॥महायानननत्यक्रमानिसं क्षेपः॥

|| mahāyānanityakramātisaṁkṣepaḥ ||

Extremely Condensed Daily Mahāyāna Chants

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A very minimal daily Mahāyāna practice should at least contain the
following:

• Refuge
• Bodhicitta
• Four Immeasurables
• Main Practice
• Dedication of Merit

Refuge and Bodhicitta (3 times with prostrations/half prostrations)

How to fold your hands (añjali)

Full prostrations: while standing, fold your hands and bring them
above the head (representing the body), in front of the throat (speech)
and in front of the heart (mind); then prostrate with the full length of
your body, stretching the arms in front.

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 Full prostration

Half prostrations: same while standing, but when prostrating touch the
ground with hands, head and knees (without stretching the body
completely).

Half prostration

Doing 3 and a half prostrations means that after standing up for the
last time one brings folded hands over the head, in front of the throat,
and in front of the heart one more time.

After having done the prostrations, one may sit down on the floor and
complete the rest of the chants with folded hands.

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बुद्धं च धमं च गणोत्तमं च यावनद्ध बोधधं शरणं प्रयानम ।
दानानदकृ त्यैश्च कृ िैमय
म ैधिबुमद्धो िवेयं जगिो नहिाय ॥

buddhaṁ ca dharmaṁ ca gaṇottamaṁ ca

yāvad dhi bodhiṁ śaraṇaṁ prayāmi |
dānādikṛtyaiś ca kṛtair mayaibhir
buddho bhaveyaṁ jagato hitāya ||

Until Awakening, I go for refuge

in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly,
And by the good deeds beginning with Giving,
may I become a Buddha, for the benefit of the world.

Four Immeasurables (3 times)

सत्त्ाः सुखेन सम्प्रयुज्येरन् ।

सत्त्ा दुःखेन नवयुज्येरन् ।
सत्त्ाः सुखेन न नवयुज्येरन् ।
सत्त्ाः नहिं लिेरन् ॥

sattvāḥ sukhena samprayujyeran |

sattvā duḥkhena viyujyeran |
sattvāḥ sukhena na viyujyeran |
sattvāḥ hitaṁ labheran ||

May sentient beings be endowed with happiness;

may sentient beings be separated from suffering;
may sentient beings not be separated from happiness;
may sentient beings obtain benefit.

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Main Practice

Mahāyāna meditation practices can be understood as included within

the aspects of calm abiding (śamatha) and insight (vipaśyanā). Those
who have received no special meditative practice can chant the Six-
Syllable Mantra of Ārya Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
(this mantra is found in the Sūtras and can be chanted by anyone).

॥ओं मधण पद्मे हूम्॥

|| oṁ maṇi padme hūm || 7, 21, 108, 111 times or more

Dedication of Merit (3 times)

अनेन पुण्येन िु सवमदधशमिामवाप्य ननधजमत्य च दोषनवनिषः ।

जरारुजामृत्युमहोनममसङ्कुलात्समुद्धरेयं िवसागराज्जगि् ॥

anena puṇyena tu sarvadarśitām avāpya nirjitya ca doṣavidviṣaḥ |

jarārujāmṛtyumahormisaṅkulāt samuddhareyaṁ bhavasāgarāj jagat ||

By this merit, having obtained omniscience and defeated the enemies,

the afflictions,
may I lift the world from the ocean of existence, filled with the great
waves of decay, illness and death.

Listen to the chants here

इनि महायानननत्यक्रमानिसं क्षेपः ॥ धममवधमनज्ञानगिमस्य कृ निः ॥ शुिम्॥

iti mahāyānanityakramātisaṁkṣepaḥ || dharmavardhanajñānagarbhasya kṛtiḥ

||śubham||