Dec 31

1st Kalu Rinpoche | Rainfall of Blessings – A Guru Yoga (Seven-Fold Prayer)

DAG SOG ZHING DÜ NYE KYI LÜ TRÜL TE
I and all others imagine our forms multiplied as many times as there are atoms in the universe,
KÜN DÜ DAG NYI LA MAR GÜ CHAG TSHEL
Each of these forms bowing with respect before you, lama, embodiment of all sources of refuge.

CHI NANG SANG SUM RAB JAM CHÖ PAI TRIN
Clouds of limitless offerings – outer, inner, and secret – expand to fill all universes,
ZHING KÜN GYE PAR KANG TE ÜL WAR GYI
And all these we offer to you.

THOG ME NE SAG DIG DRIB NYE TUNG KÜN
With intense regret, we reveal all our negative and obscuring acts, faults, and downfalls, perpetrated since beginningless time,
NONG GYÖ DRAG PÖ SHAG ZHING DOM PAR GYI
And resolve to avoid their repetition.

ZAG CHE ZAG ME KHOR DE GE TSHOG LA
I greatly rejoice in all virtue,
GA WA CHEN POI JE SU YI RANG NGO
Be it impure or pure, of samsara or nirvana.

MUN PAR KYAM PE MA GEN DRO NAM LA
For the sake of all beings, our aged mothers, who wander in darkness,
ZAB GYE CHÖ KYI DRÖN ME BAR DU SÖL
Please set ablaze the torch of the vast and profound teachings.

DRO KÜN LA MAI GO PHANG MA THOB BAR
Until all beings have attained your unsurpassable realization,
ZUG KU DOR JE TA BUR ZHUG SÖL DEB
Please remain immutable, like a Vajra, in your manifest form.

DÜ SUM SAG PAI GE WA DRO LA NGO
To all beings we dedicate all virtue of the three times;
CHAM CHIG DOR JE CHANG GI SA THOB SHOG
May we together attain the state of Vajradhara!

Guru Yoga is a practice of expressing one’s faith and devotion to one’s Root Lama. In the Vajrayana tradition, Guru Yoga Practice is considered to be the most important practice one can perform. Without faith and devotion to the Root Lama, one is not able to receive blessings. Blessings purify one and create the foundation for understanding the nature of one’s mind.

At the request of his students, Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche wrote the Guru Yoga Practice, “A Rainfall of Blessings.” It is a practice that is short, easy to understand and perform; however, it is very profound.