The Supplication that Fulfills All Wishes

Series: Difficult conditions in Dzogchen

The Supplication that Fulfills All Wishes

When everything goes wrong and there are no longer any points of reference; when we find ourselves in complete confusion, in doubt; when we are totally overwhelmed by suffering… it is often difficult to maintain the View of Great Perfection, according to which all phenomena, all experiences, are the ornaments of the primordial knowledge’s natural display, the radiance of the illusory forms of the great universal compassion. Whether or not we are on a spiritual path, we tend to want to throw everything away or curl up in a little hole and wait for the suffering to pass. And that is completely normal. It is part of the training, and training, like life in general, is not easy. Some would call this the cyclical wandering, saṃsāra (Tib. ‘khor ba, pronounced khorwa).

 “So when everything is difficult, when everything seems too overwhelming, we need to have a refuge to shelter under without cutting ourselves off from reality.” 

Lobsang Dargye Gyamtso Rinpoche, aka Alags Chörten – April 2014

So when everything is difficult, when everything seems too overwhelming, we need to have a refuge to shelter under without cutting ourselves off from reality. In the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition, to help us overcome difficulties and obstacles of the mind, we are reminded of our connection to the Master, who is none other than the primordial nature of our mind. We also remember the fundamentals of the path, beginning with the foundation of Mahāyana, the Great Vehicle, if the Direct View of the Great Perfection cannot be present. There are several types of support to remind us of the fundamentals, such as the reminder of refuge or prayers of wishes or good omens, etc. Years ago, my Master, Lobsang Dargye Gyamtso Rinpoche, left us a prayer to inspire us in difficult times. Entitled “The Supplication that Fulfills All Wishes in Accordance with Dharma,” it is as follows:

༄༅།     །གང་ལ་བརྟེན་ན་ནམ་ལང་བསླུ་མེད་པ།། བླ་མ་མཆོག་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བ་སྲས་དང་བཅས།།

Gang la tèn na nam lang lu mé pa//           la ma chog sum gyèl wa sé dang ché//

Wherever we are we rely on the infallible sunrise. In the same way, we implore the Lama, the Three Jewels,

ཡེ་ཤེས་སྤྱན་ལྡན་སྲུང་མའི་ཚོགས་རྣམ་ལ།། གསོལ་བ་དེབས་སོ་བསམ་དོན་འགྲུབ་པར་མཛོད།།

yé shé chèn dèn sung mé tshog nam la//    söl wa dèb so sam dön drub par dzö//

the Victorious Ones and their sons [1], as well as the Protectors endowed with the eye of wisdom. Help us to accomplish all our wishes!

རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན་ལ་ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་པ་སོགས།།

gyèl wé tèn la thö sam gom pa sog//

May all those who are engaged in Dharma through listening, reflecting and meditating,

སྒོ་གསུམ་རྣམ་དཀར་བྱ་བ་མ་ལུས་པ།། གང་བསམ་ཡིད་སྨོན་ལྟར་དུ་འགྲུབ་གྱུར་ནས།

go sum nam kar ja wa ma lü pa// gang sam yi mön tar dün drub gyur né//

who are to perform only beneficial activities by the means of the three gates [2], fulfill their aspirations in accordance with this prayer.

བྱིན་རླབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་གནང་བ་བསྩལ་དུ་གསོལ།།

jin lab ngö drub nang wa tsèl du söl//

(Lama), please bestow your blessing and accomplishments!

སྟེང་འོག་བར་གསུམ་གདོན་དང་བྱད་ཕུར་སྲི།།

tèng og bar sum dön dang jé phur si//

Dispel all outer and inner obstacles of the three spheres, [3]

ནད་རིམས་དུས་མིན་འཆི་དང་ཕྱི་ནང་གི།། འཇིགས་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་སོགས་རྐྱེན་ངན་བར་ཆད་ཀུན།།

né rim dü min chi dang chi nang gi//         jig chèn gyé sog kyèn ngèn bar ché kün//

curses, negative forces, epidemics, untimely death, as well as obstacles, adverse conditions and the eight great fears. [4]

ལྷག་མེད་མྱུར་དུ་ཞི་བར་མཛད་དུ་གསོལ།།

lhag mé nyur du shi war dzé du söl//

May we swiftly attain Nirvana without remainder! [5]

ཚད་ལྡན་བཤེས་གཉེན་ཆོས་(དང་)མཐུན་པའི་གྲོགས།།

tshé dèn shé nyèn chö dang thün pé dro//

With an authentic teacher and Dharma companions [6]

ལོག་འཚོག་བྲལ་བས་ཟས་གོས་གནས་མལ་ཀུན།། ཉིན་མཚན་ཆོས་ཀྱིས་འདའ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས།།

log tshog drèl wé zé gö né mèl kün//          nyin tshèn chö ki da war jin gyi lob//

far away from ordinary society and without having to worry about food, clothing and bedding, we implore you to continually bless us with the spontaneous Dharma!

ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྣམ་དག་དད་བརྩོན་དྲག་པོ་ཡིས།། མདོ་སྔགས་གཞུངས་ཀྱི་དགོངས་དོན་ལེགས་བསྩལ་ནས།།

tsül trim nam dag dé tsön drag po yi//      do ngag shung ki gong dön lèg tsèl né//

With totally pure ethics, fervent faith and diligence, may we perfectly train in the profound meaning of the Sutras and Tantras,

ཉམས་སུ་བླངས་བའི་ས་ལམ་ཡོན་ཏན་ཀུན།། ཡོངས་རྫོགས་མཁའ་མཉམ་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན་གྱུར་ཤོག།།

nyam su lang wé sa lam yön tèn kün//       yong dzog kha nyam dro wé gön gyur shog//

develop all qualities of the paths and grounds [7] through practice and become the protectors of all beings equal in number to the vastness of the sky!

ཆུ་ནག་ཕྱུགས་རྭ་ནས་བློ་བཟང་དར་རྒྱས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མིང་གཞན་པདྨ་ཐོད་ཕྲེང་རྩལ་གྱིས་བྲིས་པ་མཛད་ཡིན་ཏེ།།

This was composed by Lobsang Dargye Gyamtso, or Padma Thötrengsel, (the one coming from a land of) water, yaks and goats.

May this prayer, the foundation of the gradual path, be useful to as many people as possible during difficult times and conditions.

[1] The Bodhisattvas.   BACK

[2] Body, speech and mind.   BACK

[3] Above, on and below the earth.   BACK

[4] Fear of lions (pride); fear of elephants (ignorance); fear of fire (anger); fear of snakes (envy); fear of robbers (wrong views); fear of imprisonment (avarice); fear of floods (attachment); fear of demons (doubt).   BACK

[5] The equivalent of Rainbow body: the ultimate liberation for Mahāyana.

[6] Vajra sisters and brothers.

[7] The five paths and ten grounds.