A Black Manjushri Sadhana

Black Manjushri is the wrathful healing form of Manjushri that helps us to heal our deep inner negative emotions and mental suffering that arise due to sickness or problems; it is also a powerful antidote against the harm and disturbances caused by negative astrological influences.

Benefits of the Practice

Amongst the numerous benefits of this practice it particularly helps, both mentally and physically, those suffering from so-called “incurable” diseases such as AIDS and cancer. It helps us to confront and deal with the negative emotions, such as anger, depression, fear and denial, which arise when we are challenged by such diseases or when we are confronted with problems in our daily life.

This practice also enables us to purify astrological mistakes that happen, for example, when we perform marriage or cremation ceremonies or cut down trees on astrologically inauspicious days. It gives us the opportunity to stop our energy flowing, at the cause of astrological influences, into the wrong path.

In fact, through the recitation of Black Manjushri mantras we protect ourselves from inauspicious and malevolent astrological elements, caused by conjunctions, transits, oppositions, eclipses, comets and other celestial phenomena that could result in sicknesses, accidents, loss of property, social problems and discouraging life experiences.

Completing this practice also stops the harm of black magic and protects us from the interferences of spirits such as nagas who cause plagues, leprosy, possessions and contagious viral epidemics.

Black Manjushri protects us from the four maras that hinder our spiritual practice and success, and halts the negative actions of all malefic beings and geg spirits that obstruct the attainment of long-life. This practice stops the superstitious and fearful projections we create, for example when we walk alone in the dark, as well as those relating to digging the earth, cutting trees and moving rocks where nagas abide.

How to Do this Practice

This practice is most effective when completed daily before sunrise. We should sit facing the east in the cross-legged lotus posture. Following a vegetarian diet, avoiding strong alcohol drinks, garlic, onions and sesame all strengthen this practice. However, if it is not possible for us to follow these indications we should do the practice whenever possible and however we feel comfortable

Taking Refuge

Namo Gurubye
Namo Buddhaya
Namo Dharmaya
Namo Sanghaya
Namo Triratnaya (3x)

The Seven Limitless Meditations

SEMCHEN TAMCHE DEWA DANG DEWAI GYU DANG DENPAR GYUR CHIK
SEMCHEN TAMCHE DUNGAL DANG DUNGAL GYI GYU DANG DRELWAR GYUR CHIK
SEMCHEN TAMCHE DUNGAL MEPAI DEWA DANG MIN DRELWAR GYUR CHIK
SEMCHEN TAMCHE NYERING CHAK DANG NYI DANG DRELWEI TANG NYOM LA NE PAR GYUR CHIK
SEMCHEN TAMCHE LU SEM GYI DU NGAL SO SHING TRAI YUN LU SEM DE WA DANG DEN PAR GYUR CHIK
SEMCHEN TAMCHE NGALSO TOPCHING CHINANG NOGCHU KORYUK DANGSHING TSANGMAR NE GYUR CHIK
SEMCHEN TAMCHE DANG ZAMBULING GI KYE DRO TADAG CHYI NANG GHI SHIDE DHAN DHUEKUN DENPAR GYUR CHIK

Limitless Love – May all beings have happiness and its causes.
Limitless Compassion – May all beings be free from suffering and its causes.
Limitless Joy – May all beings never be separated from the great happiness that is beyond all misery.
Limitless Equanimity – May all beings always dwell in equanimity, unaffected by attraction to dear ones and aversion to others.
Limitless Health – May all beings recover from the sicknesses of mind and body pollution and enjoy relative and absolute health now and forever.
Limitless Ecological Regeneration – May all beings relax in a pure and healthy outer and inner environment now and forever.
Limitless Peace – May all beings enjoy inner and world peace now and forever.

Nine Round Breathing Meditation to Purify Our Subtle Wind Energy

Sitting in the vajra posture we begin by visualizing that our gross physical body, composed of flesh, organs and bones, gradually melts into light until we are left with only a holographic image that sparkles like a rainbow. At this point we make a vajra fist with our left hand and place it under our right armpit. With our right hand we make a vajra fist and extending the right middle finger, placing the index finger on top of it, we gently block the left nostril.

Visualizing clearly our three inner channels, we inhale through our right nostril imagining that the pure essences of the five elements, positive and healing energies and all the holy beings’ blessings enter our right channel in the form of white light. This white light absorbs into the subtle wind energy at our heart. We now block the right nostril and exhale through the left nostril in three short breaths, imagining that all our sicknesses, polluted elemental winds, inner demons and interferences, relating to the left side of the body, are expelled in the aspect of polluted black smoke.
This exercise should now be repeated on the opposite side to purify the left channel and expel all negativities relating to the right side of the body.
Placing our hands in the meditation mudra and breathing evenly through both nostrils, we should visualize that all the positive and healing energy of the holy beings enter both the right and left channels and absorb into the subtle wind energy at the heart. In three short breaths, through both nostrils, we breathe out all negativities, physical and mental sicknesses, interferences, demons and polluted winds from both sides of the body.

Meditation on Emptiness

OM BENZA AMRITA KUNDALI HANA HANA HUNG PHEY
OM SWABHAWA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA SHUDDHO HAM

All things are naturally pure, the nature of space, including me.

Self Generation as Black Manjushri

Everything becomes the same nature as emptiness.
Out of emptiness from the black letter PAM arises a black lotus.
In the center of this black lotus from the letter AH appears a moon, and above this moon from a green letter YAM arises a green wind mandala.
In the center of the wind mandala from a red letter RAM appears a red triangular fire mandala.
The lotus, wind and fire mandalas contain the essences of the five elements.
These essences absorb into space.
In the center of the moon appears my mind in the aspect of a black letter HUNG.
Lights radiate out from the letter HUNG and then return fulfilling the two purposes of attaining enlightenment and helping others to overcome suffering.
In an instant from the black letter HUNG I arise as Black Manjushri.
I am in a very wrathful aspect with one face and two arms.
My right leg is bent and my left leg is outstretched.
In my right hand with a wrathful mudra I hold the wisdom sword that eliminates all interferences, and in my left hand I hold the emanation scripture of the Kadampas and the Prajnaparamita sutra at my heart.
Half my red hair is knotted at my crown, the other half falls on my shoulders.
I have a big belly and tiger skin loincloth.
I wear various wrathful bone ornaments such as a crown of five skulls and a necklace of fifty freshly cut heads.
My three eyes are red and round and in the nature of YAM, RAM and BAM.
I am surrounded by fiercely blazing flames of wisdom.
My root guru is above my crown in the form of Amoghasiddhi, who embodies the entire lineage.
At my crown is a white OM the nature of the enlightened body, at my throat is red AH the nature of the enlightened speech and at my heart is blue HUNG the nature of the enlightened mind.

Essence Mantra

At my heart is a sun cushion with a black letter HUNG at its center, around this two mantra garlands circle in a clockwise direction.

OM AH RA PA TSA NA DHI HUNG (21x or as many times as possible)

At this point we should meditate on emptiness of phenomenon, self and others, based on the method we are familiar with such as the Heart Sutra or dependent origination.

Special Essence Mantra

OM EH RA PA TSA NA DHI HUNG (21x)

After we have repeated for as many times as possible the essence mantra and meditated on emptiness we can repeat the special essence mantra that helps to stabilize and give extra power to our practice.