To Establish a Boundary
SO! I am the body of Takla Mebar having gathered and come into being to overcome all evil interference, that which is abiding here needs to disperse and go. Otherwise, If it will not go and remains here, the protection of the nine pavilions will gradually emerge. The negative forces that do not depart will be consumed by fire. The consequence of going within the boundary will be ground into dust.
Negative forces that are gathered here need to listen. I am the wrathful fire deity with a powerful blaze, The superior wrathful Takla Mebar With vibrant swastika weapons that will emerge And fill with wrathful emanations the upper, lower and middle realms. Furthermore, my open mouth reveals fangs of wrath and My hand holds symbolic flaming wheels. If anything goes beyond this line, it will be cut into pieces.
Therefore, it’s better (for the negative beings) to stay in their respective locations. However, if (the negative energies) still do not depart, they must be forcefully driven away.
SO A RAM DRUM TONG PÉ GUR KHANG DU GOM
Emptiness sphere meditate
OM RAM DRUM YÉ SHÉ NGA YI GUR KHANG DU GOM
Wisdom sphere, meditate
HUNG RAM DRUM TROWÖ GUR KHANG DU GOM
Wrathful sphere, meditate
SÉ RAM DRUM KYOP PÉ LHA SUNG GI GUR KHANG DU GOM
Protector sphere, meditate
YUNGDRUNG RAM DRUM YUNG DRUNG GI GUR KHANG DU GOM
Swastika sphere, meditate
TSATRA RAM DRUM KHOR LO DANG TSÖN CHÉ GUR KHANG DU GOM
Wheel of weapons sphere, meditate
RENA RAM DRUM RIN PO CHÉ GUR KHANG CHI KYANG MI CHÉ PAR GOM
Jewel sphere meditate. Meditate on the absence of any negative energy entering inside of the mandala.
Threefold Contemplations
First, stay in the state of non-conceptual emptiness as much as you can. Then, contemplate on loving kindness and compassion for all sentient beings. Separate grasping from reality as all phenomena are empty in nature. Pervasive nature equally pervades its greatness to all. Therefore, generate a pervasive compassion to all. From within, manifest your awareness as an AH. When light radiates from an awareness of AH, it dispels the obscurations of sentient beings. When it gather inwards, it dissolves (the obscurations) into the light, contemplate that you are in the form of Buddha’s body.
Light radiates from the AH of pure mind. Having invoked the deities of the space, Again (the manifestations) gather into the AH. AH dissolves into light and is transformed into the SO. Light radiates from the SO and is surrounded by nine circular layers of palaces. Again, SO gathers inwardly, transforming into splendidness and dissolves into the crown of your head.
Recite SO SO SO loudly as the glorious SO manifests. The SO has dissolved into light. Takla Mebar, with a red body, one face and two hands, his body burning, a mass of flames of the eons (a fire that is so powerful it can destroy the cosmos). Wearing the fur skins of thousands of tigers, lights radiating from many weapons, a flame of fire gathers on the peak of the universe. His three fierce eyes glare angrily. His white canine teeth appear as a menacing crescent moon. His right hand is spinning a golden wheel, the left hand is holding nine interlaced swords, having subdued the protector of Rutra (protector of the enemies), they are laid out as a mat. Visualize this... extremely terrifying and majestic.
Visualization
From the SO a terrifying and majestic body of Takla Mebar manifests. With one face and two hands, he is flaming red and splendid. His body is a burning mass of flames from eons (powerful enough to destroy the cosmos). (Wearing) fur coats as a weapon, a wide open mouth baring threatening fangs and a body poised majestically, with wheel and sword emblems. He cuts the life-force of enemy spirits. Visualize his blazing, terrifying and majestic body.
Invitation
SO! Since the beginning of cosmic time, the divine castle was disturbed by a mass of flames. Within a sphere of nine flaming weapons, is an aggressive, wrathful, majestic king taming negativities. The body of the fierce Takla Mebar Having great splendor with radiating lights of red flames, with a superior exalted mind, powerful speech and an illuminated body. Inconceivable number of retinues, are surrounding eighteen great wrathful deities destroying the powerful fields of obstacles, and liberating the enemy spirits. You are powerful; there is no match or competition. In order to protect the Yungdrung Bon teachings, with compassionate commitments, we invite you to abide here in our mandala. From within the nature of Bon, the form of empty luminosity, is the essence of existence itself. We ask you to come quickly with powerful compassion.
SO SA MA YA DZA DZA OM HE
Prostration
SO! To the wrathful Takla Mebar and his retinue, myself and infinite sentient beings prostrate with our bodies, speech, and mind, with contemplation and single minded devotion, to the great wrathful Bön deity full of splendor. I go for refuge with pure prostrations. Takla Mebar with a forbidding body and exalted speech, terrifies the three realms. And liberates all into the great mind. To Takla Mebar with an enlightened body, speech and mind, we are going for refuge with pure prostrations. To the retinues of tens of millions, to tame unworthy arrogance, we go for refuge with pure prostrations.
SO HÉ HÉ NA MA
Request to Remain
SO! Since the beginning of cosmic time, from the flaming fire, in the divine castle, the rays of light absorb into oneself. We invite you to look upon the evil entities in order to liberate them. Please sit in the center of our sphere with your weapons. We ask you to sit and liberate all evil deities.
SO! OM SA MA YA TI TA LHEN
Confession
Homage to the retinue and previous knowledge holders. Together with the principal and highest supreme yidam deity and his retinue, to the great body of the wrathful tiger deity, please pay attention to me and all practitioners. I, and those like me, are in crisis during this dark age. During times of suffering, happiness has not been experienced. We are not liberated from the depths of samsara. With compassion radiating from your great supreme wisdom eye, please show us your secret perfect face.
From beginningless lifetimes, until now in this human lifetime, naturally grasping at the illusion of appearances, following worldly wealth and fame, practicing the afflictive emotions of mistaken illusion, whose actions are those of non-virtuous deeds and obscurations, we confess in front of the deity and great master. Please accept our confessions and bless us with the accomplishment, the victory of the great king, the wrathful tiger deity. From the very beginning of emptiness, you have had a pristine wisdom body.
However, ourselves having the illusions of the skin body, Whatever non-virtuous actions that we have committed out of ignorance, we confess the broken samaya of the body. Please accept our confessions and bless us with the accomplishment. The supreme and splendorous speech of Takla Mebar, you are the speech of the pristine wisdom of unceasing Buddha. I am speechless as my speech cannot match yours of the unceasing Buddha. Whatever the misbehaviors of our speech have been such as harsh words and gossiping, we confess the broken samaya of speech. Please accept our confessions and bless us with the siddhi.
Supreme and luminous mind of Takla Mebar, your mind is primordially lucid and omniscient; Whereas, we are bound with ignorance and illusion. Thus, my mind diverts towards misconduct. We confess the broken samaya of the mind. Please accept our confession and bless us with the siddhi. We offer our confessions of body, speech and mind. Please bestow on us the siddhi of body, speech and mind. Please show your pristine wisdom, wrathful deity face at this moment. You are the victorious wrathful deity endowed with the body of excellent qualities and deeds.
Whereas I, the practitioner, do not possess any meaningful or excellent qualities. There might be afflictions due to negative forces, or misconduct such as engaging in the act of helping enemies. We confess in front of the Walshen (wrathful shen) Takla Mebar. Please accept our confession and bless us with the siddhi.
Moreover, the practitioners like myself who are influenced by ignorance and illusion, utilize the teachings, transmission and instructions incorrectly and procrastinate the timely offering into months and years, not reciting the mantra and heart-essence according to the scriptures. Therefore, we confess going against the teachings of Yungdrung Bon. Please accept our confessions and bless us with the siddhi.
Arranging nine kinds of offering substances and receiving blessings
Visualize oneself from the Walbon (wrathful Bön) Takla Mebar’s heart. Radiating YANG RAM MANG DRUM from ཡཾ YANG, wind appears. From རཾ RAM, fire appears. From མཾ MANG, water appears. The defects of these offering substances will be blown away by the wind, Burned by fire, And cleansed by water. AH OM HUNG radiating from the pure heart, the varieties of the offering substance are immeasurable.
YANG AH OM HUNG DRUM SO HA
Making Outer Offerings
Together with the drum and bell we make offerings
SO! We have faith and devotion expressed by our body, speech and mind. With actual mind emanation, These infinite special offerings of form, sound, smell, taste, Touch, and Bon, we visualize as precious treasures. Filling up the three-thousand-fold universe. We offer to the wrathful tiger deity and his retinue. Please receive our offerings in order to liberate evil entities.
SO KO RI LANG PA NI DRUM SOHA
Internal Three Offerings
The DRUM syllable appears from the center of your heart, and then from the DRUM syllable, a vessel of wine emerges. Then begin chanting Om Ah and Hung. The wine is transformed into precious nectar.
SO OM AH HUNG! BA WA DÉ NA RA SA YA NA YU DRANG DÜ TSI SO TA
OM AH HUNG!
The medicine of marvelous wonders is The elixir essence with an immense taste of 100,000 basic roots. It is within a tigle that encompasses everything, And it has marvelous attributes. As for the consecrated nectar of ambrosia, We offer it to all buddhas from the 10 directions who are Connected with great masters and lamas. With compassion and intention, please bestow the blessings, And enjoy the nectar's medicine That has wonderful attributes.
As for these nectars of ambrosia, To Takla Mebar, who will tame arrogance, We make offerings of nectar. With compassion and intention, please bestow the blessings, And enjoy the nectarous drink. The attributes are marvelous. This portion of the nectar, We offer to Takla Mebar, his retinue, And to his multiple manifestations. With compassion and intention, please bestow empowerments, And enjoy the nectarous drink.
Takla Mebar’s body, speech and mind are magical and they empower my own body, speech, and mind. Please transform non-duality and bestow ultimate blessings.
OM AH HUNG DU LHEN
Torma Offering
On the precious authentic torma plate, the offerings fill the attributes of the five sense pleasures, and Radiate shafts of light beams of inexhaustible wisdom. We offer this to the great wrathful Tiger Deity and his retinue. Please receive our offerings in order to liberate obstructing spirits.
OM AH HUNG BAH LING TA ZHE MIN KHA HI
Blood (Tea) Offering
Oneself appearing in the form of Takla Mebar, a dark red ZA radiates from the red SO of the heart, and transforms into the form of a hook. Having been summoned, the heart and blood of negative forces are dissolved into our offering container. Attracted through the mantra of liberated consciousness, they are dissolved. To remove the negative forces, we will now offer flesh, blood and bones.
With musical instruments:
SO! In the precious authentic torma vessel, With the flesh and blood of evil entities, the blood of many hearts and various organs are mingled. Please take this offering to liberate our own hearts’ blood.
Kha ram kha hi, open the mouth, a flesh mountain is heaped together which will destroy ignorance. The blood ocean is heaped together which will destroy desire. The bone of the rock mountain is heaped together which will destroy anger. These are the offerings to the flaming wrathful deity. Please take the flesh and blood offering.
MA HA TSI TA LA KHA RAM KHA HI
MA HA TING MUR NYING TRAK LA KHA RAM KHA HI
MA HA DÜN TSÉ LÉ TRAK LA KHA RAM KHA HI
Mantra
Recite three times SO SO SO in the state of emptiness. Visualize light radiating from the SO in your crown. Visualize the light radiating from the SO is burning all the gods and evil spirits of existence. It gathers inwards and again dissolves into oneself. Oneself transforming into the form of Takla Mebar. The red colored body is burning the mass of flames of the eons. The hundreds and thousands of hairs of the fur coat of the tiger, is radiating various colors of weapons.
The flame of fire is gathering on the peak of existence. Three fierce eyes are glaring angrily, and the white fangs are like a threatening crescent moon. The right hand spins a golden wheel, while the left hand holds the nine kinds of swords.
Visualize the terrifying body and the majestic Mandala of weapons. In the golden box of its heart, visualize a black SO syllable. Visualize that it is surrounded by the protection mantra. The immeasurable rays of light radiate outwards, and dissolves into the object of protection. And transforms oneself into the body of Takla Mebar.
Visualize in front of oneself a combining of two lights which radiate out and burn all the evil creatures of the universe By gathering them inwardly. Visualize the Mandala of the Yungdrungs having nine layers, one on top of the other.
From the window of the Yungdrung Mandala melted gold appears. Visualize that evil forces can not harm you. Rays of light radiating outwards from the pure heart, are burning all the arrogance of the universe. While gathering inwards, visualize the nine layers of the Mandala transforming into weapons. In that visualization all the entrances and windows are filled with wrathfulness.
Again light radiates out from the pure heart, and visualize that all the universes are burned. While gathering inwards, the light turns into the thousand spokes of a golden wheel. Visualize it circling the outer Mandala of weapons.
Again, rays of light radiate to oneself like previously, and burn all the arrogant deities of the universe. The light returns to you and is sent out again where It transforms into the thousand spoked wheel of fire and burns the upper god and demi-god realms.
It also burns the middle gods and evil spirits, and it burns all the lower harmful spirits of the hell, hungry ghosts and animal realms. Rays of light radiate from the pure heart of SO. Visualize uncountable fire wings of Takla Mebar filling the space.
Again, rays of light radiate out, while visualizing uncountable hot and cold winds from the wings of Takla Mebar which fill the space. Again, rays of light radiate out, and uncountable wings of swords from Takla Mebar fill the ground.
Again, rays of light gather inwards, and transform into the glorious and magnificent speech saying “protect” and the sound echoes.
Main Mantra
SO! HÉ RAM MA HA NÉ RAM TRO TA RAM RA YO DZA! DAK DANG KHOR LA RAKSHA SUNG SHIK
Protection Mantra
SO SO RAM RAM TI DRUM RAM RAM/ AH DRUM RAM RAM/ OM DRUM RAM RAM/ HUNG DRUM RAM RAM/ SO DUM TA DRUM DAK LA RAKSHA SUNG SHIK
Retinues Mantra
SO SO RAM RAM DUM TA AH AH/ TI DRUM RAM RAM DRUM DRUM/ TSATRA RATRA DRUM DRUM SUNG SHIK
Ultimate Secret Mantra
SO SO RAM RAM DOK DOK/ HÉ HÉ DOK DOK/ SO SO DOK DOK/ AH AH DOK DOK/
RAM CHEM RAM CHEM DOK DOK/ DÜN TA RAM DOK DOK/
AH RAM AH RAM DOK DOK/ HA RAM HA RAM DOK DOK/
JÉ MA NÖ JÉ KYI NYING LA RAM DOK DOK
The rays of light radiate from the SO. Having hit the object of protection and melted into light, it then dissolves into the SO of one’s heart, Dissolving of consciousness. Visualize Tonpa Shenrab on the crown of your head
If you are taking a break from mantra recitations:
Visualize your mandala having melted into the light, and then dissolved into the state of emptiness.
Praise of the Mantra
SO! Since the beginning of cosmic time, the divine castle was assembled by a mass of flames. Inside the nine protective walls is a sphere Mandala. The fierce, wrathful tiger deity body Is magnificently surrounded by flames, with one face and two arms. A sword and wheel encircles the hand.
From the center of the precious heart amulet, light rays manifest from the SO to the ten directions spreading to all the worlds, scorching them. Then they are reabsorbed into the changless wrathful items.
With the gathering in of the wheel and the fire mountain, evil entities in the field are liberated abiding on the crown is the body of enlightenment, endowed with immutable changless life. Little hairs are radiant with wrathful energy.
By the radiating projections and the gathering of the rays of the light, in all places, those to be tamed are scorched without any remaining residue. However, together with the reciting of the mantra and making offerings corrupted evil entities are crushed into a particle of dust. Please accept our praise and bestow the blessings.
Dedication and Aspiration
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!