The Mantra Destroying All the Negative Karmas and Defilements I prostrate to the bodhisattva, the great sattva, the one who has great compassion, the superior Compassionate-Eye Looking One Enriched with Power.
This mantra destroying all the negative karma and defilements is taught by the Great Compassionate One in the twenty-seventh chapter of action entitled "Destroying All Negative Karmas and Negative Defilements" from Tantra of the Supreme Compassionate-Eye Looking One Enriched with Power Emptying All of Samsara:
Then, fully qualified foe destroyer gone beyond Tathagata Limitless Light One (Amitabha), overlord to Dakini Enriched in the Power of Dance (Khadroma Kargyu Wangchuk), said:
"Beyond the numberless, innumerable worlds of the eastern direction, there is what is called World Unforgettable. The delusions of the sentient beings who abide in that world are very gross. They are difficult to satisfy and very difficult to subdue. They engage in the ten non-virtues and they engage in the five uninterrupted negative karmas. They give up the three higher trainings and carelessly use the offerings to the Triple Gem (offerings that were made with devotion which, when used carelessly, pollute the mind). In order to benefit these sentient beings, you should memorize this mantra destroying all the negative karmas and defilements. Keep this and read this. Reveal it to the evil ones and cherish this.
I prostrate to the Buddha Limitless Illumination
OM AMI DHE WA HRIH
I prostrate to the Buddha Detached Lotus One
OM BHRUM AYU HUM NI JAH
I prostrate to the Buddha Great Compassion
OM MANI PADME HUM1
Prostrations to the fully qualified destroyer gone beyond, gone as it is, destroyer of the enemy, fully completed buddha, Victorious One Who Is the Play Aspect of Lion.
Prostrations to the fully qualified destroyer gone beyond, gone as it is, destroyer of the enemy, fully completed buddha, Beam Always Superior Glorified Piled Victorious One.
Prostrations to the fully qualified destroyer gone beyond, gone as it is, destroyer of the enemy, fully completed buddha, whose Qualities Extremely Stabilized the Victorious Jewel Piled.
May my innate mantra be actualized!
OM BI PULA GARBHE MANI PRA BHE / TA THA GATA DHARI SHANI / MANI MANI SUPRABHE BIMALA SANGARA GAMBHIRA HUM HUM JVALA JVALA / BUDDHA BILOKITE GUHYA / ADHISHTHITE GARBHE SVAHA / PADMA DHARA AMOGA JAYATI CHURU CHURU SVAHA
May I whose name is ...(insert name)... completely purify all the negative karmas and defilements collected from beginningless rebirth in samsara, the ripening aspect in the evil action, disturbing thoughts, delusions, sufferings, and all the collections of negative imprints, and may I quickly achieve the state of enlightenment.
Sons and daughters of the race and any other transmigratory beings, if one recites this mantra every day 128 times it will destroy all negative karmas and defilements.
Benefits
It has the power to destroy thirteen disharmonious things. What are these thirteen?
1. One does not get harmed by fire.
2. One does not get harmed by water (floods and so forth).
3. One does not fall down precipices.
4. Roofs do not fall down on oneself.
5. One does not get chased away by winds (hurricanes, tornadoes and so forth).
6. One does not get harmed by poisons.
7. One does not get harmed by things mixed with poisons (contaminated food and so forth).
8. One does not get harmed by the spirit De (epilepsy, fits).
9. One does not get harmed by black magic.
10. One does not get harmed by untimely death.
11. One does not get harmed by war.
12. One does not get very severe sicknesses (epidemics).
13. One does not experience being sentenced to death by kings (executed).
Other than that, one receives thirteen qualities. What are they?
1. One's body whether as a son or daughter of the race will be beautiful.
2. One's voice will be sweet, enchanting.
3. One will generate extraordinary concentration in the mental continuum.
4. One will be able to do unimaginable works for sentient beings.
5. One will have no resistance, obstacles to all the activities.
6. All one's ripening aspects, karma, will be purified (such as rebirth as a hell being, hungry ghost, animal).
7. One will have an unimaginable (huge)entourage.
8. One will have inexhaustible enjoyments.
9. One will have a long life.
10. One will not have resistance to all the scriptures.
11. One will make offerings to all the tathagatas.
12. One will become a child of all the buddhas (a bodhisattva).
13. All one's hopes and wishes will be completed.
So, like this, thirteen disharmonious things will be destroyed and you will achieve thirteen benefits. Beyond this life, you will be reborn in Sukhavati, the Blissful World (Amitabha Buddha's pure realm) and you will achieve the result of no-returning.
If you do not get these thirteen qualities then I, myself (i.e., the Compassionate Buddha), would be cheating the Buddha Destroyed Qualified Gone Beyond One.
For the ceremony of this:
Generate oneself into the Supreme Compassionate-Eye Looking One Enriched with Power. Then begin by reciting the buddhas' names three times:
I prostrate to the Buddha Limitless Illumination
OM AMI DHE WA HRIH
I prostrate to the Buddha Detached Lotus One
OM BHRUM AYU HUM NI JAH
I prostrate to the Buddha Great Compassion
OM MANI PADME HUM
After that recite HRIH one million times. Then recite the six-syllable mantra (OM MANI PADME HUM) 100,000 times. Then recite the mantra destroying all the negative karma and defilements 10,000 times. Make prayers and requests.
Recite these mantras 28,000 times each month on the Tibetan 8th, 15th, 20th and 30th, while abstaining from one meal (fasting from noon until the next morning) and eating the three white foods (milk, curd, butter). (If it is difficult to only have the three white foods on that day then you can also have rice and flour. The main thing is not to have black foods: garlic, onion, meat, strong-smelling radish, etc.)
Recite these three buddhas' names 108 times.
Before this one should do the nearing retreat, reciting the mantra destroying all the negative karmas and defilements 100,000 times. Then, every month, recite 28,000 times at the beginning of each month. Then, if one recites the mantra 108 times every day, one will achieve all the benefits explained above, except those who have doubt. (The power and effect of the mantra depends on how much devotion and faith one has in the mind.)
If someone has done the nearing retreat, (reciting) this mantra 100,000 times: All the beings towards whom that person rises disturbing emotional thoughts and whom they physically beat, showing an ugly, wrathful aspect with the body, will be liberated from the lower realms (the hells, hungry ghost, and animal realms - the evil-gone realms). Other sentient beings to whom that person gives orders with their speech or to whom they say uninteresting (hurtful), provoking words will all be liberated from samsara. All sentient beings towards whom that person has ill will, covetousness, or heresy with the mind, will all achieve liberation. If the shadow of that person's body hits the water, then all sentient beings abiding in the water will be liberated from the lower realms. Sentient beings who smell that person will all be liberated from the lower realms. So there is no question (of the benefit) for anybody who sees that person's body or hears that person's voice.
If one recites 21 times and then blows over the bones of a dead being, that being will be liberated from the lower realms. If one recites the mantra seven times in the ear of a transmigratory being who is just about to die, that being will never fall down in the lower realms.
During this nearing retreat, abstain from wine, meat, garlic, food in the afternoon, left-over food that has been eaten by others, and sexual acts. If one does not manage to do the nearing retreat, one will achieve by reciting 108 times every day.
One should cross over even three galaxies filled with red-hot fire to seek this Dharma. Even if one is stained by the pollutions of the Sangha of the ten directions that cannot be purified in the presence of thousands of buddhas, still by reciting this mantra 28,000 times even that will be purified.
This practice cannot be shown to the evil-doer. Why? Those evil beings, by misusing this practice, can take advantage of this mantra and can engage in negative karma. Even if the benefits are explained for eons, it cannot be finished.
This is what is taught in the Twenty-Seventh Chapter "Destroying All Negative Karmas and Negative Defilements" from the Tantra of the Supreme Compassionate-Eye Looking One Enriched with Power Emptying All of Samsara. It is completed here.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Dedication:
This precious teaching is translated with the great hope to benefit and because there is a great need for these methods to protect people from untimely death and all the dangers of life, including poison, anthrax, and other diseases - to not get these from others and to purify and heal what one has. Also to protect people from all the dangers of the elements (called "natural disasters" in the West), such as death caused by earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and fire, as well as an unimaginable number of undesirable things that are happening especially in this eon and at these times and increasing more and more. Along with this there are new diseases, disturbing unfavourable conditions, explosions like erupting volcanoes, and so many people in this world are so overwhelmed with so many sufferings, which is the result of negative thoughts and negative actions motivated by unhealthy wrong concepts. May any merit collected here by translating this precious mantra and making it available to the world, particularly the Western world, pacify immediately all these undesirable things.
May this text be used by all sentient beings. Besides people who practice this, may anyone who hears this text, who sees this text, who remembers this text, or who dreams about this text, by this may they never ever be reborn as a hell being, hungry ghost, or in the animal realm. May they find unshakeable faith in refuge and karma, and generate loving kindness, compassion, and bodhichitta to all living beings. In their actions may they never harm and only benefit - giving peace and happiness to numberless living beings. May they fill up the world with the sunshine of peace and happiness and never ever experience all the life dangers such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, earthquakes, fire, terrorists, wars, and so forth.
May everyone soon be liberated from all the causes of suffering, the delusions and karma, and then achieve peerless happiness, full enlightenment, by ceasing even the subtle stains of the mind.
Translated by Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche, Kachoe Dechen Ling, Aptos, October-November 2001. Scribes Vens. Sarah Thresher and Holly Ansett. Lightly edited by Ven. Constance Miller, FPMT Education Services, December 2001. This is the complete version of this translation, together with instructions for practice.