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Chanted Prayers
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About pujas
The chanted prayers at Heruka KMC, known as ‘pujas’, are special methods for purifying negativity, accumulating merit and receiving blessings and help us develop and maintain a positive mind. They are also a powerful preparation for meditation. Below you will find an overview of pujas that we regularly do at Heruka KMC. Everybody is welcome to attend. There is no need to book and there is no fee.
Wishfulfilling Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties on the spiritual path by relying on his Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden.
These practices were revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri who emanated as Je Tsongkhapa. By relying upon this Guru Yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa, we can purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, we shall naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular we shall attain a very special Dharma wisdom.
A special Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra. The main practice is relying upon the Spiritual Guide, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong), as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra.
World peace is very important; we cannot ignore this. Once something happens, it will be too late. As you know, this world is now very delicate; it is almost as delicate as the life of a single person. The world situation is fragile because there are so many disagreements. Political leaders are ready to fight; every country is gathering weapons preparing to fight, and are challenging each other. So we spiritual practitioners need to offer prayers.
Prayers are very powerful because of the purity of our motivation, the power of the words of the prayers themselves, and especially because at such times enlightened beings will bestow their blessings upon us, our environment and other living beings. So we should pray for world peace. We have had two world wars. If there is a third world war, this will almost destroy the world. This is because every country has very powerful weapons, making it very easy to destroy the world. So I would like to suggest that every centre offers prayers for world peace, so that local people can gather and make prayers.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, 2001
The prayer booklet is available at Heruka KMC or here Prayers for World Peace
The practice of taking and keeping the eight Mahayana precepts is a special practice of moral discipline that is performed with the wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The essence of the practice is to take eight precepts and to keep them purely for a period of twenty-four hours. By doing this practice again and again we acquaint ourself with the practice of moral discipline and thereby make our human life meaningful.
If we rely upon Mother Tara sincerely and with strong faith she will protect us from all obstacles and fulfil all our wishes. If we recite the twenty-one verses of praise (as we do in this puja) we shall receive inconceivable benefits. These praises are very powerful because they are Sutra, the actual words of Buddha. It is good to recite them as often as we can.
Long Protector puja. A ceremony for fulfilling and restoring the commitments of the Dharma Protector.
"In general, prayers made by an assembly of many practitioners are very powerful and cannot be compared to the prayers of one or two people. The scriptures give the analogy of a broom. If we try to clean a floor with a few bristles we shall make little progress, but if we gather many bristles to make a broom we shall be successful."
VENERABLE GESHE KELSANG GYATSO

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