Spontaneous Advice Connected with a Prayer

by Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche

How marvellous!
Primordial buddha, the essence,
and unceasing sambhogakya, the nature,
are united, as compassions own radiance:
Three-kya guru, please know me!

Embodiment of the nine ynas and four kyas,

prophesied Sangye Dorje,
who perfectly accomplished the vast expanse of wisdom through lineages most
blessed,
manifesting your great love from pure space:
watch over me, your most devoted child!

Bestow blessings and empowerments

of the wisdom, symbolic, and oral lineages right now,
and make me inseparable from you!
Please, I am praying.

In your compassionate vision

is my dharmakya inheritance empty awareness
devoid of the husk of temporal meditative experiences,
and beyond view, meditation, conduct or result.

This self-emergent original nature

has always been free of conceptual mind;
the full extent of unaltered, fresh realization.
To have the confidence of recognizing and resolving this,
is to see with naked awareness the great boon of self-liberation.

Right here and right now

pray reveal this to me!

On the swift path of luminous Great Perfection,

with the force of fervent devotion as the cause
realization and liberation are actualized in a single lifetime.
This result, the bhmis and paths perfect in the ground,
isnt merely a future hope or prospect how incredible!

Awakening previously accrued merit

and imbibing the nectar that ripens and liberates,
Ignorance, negativity, emotionality, confusion and its imprints

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Are purified into unborn dharmakya,
and, with effortless compassion,
the realms of suffering beings are emptied
from their very depths such an extraordinary gift
can only come to a spoiled child like me
through the kindness of the guru, my true father.

Without hoping to know all while missing whats most important,

I'll remain throughout my life
Within the understanding of the one thing that liberates all.
Glorious guru, please save me
from a journey full of mistakes and pitfalls!

Aside from fervent prayer,

relax in non-doing, letting go of even virtuous deeds,
and now whatever happens
is in our hands be certain.

Guru, you know that within our environment and among beings,
upon us all, myself and others,
the arrows of negative forces rain down
in these impossibly dark times,
and having seen how they strike,
you embraced a yogic lifestyle of humble non-doing,
roaming in lonesome places and isolated retreats,
sustained without companions, alone,
and like a flowing stream, day and night,
thoughts and perceptions became unending wisdom,
with meditation and post-meditation equal and complete
so I may savour everything as a single taste
Beloved guru, please know me!

Since the noise of dry talk

carries the danger of self-deception
while living, dying and in the bardo,
please bless me to be ever mindful!

This prayer of calling out to the guru, the equivalent of spiritual advice, was requested
by the young yogi Jigme Lod, with an offering of a gold and silver maala. So as not
to render meaningless his repeated urging at different times, the elder Buddha Vajra
uttered this from his abode, the retreat centre Turquoise Dragon Land, and his daughter
Saraswati wrote it down. Magalam.

| Translated by Christina Monson with the assistance of the Venerable Sean, 2016.

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