Apr 23

Kalu Rinpoche | Niguma’s aspiration prayer of sealed instructions

SANG JAY DANG JANG CHUB SEM PA TAM CHAY LA CHAG TSAL LO
I bow to all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

CHOG CHU DU SUM GAL WA JAM TSO YI
TUK JAY TRIN LAY PUN SUM TSOK PAYI
DAK GI MÖN LAM DI DAK TAM CHAY KUN
Through the vast scope of compassionate activity of an ocean of Victors of the three times and ten directions, may all my aspiration prayers be accomplished just as I express them.

JITAR TAB PA SHIN TU DRUB PAR SHOG
DI NAY ZUNG TE NAM PA TAM CHAY DU
MO GU TSE MAY LA MA NYAY JAY CHING
NAM DAK LU NGAK LONG CHÖ KA NYAM CHÖ
From this moment on, with limitless reverence and devotion, may I please the Lama, making pure offerings of body, speech and enjoyments as vast in extent as space. May I never be separate from him for even an instant.

KAY CHIK MIN DRAL TRIN LAY JAY JAY SHOK
TSAY RAB KUN TU NYEN SHAY GOM DRUB TSAY
LOK PAI LOB PUN DE SHIN LA MA NGEN
DROK NGEN JIN DAK NGEN DANG MIN TRAY CHING
May his activity flourish. In all my succession of lives, when listening, explaining, meditating and practicing the Dharma, may I not encounter false teachers, bad lamas, bad friends or bad patrons.

LA MA CHOK TEN JANG CHUB DER TOB SHOK
CHAY WA KUN TU RIK ZANG NAY MAY CHING
YANG NYEN ZUK DZAY ZI JI TOB DEN NAY
TSAY RING KOR DANG LONG CHÖ NAM KUN
May I serve an excellent Lama and thereby attain enlightenment. In all my births may I have an excellent family, freedom from sickness, a pleasing appearance, melodious speech, glory and power.

LHUN JI DRUP CHING KUN JI KUR WAR SHOK
GANG DU CHAY WAI TSAY RAB TAMCHAY DU
SEM CHEN NAM KYI TONG TÖ DREN REK TSAY
DZAY SHING YID ONG TA WAY MI GOM CHING
May I be endowed effortlessly with everything – long life, retinue and wealth – and be respected by all. Wherever in all my succession of lives living beings see, hear, remember or touch me, may they find me attractive and engaging.

MI TUN CHOK DRAL KUN DANG TUN PAR SHOK
DAK NI KA NYAM SEM CHEN TAM CHAY KYI
GON KYAB RAY MAY PUNG NYEN JUR NAY CHANG
GANG LA GANG DÖ RAY WA TAM CHAY KUN
May I be in harmony with everyone free of discord of any kind. May I become a protector refuge, source of hope and defender of living beings as vast as space and may I fulfill in whatever way is

TSUL SHIN DAK GI MA LU KONG WAR SHOK
DAK LA PEN PAR DO PAI DROK NAM DANG
LƯ NGAK YID SUM MÖNLAM CHIK TU CHAY
DU DI NAY ZUNG KAY CHIK MIN DRAL SHING
suitable at the wishes of each and every living being. May my aspirations and conduct of body, speech and mind be at one with those who wish to benefit me, and from this moment onward may I have sacred outlook

DAK NANG DAY KYI PUN SUM TSOK PAR SHOK
GANG KYE YID SHIN NOR BUR DAK JUR NAY
GÖ DÖ TAM CHAY YID LA SAM MA TAK
PUN SUM TSOK PA PAK MAY CHAR BAB NAY
towards them and never be separate from them for even an instant. May there be great happiness and joy! Wherever I am born, may I be like a wish fulfilling jewel. As soon as anyone needs of wishes for something, may it rain down in limitless abundance.

SEM CHEN TAM CHAY DAY LA GÖ PAR SHOK
DAK NI NAY PAI SA CHOK TAM CHAY DU
DRO KUN NAY DÖN TAB TSÖ UL PONG DRAL
May I place all living beings in happiness! Everywhere in the regions where l abide, may all beings be free of sickness, maras fighting dispute, poverty and neediness.

TSAY RING NAY MAY CHỖ DANG LONG CHỖ DEN
TRA SHI DAY LEK PUN SUM TSOK PAR SHOK
CHAY WA DI DANG CHAY WA TAM CHAY DU
LONG CHÖ NAM KAI DZÖ LA NGA NYAY NAY
May they have long lives and good health and may they have the dharma and every comfort. May there be immense auspiciousness and good fortune! In this and all my other lives, having obtained authority

JIN PA NAM SHI CHOK CHUR TONG JAY CHING
PA ROL CHIN CHU DRO KUN MIN DRÖL SHOK
KOR DAY CHÖ NAM MA LU TAM CHAY LA
CHAG TOK MAY PAI SHAY RAB PUN TSOK NAY
over a vast store of resources, may practice the four kinds of generosity in every corner of the universe, ripening and liberating all beings through the ten paramitas. Through knowing all phenomena samsara and nirvana

DU SUM SHAY JAI KYIL KOR MA LU KUN
KAY CHIK TSAM JI TAM CHAY NGÖN JUR SHOK
DAK NI LAB SUM DRI MAY LEK JEN SHING
with wisdom free from attachment and obstruction, may all of the mandalas which are the noble objects of knowledge of the three times manifest in a single instant. Adorned with the three kinds of stainless

TSÖ DRAL LHAR CHAY JIK TEN CHÖ CHING TÖ
TSUL TRIM CHOK LA DRO WA KUN GO CHING
LEK PAI YÖN TEN MA LU RAB DZOK SHOK
RITRÖ GÖN PAR CHOG SHAY ZAY GÖ DEN
training, and undisputedly praised and offered to by gods and the world, may I place all beings in pure morality and completely perfect all good qualities. May I be content in isolated mountain retreats and have sufficient food and clothing.

CHI NANG BAR CHAY KAY CHIK MIN JUNG WAR
NYAM TOK TAR CHIN TRIN LAY TSAY MAY KYI
DRO NAM MALU MIN CHING DROL JAY SHOK
LHA DRAY TOB DEN DREK CHEN MA LU KUN
May outer and inner obstacles not arise for even a moment, and through experience, ultimate realization and limitless activity, may I ripen and liberate each and every being without having to entreat

NYEN DRUB BAY KUL KAY CHIK MI GÖ PAR
SOK NYING PUL SHING DREN SHIN NYEN PA DANG
TU TOB PUN TSOK TEN PA SUNG WAR SHOK
DAK GI JAM DANG NYING JAY NGÖN JUR TE
them for even an instant through recitation of approach and accomplishment practices, may all the proud and powerful gods and demons, offering their lives and attending like servants, protect the teachings with their magnificent powers.

KAM SUM SEM CHEN MA LU TAM CHAY KUN
CHIK LA CHIK TSAY NÖ PA RAB SHI NAY
BU CHIK MA SHIN TSAY WAY NAY PAR SHOK
NAM SHIK CHI WAI DU JAY JUR PAI TSAY
Manifesting loving kindness and compassion, may I always be like a loving mother towards her only child, completely pacifying every harm that threatens each and every living being in the three realms.

NAY CHÖ MIN JUNG CHÖ KU NGÖN JUR NAY
ZUK KU RANG SHAR SHEN DÖN LHUN DRUB
CHING KU DUNG RING SEL DRO WA DREN PAR SHOK
When it comes time to die, may there be no agony. May I manifest the Dharmakaya, and spontaneously benefit others with self-arisen form bodies. With relics appearing, may be a guide for beings.

JAL WAI SHING KAM MA LU TAM CHAY DU
SANG JAY KAL PAI DUL NYAY JAM TSO LA
KUN ZANG CHO TRIN NAM KA NYAM PAYI
KAL PA JAM TSOR DAK GI CHÖ JAY SHOK
In all Buddha realms without exception, to an ocean of Buddhas as many as there are atoms in an eon, may I make offerings for an ocean of eons with offering clouds vast as space like those of Kuntuzangpo.

SHING KAM NAM DAK JAM TSOR NGÖN JUR TE
CHÖ PA NAM DAK SHAY RAB TSAY MAY KYI
CHÖ NAM JAM TSO TAM CHAY RAB TONG NAY
YE SHAY JAM TSO MALU TOK PAR SHOK
Manifesting an ocean of pure Buddha realms, and through immeasurable knowledge and pure conduct having completely understood oceans of Dharma, may I realize the full ocean of wisdom.

JAL WA JAM TSO’I SUNG YANG NGÖN JUR NAY  1
NAM KA’I CHAB TSANG PAI YANG DROK SHING
DRO NAM KAY DU DAK GI CHÖ TEN NAY
SEM CHEN MALU SANG JAY SAR GÖ SHOK
Manifesting the melodic speech an ocean of Victors, and proclaiming the Dharma in all the languages of beings in Brahmanic tones which reach unto the ends of space, may I place all living beings without exception on the level of Buddhahood.

KUN ZANG JU MAI NAM TARJI SHIN TU
TA DRAL JU MAI TING DZIN NGÖN JUR NAY
SANG JAY KU DANG SHING KAM MALU KUN
Just as in the mirage – like life story of Kuntuzangpo , may I accomplish infinite illusion – like samadhi , and instantly produce all the Buddha realms and kayas on every particle.

DUL CHIK TENG DU KAY CHIK DRUB PAR SHOK
SEM CHEN KAM DANG JAM TSO’I TING TA DANG  2
NAM KA’I TA DANG CHO YING TSAY MAY TAR
DAK GÌ MÖN LAM TNG DZIN TRIN LAY NAM
Like the realms of beings, the depth and extent of the ocean, the ends of space, the limitless expanse of phenomena – may my aspiration prayers, samadhi and activities be unfathomable, boundless, and without measure.

TING TA PAK MAY TSAY ZUNG MAY PAR SHOK
KOR LO JUR JAL PAK MAY DAK TRUL NAY  3
DRO KUN RAY KONG CHÖ KYI JAL SI KYONG
Emanating limitless universal monarchs, may I fulfill the hopes of all beings and protect the kingdom of Dharma.

KA NYAM SHING KAM KUN LA WANG JUR NAY
SEM CHEN MA LU DAY LA GÖ PAR SHOK
MA ONG DU SU NAY TSÖN KAL PA YI
SEM CHEN DUK NGAL NYAM TAK JUR PAI TSAY
Having attained mastery over all the pure realms, vast as space, may I place every living being in happiness. When living beings are stricken with suffering in the future eons of sickness and weapons,

DAK NI MEN CHOK JAL POR JUR NAY CHANG
KAY CHIK NYI LA DUK NGAL SHI JAY SHOK
MU GE’I KAL PAY TRAY KOM JUR PAI TSAY
ZA TUNG DAR ZAB SER NGUL LONG CHÖ NAM
may I become the king of excellent medicines, instantly relieving all suffering. When beings suffer from hunger and thirst during the eon of famine, having become inexhaustible gathering clouds of food,

PUN SUM TSOK PA KA NYAM TRIN TIB NAY
CHOK CHUR DÖ YÖN NGA YI CHAR BEB SHOK
JANG CHUB SEM KYI CHÖ PA LAB CHEN JI
KOR WAI JAM TSO TONG PAR MA JUR TSAY
drink, soft clothing, gold, silver and every comfort, may I rain down whatever is desired in every direction. Through great waves of bohisattvic activity until the ocean of samsara is emptied,

NAM KAI TA TUK SEM CHEN MA LU KUN
GANG LA GANG DUL DAY LA DER TÖN SHOK
LOK PAI LAM SHUK TOB DEN DREK PA CHEN
may I appear in whatever form is needed to discipline each and every living being throughout the infinite expanse of space. May I discipline every being not yet disciplined by the

CHOK CHU DU SUM JAL WAY MA TUL WAI
DRO KUN MA LU DAK GI RAB TUL NAY
KAY CHIK NYI LA SANG JAY SAR GÖ SHOK
JI SID KOR WAR SEM CHEN NAY KYI BAR
Victors of the three times and ten directions, those following mistaken paths, the powerful and the headstrong – and instantly place them on the level of Buddhahood. For as long as living beings remain in samsara –

DAY SID TRIN LAY TSOL MAY RANG SHAR JI
SEM CHEN MA LU MIN CHING DROL JAY PAI
DRO DÖN LHUN DRUB JUN CHAY MAY PAR SHOK
CHOK CHU DU SUM JAL WA JAM TSO YI
for that long – may I continuously and spontaneously benefit beings through self-arisen effortless activity, ripening and liberating every single living being. When the ocean of Victors of the three times and ten directions

SO SO KYE WO JANG CHUB SEM PAI TSAY
KAL PA DRANG MAY SEM CHAY MÔN LAM TAB
TSOK NYI TAR CHIN NGN PAR SANG JAY NAY
PUN SUM TSOK NGA YON TEN JAM TSO YI
were ordinary individuals and bodhisattvas, they generated the awakened mind and made noble aspiration prayers for numberless eons, perfecting the accumulations and manifesting budhahood. Then, through an ocean

SEM CHEN PAK MAY MIN CHING DRÖL DZAY PAI
MON LAM TRIN LAY CHIK TU DOM PA
WAY DAK GI MÖN LAM TRIN LAY JA CHER SHOK
SHEN DON LHUN DRUB PAK MAY JUNG JUR PAY
of excellent qualities and resources, they ripened and liberated limitless living beings . May my aspiration prayers and activities be even more vast than that of all of their aspirations and activity collected into one.

DAK GI MÖN LAM DI DAK TAM CHAY KUN
JANG CHUB CHOG MÖ DAY PA RAB CHAY DAY
GANG GI DEB PA DAY LA YONG DZOK SHOK CHOK
CHU DU SUM KOR DAY TAM CHAY KYI
Because it brings limitess spontaneous benefit to others, may anyone who recites all these aspiration prayers of mine, having clearly given rise to faith and the wish for supreme enlightenment, completely accomplish their aims.

TRA SHI DAY LEK PUN SUM TSOK PA KUN
JUN CHAY MAY PA CHU WO’I SHUNG SHIN DU
DAK SHEN CHOK NAM KUN TU CHAB PAR SHOK
May all the abundant auspiciousness and goodness of all samsara and nirvana in the ten directions and three times, like the uninterrupted flow of a great river pervade everyone in all directions.

1  I think this is very close to our reality. All of us having wisdom of speech and all the realization of the Buddha and Bodhisattva, their blessings combined together. So that we can spread the Dharmic teachings, you know, as a melody, unstoppable melody. Pleased to hear from all the sentient beings, you know?

།འགྲོ་རྣམས་སྐད་དུ་བདག་གིས་ཆོས་བསྟན་ནས།

DRO NAM KAY DU DAK GI CHÖ TEN NAY

And then translating and preaching the Dharma in their own language, so that every sentient being can be understood, the meaning of the Dharma and the benefit of the Dharma. So that, and the, by the result of that, you know, all the sentient beings, you know, none left behind and then liberated in Buddha, in a Buddhahood, you know, enlightenment, or you can call it.

2  So now we are talking about the bodhicitta, bodhicitta, compassion, bodhicitta, loving kindness, all the time. So I will give you the Buddhist principle of the bodhicitta here in these three sentences.

།སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས་དང་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་གཏིང་མཐའ་དང།
།ནམ་མཁའི་མཐའ་དང་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ཚད་མེད་ལྟར།
།བདག་གི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཏིང་ འཛིན་ཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམས།
།གཏིང་མཐའ་དཔག་མེད་ཚད་བཟུང་མེད་པར་ཤོག

SEM CHEN KAM DANG JAM TSO’I TING TA DANG
NAM KA’I TA DANG CHO YING TSAY MAY TAR
DAK GÌ MÖN LAM TNG DZIN TRIN LAY NAM
TING TA PAK MAY TSAY ZUNG MAY PAR SHOK

You know? All the sentient beings are, you know, the number of the sentient beings is like a space or like the depth, like the beneath the sea or like the height as a limitless height of the sky itself, just like that, in a limitless sentient beings that are suffering, that are currently there.

With my dedication, with my prayer and with the meditation, with the wisdom and with the activity in a limitless way and benefiting them in all the different directions, regardless of the depth, regardless of the height, regardless of the vastness, you know, of the sentient beings in terms of number, I want to benefit all the sentient beings, you know?

So that is the principle of the bodhicitta. Limitless, not some kind of a short-term aim but rather a long-term aim and a vast aim, you know, in both ways. So that is a principle that we must uphold when we talk about bodhicitta, at least in our prayer first.

3 

།འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་རྒྱལ་དཔག་མེད་བདག་སྤྲུལ་ནས།
།འགྲོ་ཀུན་རེ་སྐོངས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་སྲིད་སྐྱོང།
།མཁའ་མཉམ་ཞིང་ཁམས་ཀུན་ལ་དབང་བསྒྱུར་ནས།
།སེམས་ཅན་མ་ལུས་བདེ་ལ་འགོད་པར་ཤོག

KOR LO JUR JAL PAK MAY DAK TRUL NAY
DRO KUN RAY KONG CHÖ KYI JAL SI KYONG
KA NYAM SHING KAM KUN LA WANG JUR NAY
SEM CHEN MA LU DAY LA GÖ PAR SHOK

You know? This is the example of our living Buddha, His Holiness, you know, Dalaï Lama, the Great Fourteenth. He is a king, and, but he is, at the same time, not just ordinary king of Tibet but he is a Dharma king, you know? Due to the Dharma king there is a Dharma kingdom, you know? So that all the sentient beings worldwide can practice and to be liberated and, you know, that is the prayer. But at the same time this is our reality right now, you know? We have a living Dharma king, you know, living Buddha and Dharma king inseparably come together and then that is our His Holiness Dalaï Lama, you know?

And because of him, so many different ideas, you know, or different background of different countries, and different people, all come together when we speak about Buddhism and Dharma, so and so forth. And the result, the, you know, all of that happen because of the Dharma king. Not just the king but the Dharma king who gives the, how do I say, opportunity for all the participant, you know, all the living sentient beings, to practice, you know, and to be heard of the Lord Buddha’s teaching.

And that is our current reality that we must keep in mind. That is called the Dharma king. It happened several times in the history, you know? But our, but our current Dharma king is His Holiness Dalaï Lama. And due to that many of us and the Buddhist practitioner, you know, we travel around the world with a great joy and pride and then with a sense of harmony. And that is our current reality.

Then we must pray for the longevity in that case, in that direction as well.