3   Prayer-Wishes

All should make good prayer-wishes. Let us recite the wishes found in the daily practice rite (pp.414-423):

Through the power of the great increase of the vast lake

Of the collections of virtue upon the accumulation – again and again

In the lake of my mind – of the stainless stream of meditation,

Repetition, and offering from the snow mountain of such pure special thought

And through the power of mentally gathering together

All the collections of virtues related with the past, present, and future,

May I be taken care of in life after life

By holy protectors, spiritual guides of the supreme vehicle.

From the instructions happily bestowed by them

May I come to know the way of gathering together the doctrines

Of the three vehicles and from practicing their meaning

Ripen my mental continuum with the common paths.

Through attaining the seven pure initiations

May potencies for the seven grounds be well established,

The seven stains of the constituents and so forth be cleansed,

And I be empowered to practice the yoga of the first stage and achieve the common feats.

Through the four supreme initiations, mundane and supramundane,

May the seeds of the four vajras of the Four Bodies be established

And I be authorized to hear, explain, and cultivate

The four branches of approximation and achievement of the second stage.

Sitting well on the throne of the four pure initiations

In the supreme inestimable mansion of the Vajra Vehicle

With the foot-stool of non-deteriorated vows and pledges

May I become a universal monarch of the doctrine of the two stages.

Through exalted body, speech, mind, and wisdom, cleansed and purified,

Through the yoga of meditating on the six lineages and the six branches,

And through the light of vajras set in individual places in the body,

Strongly blazing, may demons and obstructors be burned.

May mandalas of the four elements be generated

In the middle of the expanse of space

And from their combining into one may a five- and three-staged fence

As well as a palace with a seat be established.

In the center of that may I as the glorious Vajravega

Through the firm meditative stabilization of the King of Wrathful Ones

Put an end to external and internal demons and obstructors

By emitting a host of sixty guardians of the doors.

Considering that through the exercise of dispersal and gathering

The field of accumulation pervades the full expanse of space,

May the collections, powerful like waves, be thoroughly completed

Through performing the amassing of the accumulations – the preparation – according to the rite.

Through cultivating the pride of the Truth Body at the end

Of the dissolution of the six constituents just as in the stages of death

May I complete the meditative stabilization of the four doors of liberation

Bringing about full enlightenment instantaneously.

Through meditating on space, wind, fire, water, earth, and Mount Meru,

May I realize the status of vajra-body,

With channel wheels and so forth at the crown of the head,

Forehead, neck, heart, navel, and secret region.

Through meditating well on a vajra tent

On top of lotus, moon, sun, rāhu, and kālāgni,

May the collections of winds of the right and left channels be stopped

In the channel-with-conch through the supreme vajra yoga.

Through the power of meditating on an inestimable mansion

With the light of stainless jewels inside the vajra tent

May the land where I will be enlightened as a Buddha

Be purified and my physical support become free from defilement.

Through meditating on the twos – moon and sun, vowels and consonants,

Wind and mind, and the two letters – combining into one, the letter haṃ,

May great bliss be generated from the gathering together in the central channel

Of the white and red constituents and the subtle wind and mind.

Then through the power of meditating on the deities of the mandala of great bliss –

The exalted body of Kālachakra, complete in all aspects,

Having the nature of the great bliss possessing the supreme of all aspects

Together with his Knowledge Woman –

May [these meditations] serve as causes of generating

The supreme stages of completion in which the Great Seal

Of empty form is filled with the taste of immutable innate bliss,

Actually embraced respectively by the aspected and unaspected Seals.

Through cultivating manifest enlightenment by way of the five aspects,

The supreme king of mandalas, the branch of approximation,

Generating from the seed of absorption of Father and Mother

The supreme complete circle of the deities in the womb

And setting them well in their respective places,

May I generate the supreme realizations of the path

Through purifying the aggregates, constituents, sense faculties,

Objects, action faculties, and activities.

With the vajric Supramundane Victor as well as a Knowledge Woman

Who abide in the lotus of the wheel of great bliss

And dwell in the form of a drop of great bliss

Through the force of having been melted by the fire of the fierce woman at the navel,

May I meditatively cultivate the branch of near-achievement, the supreme

King of activities, by means of enlightenment in twenty aspects –

The five arousals by the pleasant song of goddesses,

The five constructions, and the five comprised by the five Fierce Ones

Drawing [the wisdom-beings] to the circle of pledge-beings,

Entry, binding, being delighted, and becoming of one taste –

And by means of bestowing initiation, seal-impression, and mindfulness of purity,

And thereby may the meanings of those be actualized.

Through the blazing upward in the central channel

Of the fire of the fierce woman incited by the downward-voiding wind

Upon blessing the secret space into magnificence and becoming absorbed

And, from that, the gradual descent of the mind of enlightenment

Due to the melting of the letter haṃ at the crown of the head

And the stopping of the movement of the winds in the right and left channels,

May the yoga of the drops be actualized, the supreme branch of achievement

Causing me to understand well the four joys of the forward process.

Through the four joys of stability from below of the passage

Upward again in the same procedure

May I bring to completion the branch of great achievement,

The subtle yoga, and the manifest enlightenment of the magical net.

In short, may I bring to completion the effort of cultivating in four sessions

The supreme stage of generation purifying the external and internal bases of purification,

Water cleansing ordinary appearance and the conception of ordinariness,

The path ripening for the full generation of the stage of completion.

Also, may I ripen limitless transmigrators through unimpededness

In achieving the feats of final achievement

Of the highest type through striving

At repetition, burnt offering, and giving of offerings.

May I familiarize with the six-branched yoga:

The two virtues at the beginning – individual withdrawal and concentration,

The two virtues in the middle – the paths of vitality-stopping and retention,

And the two virtues at the end – mindfulness and meditative stabilization.

May my mind be set one-pointedly, free from laxity and excitement,

On the place where it is contemplated that a corner of the eyes

Enters inside the upper point of the central channel

Through the gaze of half-closed eyes, turned upward.

Through that may the four night signs – like smoke, mirage,

Fireflies, and butter lamp – be manifested,

Unmistaken signs of the gathering of the collections

Of the winds of the right and left channels in the central channel.

Also, through meditating well as before

In the manner of looking at space free from clouds,

May the six signs – blazing, moon, sun, rāhu,

Lightning, and drop – be completed.

Through the concentration of one-pointed observation of forms

According to my wish, upon the gradual withdrawal

Of the empty forms in the area of the body-drop,

May the bliss of physical and mental pliancy be induced.

Through the power of one-pointed familiarization with the two yogas

Of achieving empty forms in that way

And of making steady those achieved,

May I achieve the word of truth and the five clairvoyances.

Through familiarizing with the vitality-stopping of spontaneous vajra repetition

In which the wind and mantra are inseparable in the path of rāhu

And the vitality-stopping of pot [-like wind control]

In which the upper and lower winds cease at the navel,

May the special signs of the collections of the winds

Entirely entering and remaining for a while

In the center of the wheel of emanation dawn

And the melodiousness praised by Bodhisattvas be actualized.

Through the yoga of holding my mind steadily at the end of generating

The four joys of descent from above and stability from below

Without fluctuation in the center of the mixture of the vitalizing

And downward-voiding winds into one at the center of the six wheels,

May I rise for my own mind in a body of empty form

And the groups of demons of untimely death be suppressed.

Having attained well the power of control over all forms and vitality,

May I actually rise in a body of empty form

In father-mother union

From the innate bliss induced

By igniting again the fire of the fierce woman,

And may light rays of various colors spread out from my hair-pores.

May I perform meditation in which the immutable great bliss

Induced well by the power of the Seal –

Through union with a Great Seal

Of such empty form – is joined with emptiness.

Through the power of piling up the white and red constituents,

Twenty-one thousand six hundred in number,

Up and down throughout the central channel,

May the material constituents of my body be consumed as iron is by mercury.

May the twenty-one thousand six hundred immutable

Great blisses realizing emptiness

Cease that number of karmic winds, quickly purify

Obstructive predispositions, and I attain a Conqueror’s exalted body.

May I easily achieve these wishes

Without hindrance, becoming a supreme captain

Releasing transmigrators through this supreme path

Into the supreme land of jewels of a Conqueror.

In short, through whatever collections of wholesome virtue,

As illustrated by this, have been accumulated,

May I quickly take birth in Shambhala, the treasury of jewels,

And complete the stages of the path in Highest Yoga Tantra.