On Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, 2:00 PM, at Rainbow Temple, True Buddha School Dharma King Living Buddha Lian-sheng Sheng-yen Lu will preside over a Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Homa Ceremony and bestow empowerment for Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Uncommon Practice. (Live Webcast Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLl20r-KQlapX_5fT-N3cOw)

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【Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Mudra:】Mudra in the shape of inner fire


The right hand displays a Fearless Mudra with the palm facing outwards. The left hand forms a Bowl Holding Mudra with the palm facing upwards.

【Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Seed Syllable:】



Dung

【Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Mantra:】

「 Om。 da-lie。 dou-da-lie。dou-lie。 ma-ma。 sha-er-wa。 ye-ye-ma-ha。ha-na-ba-ya。 xin-deng-mu。 gu-ru。 soha。」

【Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Dharmalakṣaṇa Introduction:】
Natural Disaster Eradication Tara is green with Amitabha as her crown ornament. Her right hand displays the Fearless Mudra while her left hand holds an utpala. Above the utpala is a vajra cross. Her right leg extends outward. Her left leg is bent inwards. Clothed in celestial garments and adorned with precious jewels, she sits on a lotus platform. Moonlight radiates from behind her back.
【Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Invocation Praise Verse:】
Miao-lian-ang-xian-jie-mo-da-jingang
Guang-hua-si-she-jin-xiao-zhu-tian-zai
Li-zheng-guo-an-zhong-sheng-meng-en-ze
Gui-jing-jiu-du-fu-mu-zun-zuo-qian

Atop a wondrous lotus
A great majestic karma vajra
Brilliant radiance in all directions
Completely eradicates natural disasters
A Dharma that saves sentient beings
While protecting the country
Take refuge in the Natural Disaster Eradication Buddha Mother
And pay homage before the throne

【Living Buddha Lian-sheng Sheng-yen Lu Dharma Discourse - Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Background and Key Cultivation Formula:】
Suppressing Earthquakes Practice
Collect a kilogram of earth from the east, south, west, north and center of a country. Place the earth collected from the five directions at the Natural Disaster Eradication Tara shrine. Cultivates 108 sessions of Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Practice. During each practice, one must recite the mantra 108 times, form the mudra, and visualize Tara. The practice may be performed as a group practice or one may practice alone.

When one completes the earthquake eradication practice and the collected earth has been blessed, one should return the earth to the location from which it was originally collected. Earth collected from the east, south, west, north and center, respectively, must be returned to the original collection point. One must adhere strictly to these rules and be sure to return the exact amount of earth to its original location; if one kilogram was collected, exactly one kilogram must be returned. When the practice is completed, earthquakes will no longer occur within these regions.

Flood Prevention Practice
Retrieve earth from a riverbank located in the east, south, west, north, and center. Earth must be collected from a major river. After the earth is collected, one performs the practice. Afterwards, one returns the earth to the riverbank from which it was collected. As a result, flooding will not occur.

However, we cannot rely solely on the Natural Disaster Eradication Tara practice to prevent flooding. The local Department of Water Resources should also establish appropriate infrastructure to facilitate the channelling of water into drains, to streams and rivers, and finally to the sea. Flooding can only be fully eradicated by constructing appropriate infrastructure.

Relieving Fire Disasters Practice
Mudra: Four Verticals Five Horizontals Mudra
Nine-character Mantra: ''Lin, bing, dou, zhe, jie, zhen, lie, zai, qian''
Should a practitioner happen to encounter a house on fire, facing the fire, this individual can extinguish the fire by just drawing the four verticals and five horizontals while reciting the Nine-character Mantra, ''Lin, bing, dou, zhe, jie, zhen, lie, zai, qian'', then forming the Four Verticals Five Horizontals Mudra and pushing the mudra toward the fire. The fire will be extinguished.

Suppressing Typhoons Practice
The Usnisa Vijaya stupa, the Usnisa Vijaya Mantra, and The Natural Disaster Eradication Tara Mantra can all suppress typhoons.

Golden Well Practice - for curing illness
With the Golden Well Practice and Mudra, one just draws the Golden Well with one, two, three, four strokes and points to the ill or painful area while chanting 焅irst horizontal stroke becomes a creek, second horizontal stroke becomes a river, third and fourth vertical strokes form the Chinese ideogram of a Golden Well. This is no ordinary finger-pointing mudra, but a finger-pointing mudra of a scholar of Mount Lu. Pointing to the sky, the sky becomes pure; Pointing to the earth, the earth becomes spiritual, pointing to a human, the human gains longevity, pointing to a ghost, the ghost vanishes.” Sicknesses can be cured in this way, just by pointing to the problem area.


Apr. 28, 2019 Dharma Discourse - Natural Disaster Eradication Tara


!!Please be aware that before engaging in any True Buddha Vajrayana practices, one must first take refuge and receive the respective empowerment.!!

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