8 Lines to Infinity
Dear Rinpoche ,
Hope you are doing great! May I ask what is the 8 Lines Of Praises to VajraYogini ? Can we recite it?
From CK Liew
Dear CK,
All the qualities of the Buddhas of the ten directions and three times (past, present, and future) are embodied in Vajra Yogini. So these 8 Praises praise all the Buddhas simultaneously through Vajra Yogini. In reality every Buddha embodies the qualities of all Buddhas in existence. So every Buddha is a complete and perfect object of refuge and worship. If you adopt any Buddha as your practice, this Buddha will totally embody every quality of every Buddha in existence. It’s just during degenerate times, when practice becomes harder for us due to ‘lack’ of time, more activities to waste our energies on, more distractions to sway us, more delusions we allow to arise to cope with, Vajra Yogini manifested to directly counter this… Vajra Yogini is not better than any other Buddha nor does She have more qualities than any Buddha. It’s just during degenerate times She specifically manifested to counter the inner obstacles we create for ourselves prompted by the outer environments we choose to habitat. For example, if you are in Thailand and your mother is in Thailand and you need help, but your Dad’s in Alaska… If you called both of them for help, they both can equally help you, but your mom can do it faster only because of proximity. Simililarily all the Buddhas have the power to help us, but because Vajra Yogini’s practice/tantra/methods are specifically for degenerate times, She is faster as She is ‘closer’ to us… that is just a rough example.
If you praise Vajra Yogini with this 8 Line Praise, the merit is equivalent to praising all Buddhas past, present and future. All the Buddhas have countless qualities if we praise them then we plant the seeds to obtain their very qualities. Hence to praise the qualities of even one Buddha brings immeasureable benefits, imagine praising all the Buddhas. How to do that when they have so many qualities? One lifetime would not be enough to praise the qualities of even one Buddha even if we recited their qualities day and night. When there’s so many Buddhas, how to praise all? Not enough time even in one lifetime to do all the praises of even one Buddha let alone all Buddhas. So when you praise Vajra Yogini using this praise, it is equivalent to praising all the Buddhas… Incredible… it says this in the root tantra of Heruka Cakrasamvara as expounded by Shakyamuni.
So praising the qualities of Sacred Vajra Yogini is equivalent to prasing all the qualities of all the Buddhas..and it’s 8 short lines!!! What a bargain!! There are so many qualities of this special Deity Vajra Yogini that is highly suitable for today’s people in today’s difficult predicament of lacking in time, patience, effort and strong will. Just the 8 Line Praise has all these qualities..imagine then practicing the whole Vajra Yogini tantra/practice thoroughly. Everyone should aspire to receive Her practice and go all the way with it. Vajra Yogini’s practice is specifically designed for people of this era (kaliyuga or degenerate age)… Do whatever you have to do to get her practice and never quit. If you quit, then you throw the keys to release yourself from prison away. Don’t do that … No frustrations, no anger, no laziness is worth throwing the keys away for ever.
Vajra Yogini embodies all the enlightened qualities of all the Buddhas past, present and future. When you praise Her with these special 8 Lines, it has the benefits of praising all Buddhas within 8 short lines because we need to collect vast amounts of merit in a short time. In order for us to have true success in whatever we endeavour, we need merits. This praise is the shortcut to great merits…it’s like the shortcut to riches when you strike the lottery. The chances of lottery is really chance, but when you practice Vajra Yogini, rely on this special Buddha all the way, you are in fact not taking any chances… as the outcome is assured. The outcome is GUARANTEED.
Prepare yourself for this practice… serve your teacher the right way, please your teacher by your transformations and be loyal to the practices your teacher gives you, then you will be on the right path to Vajra Yogini’s practice/results. Nothing in this world is more precious, lasting and permanent than Vajra Yogini’s practice… the results you get from Her practice will be permanent… it will be full Liberation.
The 8 Line Praise is to be recited daily when:
1. You meet your guru (silently to yourself) or when you meet the sangha
2. See holy objects/temples/shrines
3. Circumambulation around holy objects such as stupas
4. During prostrations
5. Making offerings
6. Upon waking first thing… last thing just before sleep
7. To bless an image of any enlightened beings
8. Blessing others (ppl, animal, ethereal beings)
9. Blessing an environment/office/home/land/space
10. During retreats
11. Bless the ill, dying or deceased
12. Blessing wrathful disturbed environments
13. When pressed for time and need something to praise short and effective
14. During the time of death
15. Or anytime you are free… as the benefits are tremendous
16. Visiting places of pilgrimage
17. When viewing a relics
18. For protection
19. Before and during travels
20. Blessing ones on mind
21. Removing fears from oneself
22. Anytime, anyplace and as you like… It can be done in English, Sanskrit or Tibetan
You do need an empowerment into the Tantra of Vajra Yogini to recite unless your teacher gives you special permission.
It is a powerful practice.
You may place your hand on someone’s head and recite these 8 lines with conviction and that person will be highly blessed and seeds of enlightenment placed into their mindstream… in the future to plant the seeds of enlightenment or at least attainments in their mind.
You can recite this to your pet and then blow on them daily… powerful… you’ll be helping your pet’s future in a powerful way.
Thanks CK for asking such a good question.
Good luck,
Tsem Rinpoche.
( A good question from CK Liew and I wanted to share it here)
May i Know where can i get the 8 lines Praise text? so that i can recite it everyday to collect more merit. Tq.
Hey Eric, I think the question is more, “What can I do to collect the merit, so I can receive the empowerment to recite the 8 Line Praise?”
ok. thks for yr advice, may be we can do both so that can collect merit faster. hehe….
Hi Eric,
A simple way is to engage in the VY tea offering as a daily practice. You can follow the instructions by clicking Prayers and Sadhanas section in this blog. So kind for Rinpoche to give us this.
The lithurgy is short and easy to recite and no complex rituals to follow.It is my daily connection with the Diamond Queen and prayer to receive her embrace in this and future lives.
Thks, mr.ngeow. i already add in varja yogini tea offering prayer in my sadhana, thks for yr command.
Thank you Rinpoche for the explanations. Pray that 1 day we can recite these 8 lines to Vajrayogini.
Thank you very much for this knowledge Rinpoche. Really really appreciate it !
Wow ! -> “8 short lines!!! What a bargain!!”
: )
Dear Ck, I like the way you put a …”What a bargain!!” Malaysians love bargains..hehehehe…perfect bargain..you are right. TR
Yeah… we ( Malaysians ) really do ! Check out the malls all over Klang Valley for the past 2 days. Havoc ! Its like everything is FREE !
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you for the explanation again on these 8 lines and the many occasions that we can recite it if given the initiation or permission.
I am drawn to the depiction of Vajrayogini in the abstract painting you have attached. May I know what is the meaning of Vajrayogini stepping on the lotus with the heart organ in the center?
I would love to paint one like this, it is modern, abstract, and with a city as background, it will easily attract city dwellers and many to want to get to know her better, and thus planting the seed to enlightenment.
p.s. Thank you CK for asking..
Dear Margaret, I don’t know what this artist is trying to convey, although it’s beautiful. Traditionally She is not stepping on the heart.
I do like the city-scape background to Vajra Yogini as it shows She is really the Yidam for today’s times…She is the perfect Buddha for our self created business that leads to nowhere.
TR
So much benefits we can gain and we can do for others by doing Vajra Yogini’s practice.
What to say more if we want to liberate ourselves now at this very distracted era. Really aspire to receive Her practice.
Got to work for it.
Thank you Rinpoche for the explanation.
Just can’t imagine with only 8 lines of praises to Vajrayogini, one is actually praising all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the ten directions and so much merits accumulated. Rinpoche thanks for the detailed explanations
and CK thank you for bringing up this question cheers mates
Such immeasurable merits and benefits from reciting just eight lines of praise to Vajrayogini, the Buddha for this degenerate age! Thank you Rinpoche for this explanation of the eight line s of praise and also the occasions when we can recite this, after we have received the empowerment or the permission to recite it from our Guru.
May I quickly create the causes for this to take place.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing with us this wonderful information. will work towards achieving it.
I will do more dharma work to purify my accrued negative karma so that I may gain the merits to receive Lady Vajrayogini’s powerful practices in this life.
Rinpoche, please live long to continue teach the dharma.
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Whenever I hear Rinpoche reciting the 8 line praise during rituals, blessings and during audiences, it gives me the goose bumps, knowing how powerful it is, and how rare it is for us to hear it. During the pilgrimage to Nepal in 2008, I was extremely happy when Rinpoche’s allowed the group of pigrims to recite this prayer as we visited the different holy Vajrayogini shrines. Not many realised how lucky they were, or that the prayers would be taken back after the pilgrimage was over! I guess were did not collect enough merit to keep the prayers for the rest of our lives as yet!