From a terma of Apang Terton Pawo Choying Dorje
Homage to Padmasambhava, Abbot of Oddiyana, who is the union of body, speech,
mind, quality and enlightened activity of the Sugatas of the ten directions!
In the supreme field of conversion by Chenrezig— the northern country of Tibet,
there are the upper, middle and lower regions. In the middle is U-Tsang with
the distinctive features of the four ranges. There lies the natural holy abode
of the Dakas and Dakinis, no different from the charnel grounds and sacred
places of India —the glorious Yarlung Sheldrak caves. In the auspicious second
month, the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Lhasey Mutig Tsenpo, together with
Padmasambhava who was both master and companion to Yeshe Tsogyal, were offering
an extensive Ganachakra when she made the following request:
"Alas
Padmasambhava! For the sake of all future sentient beings of the degenerated
times and myself, a profound instruction for supplicating your enlightened
body, speech, mind, quality and activity which is concise, with vast meaning,
and which brings blessings swiftly is needed. Kindly bestow upon us such an
extremely profound pith instruction which satisfies all needs and wishes like a
wish-fulfilling jewel."
The great Vajradhara Padmasambhava thus replied, “Listen well with faith,
retinue and consort! My wisdom bodies and emanations are inconceivable; my
life-stories and deeds, being likewise unfathomable, are beyond the scope of
ordinary beings’ minds. I appear to each sentient being according to how they
need to be tamed. Whatever is prayed for will come to be as wished. The
compositions of my wisdom speech as the Secret Mantra, awareness mantras and so
forth are also inconceivable.
"The
seven-line prayer, which is the essence of ultimate truth, is complete in
itself. If one recites this prayer continuously as a supplication, the
enlightened wisdom mind (thugs kyi dgongs pa) will naturally arise and
realization will effortlessly dawn. Enlightened qualities and activities will
be spontaneously accomplished. If one holds on to this penetratingly powerful
instruction, it will be like a wish-fulfilling jewel that grants all that is
wished for, and even more.
"It is
not the case that all wishes are fulfilled only for people possessing merits
and not for others; but anyone who has devotion to me, whoever this person may
be, will receive such benefits. Extremely marvellous is this instruction for
accomplishing the sole Guru-Buddha. It is an extraordinary teaching for
accomplishing all the Three Jewels. There is no need for elaborations such as
mandalas and tormas. This sublime and profound pith instruction for the secret
renunciant practitioner (kusali) is now given to you!"
