In conjunction with His Holiness Arrival to Singapore from 25-31 May 2012
At the same time, I started sourcing for all the
precious substances that were needed for the wealth vases. Fortunately, I
managed to acquire many of these rare and invaluable spiritual items from
several of my close Rinpoches. As for the herbal and mineral related
substances, I consulted with a Tibetan physician named Ngawang who helped me
gathered all the precious herbs that I needed. He ground the materials and
moulded them into pills form.
Over the last 30 years, I have collected many
treasures little by little. Very carefully, I combined and ground them into
powder. These treasures include precious pills that contain more than 900
substances of blessings given to me by Sherab Rinpoche; relics of former
Buddhas and Arahants; relics and blessed substances of many lines of Karmapa;
and blessing substances of many great and well-known masters of every tradition
of Tibetan Buddhism.
I have also received similar precious pills wrapped in
yellow cloth from Sang Sang Rinpoche. They contain over 600 blessing substances
such as blessing materials of Guru Rinpoche and the 1st to the 16th Gyalwa
Karmapa.
One of the significant ingredients that I wish to
highlight is the wealth flourishing substances called Yangze Rilbu. They
comprise of so many substances combined into the form of pills in order to
preserve them in their entirety. The substances include ancient wealth materials
of Kings, royalties, rich families and noble people who were never in poverty
for many generations. Also, they include materials such as gems, soils, water
from ancient temples of various famous holy places of Tibet and India. These
places are believed to be sources of good energy with wonderful elements that
are capable of generating positive magnetic fields that attract wealth and
longevity. The exact list of ingredients that go into the Yangze Rilbu pills is
rather lengthy.
Some of the more significant ingredients that went
into the wealth vases are as follows:-
1.
Pieces of materials of Guru Rinpoche’s hat;
2.
Pieces of robes of first, third and fifteen Karmapa’s;
3.
Black Pill Karmapa;
4.
Nectar Pills made by Guru Rinpoche and his 25
disciples;
5.
Pieces of the Great Translator Vairochana’s
handwritten manuscript; and
6.
Longevity pills from the blessing treasures of Dilgo
Khyentse Rinpoche.
The main filling substances of the wealth vases are
the Tibetan and Ayurveda herbs. We obtained the raw materials from an herbalist
and our Tibetan doctor in Nepal carefully checked each ingredient for its
quality. Altogether, there were five large boxes weighing over 250 kilograms of
materials for this project.
With all these wonderful and incredibly precious
substances, we instructed every participant to adhere strictly on the discipline
of cleanliness to prevent any contamination.
All the materials were cleansed and blessed through a
ceremony called Jong Tru. This involved the dispelling of negative elements and
cleansing the substances. So once this ritual is completed, the Lamas and
volunteers spent five long days of hard work to complete the vases. Rinpoches
executed the inner filling of the vases using life sticks and mantras. The
Lamas then filled up the vases with the remaining materials. The vases were
closed and sealed by our volunteers. This is to ensure that every vase is
filled correctly and that the life sticks and mantras are properly aligned in
the right directions without even a minor mistake.
At the same time, I also instructed the volunteers to
prepare the mini longevity flags for the wealth vases. This is actually not
compulsory but for the sake of longevity, which is particularly important for leading
a meaningful life and for increasing the opportunities for dharma practise, I
asked for their preparation and blessed them over the three days puja. All our
Sangha and volunteers complied with my instructions to the hilt. The longevity
flags were tough to make due to their miniaturised parts. Nonetheless, our
volunteers worked very hard making them beautifully and I am certain they will
truly gain the blessings of longevity.
When the vases were finally filled, cleansed and
blessed, we created a mandala to place the vases. So many auspicious substances
and wealth vases were beautifully displayed.
The second part of blessing is similar to the first
Jong Tru, i.e. the dispelling of negative elements or obstacles if any. The
vases and shrine were then thoroughly cleansed.
This is followed by the ritual ceremony of invocation
of wealth deities into the vases.
Subsequently over the next few days, a series of
Zambhala puja and Guru Rinpoche inseparable from Amitayus puja were performed.
They were important for wealth and longevity. The pujas comprised of
invocation, offerings, praise, developing of self, shrine and vase to transform
the substances into wealth deities and their sublime environment. The pujas
help to attract and amplify the life forces from the four elements, great
masters and enlightened ones. These are then absorbed into the vases and
longevity flags. Thus, the vases
manifest as outer wish-fulfilling gems as well as inner palace for the wealth
deities.
This is my explanation on the preparation of the
treasure wealth vases as far as I could think of. Hope everyone will benefit
from the wealth vases in terms of wealth, longevity and in all spiritual
activities.
སྐྱེ་འགྲོའི་དབུལ་བ་སེལ་བའི་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར།
The wish-fulfilling gem that relieves the suffering of
poverty of beings,
སྨུག་འཛིན་དབང་པོའི་གཏོང་བའི་མཛོད་སྒོ་ལས།
From the door of Zambhala's treasure of generosity,
གཅིག་ཏུ་འཕྲོས་པའི་ནོར་གྱི་བུམ་བཟང་འདིས།
Arises the continuous flow of profound vases of wealth,
ཆོས་ནོར་བདེ་བས་འགྲོ་ཀུན་ངོམས་གྱུར་ཅིག།
May these satisfy everyone with bountiful wealth and
spirituality.
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