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A Lamentation Requesting Blessings from the
Great Compassionate One
by
Chandrakirti
I prostrate to the all-mighty Bodhisattva
Chenrezig
Arya Chenrezig, the great compassionate
one,
Your perfect body the color of a stainless
conch
Beautified by a pure, luminous moon disk
Like a thousand
rays of sun shining in the sky
Overshadowing the brilliant light
of the dakas
Renowned as the teacher and guide of the beings of
the three realms of existence
You are the single friend of all
migratory
Loving compassion protector deity, please consider
me
I, from beginningless time
Have wandered in
cyclic existence, on mistaken and abandoned paths
Erring due to
mistakes and non-virtues of the past
I deeply regret and feel
sorrow for all of my misdeeds
By the force of my egotistical actions
I am
sinking within the ocean of cyclic suffering,
The blazing fire of
anger burning my mind
The accumulated darkness of ignorance
obscuring my wisdom.
My consciousness is submerged within the ocean
of attachment
The mountain of great pride forces me down to the
lower realms
The swirling winds of jealousy distract me in
samsara
I am bound by the tight knots of egotistical view
Fallen into this pit of desire, like a well of
burning coals
The mire of violent suffering falls like
rain
The fire element, the scorching sun, burns from above
The
water element, the moisture of the earth, brings cold from
below
Outside the bitter cold burns
Raging winds terrorize me
to the depths of my heart
This suffering is intensely difficult to bear -
How can you restrain yourself?
All of this suffering I have
confronted
Never abandoning aspiring faith for you, Supreme
Arya
Noble protector, how could you think not to benefit
beings?
Loving protector, why won't you show me
compassion?
Miserable by reason of birth, I am weary of
karma
Though despondent from fatigue, the force of karma cannot
be changed
Its impetus is like a stream of water
And, like a
hurricane, the power of karma is extremely difficult to
reverse
These hardships are difficult to express
My body, speech, and mind come under the command
of non-virtue
By the force of the fierce burning fire of negative
karma
The miserable result of consciousness arises
If the
aggregate - this body of illusion - cannot bear this
Loving
protector Chenrezig, can you bear it?
When I seek to see the Compassionate One's
face
Luminous like the sun, lustrous like the moon
I cannot
see with eyes afflicted
By the eye-disease of beginningless
ignorance
Protector of the world, where are you now?
Unable to
tolerate this terrible suffering
Reeling from the panic of
extreme terror and fear
I utter this longing lamentation
A
miserable, desperate plea for help
Loving protector Chenrezig,
how can you bear it?
When, at the time of death, I change my
body
I will be separated from friends and relatives, taken by the
Lord of Death
My worldly relatives will not want to let me
go
But due to the power of karma, I will be taken alone
If, at
that time, no refuge exists for me
Will you, loving protector,
dismiss me into samsara?
A being like me, oppressed by karma
Due to
wrong prayers from beginningless time
Has not yet been released
from the three realms, the place of samsara
As many times as I
have taken rebirth over countless eons
Taking countless bodies
which fell apart
If I collected the flesh and bones they would
fill the world
If I collected the pus and blood it would equal
the great ocean -
But if I consider what remains of my karma, it
is beyond thought, inexpressible
Although I have passed through the three realms
countless times
All of my actions have been a meaningless
waste
Among all of my possibly existent countless rebirths
If
there had been only one in which
I had completed a single action
towards the unsurpassable purpose of enlightenment
From doing
only that, there would have been some meaning
Karma is powerful, and due to the great force of
the afflictions
Beings take bodies of flesh and blood and wander
in samsara
Caught in the wretched misery of the prison of
existence
Due to my wrongdoings all of this fierce, inexhaustible
suffering
Arises from my own actions -
I request you, with
your great compassion, to cut this continuum
And destroy the
winds of affliction and karma
As I wander perpetually in the darkness of
ignorance
By the power of the winds of affliction and
karma
Can't you see with the rays of your lamp of
wisdom?
Since I cannot endure the results of my wrong
actions
Won't you carry out your compassionate enlightened
activity?
Since I suffer the sickness of the three poisons, so
difficult to bear
Won't you heal me with the skillful medicine of
compassion?
Since I plummet from the cliff of wrong
views
Won't you catch me with your compassionate hand?
Since I
burn in the great suffering fire of karma
Won't you allow the
cooling continuum of the water of your compassion to fall upon
me?
Once I have purified my karma in the three
realms of cyclic existence
And obtained my goal
At that time
your great compassion will be of no benefit to me
If you
disregard the karmic propensities of sentient beings
For whom
will your great compassion act?
To you, supreme tamer of beings,
endowed with the power of compassion
Please don't be careless,
indifferent or lazy -
Compassionate victor, from your heart,
look upon me!
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