The Buddha Book: Buddhas, blessings, prayers, and rituals to grant you love, wisdom, and healing. Lillian Too

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       A Dhyani (meditation) buddha inset into the stupa at Boudhanath, Nepal.

      THE DHYANI BUDDHA VISUALIZATIONS

      A visualization is presented for each Dhyani buddha, in the caption accompanying their thangka images – see visualization 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Before each visualization, the person practicing performs this preliminary meditation.

      First, one feels that their mind purifies into emptiness. The mind, understanding this emptinenss, then transforms into Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, with one face, two arms, and a gold-colored body. His face is extremely beautiful, with a loving smile and compassionate eye. Every second, every pore of his holy body radiates numberless buddhas to sentient beings, liberating them from suffering and bringing them to liberation and enlightenment.

      Guru Shakyamuni’s mantra is chanted: Tayata Om Mune, Mune, Maha Muneye Soha, followed by the visualization for one or more of the Dhyani buddhas.

      BUDDHA AKSHOBHYA

      Although Buddha Akshobhya (who is blue in color) is usually visualized in the center of Dhyani buddha mandalas, sometimes he is transferred to the east and Vairochana comes to the center. Many lineages regard Akshobhya as the most important of the Dhyani buddhas because, of the five aggregates, the aggregate of consciousness can be regarded as the most important in our spiritual journey.

      Askhobhya also manifests as Buddha Mitrugpa. The Buddha Mitrugpa mantra practice is said to be extremely powerful for “rescuing” those who have fallen into the lower realms of existence. Akshobhya is depicted touching the earth with his right hand and holding an upright vajra (thunderbolt) in his left hand. Touching the earth recalls the moment when Shakyamuni Buddha overcame the Mara and the earth goddess was called forth to bear witness to Buddha having practiced the Six Perfections, thereby qualifying him to attain enlightenment. The element of Buddha Akshobhya is water, and the chakra (energy center) associated with him is the heart chakra.

      Akshobhya is the lord of the Tathagata family. This buddha manifests Dharma, transforming hatred and aversion into the transcendental wisdom of the sphere of the Dharma. Among the other powerful Buddhas of the Tathagata family are Buddha Vajrasattva and Buddha Vajrapani.

       Akshobhya’s blessings enable us to develop the wisdomthat understands the true nature of reality.This is often referred to as becoming awakened andovercoming ignorance.

       Here is the visualization of Buddha Akshobhya: Nectar beams come from Buddha Akshobhya, purifying anger. Where there is violence, war is stopped and everyone generates loving kindness, patience, and the whole path to enlightenment. The transcendental wisdom of Dharmadhatu is actualized in their minds and in the minds of all sentient beings.

       THE SPECIAL PRACTICE OF BUDDHA AKSHOBHYA

      There is a powerful deity of purification called Mitrukpa who is a manifestation of Akshobhya. There are tremendous benefits to be had from reciting his mantra and even seeing his image or mantra written.

      

      One of the most memorable summaries of the benefits of reciting the Mitrugpa mantra was given by the Venerable Ribur Rinpoche, one of Lama Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche’s gurus, when he visited Singapore in 1997. Already in his eighties, Ribur Rinpoche remains as sprightly and cheerful as ever. Reciting the Mitrugpa mantra, he says:

       Purifies all negativities accumulated in past lives

       Prevents the ripening of past negative actions

       Purifies the five extreme negatives of killing your mother, killing your father, killing an arhat (a saint), causing a buddha to shed blood, and causing disharmony among the spiritual community of monks or nuns

       Purifies all inauspicious signs arising from negative actions

       Has the power to reverse untimely death

       Prevents all those who hear it (animals and humans) from falling into the three lower realms (the animal realm, the hungry ghosts realm, and the hell realm)

       Has the power to rescue anyone who has been dead a long time from the hell rea lm, if you recite it 100,000 times and dedicate it to that person

       Has the power to prevent any corpse that may be one week old from being reborn in any of the three lower realms, if it is recited 100,000 times over sand, sesame seed, or flour, which is then sprinkled on the head of the dead person

       Has the power to purify all negative karma, thereby protecting a person from entering the lower realms, even if they have committed very heavy karma – if, while dying or at the instant of death, they see the mantra in written form.

      BUDDHA MITRUGPA’S DAILY MANTRA

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