A Prayer for the Kind Father Guru to Return Quickly
Wisdom # 2 – 1984
By Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Translated by the author, with Gelong Thubten Dondrub.
An Orphaned Child’s Sorrowful Plea.
Please Guru think of me!
Please Guru think of me!
Please Guru think of me!
Glorious kind Guru Heruka!
We remember you from the heart.
Please quickly guide us!
We your disciples, unable to be subdued by
the three times Victorious Ones are
refugeless and guideless, and smothering in
the darkness of ignorance.
You have gone into the state of peace and
suddenly! we have been left behind, with
no one to rely on.
May your holy mind grow stronger in compassion
and
Return soon, without delay, from the sphere of
dharmakaya peace as a wonderful supreme
refuge, a meaningful to behold supreme
transformation.
Guide us from the disease of sorrow.
In devotion, we guideless migratory beings
from the depths of our hearts and bones,
with one-pointed minds request:
Please quickly draw us up from the extremes
of samsara and peace without delay.
Hold us with your hook of compassion and
never separate from us.
Glorious kind Guru Heruka!
We remember you from the heart.
Please quickly guide us!
We guideless transmigrators, unable to be
subdued by the great compassion of
Shakyamuni Buddha are sunk in the filthy
quagmire of attachment, experiencing
unceasing suffering.
Suddenly we have been left behind.
You have gone into the peace of
dharmakaya.
What can we do! There are no others to rely on.
If your holy mind is bound by great compassion,
please return quickly from the dharmakaya
peace as a supreme transformation meaningful
to behold.
Please guide us from the disease of sorrow.
We children, guideless migrators, one-pointedly
from our hearts in a single pleading voice request:
Quickly draw us up from the extremes of samsara
and peace without delay.
Hold us with your hook of compassion and never
separate from us.
Glorious kind Guru Heruka!
We remember you from the heart.
Please quickly guide us!
The sun of the mighty one, Shakyamuni Buddha,
has set.
Even if it is discovered that you, Savior,
are the only one accomplishing the actions of
the Victorious Ones.
We guideless transmigrators were this time unable
to be subdued by you.
While being destroyed by the innermost fire of
unceasing anger and experiencing continuous
suffering without happiness, we were suddenly
left behind.
Now that you have gone to peace we have no
others to rely on.
Because you have completed the two merits
benefiting others and have attained the four kayas
which spontaneously accomplish the two
purposes,
Please return quickly as a wonderful supreme
transformation, meaningful to behold.
We child disciples from the depths of our hearts
and bones, with one-pointed minds request
in a single sorrowful voice:
Please quickly draw us guideless migrators up
from the extremes of samsara and peace
without delay.
Hold us with your hook of compassion and never
separate from us.
Colophon: I was asked by the devoted students Italian gelong Thubten Donyo, Australian doctor gelong Thubten Donyo and the Dorje Pamo nun Cherry, who have found unshakable faith in the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha and the great virtuous friend, the Savior Lama Yeshe, who was able to bear the great responsibility of accomplishing great works for the teachings and sentient beings, to write this prayer for the quick return of the guru, in actuality Heruka, more kind than the Victorious Ones of the three times; in outer aspect a bhikshu, learned, pure in moral conduct and noble of heart; great yogi of the Vajrayana, having found the realization of the unification of bliss and voidness; great bodhisattva, able to bear the great hardships and able to accomplish extensive work for others; actual ascetic and pure practitioner, who, without the slightest clinging, saw samsaric perfections as illusory. Kinder than the Buddhas of the three times, my guru, Lama Thubten Yeshe, whose holy name is difficult to say, nurtured me, materially and spiritually, with far greater kindness than did my parents of this life. With devotion, seeing his qualities and remembering his kindness from my heart, I have written this short prayer.
Because of the merits of writing this prayer, may our great virtuous friend reincarnate quickly, without delay, and guide us sentient beings by revealing with skillful means the profound and extensive teachings which have the power to subdue the minds of all those to whom they are shown; may all students fulfill Lama’s wishes, and may all migratory beings quickly achieve Lama Heruka’s stage.
Hri!
May the great virtuous friend
Who clarified the teachings of
Pure Wisdom Victorious One
The second Mighty One1,
With his transcendental Wisdom light that
Spreads spontaneously in all directions,
Especially to the outlying dark lands,
Quickly return.
Colophon: This was composed on request by the protector. Translated by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, with gelong Thubten Dondrub.
