Lineage Blessing

Receiving the blessing of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyü lineage

Sit properly and close your eyes. Visualize on the crown of your head, upon a lion, elephant, horse, dragon, and garuda a lotus with a sun and moon cushion sitting on top. On that cushion, visualize your root lama in the form of the complete enjoyment body – sambhogakaya.

Then visualize from the top of the lama’s head are all the lineage lamas of the oral transmission of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyü lineage. Sitting one upon the other like a string of pearls all the way up to Kuntu Zangpo. 

Now visualize surrounding outside of that are all the outer, inner, and secret hosts of deities, Yungdrung Sempas (bodhisattvas) of the ten directions, and mother and sister khandros all supplicating the lineage lamas. 

Now visualize surrounding outside of that are the male and female protectors of the Yungdrung Bon teachings. Those protectors are facing outside in the manner of dispelling obstacles.

Now visualize from the heart of these objects of refuge descends a stream of wisdom nectar which dissolves into the crown of your head. By these streams of wisdom nectar dissolving into you, all your lifetime accumulations of karmic traces, negative actions, and obscurations are expelled as a black liquid. 

Now you have become like a glass vase that is clear on the inside and the outside. Now you are an appropriate and suitable recipient of the blessing of the oral transmission. Feel this. 

Ah! In this auspicious blissful place may the yidam deities and the lama bestow the blessing of the oral transmission. 

Unborn primordial purity, the self-knowing rigpa Ah. 

Unceasing complete purity, the self-arising Ah. 

Non-duality free from extremes, the nature of the mind Ah. 

May there be the realization of self-knowing ripga primordial wisdom. 

May there be the realization of self-knowing ripga primordial wisdom. 

May there be the realization of self-knowing ripga primordial wisdom.

Now think: 

The Buddhas of the mind lineage, the Sempas of the meditative concentration lineage, the accomplished ones of the hearing lineage, the scholar translator lineage, the khandros of the sign lineage, the lineage of the blessing of initiation, the outer sutra lineage, the inner secret mantra lineage, the secret dzogchen lineage, the teaching of the provisional and definitive meaning of the inexpressible vehicle, the common, scripture, and secret instructions, the nine vehicles, the four doors of bon, and the treasure, from within the general 84,000 teachings of the Yungdrung Bon, I am receiving the transmission of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyü from my Lama.