Grand puja: 24-26 Feb 2012 Grand Puja @ Taipei Buddhist Centre
Date:Fri - Feb 24, 12
Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Program: Vajrasattva Purification Jenang Blessing Initiation 金刚萨埵净业承许灌顶
Description:
Vajrasattva Grand Blessing Initiation
A practice specially for swift purification of negativity
24/02/12 (Friday) 7:30pm to 9:30pm
BY H.E. KENSUR KYABJE LATI RINPOCHE
Why is the Vajrasattva Practice important?
The Vajrasattva meditation and recitation is important because in order to have the realizations of the path, we have to make our mental continuums receptive and ripe for such realizations. Manjushri advised Lama Tzong Khapa that in order to have proper realizations of the high path, three factors must be complete:
1. Requesting to the Guru inseparable from the meditational deity,
2. Purifying negativities and accumulating positive potential,
3. Practicing the visualization of the sadhana, which is the principal cause of having realizations.
Lama Tzong Khapa did many purification practices and later realized the empty nature of phenomena. Although in reality he is the manifestation of Manjushri and so had realized emptiness before, Lama Tzong Khapa did purification practices to set an example for his followers. In that way, we will understand the importance of doing purification practices prior to the actual practice.
One Kadampa master said, "Because the nature of all functional things is impermanent, if someone engages in the practice of purification, accumulates positive potential, practices visualizing the celestial mansion, and does the sadhana with great effort, what may now seem impossible to achieve, like high realizations, will come about one day."
In India there were many great past masters like Nagarjuna, the two jewels and the six ornaments. In Tibet there also were many highly realized beings. All of them have experienced these high realizations, whereas we have not. It cannot be that they are the only people who can have realizations and we cannot. The difference is that our continuum is still obscured by defilements, disturbing attitudes and karma. There is no difference as far as the Buddha nature is concerned. Just as these great beings have Buddha nature, we also have both types of Buddha nature: the natural Buddha nature which is the base for achieving the Dharmakaya and the transformational Buddha nature which is the main cause for achieving the form body. These are within our mind-streams. The only difference between us and the highly realized beings is that our mental continuum is still obscured by defilements.
Therefore, the practice of Vajrasattva meditation and recitation is very important, as it purifies these obstacles. Unless we do purification practices to eliminate the negativities, our present store of negativities will continue to increase. It is like borrowing a huge sum of money: the interest keeps accumulating.
Doing the Vajrasattva practice and reciting the l00 syllable mantra l00,000 times is said to purify the negativities if done properly, with all the factors complete. This has been explained in the tantra - Ornament of the Vajra Essence. If the recitation is done without all four factors present, we cannot purify the negativities completely.
金刚萨埵承许灌顶
特别迅速消除恶业及障碍之法门
2月24日 （星期五）傍晚7点半至9点半
由尊贵的格雅杰拉谛仁波切所述
金刚萨埵的观修及念诵其真言是很重要的,因为为了要成就菩提道上的证悟,必須先使我们的心相续变得敏锐﹑成熟。文殊菩萨教诫宗喀巴大师说, 为了要成就菩提道的证悟，必须先具足三个条件：
- 向与本尊无二无別之上师祈请
- 净除罪障与累积资粮
- 观修仪轨，此为有证悟之主因
宗喀巴大师修了许多净罪法门,以至于后來了证悟了诸法自性皆空。虽然事实上宗喀巴大师是文殊菩萨的化身，因此他早已证悟空性，宗喀巴大师修了这么多的净罪法门，是为了做模范给他的弟子们学习。因此可知，修正行之前的净除罪障有多么重要。有一位噶当派大师说：「因为一切有位法都是无常的，如果有人精进地净罪集资，观修坛城及仪轨，即使现在看似不可能成就的高证量，都会有成就的一天」。
很多古代的印度大师例如像龙树菩萨，二珍宝及六庄严，以及西藏的许多大成就者。他们都实证了这些我们尚未证得的极高证量。这绝对不是唯独他们可以有证量，而我们却不能。以佛性的观点来看我们是沒有区別的，有区別在于我们的心相续仍然受到垢染﹑妄念及业所障碍。
就如同这些大成就者具有佛性一樣，我们也具有两种佛性：一种是成就法身佛为基础的自性佛性，以及成就佛色身之主因的转化佛性，这些都存在我们的心相续中。我们和大成就者之间唯一的区別在于我们的心相续仍然受到垢染所障碍。因此，观修金刚萨埵及念诵其真言是很重要的，可藉此而净除这些障碍。除非修持净罪法门除障，否则我们所累积之罪障将会持续不断地增长，就像借了巨额的贷款，利息会不断的累计一样。