I understand that, I am sure that many Western people are very much minimalist. Minimalist, they do not like all jewelery stuff and you think that is from an ancient time, I understand and I respect that. I am not asking you to be fashionable or bling-bling or show-off.
I am just saying that when it comes to precious things like this, for your necklace, try to spend a little bit of money, to buy a good material, not plastic material. Even it is a mala, don’t buy all this plastic mala, buy good material mala.
That is not for yourself, that is for your positive accumulation. It is not for showing off, it is not for market value, it is for your own spiritual journey. Just something small, simple, like this one [Rinpoche shows the necklace from Previous Kalu Rinpoche], like silver, white gold, something like that. Something small, it doesn’t have to be big, just something small, dedicated to the Dharma, just showing your respect.
You do not have to carry many things, just one, simple, that’s enough.
It doesn’t have to be shaped like a gau, just something very round, something where you can insert the mantra:
ༀ་བཛྲ་མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ་ཀྵིཾ་ཀྵེ་ཏྲ་བིགྷྣཱན་བི་ནཱ་ཡ་ཀ་ཧཱུྂ་ཧཱུྂ་ཕཊ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OM BENZA MAHAKALA KCHING KCHE-TRA BIGHANEN BINAYAKA
HOUNG HOUNG PÉ PÉ SOHA
and then:
བླ་མ་མགོན་པོ་དབྱེར་མེད་ལ། །
བདག་ནི་གུས་པས་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །
བདག་གིས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །
ཉོན་མོངས་མ་ལུས་སེལ་བར་ཤོག །
LAMA GÖNPO YÉRMÉ-LA
DAK-NI GÜ-PÉ KYAB-SU CHI
DAK-GI SEMCHEN TAMCHÉ KYI
NYÖNMONG MALÜ SEL-WAR SHOK
Lama and Protector inseparable, with respect and devotion,
we place ourselves under your protection.
May I clear away, without exception, the emotional
defilements of ourselves and all beings!
མགོན་པོ་བླ་མ་དབྱེར་མེད་ལ། །
བདག་ནི་གུས་པས་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །
བདག་གིས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །
བར་ཆད་མ་ལུས་སེལ་བར་ཤོག །
GÖNPO LAMA YÉRMÉ-LA
DAK-NI GÜ-PÉ KYAB-SU CHI
DAK-GI SEMCHEN TAMCHÉ KYI
BARCHÉ MALÜ SEL-WAR SHOK
Protector and Lama inseparable, with respect and devotion,
we place ourselves under your protection.
May I clear away, without exception, the obstacles of
ourselves and all beings!
You can request Venerable [Lama Gyurme], my uncle, later on, and where to find the text and so on. Then you roll it up this in a paper. It doesn’t have to be the shape of a gau, like this [Rinpoche shows his gau], very simple, even the letter can be very small, very thin small letter also fine, it doesn’t have to be big.
Page 12, so depending on the practice, sometime there is a lineage prayer which is very long, sometime the lineage prayer is very short, that really depends on your own preference, how you like to add and so on. But the minimum requirement is that, since you received the Mahakala empowerment, received the one line prayer:
བླ་མ་མགོན་པོ་དབྱེར་མེད་ལ། །
བདག་ནི་གུས་པས་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །
བདག་གིས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །
ཉོན་མོངས་མ་ལུས་སེལ་བར་ཤོག །
LAMA GÖNPO YÉRMÉ-LA
DAK-NI GÜ-PÉ KYAB-SU CHI
DAK-GI SEMCHEN TAMCHÉ KYI
NYÖNMONG MALÜ SEL-WAR SHOK
that is your practice. You don’t need to do Puja every day. When you wake up in the morning and then sit or stand in the front of the shrine, and if you are travelling then you are travelling. So if you are not travelling, like an example, what I do when I fly around, so when they bring this food, the tray, they bring you yoghurt, some salad and food and all that, one portion I always offer to Mahakala.
ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ངང་ལས་མ་གཡོས་ཀྱང་། །
CHÖ-YING NGANG-LÉ MA-YÖ KYANG
Even though you do not stir from the Dharmadhatu
མ་རུང་འདུལ་ཕྱིར་ཁོས་པའྱི་སྐུ། །
MA-RUNG DUK-CHIR TRÖPÉ KU
Still your wrathful body subdues the vicious ones
བསྟན་པའྱི་རུ་དྲ་འཇོམ་མཛད་པའྱི། །
TENPÉ RUDRA JOM DZÉ-PÉ
You are the one who defeats all the enemies of the teachings
ནག་པོ་ཆེ་ལ་མཆོད་པ་འབུལ། །
NAKPO CHÉ-LA CHÖPA BUL
Great Black One, I offer to you!
even if I am travelling. If I am really in bad mood, I still have the energy to have a one sentence, you know? No matter how sick you are, no matter how bad mood you are in, whatever the life you are going through, it is impossible not to have that 1, 2, 3 seconds. So just do that much, just that much.
Remind yourself of the Dharma, remind yourself of the Six-Armed Mahakala’s presence, that is the most important. Many people they like to read a lot of things with no awareness in mind, so it is the same as not doing. Just a small reminder in daily basis keeps things alive in your spiritual journey. Because it is Six-Armed Mahakala, it is very special, so how little you do, how short you do, doesn’t matter!
Remember, I am the laziest practitioner, and then it is because of Mahakala blessing, even to the laziest one, it is very close. So you, better than me, advanced and dedicated, definitively more blessings. That is how you do.
I think the new marketing line should not be “You seek the ultimate blessing and then you get the worldly blessing. You seek the worldly blessing you will get the ultimate blessing”. I think the new tradition of Kalu Rinpoche should be “Even if you are the laziest one, Mahakala will be there for you”. [haha] I think that will attract a lot of people.
I am sure you have heard this so many times, but when you practice, so I have given you the shortest version.
Now the medium version is that, you chant this mantra and then you say:
ༀ་བཛྲ་མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ་ཀྵིཾ་ཀྵེ་ཏྲ་བིགྷྣཱན་བི་ནཱ་ཡ་ཀ་ཧཱུྂ་ཧཱུྂ་ཕཊ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
ཨི་དཾ་བ་ལིཾ་ཏ་ཁ་ཁ་ཁཱ་ཧི་ཁཱ་ཧི།
OM BENZA MAHAKALA KCHING KCHE-TRA BIGANEN BINAYAKA HOUNG HOUNG PÉ PÉ SOHA
IDAM BALINGTA K’A K’A K’AHI K’AHI (x3)
Then you make the offering and then you make a prayer. That is more like the medium version, right? But I will get to that later.
Six-Armed Mahakala Teachings – Vajradhara Ling France
July 14, 2024 – Morning session (21′ 35”)
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