Simple Visualization For The Seven Line Prayer
Simple Visualization For The Seven Line Prayer
Simple Visualization For The Seven Line Prayer
Here is an extremely brief and simple visualisation for reciting the Seven Line Prayer
to the Precious Guru of Oiyna.
Arrange whatever offerings you can afford before an image of Guru Rinpoche or
other representations of the three kinds.1 Then, while facing south-west, recite the
prayer concentratedly and melodiously, as described in the following lines from the
Prayer in Seven Chapters:
If we now refer to the individual words of the Seven Lines and gloss them simply,
then:
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sky-farersboth vras and kinsyou remain even now in your vajra-like form,
beyond birth and death and immune to decline and decay.
I will follow in your footsteps, Guru Rinpoche, and even if for the time being I don't
practise the advanced path of the generation and perfection stages, still I pray one-
pointedly with intense, fervent devotion. Although your form is in the land of
rkasas, your compassion knows no bounds, and your wisdom is unobstructed, so
come now, through your great miraculous power as swift as thought. Grant your
blessings, so that here and now, at this very instant, all forms of illness, obstructing
forces, harmful actions and obscurations, which affect our body, speech and mind,
and all that stands between us and the magnificence of the higher realms and
definitive goodness is pacified, and we may effortlessly gain all that is favourable,
including long-life, merit, prosperity and the qualities of scriptural transmission and
realization.
Pray fervently, invoking the guru's compassion and inviting him to fulfil your aim.
Then, what follows is like a summary of the prayer. Since he is 'heavy' with the
burden of unsurpassed qualities, 'guru' refers to the one who has special qualities as
a teacher. Then, as a sign that he belongs to the padma family and was born from a
lotus, we call out to 'Padma' and pray: 'Grant me all the supreme and common
siddhis (attainments) without exception, H!' You can recite this mantra several
thousand times in each session, purely and clearly, never mixing it with ordinary
speech.
The benefits of practising in this way are described in the treasure text itself:
We can be confident about this as the Guru never lies, and it is vital that we practise
without any doubt in our minds.
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Matibhadra wrote down Tenpe Nyima's words as a reminder for Sonam Palden.
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