28/06/2024
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𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘-𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐔𝐒- 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑, 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐀 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐒 ༼སྦྱིན་བདག་༽𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 ༼བླ་མ་ ཆོས་པ་༽𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐓
𝐿𝑂𝐺𝑌𝐸 𝑁𝑌𝐼𝑇𝑅𝐼 𝐵𝑈𝑀 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑇𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, “𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒?”
𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒅:
Tibetan benefactors who have the Dharma read aloud and recited
Should encourage the clergy to learn correctly to read and write.
First the scribes should properly learn the shape and proportion of the letters,
The balance between what is white and what is black,
And to copy diligently with neither omission nor duplication.
The benefactors should be free from desire for prestige
And they should satisfy those worthy of respect with rewards.
The gifts should be offered with a spirit of faith
And accepted without ambitious greed.
Both benefactor and recipient should in unison
Dedicate the merit toward the attainment of perfect enlightenment.
When acting in this way, they will both achieve perfect merit.
If the benefactor has an impure motivation
And the object of respect is unsatisfied,
The virtuous action will become a misdeed.
The object of respect who engages in reading aloud and chanting
At first should train in language and grammer;
Next he should read the words with the correct emphasis,
And finally avoid omitting or duplicating words.
Avoid conversations with others while chanting.
Recite respectfully without omissions or duplications.
Be free from ingratitude regarding the Dharma.
Give up the disrespect of carelessly stepping over the scriptures.
Imagine that you are the master and the lord of doctrine,
Who sounds the great drum of the Dharma,
And, while reciting, that the six classes of beings
Are liberated upon hearing the teachings.
When pausing for a session break,
The sponsor and the object of respect
Should together dedicate the virtue toward attaining enlightenment.
The benefactor should, with a faithful frame of mind
And with an attitude dedicated to pleasing the object of respect,
Gratify the receiver with excellent gifts,
Such as the best food and drink.
If you act like this, both benefactor and recipient,
You will have happiness in this life and attain enlightenment in the next.
For benefactors and recipients who do not behave like this,
The sponsor may be stingy and count only what is completed;
Since the sponsor is more interested in speed, learnedness will not help.
The learned ones will be careless, leaving out parts in chanting.
While the ignorant will simply try to finish quickly.
The benefactors who does not give supplies and service
Will not satisfy the recipient with gifts, but will create resentment.
Thus the link between sponsor and object of respect results in misdeed.
Though the benefactor wished for merit, he only increased his evil karma.
At the end of this age such benefactors and recipients will appear.
Do not act like that but make everything you do become the Dharma.
I, Padmakara, am now taking leave,
Whether you live in the present or will appear in the future,
Tibetan benefactors and recipients of future generations, keep this in your hearts.
Thus, he gave instructions.
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𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒: 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑢𝑟𝑢 𝑅𝑖𝑛𝑝𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑖𝑚𝑑𝑟𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑡𝑒𝑛. 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝐺𝑢𝑟𝑢 𝑅𝑖𝑛𝑝𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
