacify distorted mental wanderings
And to decipher the ultimate meaning of life,
That I may give birth within my mindstream
To the path combining concentration and wisdom.
One who trains in these common Mahayana practices
Becomes a vessel worthy of the supreme vehicle, Vajrayana.
Inspire me that I may quickly and easily
Arrive at that portal of fortunate beings.
The foundation of what then produces the two powers
Is the guarding of the pledges and commitments
of tantric initiation.
Inspire me so that I may have uncontrived knowledge of this
And guard my discipline as I do my very life.
And inspire me so that I may gain realization of the main
practices
Of the two stages of Vajrayana, essence of the tantric path;
And, by sitting relentlessly in four daily sessions of yoga,
Actualize just what the sages have taught.
Inspire me that the masters who have unfolded
the sublime path within me
And the spiritual friends who have inspired me may live long;
And that the myriad inner and outer interferences
Be completely and utterly calmed forever.
In all future lives may I never be parted
From the perfect lamas or the pure ways of dharma.
May I gain every experience of the paths and stages
And quickly attain the stage of Vajradhara.
Request
Glorious, kind, precious root lama,
Please take your seat on the lotus and moon in my heart.
Please take care of me with your great kindness
And grant me the attainments of your body, speech,
and mind.
Yonten Zhirgyurma
YON TEN KUN GYI ZHIR GYUR DRIN CHEN JE
TSUL ZHIN TEN PA LAM GYI TSA WA RU
LEK PAR THONG NE BE PA DU MA YI
GU PA CHEN PO TEN PAR CHIN GYI LOB
LEN CHIK NYE PAY DEL WAY TEN ZANG DI
SHIN TU NYE KA DON CHEN SHE GYUR NE
NYIN TSEN KUN TU NYING PO LEN PAY LO
GYUN CHE ME PAR KYE WAR CHIN GYI LOB
LU SOK YO WA CHU YI CHU BUR ZHIN
NYUR DU JIK PAY CHI WA DREN PA DANG
SHI WAY JE SU LU DANG DRIP MA ZHIN
KAR NAK LE DRE CHI ZHIN DRANG WA LA
NGE PA TEN PO NYE NE NYE PAY TSOK
TRA ZHING TRA WA NAM KYANG PONG WA DANG
GE TSOK THA DAK DRUP PAR CHE PA LA
TAK TU BAK DANG DEN PAR CHIN GYI LOB
CHE PE MI NGOM DUK NGEL KUN GYI GO
YI TEN MI RUNG SI PAY PHUN TSOK KYI
NYE MIK RIK NE THAR PAY DE WA LA
DON NYER CHEN POR KYE WAR CHIN GYI LOB
NAM DAK SAM PA DE YI DRANG PA YI
DREN DANG SHE ZHIN BAK YO CHEN PA YI
TEN PAY TSA WA SO SOR THAR PA LA
DRUP PA NYING POR CHE PAR CHIN GYI LOB
RANG NYI SI TSOR LHUNG WA JI ZHIN DU
MAR GYUR DRO WA KUN KYANG DE DRA WAR
THONG NE DRO WA DROL WAY KHUR CHER WAY
JANG CHUB SEM CHOK JONG PAR CHIN GYI LOB
SEM TSOM KYE KYANG TSUL TRIM NAM SUM LA
GOM PA ME NA JANG CHUB MI DRUP PAR
LEK PAR THONG NE GYEL SE DOM PA LA
TSOM PA DRAK PO LOP PAR CHIN GYI LOB
LOK PAY YUL LA YEND WA ZHI CHE CHING
YANG DAK DON LA TSUL ZHIN CHO PA YI
ZHI NE LAK THONG ZUNG DU DREL WAY LAM
NYUR DU GYU LA KYE WAR CHIN GYI LOB
THUN MONG LAM JANG NO DU GYUR WA NA
THEK PA KUN GYI CHOK GYUR DORJE THEK
KEL ZANG KYE WO JUK NGOK DAM PA DER
DE LAK NYI DU JUK PAR CHIN GYI LOB
DE TSE NGO DRUP NAM NYI DRUP PAY ZHI
NAM DAK DAM TSIK DOM PAR SUNG PA LA
CHO MA MIN PAY NGE WA NYE GYUR NE
SOK DANG DO TE SUNG WAR CHIN GYI LOB
DE NE GYU DEY NYING PO RIM NYI KI
NE NAM JI ZHIN TOK NE TSO PA YI
THUN ZHI NAM JOR CHO LE MI YEL WAR
DAM PAY SUNG ZHIN DRUP PAR CHIN GYI LOB
DE TAR LAM ZANG TON PAY SHE NYEN DANG
TSUL ZHIN DRUP PAY DROK NAM ZHAB TEN CHING
CHI DANG NANG GI PHAR DU CHO PAY TSOK
NYE WAR ZHI WAR CHIN GYI LAB TU SOL
KYE WA KUN TU YANG DAK LA MA DANG
DREL ME CHO KYI PEL LA LONG CHO CHING
SA DANG LAM GYI YON TEN RAB DZOK NE
DORJE CHANG GI GO PHANG NYUR THOP SHOK
Request
PALDEN TSA WAI LAMA RINPOCHE
DAK GI NYING KAR PE ME TENG SHUG LA
KA DRIN CHENPU GONAY JE ZUNG DEY
KU SUNG THUK KYI NGO DRUB TSAL DU SOL
Reprinted from:
Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, Daily Prayers
Losang Rinpoche, Spiritual Director