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Various Mantras

It is good to recite the following mantras in the morning, to prepare for the day's activities:

Multiplying mantra

    om sambhara sambhara bimana sara maha dzawa hung/ om mara mara bimana kara maha dzawa hung

The parinata-cakra-sutra says that if this is recited seven times, whatever virtuous actions one does that day will be multiplied by 100,000.

Blessing the rosary

    om rutsira mani prawa taya hung

In the Palace of Vast Jewels, it says to recite this seven times and then blow on the rosary to increase the power of subsequent recitations.

Blessing the feet

    om kraytsara ghana hung hri soha

By reciting this three times, then spitting on the soles of your feet, it helps any living creature that dies beneath your feet that day to be reborn in the god realm of the Thirty-three.

Blessing the speech

    To the Three Jewels I go for refuge. May I become Buddha for the benefit of migrating beings. 3x

    I am the deity. On my tongue from an AH comes a moon disc. On it is a white OM. Around that are the white Sanskrit vowels standing clockwise. Around that are the red Sanskrit consonants standing anticlockwise. Around that are the blue syllables of the heart of dependent arising mantra, standing clockwise. Visualizing this, I recite these in succession, beginning with the innermost.

    Sanskrit vowels: om a a i i u u ri ri li li e ai o au am ah soha 3x

    Sanskrit consonants: om ka kha ga gha nga/ tsa tsha dza dzha na/ ta tha da dha na/ ta tha da dha na/ pa pha ba bha ma/ ya ra la wa/ sha shha sa ha ksha soha 3x

    Heart of Dependent Arising: om ye dharma haytu prabhava haytunte shan tatagato hyawadat/ teshan tsayo nirodha ewam wadi maha shramanaye soha 3x

Light from the OM and the mantra garlands summons inspiring power of speech, worldly and supermundane, in the form of the three mantras, the seven perfect royal treasures and the eight auspicious signs. These dissolve into the OM and the mantra garlands. Then the Heart of Dependent Arising mantra dissolves into the Sanskrit consonants, that into the Sankrit vowels, that into the OM, and that into the moon disc. This transforms into an AH, which melts into white and red nectar and dissolves into the tongue, making it the nature of vajra.

The benefits of this practice are: the ability of one's speech is perfected, one's recitations are multiplied in strength ten million times; the power of one's mantra recitation is not diminished by eating black food (non-vegetarian food); one's idle talk becomes like recitation, and one does not accumulate so much negative karma from idle talk.

Eating meat

    om ahbirakay tsara hung

Recite this seven times over the meat to stop the fault of eating meat and to help the sentient beings whose flesh it was to be reborn in a happy realm.

The Medicine Buddha's Mantra

    tayata om bhaykandze bhaykandze maha bhaykandze radza samudgate soha


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