positive conditions, the accumulation of merit and wisdom,%
Offer the mandalas of the ocean-like realms of the three kayas.%
In particular, apply the key points of the essence of all the paths,%
The guru yoga of devotion:%
Amid an ocean of offering clouds in the sky before me,%
Upon the lion throne and layered lotus, sun, and moon,%
Is Orgyen Tötreng Tsal, the embodiment of all objects of refuge.%
He has one face and two arms and is wrathfully smiling and glowing with resplendent light.%
He wears the lotus crown, secret dress, gown, Dharma robes, and brocade cloak.%
Holding a vajra in his right hand and a skull with a vase in his left,%
He embraces the secret mudra in the hidden form of a khatvanga.%
With his two feet in the reveling posture, he is within a sphere of five-colored rainbow light.%
He sends out cloud banks of the all-encompassing Three Roots.%
All that appears and exists is the essence of the glorious guru.%
Perform the external practice in the manner of supplication%
And the inner practice in the manner of recitation.%
Afterward, receive the four empowerments and dissolve Guru Rinpoche into yourself.%
In the luminous state of your mind inseparable from the guru,%
Experience one-pointedly the secret, ultimate guru.%
Through the practice of the great emptiness, the space of suchness,%
Where all the relative and ultimate dharmas%
Are the great supreme dharmakaya of the inseparable two truths,%
You will realize death as the natural state of luminosity.%
Through the practice of the all-illuminating samadhi,%
In the illusory manner of nonconceptual compassion,%
Toward unrealized sentient beings pervading space,%
The bardo will appear as the forms of the deities of the Magical Net.%
Particularly, in order to purify the process of taking birth,%
Practice the development stage, which ends clinging to ordinary experience:%
Visualize as perfected in instantaneous recollection in order to purify miraculous birth,%
And visualize through the emanation and absorption of the seed syllable in order to purify birth by warmth.%
Visualize the seed syllable, attributes, and bodily form in order to purify womb birth,%
And visualize the cause and effect heruka in order to purify egg birth.%
In all cases, visualize the mandala of the base and the based,%
And the faces, arms, and attributes in total completeness.%
First, in order to train gradually in this,%
Visualize yourself in the form of the single mudra%
With vivid features, like a rainbow.%
At best, regard it as the natural great absolute;%
As the next best, envision the distinct general and specific features;%
At least, plant the stake of unchanging concentration.%
Place an image with all the characteristics before you%
And focus your mind, eyes, and prana one-pointedly upon it.%
When a vivid presence appears, abandon the defects of drowsiness and agitation,%
Rest in the state where the form of the deity is the unity of appearance and emptiness,%
And the experience will arise, in which the turbulence of thoughts has subsided.%
Sometimes rest, bringing consciousness to its natural state.%
Sometimes transform the expression of your concentration into many different things.%
In each session, bring the clear appearance of the deity to perfection.%
In each session, plant the great stake of the essence mantra.%
In each session, rest in the same taste of the deity and your mind.%
In each session, accomplish the magical display of emanating and absorbing rays of light.%
At all times, keep the pride of being inseparable from the deity.%
Since the path illustrates the unity of ground and fruition,%
Practice the total purity that stops the clinging to ordinary experience.%
In between sessions, mend the samayas with feast gatherings and tormas.%
Bring all that appears and exists onto the path%
As the essence of the magical deity, mantra, and great wisdom.%
If you practice one-pointedly in this way,%
The experiences of movement, attainment, habituation, steadiness, and perfection will arise,%
And you will actually meet with the form possessing the threefold vividness.%
You will accomplish the truth of speech and a changeless mind.%
Next, fix your mind on the entire mandala circle,%
And when you have gradually attained its vivid presence,%
Emanate groups of buddha families filling the sky.%
Through the samadhi of the Magical Net%
Of the Vidyadhara power-wielders, and appearance and existence as manifest ground,%
And by means of group practice in an assembly,%
The highest siddhi will be accomplished.%
With the perfect place, time, teacher, retinue, and articles,%
Correctly perform the “rite of the land”%
And practice the sadhanas of outer, inner, and secret retreat.%
Erect the sign mandala as the support for concentration,%
