A Commentary on “Blessing the Speech According to the Instructions of Great Yogi Khyungpo”

Nagarjuna’s Heart Practice

Nagarjuna’s heart practice is to recite these three mantras—the Sanskrit vowels, Sanskrit consonants, and Heart Mantra of Dependent Relation—three times each after doing any virtuous activity of body, speech, or mind. In particular, it is good to recite these mantras after reciting the mantras of a deity when doing a sadhana or during a session in retreat. By doing this, the purpose for which you recited those particular mantras will be accomplished. For example, you can recite mantras for pacification (to pacify sicknesses, spirit harms, negative karmas, and defilements), for increase (to increase life, merits, wisdom, wealth, and realizations), for control (to have the necessary outer conditions, such as material things, for your practice of Dharma and your actions to benefit others to be successful), or for wrath (to gain control over evil beings so that they listen to you and stop engaging in heavy negative karma, and you can then bring them into the Dharma and to enlightenment).

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Commentary to “Blessing the Speech According to the Instructions of Great Yogi Khyungpo”: Compiled and edited by Ven. Joan Nicell from explanations given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche during nyung ne teachings at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Solu Khumbu, Nepal, in April 1978 (LYWA 133); during Lama Chopa and Six Yogas of Naropa teachings at Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India, in April-May 1990 (LYWA 510); during the 100 million mani retreat at Chenrezig Institute, Eudlo, Australia, in 2000 (LYWA 1261); during the Mitrugpa retreat at O.Sel.Ling, Bubion, Spain, in April 2001 (LYWA 1379); in dictation to Ven. Matthew Frum, Kachoe Dechen Ling, February, 2005; during the 100 million mani retreat at Institut Vajra Yogini, Lavaur, France, in May 2009; at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, 2010 and 2016; at Light of the Path 2009, 2014, and 2016 in North Carolina, USA; at Great Stupa for Universal Compassion, Australia in September-October 2014; in Guadalajara, Mexico, in September 2015; during the November course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in December 2015; during the Medicine Buddha retreat at Rinchen Jangsem Ling, Triang, Malaysia, in 2016. Lightly edited by Ven. Ailsa Cameron, March 2018.