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Milarepa Supplication

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༄༅། །དག་སྣང་ལས་རྗེ་བཙུན་བཞད་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་མྱུ་གུ་བཞུགས་སོ།།

The Burgeoning of Compassion

A Supplication to the Illustrious Zhepa Dorje1

From a Pure Vision

by Sera Khandro

 

ན་མོ་གུ་རུ་བྷྱ༔

Namo gurubhyaḥ!

 

དད་དམ་མོས་གུས་ལྡན་པའི་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཡིས༔   ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཐལ་སྦྱར་གསོལ་འདེབས་འདིར་བརྩོན་བྱ༔

Those with faith or fascination should fold their hands in homage and strive in this supplication.

ཨེ་མ་ཧོ༔

emaho

Emaho!

རྒྱལ་ཀུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་རང་གཟུགས་པད་དཀར་འཆང་༔

gyal kün tukjé rang zuk pekar chang

Holder of the White Lotus,2 embodiment of all the buddhas' compassion—

འགྲོ་ལ་རྗེས་བརྩེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྱུ་མའི་གར༔

dro la jé tsé yeshe gyumé gar

Tenderness and wisdom magically displaying for beings.

རླུང་སེམས་དབང་ཐོབ་མཐུ་སྟོབས་མངའ་བདག་དཔལ༔

lungsem wang tob tutob ngadak pal

Glorious master of prāṇa-mind,3 commander of sorcery—4

རྗེ་བཙུན་བཞད་པ་རྡོ་རྗེར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔

jetsün zhepa dorjér solwa deb

Illustrious Laughing Vajra, to you, I pray.

 

འདི་ཕྱི་བར་གསུམ་འབྲལ་མེད་རྗེས་བཟུང་སྟེ༔

di chi bar sum dralmé jezung té

In this life, future lives, and in the bardos, stay with me and guide me.

ཚེ་འདིར་ཡང་དག་ལམ་ལ་བློ་དྲངས་ནས༔

tsé dir yangdak lam la lo drang né

In this life, now that my heart5 has been drawn to the authentic path,

བློ་ལྡོག་བཞི་ཡིས་བདག་རྒྱུད་གྲོལ་བ་དང་༔

lo dok zhi yi dak gyü drolwa dang

With my being liberated by the four reorientations6

སྨོན་འཇུག་སེམས་ཀྱི་མྱུ་གུས་རྒྱུད་བརླན་ཏེ༔

mönjuk sem kyi nyugü gyü len té

And saturated by the burgeoning of wishing and engaging bodhicitta,

སྲིད་པ་འཁོར་བའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་བརྒལ་ནུས་ཤོག༔

sipa khorwé gyatso gal nü shok

May I manage to sail beyond the ocean of cyclic existence.

 

ཁྱད་པར་འོད་གསལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན༔

khyepar ösal dorjé nyingpö dön

Above all, relying on the meaning of the luminous vajra essence7

བརྒྱུད་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་མན་ངག་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས༔

gyüden lamé mengak la ten né

Contained in the personal instructions of the lineage-holding guru,

ལས་གྱི་གནད་ལ་གོལ་འཆུགས་མེད་པ་རུ༔

lé gyi né la gol chuk mepa ru

And never erring in the key points of action,

སྐུ་གསུམ་འབྲས་བུ་མཉམ་སྦྱོར་དགོངས་པའི་དོན༔

ku sum drebu nyamjor gongpé dön

May I maintain a continuous flow of self-knowing dharmakāya—

རང་རིག་ཆོས་སྐུའི་གཏན་སྲིད་ཟིན་པར་ཤོག༔

rangrig chökü tensi zinpar shok

The ultimate meaning of the unified fruition of the three kāyas.

 

གལ་ཏེ་རང་རིག་ཀློང་དུ་མ་གྱུར་ན༔

galté rangrig long du ma gyur na

If I fail to merge with the self-knowing expanse,

རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་ཁྱེད་དང་དབྱེར་མེད་པར༔

jetsün lama khyé dang yermé par

Then, as I remain connected to you, illustrious guru,

དག་པ་མཁའ་སྤྱོད་ཞིང་དུ་འདྲེན་པར་ཤོག༔

dakpa khachö zhing du drenpar shok

Please guide me to the pure paradise of Khecarā.8

 

ཞིང་དེར་སྐྱེས་ནས་རིག་འཛིན་སྟོན་འཁོར་གྱི༔

zhing der kyé né rigdzin tönkhor gyi

Once I'm born in that paradise, though I will be free in the expanse

དགོངས་པ་དབྱེར་མེད་ཀློང་དུ་གྲོལ་ནས་ཀྱང་༔

gongpa yermé long du drol né kyang

Of the teacher and retinue's minds merged as one,

སླར་ཡང་གང་འདུལ་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་གཉིས་ཀུན༔

lar yang gang dul drowé dön nyi kün

Bless me to appear again before whoever needs me

འབད་མེད་ཡོངས་སུ་འགྲུབ་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས༔

bemé yongsu drubpar jingyi lob

That I may effortlessly and perfectly bring about the range of beings' two benefits.9

 

ཞེས་པ་འདི་ལ་བཙོན་གྱུར་ན༔ བྱིན་རླབས་རྒྱུད་ལ་འཇུག་པར་ངེས༔ ས་མ་ཡ༔ རྒྱ་རྒྱ་རྒྱ༔  ཨྀྠི༔

If you pour yourself into this, blessings will undoubtedly fill your mindstream. Samaya! Sealed! Sealed! Sealed! Ithi!

 

ཞེས་པ་འདི་ཡང་དགེ་བཙུན་དམ་པ་འགྲོ་ཕན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་ངོར་བདེ་བའི་རྡོ་རྗེས་བྲིས་པའོ། །དགེའོ། །

This was composed by Dewé Dorje10 in response to a request from Getsun Dampa Dropen.11

 

| Translated by Joseph McClellan, 2024.

 

Source Text

Se ra mkhaʼ ʼgro kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo. “rje btsun bzhad pa rdo rjeʼi gsol ʼdebs thugs rjeʼi myu gu”. In gsung ʼbum kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo, vol. 5, pp. 78–79. Chengdu: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2009. BDRC MW1PD108254_EC904F.

 

Alternate Editions

Se ra mkhaʼ ʼgro kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo. “rje btsun bzhad pa rdo rjeʼi gsol ʼdebs thugs rjeʼi myu gu”. In gter chos kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo, vol. 4: 103–4. Kalimpong: Dupjung Lama, 1978. BDRC MW21888_51E4D8.

Se ra mkhaʼ ʼgro kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo. “rje btsun bzhad pa rdo rjeʼi gsol ʼdebs thugs rjeʼi myu gu”. In gsung ʼbum se ra mkhaʼ ʼgro bde chen bde baʼi rdo rje, Vol. 5: 69–69. 9–15. Chengdu: Si khron dus deb tshogs pa si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2015. BDRC MW3CN8049_84A25F.

Se ra mkhaʼ ʼgro kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo. “rje btsun bzhad pa rdo rjeʼi gsol ʼdebs thugs rjeʼi myu gu”. In mkhaʼ ʼgroʼi chos mdzod chen mo. Par gzhi dang poʼi par thengs dang po., Vol. 35: 71–71. Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 2017. BDRC MW3CN2459_E3F9DE.

 

Version: 1.0-20240315

  1. Zhepa Dorje (bzhad pa rdo rje), "Laughing Vajra," is Milarepa's primary personal name.
  2. "Holder of the White Lotus" is an epithet of Avalokiteśvara.
  3. "Prāṇa-mind" refers to the holistic interplay between the subtle body's energies (prāṇa) and the mind.
  4. "Commander of sorcery" (mthu stobs mnga' bdag) refers to Milarepa's prowess in black magic early in his career and his mastery of miracles later on.
  5. "Heart" here renders blo, one of Tibetan's many terms for "mind." In particular, it connotes the attitudinal or rational mind. Thus, it sometimes connotes the intellect, but in other contexts, it means the figurative heart, or soul, with its depth of feelings.
  6. "Four reorientations" stands for the more common "four thoughts that turn the mind" (blo ldog rnam bzhi). These are considered the foundations of sincere buddhist practice. They are the contemplations on (1) the value and rarity of human birth, (2) impermanence, (3) the defects of saṃsāra, and (4) karmic cause and effect. In this line, "being" renders rgyud, "mindstream"—a sentient being's subjective gestalt.
  7. The "luminous vajra essence" ('od gsal rdo rje snying po) is a poetic term for the teachings of ultimate truth, usually Dzogchen, but just as easily Milarepa's Mahāmudrā.
  8. Khecarā (mkha' spyod) is a pure realm associated with Vajrayoginī, a deity central to Milarepa and the Kagyu tradition.
  9. The two benefits are (1) self-benefit (rang don), which is accomplished through realization and enlightenment, and (2) other-benefit (gzhan don), which is all action that mitigates other beings' suffering.
  10. Dewé Dorje (bde ba'i rdo rje) is one of Sera Khandro's aliases.
  11. dge btsun dam pa 'gro phan
Sera Khandro

Milarepa

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BDRC Author Profiles: P742 P1853

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