{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/ettt/ettt08.htm","path":"bud/ettt/ettt08.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/ettt/ettt08.htm","text":"Esoteric Teachings of the Tibetan Tantra, by C.A. Mus\u00e9s, [1961]\nThis Buddha abides in the north of the Mandala. He is the fifth Buddha of the Five Buddhas of Tantricism and usually belongs to the last of the initiation series2.\nText\nH\u016b\u1e43! This is the Bhagavan, Buddha of Performance.\nI now give to you, the well-destined disciples, his initiation.\nHave faith and devotion toward him!\nThrough the power of his speech and wisdom,\nYour envious nature naturally dissolves and becomes his holy body.\nMay you attain the complete initiation of Amoghasiddhi.\nDagarma Abhi Ditsa Ah!\nIf you understand, O disciples, that everything is the manifestation of consciousness,\nOr that consciousness makes everything,\nThen you will truly attain the Initiation of the Dissolution of the Envious Nature.\n(And you should know that) the green wisdom-light symbolizes the Buddha of Performance, himself.\nPicture: Very unclear; presumably it is the robe which Buddha wears.\nBuddha's body feels no cold,\nBut following the fashion of sentient beings\u2014\nNeeding this and needing that\u2014\nBuddha, likewise, robes himself.\nPutting on this Buddha's robe, you will become resplendent:\nAhdi Sabuya Svaha.\nPicture: The Tiger-skin apron and ornaments for the Fierce Buddha.\nYou should think that you offer the Tiger-skin apron and ornaments to the Fierce One.\nH\u016b\u1e43! Although Buddha's mind is fearless,\nHe wears these terrifying ornaments\nOn his wrathful body\nTo cleanse the sins of sentient beings\nAnd bring them to the Path of Liberation.\nBy your wearing this Tiger-skin apron and fierce ornaments,\nThe demons will be conquered and all your fears routed.\nO\u1e43! Sher Bi Yo Di Sar Su Yy Svaha!\nPicture: The Fiery Water3 [which conquers both cold and heat]\n(The Guru hands over the picture of the Fiery Water to they disciple.)\nH\u016b\u1e43! This is the protection from heat and cold\u2014the Fiery Water with qualities of both warmth and coolness.\nI now impart to you well-destined disciples, this initiation.\nYou will be immune to the cold and heat-torments of Hell;\nThus you will be forever freed from the sufferings of Hell.\nDu Da Ha Da Ha Sarwa Nara Gade Heru H\u016b\u1e43 Pai!\n(see note, Folios 26-41, p. 115)\nPicture: The Five Wheels.\nH\u016b\u1e43! These are the Precious Wheels\nThe Cross Symbols4 on the human heart.\nI now impart this initiation to you, good disciples.\nMay you attain the Initiation of the Five Wheels.\nBatsa Matna Bema Garma Ah Be Ditsi Ah!\n(as marked in Tibetan on the folio. Ed.)\nPicture: The Thunderbolt.\nH\u016b\u1e43! This is the Precious Wheel\u2014the Cross Symbols of the lotus on the human heart.\nI now impart this initiation to you, good disciples, May you attain the Initiation of the Five Wheels.\nBatsa Darna Bema Garma Ah Be Ditsi Ah!\nPicture: A water vase, a hat, a thunderbolt, a bell, and a Buddha.\nThe Vase Initiation is the annihilation of Hate.\nThe Initiation of Head-Adornment is the subduing of the Pride-poison.\nThe initiation of Thunderbolt is the destroying of the Lust-poison.\nThe Initiation of Bell is the conquering of Enviousness and Arrogance.\nThe Initiation of Name is the dispelling of the Ignorance-Darkness.\nI now bestow upon you the Initiation of Eternity.\nH\u016b\u1e43 Batsa Ah Dar Shu Jana Samaya Ahbi Yi Tsa Mum!\n(Use the water vase.)\nSar Rana Jarna Sobhawa Ahbi Yitsa Mum!\n(Use the thunderbolt.)\nDa Di Cha Ah Bu Di Jana Sadna Batsa Ahbi Yi Tsa Mum!\n(Use the bell.)\nO\u1e43 Dar Tri Da Ma Di Ahme Jaha Batsa Ahbi Yi Tsa Mum!\n(Use the thunderbolt and bell.)\nPicture: The Yab-Yum (literally Father-Mother) of All-Perfection or Adi Buddha Yab-Yum.\nH\u016b\u1e43! to you well-gifted disciples\nI now grant the Initiation of Adi Buddha Yab-Yum. With the annulment and purification of the \"mind complex\", May you attain the Initiation of the Immense Dharmakaya.\nDarmakaya Ahbe Yitsa O\u1e43 Ah H\u016b\u1e43 Hri!\n(Then the Guru makes the wish for the disciples.)\nO, well-gifted disciples: Through attaining the Initiation\nOf Adi Biddha Yab-Yum, your mind will be purified in the\n[paragraph continues] Dharmadathu (the universal whole). May you thus attain the Initiation of the Immense Dharmakaya.\n(Then the Guru bestows the Pointing-Out Practice5 upon the disciples.)\nO, well-destined disciples: You should not think that the so-called Yab-Yum Adi Buddha is other than the Alaya Bodhi Heart6 of your own mind. Oh! the aware thinker at this very moment, bright, radiantly aware, transparent, itself is the absolute body of Adi Buddha, the original, the primordial Immutable Shelter.\nThe awareness of your own mind, devoid of any characteristics and substantialities, the lightning awareness itself is the Mother Adi Buddha: its over-flowing manifestation and play. The versatile actor itself is the Father Adi Buddha: Now, recognize it and become acquainted with it!\nPicture: The Five Buddhas.\n(Thereupon the Initiation of the Five Father Buddhas of the Five Groups is given as follows:)\nH\u016b\u1e43! To you well-gifted disciples,\nI now impart the Initiation of the Five Buddhas in the Five Groups.\nYour Five Aggregations [the skandhas or five modes of consciousness] will thus be purified.\nMay you obtain the Initiation of the Universal\nReward Body (Sambhogakaya)!\nO\u1e43 H\u016b\u1e43 So Ahm Ha Sambhogaya Ahbi Aitsa Ah!\n(The Guru blesses as follows:)\nHaving received the Initiation of the Five Buddhas, I wish that all your Five Aggregations will be purified and that\nthe Initiation of the Universal Reward Body be attained by you.\n(The Guru now executes the Pointing-Out Practice.)\nO well-gifted disciples: The so called Five Buddhas are nothing else but your own Five Skandhas. The non-extinct but purified [natures] of your own Five Skandhas are the Five Buddhas themselves:\u2014The non-extinct but all-manifest Form, clear and vivid, is the Buddha of All Manifestations. (Tib. Rnam-b\u2019ar-snang-mdzad; Skt. Vairochana). The non-extinct but all-manifest Feeling (Tib. Rin-chen-byun-gnas; Skt. Ratnasambhava) clear and vivid, is the Buddha of Treasury. The non-extinct but all-manifest Conception (Tib. Adushes), clear and vivid, is the Buddha of Infinite Light. The non-extinct but all-manifest Volition, clear and vivid, is the Buddha of All-Performance. The non-extinct but all-manifest Consciousness, clear and vivid, is the Buddha of the Diamond-Mind. This, you should understand.\nPicture: The Five Mother-Buddhas or the Five Goddesses.\nH\u016b\u1e43! To you well-destined disciples.\nI now impart the Initiation of the Five Mother-Buddhas.\nHaving purified but not abolished the five elements,\nMay you this attain this Initiation of the Five Mother-Buddhas.\nMum Lam Mam Syam Tayam Ahbi Aitsa Ah!\n(The Guru now bestows a wish as follows:)\nHaving received the Initiation of the Five Mother-Buddhas, I wish that all your five elements may be purified and\nthat the Initiation of Generating All Buddhas be attained by you.\n(The Pointing-Out Practice follows.)\nO well-gifted disciples, the so-called Five Mother-Buddhas are nothing else but your own five inner and outer elements. The non-extinct but purified five elements are the Five Mother-Buddhas themselves. The manifested earth-element is the Mother-Buddha Spyng-ma. The manifested water-element is the Mother-Buddha Ma-ma-ge. The manifested fire-element is the Mother-Buddha Gos-dg\u2019ar-mo. The manifested air-element is the Mother-Buddha Dam-tsig-sgrol-ma. The manifested space-element is the nature of the Mother-Buddha Dbyings-pyug-ma.\nPicture: The Eight Boddhisattvas.\nThe Initiation of the Eight Bodhisattvas:\nH\u016b\u1e43! To you well-destined disciples,\nI now impart the Initiation of the Eight Bodhisattvas. Having purified but not destroyed the eight consciousnesses,\nMay you obtain the Initiation of the Great Bodhisattvas.\nBu Dhi Sa Ta Ah Bi Yi Tsa Ah!\n(The Guru makes a wish as follows.)\nO well-gifted disciples, through the attainment of this Initiation your eight consciousnesses are purified. Thus having attained the Initiation of the Eight Bodhisattvas, you will act as the Eight Bodhisattvas to carry out the\ngreat career\u2014to further the welfare of all sentient beings.\nThe Pointing-Out Practice:\nO, well-gifted disciples, the so-called Eight Bodhisattvas are nothing else but your own eight consciousnesses. The non-extinct but brightened eight consciousnesses of one's self are the Eight Bodhisattvas themselves. The eye-consciousness, aware and non-extinct, is the Bodhisattva Earth-Essence. The ear-consciousness, the one that hears, is the Bodhisattva Space-Essence. The nose-consciousness, the one that smells, is the Bodhisattva Self-Seeing. The tongue-consciousness, the one that tastes, is the Bodhisattva Thunderbolt-Holder. The body-consciousness, the one that penetrates all7, the illumined wisdom, is the Bodhisattva Purger-of-Obstacles. The kle\u015ba-bound Mind-Consciousness, the one that perpetuates the ego, is the Bodhisattva [called] All-Merits. The base-of-all consciousness, the all-pervading and illumined, is the Bodhisattva [called] Meritorious Youth.\nPicture: The Eight Consort-Bodhisattvas.\nThe Initiation of the Eight Consort-Bodhisattvas:\nH\u016b\u1e43! To you well-gifted disciples\nI now impart the Initiation of the Eight Consort-Bodhisattvas.\nHaving purified but not destroyed the eight (outer) objects,\n[paragraph continues] May you obtain the Initiation of the Eight Consort-Bodhisattvas.\nAhbi Yitsa Ah!\n(The Guru makes a wish as follows:)\nO, well-gifted disciples, through the attainment of this Initiation of the Eight Consort-Bodhisattvas, the eight objects are purified but not abandoned. Thus, you will act as the Eight Consort-Bodhisattvas to further the welfare of sentient beings.\n(The Pointing-Out Practice.)\nO, well-gifted disciples, the so-called Eight Consort-Bodhisattvas are nothing else but the purification of the thought of the eight objects. The eye-object, the appearance of form, in its purity, is the Consort-Bodhisattva La-ser-Dkar-mo. Likewise, the Ear-object, the sound in its purity, is the Consort-Bodhisattva Ma-le-ser-mo. The nose-object, the odor in its purity, is the Consort-Bodhisattva Ge-di-mar-mo. The tongue-object, the taste in its purity, is the Consort-Bodhisattva Ni-ti-ljang-gu. The purification of thought in the past is the Consort-Bodhisattva Su-si-dkar-mo. The purification of thought in the present is the Consort-Bodhisattva Dub-se-ser-mo. The purification of thought in the future is Bodhisattva Ah-loga-mar-mo. The insubstantial, the not-definite nature of the elements, the purification of phenomena, are the Consort-Bodhisattva Green Gha-ne. This you should understand.\nPicture: The Six Transformation Bodies of the Six Buddhas.\nThe Initiation of the Transformation Bodies of the Six Buddhas.\nH\u016b\u1e43! To you well-destined disciples\nI now impart the Initiation of the Six Buddhas.\nHaving purified the six Kle\u015bas,\nMay you obtain the Initiation of the Nirmanakaya Buddhas.\nNir Ma Kaya Ahbe Yitsa Ah!\nO, well-gifted disciples, through the attainment of this Initiation of the Six Nirmanakaya Buddhas, the Six Poisons\u2014five kle\u015bas and stinginess\u2014are purified. Thus may you be able to transform numerous bodies to further the welfare of sentient beings in the Six Lokas.\n(The Pointing-Out Practice:)\nO, well-gifted disciples, the so-called Six Buddhas are not something else\u2014the purification of Pride is the Buddha of Heaven, Dwan-b\u2019o-brgya-bying;\n(Continues the text of Folio 22.)\nthe purification of envy is the Buddha of Asura Tag Zang-ris; the purification of lust is the Buddha of Human beings, Shakyamuni; the purification of Blindness is the Buddha of Animals, Sen-ge-rab-brteng; the purification of stinginess is the Buddha of Hungry Ghost, G\u2019a-abar-ma; the purification of Hate is the Buddha of Hell, Chos-gyri-rgyal-b\u2019o.\nPicture: The Initiation Buddha of the Four Meanings.\nI now impart the Initiation of the Four Meanings.\nHaving purified the realistic and nihilistic Four Extremes8\nMay you obtain the Initiation of Infinite Performances.\nShen Da Su Da Ahn Wa Shm Ma Ra Ya Ahbi Aitsa Ah! (The Guru makes a wish as follows:)\nO well-gifted disciples, through the attainment of this Initiation of Four Meanings, the Realistic and Nihilistic Four Extremes are purified. May you be able to benefit sentient beings through the power of the Four Great Performances without the slightest hindrance.\nO, well-gifted disciples, the Buddhas of Four Meanings are not something else\u2014the purification of the Realistic View is the Buddha Victor (Rnam-b\u2019ar-rgyal-wa); the purification of the Nihilistic View is the Buddha of Death. Gshin-rje-gshed-b\u2019o; the purification of the Ego-View is the Buddha of Horse [-Head] (Rta-mgrin); the purification of the Form-View is the Buddha of Nectar-Flowing.\nPicture: The Female Buddha of the Four Meanings.\nH\u016b\u1e43! To you, the well-destined disciples,\nI now impart the Female Buddhas of Four Meanings. Having purified the four ways of birth,\nMay you attain the Initiation of the Four Performances.\nBatsa O\u1e43 Gu Sha la Sa Sha Mo Da Gen De Ahbi Aitsa Ah! (The Guru makes the wish for the disciples:)\nNow you, the disciples have attained the Initiation of the Four Female Deities. Thus, the gates of the Four Births will be shut off, the four Infinities will arise from your heart\u2014the four great performances through which you\nwill be able to benefit sentient beings without the slightest hindrances. Thus you will accomplish the career of benefiting others. May you attain all these merits and powers! (The Pointing-Out Practice:)\nO well-destined disciples, the Four Female Buddhas are but the natural purification of the Thought of the Four Births9. The birth from metamorphosis is the Iron-Chain Goddess; the natural purification of the thought of birth from the womb is the Rope Female Buddha. The natural purification of the thought of birth from eggs is the Iron-Fetter Female Buddha. The natural purification of the thought of the warmth-wetness is the Bell Goddess. From the very beginning they are identical! O well-gifted ones! You should definitely know these truths\u2014as they are unmistakably true\u2014and bear this conviction with you.\nAre not of first importance to initiation per se or are ideationally repetitious and hence have not been translated. Ed.\nThe Pointing-Out demonstration for the complete [company of] Fierce Buddhas\nThe Guru says to the disciples:\nO well-gifted disciples, these sixty Blood-Drinking Deities are not something else, they are one's own kle\u015bas-group, purified but not abandoned. The insubstantial or the perceiver that is devoid of any self-nature awareness manifests itself as the sixty Blood-Drinking Deities. As illustrated, in the Palace-Beyond-Measure in one's skull-brain, a group of Blood-Drinking Deities now actually and vividly dwell10. The forty-two Peaceful Deities with\ntheir illuminate bodies, all now dwell in the Dharma Chakra in the heart center. Furthermore, all the hairs over your body are identical with the nature of Db\u2019a-wo (Brave Deities). All the Pranas are the nature of Dakinis, all the White-Drops11 manifest in the form of the infinite Peaceful and Wrathful Sambhogakaya of the Father Buddhas. All the Red Drops12 (Ragda) manifest in the form of the infinite Peaceful and Wrathful Sambhogakaya of the Mother Buddhas. The numerous nadis13 of the body are the Dakinis. Therefore, your very body itself is the nature of the Mandala of the Peaceful and Wrathful Buddhas. Hence, you should never despise, abuse, or injure your body, nor should you overstrain your body, practice asceticism, or commit suicide. When you eat or drink you should think that this is the Tantric Sacrament and duly make the offering. If you remain without attachment, you may always wear fire and lovely clothes and adorn yourself as a manner of\n[Continuing the text of Folio 42.]\npracticing Tantric offerings. At the time of death, the Peaceful and Wrathful Buddhas will come out of your body, extending over all space; thereupon the Bardo visions will begin. Remember! At that time do not be frightened or terrified by the thundering voices and the Three Lights! You should remember that all these Buddhas are your tutelary Buddhas whose initiations I am right now giving to you! You should remember and recognize them. As soon as you recognize them, you will be instantaneously emancipated!\nThus the Pointing-Out demonstration is extensively given to the disciples.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nPLATE III\nThe foregoing initiation-ritual is given to the disciples to make them understand the teachings of initiation; as said in the Prime King-Initiation Tantra of Vajrasattva:\nThe Mandala-Offering practice is to be done [now.]\nFor the unwise disciples,\nThe Vajrasattava gives the Skull-Initiation,\nTo elucidate the symbolic teachings.\nThe disciple should try to understand the Wisdom Initiation,\nThe Secret Initiation will elucidate the self-experience.\nWhile the Word-Initiation elucidates the non-existence of self.\n(The text written on the reverse side of Folio 43.)\nThus says the Tantra of Vajrasattva.\nOf this Skull-Initiation (a simpler type or Rite-Free Initiation), that Tantra gives the following explanation:\n\"The Initiation tells the disciples whether the Outer Objects in the material world and Inner Essence14 within oneself are existent or non-existent, and in what sense they do or do not exist, by giving many symbols and explanations, such as the Sumeru Mountain, the Four Continents and the Vase Buddhas. In the Wisdom Initiation, the Thunderbolt, the Precious Wheel, the Cross-Thunderbolt, the Three-Pointed Knife, the Purba Dagger, the bow and arrows, the mirror, the forms and colors\u2014these things are shown to the disciples, to give them a sagacious view, by the Guru in the Initiation ritual.\" Thus states the Tantra.\nThe Tantra explains the Extreme Rite-Free Initiation in the terms of the Secret Initiations; its objective is to elucidate\nself-Illumination\u2014if one knows himself, he has attained the Secret Initiation.\nThe Tantra also says:\n\"If one knows one thing he knows all.\n \u00a0O, marvelous is the Nature of Equality!15\n \u00a0If existent\u2014Equality from the beginning!\n \u00a0If non-existent\u2014Equality from the beginning!\n \u00a0If abstract\u2014Equality from the beginning!\n \u00a0If concrete\u2014still Equality from the beginning!\n \u00a0If one realizes the Nature of Equality,\n \u00a0He has attained the Secret Initiation!\n \u00a0Oh, marvelous is the Nature of Equality!\"\nNow, the ultimate-Rite-Free Initiation:\nAs said in the Tantra: \"Through the Words-Initiation the Non-ego truth is elucidated to the disciples: Wherever there is ego, there are always confusions (Sa\u1e43s\u0101ra). The word of no words is the highest initiation. Without I, without ego, none sinks into Sa\u1e43s\u0101ra!\"\nNow, the Great Vase Initiation with Rite, the Rite-Free Initiation, the Extreme Rite-Free Initiation, and the Ultimate Rite-Free Initiation are all given to you; thus the sins, hindrances, and habitual thoughts of your body, mouth, and mind are all cleansed and actually become the Four Bodies of Buddha. Hereafter, you will benefit sentient beings in a natural way, without any strenuous effort.\nTo obtain pardon and give thanks, the Mandala should be offered; the assemblage should be entertained and exalted with dancing and singing. What remains after the festival should be given away as charity.\nThose who want to have a comprehensive sacramental\nfestival and celebration should consult the Annotations of the Four Initiation Rituals.\nSamaya Chia Chia Chia!\nMay the message of the Argument-Free Adi Doctrine16 reach all the corners of the world at all times. May this teaching be spread and magnified on the earth and last for ages.\nThis is the teaching from the Treasury of Garma Linpa, the accomplished Yogi.\nBlessings to all!\n1. The manuscript of these initiations presents a series of colored images of god-forms, with explanatory text on the verso sides and on supplementary folios containing the most profound ideas, most explicitly expressed, of any of the seven initiation texts here given.\u2014Ed.\n2. The translator believes the folios of the other four Buddhas are missing. The first few lines of the text are indiscernible.\n3. Fiery Water: For human beings, fire is fire and water is water. This is not so for sentient beings in Hell. For them, cool water they try to drink turns to fire, and fire by which they try to warm themselves turns to cold water. Hence the term \"Fiery Water\" is used to convey the absence of self-nature in this nether-world phenomenon.\n4. Cross Symbols (Rgya-gram): In Tibetan, this term may refer either to the symbol of the crossed thunderbolts or that symbol we call the swastika. Here it means crossed thunderbolts.\n5. Pointing-Out Practice: This is the practice by which the Guru points out (illustrates) to the disciple, during the initiation, his original Buddha-nature. This is a special practice of the Red and White Schools of Tibetan Buddhism.\n6. Alaya Bodhi Heart: \"Alaya\" is the term meaning \"foundation of all.\" Here the term is used in connection with Bodhi-heart, implying that the Vow of Bodhisattva is the foundation and source of all Buddhist teachings.\n7. This refers to the most active and versatile consciousness, generally called mental, which Buddhists classify as the Sixth Consciousness.\n8. Four Extremes: (1) The Extreme of Existence; (z) The Extreme of Non-Existence; (3) The Extreme of both Existence and Non-Existence; (4) The Extremes of neither Existence nor Non-Existence.\n9. Thought of the Four Births: From the transcendental viewpoint, there is no birth nor death. The Four Births of Sa\u1e43sara are dreamlike and unreal; they are merely thoughts, not the real beings.\n10 This is the esoteric teaching of this initiation: that all the\n[paragraph continues] Wrathful Buddhas are reflected or manifested through the psychic center in the head.\n11. White Drops: The life-force (physically, semen) of the male.\n12. Red Drops: The life-force of the female.\n13. Nadis (Skt.): Follicles; all the tubes and nerves in the body; Tibetan, Riser. [Actually the nadis (rTsa) are not part of the physical body, but are subtle channels for the conveyance of prana.\u2014Ed.]\n14. Inner Essence, here, refers to the disciple's consciousness.\n15. The Nature of Equality is one of the most important aspects of the Prajna-Paramita. From the viewpoint of absolute enlightenment, all things appear equal. [Instead of \"equal,\" to say \"partaking of the same ultimate nature\" would probably be more accurate.\u2014Ed.] Therefore, Tantrism declares that Nirvana is Sa\u1e43s\u0101ra and Sa\u1e43sara is Nirvana.\n16. Argument-Free Adi Doctrine: Traditionally, this term carries two meanings: (1) It refers to the nature of the Adi Doctrine beyond arguments, opinions, and \"play words\"; (2) It refers to the tradition of the Red School which, in contradistinction to the Yellow School, disregards scholastic opinions and arguments.","title":"Esoteric Teachings of the Tibetan Tantra: Part I: Seven I...","type":"page"}