Some important Buddhist Mantras

Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoche, the Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Tubten Trinlé Pal Zangpo ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཕྲིན་ལས་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་

The Greatest Maha Siddha of Our Time, incarnation of Guru Padmasambhava himself and Heart son of Ridgzin Jigmed Lingpa. 

Source: http://mahasiddha.org/downloads/Rinpoche-Rebirth-Prayers-booklet-v2.pdf

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Buddhānusati

Itipi so bhagavā arahaṃ sammāsambuddho

vijjācaraṇasampanno sugato lokavidū

anuttaro purisa-damma–sārathi

satthā devamanussānaṃ buddho bhagavā

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Here is another example for someone who lacks faith. Let’s say that we tell them about how the American lifestyle is, about the beautiful houses and gadgets and so forth. That other person might reply, “I don’t believe you. I’ve never been there and seen them, so these things cannot exist. You’re lying: whatever I haven’t seen doesn’t exist.” This may sound absurd, but many, many people have said, “I don’t see any buddhafields, so they don’t exist. I don’t see any hell realms, so there are no such places.” The reason I do not think this way is that I trust in my main teacher, Buddha Shakyamuni. He could clearly perceive the three times and see the six realms of sentient beings and all the buddhafields in every direction. Because of the depth and profundity of his wisdom, I consider everything he said to be utterly and flawlessly true. Between Buddha Shakyamuni and myself there has been a lineage of great masters in whom I also have total trust. This trust extends all the way to my root guru, in whom I have complete faith from the very core of my heart. I have total confidence in all these beings; I don’t feel that any one of them ever told a lie. Since Buddha Shakyamuni there have been countless other practitioners who have had that same trust and confidence in the teachings of the enlightened ones. Through these qualities they were able to attain great accomplishment. They could fly through the sky, pass through solid matter and reach complete enlightenment in a single lifetime.

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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

BOOK Rainbow Painting

Don't seek sensations... Seek sensitivity... OSHO

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

What is your happy dream? I asked this question of a man I once met in California. Several years earlier he had quit an excellent job at a high-tech company in Silicon Valley. He had been reading books about emptiness and had come to the conclusion that his job was empty—empty of meaning, of value—and that the workplace, the status, the money, these things too were essentially empty. He decided that his life had no meaning, and he quit to do something that he had always wanted to do: become a painter. He spoke in an earnest manner, often bringing his hand to his mouth, as if checking on the accuracy of his words. His hair and beard were turning from black to gray, and he was dressed casually, but carefully. For several years he had worked in his studio making art and had led a rewarding life. Then he had attended teachings that I was giving on emptiness. After one session, he asked to speak with me. I like these emptiness teachings, he told me, but there is one problem. Before, I read books about emptiness, and I saw that my job was emptiness so I let go of it. I really like making art, but after listening to you today, I see that even my art is emptiness. Now maybe I need to let go of my artwork, but if I do that, I will have no money. I told him, Emptiness doesn’t mean nothing. He was quite shocked. I told him, Everything comes from emptiness. It is full of alive potential, full of possibility.

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In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

Book by Helen Tworkov and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

His Eminence Professor Samdhong Rinpoche

“Chinese authorities always try to destroy our religion and language as they believe that these are the root cause that separates Tibet from China. The prayers of most of the self-immolators were for the return of His Holiness to Tibet and the preservation of our unique culture and religion, therefore preserving Buddhism by studying and understanding its true meaning and promoting it by teaching it to the world is the greatest contribution one can give to Tibet and its people.”

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His Eminence Professor Samdhong Rinpoche

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse rinpoche

To have wealth and property is normally thought of as desirable, but attachment to them is actually an obstacle on your spiritual path. So someone who deprives you of your money and possessions is, in fact, freeing you from the fetters these things have created in your mind, and is preventing you from falling to the lower realms. You should feel nothing but gratitude. 

If you own nothing at all, you are free. No enemies or thieves will bother you. As the saying goes: If you have no wealth, thieves won't break in. If you carry no bags, robbers won't lie in wait.

 It is important to remember that if you lose everything you possess, it can only be the karmic result of your having deprived others of their possessions in the past. There is therefore no reason to feel angry with anyone other than yourself. Seen from that point of view, is it not you who are attracting enemies with your wealth, fame, and rank? If there were no target, there would be nothing at which to shoot arrows. As a result of negative actions in your past lives, you have set yourself up as a target at which the arrows of suffering are now being shot.

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THE HEART OF COMPASSION 

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse rinpoche

Translated From the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group

His Eminence Choden Rinpoche

In order to cut the root of saṃsāra, one needs both calm abiding and special insight. For example, if you want to cut down a tree, you need a sharp axe that will cut it directly, but it is not sufficient just to have the axe. You also need a strong, steady shoulder to swing the axe. Likewise, special insight is like the axe that directly cuts the root of saṃsāra, and calm abiding is like the steady shoulder that swings it.

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His Eminence Choden Rinpoche

OSHO on Art and Creativity

Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa

Wishing long life to HH Karmapa 

“We must keep non-violence as our goal”

Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa

The Long-Life Prayer for HH17 Karmapa, Thaye Dorje

written by HH Shamar Rinpoche

KAL-MANG GONG-NE THA-YE DRO-WEI-DON

Many aeons before have your cultivated enlightened thought and vowed to work for the well-being of all sentient beings.

BED-PAR DAM-CHE DEN-MON MA-DOR-WEI

Never to forsake but firmly abide by the resolve of your previous aspirations.

KYE-WEI TRENG-WAR SAG-PEI TSHOG-NYII-THU

Though the power of continuous gathering

MIN-PEI ZUG-KU KOD-PA TAG-TEN-SHOG

of the dual accumulations be eternally firm.

GANG-TSHE THUB-WANG DE-SUNG CHHO-KHOR-LUNG

The unceasing stream of dharma-teaching spoken by Buddha

DUI-JEI ZHING-LA DREN-PEI THAB-KYI-SANG

gently flows through the field of tameable beings fully endowed with knowledge, love and power

DZIN-LA KHYEN-NU TSE-WEI THU-NGA-WA

You uphold with majesty the secret method of Mantra. May you live long and abide firmly

MA-WEI WANG-PO NGO-WOR TSHO-GYUR-CHIG

in the nature of Manjushree, the king of eloguent speech. You are the glory of upholding perfect stream-like ambrosia

PEN-CHEN NA-RO DAM-PEI CHHAG-GYA-CHEI

the profound quintessential instruction of Mahamudra given by Pandit Naropa.

ZAB-NED DUD-TSII GYUN-CHHOG DZIN-PEI-PAL

May your lotus feet be firm and enduring. Whilst perpetually,

DU-SUM KHYEN-PA GANG-DEI TRIN-LE-THA.

succeeding to the enlightened-activity, knower of three times.

YONG-SU DZIN-ZHIN SHAB-PED TEN-GYUR-CHIG

Thus have I prayed for the truth of my resolve.

DE-TAR DAG-GI MON-LAM DEN-PEI-DON

through the power of profound aspiration presented to the

CHHOG-SUM GYA-TSO CHEN-NGAR OOL-WEI-THU

ocean of Triple Gems, and by the power and strength of meeting auspicious

LU-MED TEN-DREL TSHOG-PEI NU-TOB-LE

and infallible concurrence. May my prayer be spontaneously

PAG-SAM SHING-TAR BED-MED DRUB-GYUR-CHIG

fulfilled like the wish-fulfilling tree.

Venerable Dr. Acharya Buddharakkhita

This whole world or worldly existence is nothing but dvandam-pairs of opposites, where one swings from one extreme to another.

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Venerable Dr. Acharya Buddharakkhita

1922-2013

shechen rabjam rinpoche

If you do not implement the teachings, your destructive emotions and self clinging will not diminish, and the Dharma instructions will be of no use to you, no matter how many you receive.

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shechen rabjam rinpoche

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse rinpoche

If you do something good for others, it is a mistake to expect anything in return, or to hope that people will admire you for being a bodhisattva. All such attitudes are a long way from the true motivation of Bodhicitta. Not only should you expect nothing in return; you should not be disturbed in the slightest when people respond ungratefully. Someone for whom you have risked your very life may return your kindness with resentment, hatred or harm. But just love him all the more. A mother with an only child is full of love for him no matter what he does. While she is suckling him, he may bite her nipple and badly wound it, but she will never get angry or love him any less. Whatever happens, she will continue to care for him as best as she can.

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THE HEART OF COMPASSION 

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse rinpoche

Translated From the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group

Thrangu Rinpoche

Meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

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 Thrangu Rinpoche

Venerable Kalu Rinpoche

If one does not recognize the mind's true nature, one continues to be completely bewildered by emotional conflict and discursive thought. This can be an endless situation. When I first came to the West in the early seventies, I stopped in Geneva where I met an exotic sheik who had thirty wives; I have since heard that he now has even more. This person obviously has to deal with many conflicting emotions in such a broad-based form of relationship. In recognizing that all this emotional conflict is arising from the mind, one realizes the mind itself is insubstantial and empty. If the force of emotional conflict is removed by one's attaining this recognition, the individual can live peacefully, no matter how many wives or husbands one has.

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GENTLY WHISPERED Oral Teachings by the Very 'Venerable Kalu Rinpoche

Published by Station Hill Press, Inc., Barrytown, New York 12507.

the fourteenth Shamarpa

Just like a good meditation teacher, someone who wants to be a good meditator must also renounce attachment to worldly life. A meditator should live simply, without too many responsibilities, and without ambition. In order to focus, you must be willing to renounce.

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Mipham Chokyi Lodro (27 October 1952 – 11 June 2014), also known as Kunzig[1] Shamar Rinpoche, was the fourteenth Shamarpa of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Khensur Kangur Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche

Khensur Kangur Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyabje_Rinpoche

Kyabje Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo Rinpoche

THE DRAWBACKS OF DELUSIONS (299) 

From An Ornament to the SÒtras: Delusions destroy you, destroy sentient beings, and destroy ethics. Lesser people disparage you; you lose guardians and gain your teacher’s reproach. You gain disputes and infamy, and then rebirth to unconducive states.You lose both what you possess and have yet to acquire, and you gain great suffering. In other words, delusions have many drawbacks. When you develop a delusion, your mindstream becomes a nonvirtuous entity; you then act perversely toward the objects [of the delusions]; this makes the latent seeds of the delusion take hold; so you will continually develop the same sort of delusions—that is, attachment, hostility, or whatever—and enter those forbidden states deprecated by the saints. Your unfortunate karmic actions will increase because of these last two drawbacks. You stray away from both liberation and omniscience, becoming distanced from them. Delusion causes your virtuous actions to decline, and so on; so it makes you wrong yourself and others. It makes your ethics decline; you will be given fewer gifts and be paid less service. Even the buddhas and Dharma protectors will criticize you. Other beings as well as you will suffer because your delusion may make other people want to kill you, and so on. In this life you develop a worse reputation because of becoming embroiled in lawsuits, arguments, and so on. And in future lives you will be reborn in remote lands, or in the lower realms. To summarize, there are an infinite number of drawbacks, and they are all said to be produced by delusions. So when you develop these delusions, you must immediately recognize them clearly as your enemies and employ some means of putting a stop to them.

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Kyabje Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo Rinpoche, 

Book The Liberation in the palm of your hand

Wisdom publications

HH 14 Dalai Lama , Tenzin Gyatso

THE AFFLICTIONS

 Much of Buddhist literature is devoted to exposing the nature of afflictions and the need to overcome them. In Sanskrit, the word for affliction is klesha, and the Tibetan equivalent is nyon mong (literally, “that which afflicts from within”). An affliction, by its very nature, brings about an immediate disturbance within the mind of the individual the moment it arises and thereby causes suffering within that individual.

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HH 14 Dalai Lama , Tenzin Gyatso  

Book The Essence of Heart sutra

Wisdom publications

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche suddenly passed away on April 26, 1992 in a car accident in India. His passing is looked upon as a profound method for benefiting sentient beings by removing obstacles for Buddhism, people in general, and for the Karma Kagyu tradition. Nevertheless, for his many disciples who knew him well, it causes in us the deepest sorrow.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima the Panchen Lama

On 25 April 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima turned six years old. Barely a month later, he became the world’s youngest political prisoner. He has been missing for 27 years.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the Panchen Lama, the second-highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama.

Shakyamuni Buddha

oṃ mune mune mahāmunaye svāhā

Arya Vajra Saraswati

In Tibetan Saraswati is yang chenmo

whose mantra in this last form as Arya Vajrasarasvati (sadhanas no.161 & 163) is:

Om, pichu pichu prajna vardhani jvala jvala medhavardhani dhiri dhiri

buddhivardhani, Svaha