Chenrezig

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #202
from your Buddhism expert



The great Tibetan saint, Patrul Rinpoche wrote:


Ah! Fount of compassion,
my root teacher, Lord Chen-re-zig,
you are my
only protector!

The Six-syllable mantra, essence of your speech
is the sublime Dhar-ma;
from now on I have
NO hope BUT you!

Two generations later, the 14th Dalai Lama’s late
teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, explained:

Chen-re-zig is a fully enlightened Buddha who,

in order to benefit beings, takes on the form of a
Bo-dhi-sat-tva. All the Buddhas have but one nature
and their compassion is embodied in Chen-re-zig. As
the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas,
Chen-re-zig is at the same time the source of all
Buddhas and Bo-dhi-sat-tvas, since compassion is
the very root of enlightenment. Chen-re-zig is
compassion itself in the form of a deity.

Chen-re-zig is the Buddha,

Chen-re-zig is the Dhar-ma,
Chen-re-zig is the Sang-ha;

Chen-re-zig is the Gu-ru,
Chen-re-zig is the Yi-dam,
Chen-re-zig is the Da-ki-ni;

Chen-re-zig is the Dhar-ma-ka-ya,
Chen-re-zig is the Sam-bho-ga-ka-ya,
Chen-re-zig is the Nir-ma-na-ka-ya;

Chen-re-zig is A-mi-ta-bha,
Chen-re-zig is Gu-ru Rin-po-che,
Chen-re-zig is Ar-ya Ta-ra;

and above all Chen-re-zig is
our own Root Teacher.

Like a hundred streams passing under a single bridge,

Chen-re-zig is the union of all the Buddhas.

To receive his blessings is to receive the
blessings of all the Buddhas, and to realize his
nature is to realize the nature of all the Buddhas.



Chen-re-zig manifests infinite forms; kings,
spiritual teachers, ordinary men and women, wild
animals, even mountains, trees, bridges – whatever
is necessary to fulfill sentient beings’ needs.

Even a cool breeze in scorching weather or
a soothing moment of relief during a
painful illness are manifestations of
Chen-re-zig’s compassion.

Similarly, Chen-re-zig’s Six-syllable mantra,
Om Ma-ni Pad-me Hum, is the compassionate
wisdom of all the Buddhas manifested as sound.

Within it is contained the essential meaning of all
eighty-four thousand sections of the Buddha’s
teachings. Of all the many mantras of various kinds,
such as
• awareness mantras,
• dharanis and
• secret mantras,
not one is superior to the six syllables of
Chen-re-zig. The great benefits of reciting this
mantra, commonly known as the Ma-ni, are described
again and again in both {the} sutras and tantras.

It is said that to recite the Ma-ni even once is
the same as reciting the whole of the twelve branches
of Buddha’s teachings. Reciting the six syllables
of the Ma-ni perfects the six Pa-ra-mi-tas and
firmly blocks any possibility of rebirth in the six
realms of Sam-sa-ra.

It is a simple practice, easy to understand and
accessible to all, and at the same time it contains
the essence of the Dha-rma.

If you take the Ma-ni as your refuge both in
happiness and in sorrow, Chen-re-zig will always
be with you, you will feel more and more devotion
without any effort, and all by itself the
realization of the Ma-ha-ya-na path will arise in
your being.



There is nothing in the whole world that can
actually frighten away the Lord of Death, but the
warm radiance of Chen-re-zig’s compassion can
completely dispel the dread felt by anyone as
Death approaches. This is what is meant by “undeceiving refuge.”

Totally free from Sam-sa-ra, Chen-re-zig is
always ready to help sentient beings, and even the
slightest movement – a gesture of his hand, a blink
of his eyes – has the power to free us from
Sam-sa-ra.

When we invoke him by reciting the Ma-ni, we
should never think that he is too far away to hear
us, in some distant Buddhafield… in truth his
compassion never forsakes a single being.

He manifests himself constantly in whatever form may
benefit beings most, particularly in the form of
great spiritual teachers; so we should understand
with complete conviction that Chen-re-zig, the
supreme protector who shows all sentient beings the
path to liberation, {could be} in fact none other
than our root teacher.



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Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


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