Practice of the Padma Heruka Hayagrîva

HAYAGRÎVA – THE WRATHFUL FORM OF AVALOKITESHVARA

The peaceful form of Avalokiteshvara, white in colour and with four arms, holding with his hands a precious jewel before his chest and with the other two holding the crystal rosary and the stem of a lotus blossom, is quite well known to us here in the West. His four arms signify the four immeasurable states of friendliness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Although a fully enlightened being, Avalokiteshvara appears as a great Bodhisattva in royal garb because he is the active embodiment of great compassion in order to relieve the suff ering of all sentient beings (mahâkarunâ) which he exercises in terms of wise skilful means (upâya). He strives to rescue all beings from their suff ering in the six destinies of rebirth in Samsâra, the beginningless cycle of death and rebirth.

Table of Content:

• Guruyoga for Padmasambhava
• Düdjom Lingpa
• Invocation of Düdjom Lingpa
• Practice of the Padma Heruka Hayagriva
• Short Daily Practice for Hayagriva
• Secret Sadhana of the Great and Powerful Hayagrica
• The Sadhana for Hayagriva, Vajrapani and Garuda
• Daily Practice for the Balck Hayagriva
• Sadhana for the Black Hayagriva
• Biographical Note
• A Long-Life Prayer for Lama Vajranatha John Myrdhin Reynolds