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The Four Preliminaries.

2 posts · started by Buddhafly on 07/17/02 at 15:45:21 · last post 08/12/02 at 17:33:33
Buddhafly07/17/02 at 15:45:21#1

As follows:

1. Wake up call (clap hands & snap fingers)
2. Purification Mantras  
3. Invocation of Local Earth God (chant Heart Mantra)
4. Invocation
5. Great Homage
6. Mandala Offering
7. Fourfold Refuge Mantra with Visualization
8. Armor Protection
9. High King Avalokitesvara Sutra
10. Amitabha Buddha Rebirth Mantra
11. Bodhicitta Verse & Mantra
12. Repentance Verse & Mantra
13. Emptiness Visualization & Mantra
14. Vajrasattva Yoga - Visualization and Mantra (at least 21 times for mantra)
15. Samadhi
16. Eight Principal Deities Mantra Recitation
17. Amitabha Buddha Homage Verse
18. Dedication of Merits Verse, dedication, visualization
19. Great Homage*
20. Vajrasattva 100 Syllable Mantra (3 times)
21. Completion Mantra  
22. Dismissal (clap hands & snap fingers)

*Steps 19 and 20 can go before or after each other
Listed them in my personal preference

To practice Guru Yoga, step #14 is replaced with Guru Yoga and the rest of the liturgy is the same

To practice Personal Deity Yoga, step #14 is replaced with Personal Deity Yoga and the rest of the liturgy is the same

And so on and so forth

If you have any concerns about your practice, you should bring it up to the appropriate contact at your local temple. Some people say it's ok to practice Vajrasattva Yoga and Guru Yoga simultaneously.  But as a standard, the practices should be done in sequence (according to TBF).

Here are some links to references:

Discourse on Four Fundamentals (Preliminaries)
http://www.tbsn.org/english/teach/fundam.htm  
 
Symbolism of Vajrasattva
http://www.tbsn.org/wwc/us/pls/journal/jrnl0596/symbol.htm  
 
Vajrasattva Practice
http://www.tbsn.org/wwc/us/pls/journal/jrnl0596/practice.htm  
On the 100-Syllable Mantra
http://www.tbsn.org/wwc/us/pls/journal/jrnl0596/hundred.htm
Link to 100-Syllabe Mantra sound file
http://www.tbsn.org/english/cultivation/vajrsatr.htm  
 
Last edited 07/17/02 at 15:58:23 by Buddhafly
Buddhafly08/12/02 at 17:33:33#2Re: The Four Preliminaries.

Currently all practices are being reviewed by TBF.
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