Short Takla Mebar Sadhana

Practice Commentary:

[Begin with the practice of establishing a boundary. Then do the threefold contemplations. Then recite the following prayer in italics.]

“So!”

SO! Is the invocation of fierce yidams. It is like saying “hello” to Takla Mebar.

“From the celestial palace of the essence of the space of reality,”

This is not a physical palace existing in some place. The celestial palace of the essence of the space of reality which is our natural state. This means that when we practice, we should stay on the nature of our mind as best we can. It is in this space of the mind, our nature of mind, in which we are inviting Takla Mebar. The reality is Takla Mebar manifests in the natural reality of the space of mind.

“the heart child of one-gone-to-bliss (sugata),"

Takla Mebar is the son (heart child) of all the enlightened beings. He is the manifestation of the heart/mind of the Buddha. 

“the wal-body of Takla Mebar,”

Wal means wrathful or fierce. The context here is that of protection, not anger or hatred. 

“along with the disciples of emanation,”

When we establish the boundary, we visualize many fierce deities and protectors circling us. They are Takla Mebar's retinue. We invite all of them with Takla Mebar.

“for the protection of bon teaching.”

This is the reason we are doing this practice. We are inviting Takla Mebar into our space of mind in order to heal ourselves, but also to nurture and develop the precious teachings. To protect, nourish, and develop the precious teachings within us, nourishes and develops the precious teachings in the world too. As practitioners, the teachings manifest through our practice. So to develop and nourish the teachings is to develop and nourish the practice. 

“Please come to this place as invited,”

This is the practice of invitation. This means that I, as the practitioner Takla Mebar, am going to invite the Wisdom Takla Mebar right now and here in my heart, the space within my heart.

“remain in non-duality forever,”

We are inviting the Wisdom Takla Mebar into our hearts to be not something separate from our own heart, but to be in non-dual union with our own heart. The qualities of Takla Mebar which we are inviting are none other than the qualities abiding in the space of our own heart minds.

“I respectfully pay homage with body, speech and mind."

This is the practice of prostration. We can bow and touch the earth at this time.

“I confess all my broken-vows, stubbornness and confusion.”

This is the practice of confession. We can confess all the unwholesome deeds of body, speech, and mind we have done out of ignorance.

“I offer a variety of external and internal offering, this flesh and blood of lapsed Buddhist demon, offer to thee the great wrathful one.”

This is the practice of making external, internal, and secret (torma and tea) offerings. The outer offering gives away our anger. The inner offering gives away our ignorance, and the blood offering gives away our attachment. The lapsed Buddhist demon represents my own ignorant self-grasping which is the source of my own suffering. The flesh and blood symbolized by the torma and tea represents offering up our own attachment and clinging to the body and self-cherishing ego.

[Then recite the mantra for as long as you wish. End with a dedication such as the following]

I dedicate all this perfect virtue of my three doors, So that all sentient beings may obtain unsurpassable enlightenment. I dedicate this within the non-referential blissful space, which is free of the three spheres of subject, object, and action. May all become equal with the primordial state!