Hi
I am looking for a basic Tara puja book that anyone can do without requiring empowerment, thanks.
General TARA Puja book
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Hello
I don't know a special book, but i think the Praises To The 21 Taras is very powerful and anyone can do it.
May this be helpful.
http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/ar ... y=21+taras" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I don't know a special book, but i think the Praises To The 21 Taras is very powerful and anyone can do it.
May this be helpful.
http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/ar ... y=21+taras" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I'm sorry to be an interloper to this thread, but along the lines of the o.p., are there any restrictions on reciting The King of Prayers?
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
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No, it's fine.Jainarayan wrote:I'm sorry to be an interloper to this thread, but along the lines of the o.p., are there any restrictions on reciting The King of Prayers?
Equanimity is the ground. Love is the moisture. Compassion is the seed. Bodhicitta is the result.
-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
-Ra Lotsawa, All-pervading Melodious Drumbeats
-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
-Ra Lotsawa, All-pervading Melodious Drumbeats
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There is also one book i know about the background and the practice of the 21 Taras, but it is not available in English.
It's written in German and French also:
http://www.amazon.de/s/?ie=UTF8&keyword ... h89icxvf_e" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's written in German and French also:
http://www.amazon.de/s/?ie=UTF8&keyword ... h89icxvf_e" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: General TARA Puja book
Tsewang wrote:Hi
I am looking for a basic Tara puja book that anyone can do without requiring empowerment, thanks.
While it is not specifically a puja text, I have found Ven. Thubten Chodron's book, How to Free Your Mind: Tara the Liberator, to be quite helpful in understanding more about Tara.
May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes,
May all sentient beings be free of suffering and its causes,
May all sentient beings never be separated from bliss without suffering,
May all sentient beings be in equanimity, free of ignorance, attachment and aversion.
May all sentient beings be free of suffering and its causes,
May all sentient beings never be separated from bliss without suffering,
May all sentient beings be in equanimity, free of ignorance, attachment and aversion.
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In the book " confessions of a gypsy yogini " by Marcia Schmidt there is a lovely Tara practice in English.....
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"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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I love that one. On a printer that will do double-sided printing, it can be printed in booklet format and then stapled in the center, or cut in half and stapled or bound down the left side.gregkavarnos wrote:Here's one from the FPMT.
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya