Dispeller of Obstacles. Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche
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,%
A vivid and complete image adorned with ornaments.%
Visualize yourself and the whole retinue, the self-existing mandala deities,
As inseparable means and knowledge.%
By the light rays of Approach and Full Approach,%
Purify the outer world into the Lotus Net Realm.%
By the emanation and absorption of the light rays of Accomplishment,%
Transform all the inner inhabitants into the forms of the Magical Net of the Vidyadharas.%
Purify your being by the Great Accomplishment.%
Then, through the vivid presence of the deity forms and the rays of the mantra,%
And through the samadhi of bliss and emptiness and the practices of uniting and freeing,%
When completing six, twelve, or eighteen months,%
As the outer signs, you will actually have a vision of the deity,%
The mandala will emit light, and the nectar in the vase will boil.%
The skull cup will tremble, and the butter lamp will ignite by itself.%
As the inner signs, your body, speech, and mind will be blissful; your prana and awareness will be clear;%
And your perception of all the dharmas of fixation and grasping will be illusory.%
As the secret signs, your mind will be changeless in one-pointed samadhi,%
And the assembly of deities will be perfected within you.%
Since at this time you will have realized the supreme siddhi,%
You can display various miracles of the one taste of appearances and mind.%
Even without changing your body, your mind will initially accomplish%
The Vidyadhara of Full Maturation in the form of a deity.%
You will attain the mastery of life, the vajra body,%
And by means of the supreme family of the great mudra of the five aspects,%
You will perfect the ten bhumis and realize the great regency,%
The Vidyadhara of Spontaneous Accomplishment.%
The intent of recitation, the auxiliary of the development stage,%
Has four visualizations of Approach and Accomplishment.%
First, upon the moon in your heart center,%
Within the center of the five-pronged golden vajra,%
Is the letter HRIH upon a moon, glowing like a flame.%
The mantra garland surrounding it%
Is self-resounding and revolves continuously.%
To fix your mind on this, like the moon with a garland of stars,%
Is called the intent of Approach invoking the mind of the deity.%
The mantra garland emanating from there emerges through your mouth%
And enters through the mouth of the wisdom being before you.%
Passing through the bodily form and the navel lotus,%
It enters your navel and revolves as before.%
Light rays and essences gather in your heart bindu.%
Imagine that the wisdom of great bliss is stabilized%
And that all the siddhis are mastered.%
This concentration, like the wheel of a firebrand,%
Is the intent of the Full Approach to the deity.%
This can also be exchanged with the form of the consort, your own radiance,%
Or with any of the different emanation visualizations%
In order to invoke the surrounding assembly of deities.%
By the light rays emanating from the mantra,%
Offering clouds