A Rainfall of Delight

A Gom-dey (Meditation with Recitation) Guru Yoga Sadhana focusing on

Tibet’s great yogi Milarepa

High on the snowy peaks of Tibet

A yogi pursued austere practice
And burned the forest of kleshas.
Thus through skillful method his wisdom
Soared in the sky of truth, the way things are.

His name was Milarepa,

Laughing Vajra, the people’s delight,
A mountain towering over all yogis.
At his golden feet I offer this prayer,
Causing the vital energy of realization
To enter the drop of vajra life envisioned at the heart.

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(Begin the usual way, starting with 21 breaths chanting the standard verse of refugee
and bodhichitta, and invoking the four immeasurables mindsets. Then recite the
svabhava mantra and take a bath in emptiness. Come out of emptiness engage in the
Milarepa guru yoga meditation. Be mindful of the instruction that the visualized image
appears in the form of Milarepa, but in essence is one’s own guru emanated as Milarepa,
and is of one taste with one’s own buddha nature.)

In the skies before me, the wisdom of bliss and void manifest
As a field laden with jewels, and adorned with medicinal herbs,
Beautiful lotuses and kingly trees filled with song birds.
Seated at the mouth of a mountain cave
Is my root guru in the form of Milarepa, the Laughing Vajra,
An antelope skin his meditation mat,
His body radiant with lights of the five colors.

His legs are in the half-vajra posture

and his body has a greenish hue.
From his lips a vajra song
Resounds melodiously resounds far and wide.

He sits amidst a brilliant halo.

His white cotton robe like a web of light.
At his heart is two-armed Chakrasamvara in union with Vajrayogini,
And at his heart the syllable HUM.
Countless dakas and dakinis dance around him
As he smiles lovingly upon the world.

Lights burst forth from the HUM at his heart

And summon a limitless ocean of peaceful and wrathful buddha forms.
They come from all directions, dancing magical dances,
And dissolve into his body.

Clouds of wisdom, compassion and power

Appear in the sky and release
A rainfall of transforming powers,
A shower of inspiring blessings.

Wondrous yogi who attained the vajra body,

Whose speech was endowed with buddha’s sixty qualities
And whose mind was great bliss
Spontaneously aware of all knowable things;
O marvelous guru, I bow to you.

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Golden bowls of crystal clear water,
Flowers tossed to earth by the gods,
Incense with fragrances that pervades the universe,
Butterlamps with light equaling that of sun and moon,
Exotic perfumes that invoke joy,
Foods of a hundred satiating flavors,
And delightful songs to fill the skies---
These and all things real and imagined
In their outer, inner and secret forms
I create with the force of samadhi
And offer to you in the presence of the Buddhas.

O venerable yogi who in one lifetime

Attained the state of perfect Buddhahood
By practicing intensely day and night,
I rejoice in your wondrous deeds.

Turn countless wheels of Dharma

That protect from samsara and nirvana.
Release your magnificent vajra speech,
One sound of which brings liberation.

For as long as the sun and moon shine,

Send your enlightened energy to this world,
Mysterious emanations to dance
Into the lives of spiritually mature beings.

Whatever positive energy is generated

By my devotions to you,
All of it I dedicate to attaining enlightenment
For the benefit of all living beings.

(The mantra recitation:--)

OM AH GURU HASA VAJRA SARVA SIDDHI PALA HUM

(Recite 21 or 108 times.. At the conclusion, the guru comes to the crown of one’s head,
shrinks to the size of a thumb, and descends to the center of one’s heart, where he
dissolves into light and merges with one’s body speech and mind. Sit for some time in
this sphere of union with the guru. Then conclude with the following prayer:--)

One’s own perfect lama is more kind

Than all the buddhas of all directions.
O my guru, who appears here in the form of Milarepa,
Bestow blessings that practitioners may meet perfect teachers like you
And follow their instructions with pure thoughts.

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A human birth with spiritual endowments
Is a fortune held but for a moment;
Inspire me to take a life’s essence
By avoiding the eight worldly winds.

The evening of life approaches;

The shadows of dusk lengthen.
Soon breath is lost like a passing stream.
Inspire me to always abide in wisdom
And to dedicate my time to integrating Dharma into my life.

Carried along on a raging torrent

Of negative karma and careless ways,
The beings are washed into the dungeons of the lower realms.
Inspire me to live in detachment from ordinary samsaric craving
Through seeing that the indulgences of humans and gods
Are not much more than a mountain of excrement.

Caught in the chains of grasping at “I”,

The living beings, in many lives my mother,
Boil inside with the heat of delusion
And outside are wounded by vicious weapons of misfortune.
O venerable lama, in order that I may be empowered
To free all beings from samsara’s terrors,
Inspire me to quickly attain the perfection of buddhahood,
The three spontaneously produced kayas.

Inspire me to cut the tight ropes of the eight worldly concerns,

That bind the mind in a confusion; so that I might practice Dharma
With single-pointed concentration, and accomplish
The yogas of the Sutra and Tantra paths.

O gracious guru, bestow on me your inspiring blessings

So that throughout this life, in the bardo and in all future lives,
I may never be parted from teachers of the Great Way
And I may be able to help mature and free the world.

(Conclude with the standard two verses of dedication:--)

Gewa di yi….etc
Jangchub semchok Rinpoche…

The colophon: The above text was created by Lama Glenn from a Six Session Guru Yoga
practice composed by the great Seventh Dalai Lama.