Windhorse by Red Dust
Riding The Wind
Watch your breath come and go as you sit quietly.
Thoughts come and go, back aches, foot itches and the breath keeps on coming and going.
Minutes crawl by, dragging your attention with it, sitting and watching the breath is so boring and the breath keeps on coming and going.
Your attention wanders through the forest of thoughts and emotions, and the breath keeps on coming and going.
Pulling your attention in, mount the breath again, the ride is wild, your attention falls off getting lost in the dust of emotions.
Mom says get back on that horse even though your sore and bleeding, you don't want to, the horse is big and wild, you are just a small child.
Again, attention mounts the breath and finds its seat after falling off a hundred times. The breath stops bucking and slows down to a smooth gait, becoming bliss.
All the pain and worry disappears and the breath becomes beautiful, so beautiful attention forgets itself and becomes the breath and bliss becomes light.
Be still, be the witness and the breath will carry you into the unknown.
Drawing is like meditation I don't count the time or get caught by doubt, although I struggle with both when I first sit down. I remember this painting took 8 hours to draw and paint. But when I look at it, it's so looks so simple, I should be able to do this in 2 hours. I remember I am still a novice.
༈ རླུང་རྟའི་ཀ་འཛུག་བསྡུས་པ་ནི།
Raising the Windhorse
by Khachöpa
ཀྱེ། སྣོད་བཅུད་འབྱུང་བ་ལྔ་ཡི་ཀློང་། །
kyé, nöchü jungwa nga yi long
Kyé! The universe and its inhabitants, the expanse of the five elements,
ཡུམ་ཆེན་ལྔ་ཡི་ཐུགས་དབྱིངས་ནས། །
yumchen nga yi tuk ying né
Are the five mothers: from the space of their wisdom mind
འཁོར་འདས་རླུང་རྟའི་ལྷ་ཚོགས་རྣམས། །
khordé lungté lhatsok nam
All you deities of the windhorse, throughout saṃsāra and nirvāṇa,
འདིར་གཤེགས་རླུང་རྟའི་བ་དན་འབུལ། །
dir shek lungté baden bul
Come, approach! I offer the flag of the windhorse:
སྙན་གྲགས་རླུང་རྟ་རྒྱས་པ་དང་། །
nyendrak lungta gyepa dang
Increase our renown, rouse our windhorse, and
གཡུལ་ལས་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཕྲིན་ལས་མཛོད། །
yul lé gyalwé trinlé dzö
With your enlightened activity make us victorious over all!
མཁའ་སྤྱོད་པས་སོ། །
Brief Windhorse Practice of Tārā
by Patrul Rinpoche
བསླུ་མེད་མཆོག་གསུམ་སྤྱི་དང་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ། །
lumé chok sum chi dang jetsünma
Through the blessing and power of the unfailing Buddha, Dharma and Saṅgha, and of Jetsünma,
རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་བྱིན་མཐུ་ཡིས། །
gyalyum pakma drolmé jin tu yi
Mother of the buddhas, Noble Tārā,
བདག་གི་ཚེ་བསོད་དཔལ་འབྱོར་སྙན་གྲགས་རྣམས། །
dak gi tsé sö paljor nyendrak nam
May our lifespan, merit, prosperity and renown
ཡར་ངོའི་ཟླ་དང་དབྱར་གྱི་མཚོ་བཞིན་དུ། །
yar ngö da dang yar gyi tso shyindu
Increase like a waxing moon, like a rising summer lake.
ཁྱད་པར་ཁ་རྗེ་དབང་ཐང་རླུང་རྟ་རྣམས། །
khyepar khajé wangtang lungta nam
Especially may our good fortune, wangtang and windhorse
ཉམས་པ་གསོ་ཞིང་ཆད་མཐུད་འགྱེལ་བ་སློང་། །
nyampa so shying chetü gyelwa long
Be healed when they weaken, rejoined when interrupted, raised up when sinking down;
ཅི་བྱས་ལེགས་པའི་ལམ་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་དང༌། །
chi jé lekpé lam du drowa dang
May whatever we do turn out well,
ཚེ་རིང་ནད་མེད་བདེ་དང་ལྡན་གྱུར་ཅིག །
tsering nemé dé dang den gyur chik
And may long life, good health, peace and happiness be ours!
ཅེས་པའང་ཨ་བུའི་མིང་གིས་སོ། །
by the one called ‘Abu’
Prayer to Gyaltsen Tsemö Pung Gyen1
by Mipham Rinpoche
༈ ཨོཾ། གུ་རུ་ཡི་དམ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོའི་ཏོག །
om, guru yidam gyaltsen tsemö tok
Oṃ! We take refuge in the gurus, the yidams, and in you, Gyaltsen Tsemö Pung Gyen,
དཔུང་རྒྱན་ལྷ་ཚོགས་ཁྱེད་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །
pung gyen lhatsok khyé la kyab su chi
Along with all your retinue!
བདག་ཅག་སྙིང་ནས་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པའི་མཐུས། །
dakchak nying né solwa tabpé tü
By the power of this fervent prayer of ours,
རྒུད་པ་ཀུན་ལས་མྱུར་དུ་བསྐྱབ་ཏུ་གསོལ། །
güpa kün lé nyurdu kyab tu sol
Quickly protect us from all failure and misfortune!
ཨོཾ་ཧཱུྂ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ། དཔུང་རྒྱན་ལྷ་ཚོགས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་མཐུས། །
om hung soha | pung gyen lhatsok khyé kyi dzutrul tü
Oṃ hūṃ svāhā! O Pung Gyen, and your retinue:
བདག་དང་རྒྱུ་སྦྱོར་ཡོན་བདག་འཁོར་བཅས་ལ། །
dak dang gyujor yöndak khor ché la
With the force of your magical display, for us, our benefactors, and all those around us
རྨི་ལམ་ངན་དང་བསམ་ངན་སྦྱོར་རྩུབ་ཟློག །
milam ngen dang sam ngen jor tsub dok
Avert all bad dreams, and those who have ill thoughts or do us harm!
བྱད་ཁ་ཕུར་ཁ་འཐབ་རྩོད་འཁྲུགས་ལོང་ཟློག །
jekha purkha tabtsö truklong dok
Avert spells and curses, dispute and conflict!
སྲོག་ལུས་དབང་ཐང་རླུང་རྟ་རྒུད་པ་ཟློག །
sok lü wangtang lungta güpa dok
Avert all weakening in our life force, body, wangtang and windhorse!
མི་ལ་ན་ཚ་ཕྱུགས་ལ་གོད་ཁ་ཟློག །
mi la natsa chuk la gökha dok
Avert all illness in men and women, all loss of our resources!
ཚེ་དང་བསོད་ནམས་དཔལ་དང་གྲགས་པ་སོགས། །
tsé dang sönam pal dang drakpa sok
Grant us long life, merit, glory and renown, and
ཉིན་མཚན་ཀུན་ཏུ་བདེ་ལེགས་མཛད་དུ་གསོལ། །
nyintsen küntu delek dzé du sol
Make peace and happiness reign, throughout both day and night!
མི་ཕམ་པས་སོ། །
↑ Gyaltsen Tsemö Pung Gyen, whose name translates roughly as 'Ornament on the Top of the Victory Banner', is a female deity whose dhāraṇī is particularly treasured as a method for enhancing windhorse. The Buddha said that in a previous life he had heard her dhāraṇī, and from that moment on never again did he experience fear or defeat.
Thank you for your post @reddust =) Beautiful drawing !
Thank you, this type of work helps my mind settle down @lastminuteman.
I'm glad you find what helps you to refocus. Everyone should find it !
Yeah, everyone is so different too, so what helps me may not help someone else. But hopefully my work can bring happiness to someone else as well.
It's beautiful post!!
Exchellent work again :)
Thank you so much @djsonic💫
This looks so dreamy ! :)
It is a dream, but in this dream falling off the horse hurts!
wonderful.
Thank you kindly @sumsum💫
You are a very talented woman, you write very beautiful words and a magnificent work impossible for the human eye do not stop to observe the combination of colors and small details that make the difference, congratulations dear friend @reddust by the innate talent that you possess.
Thank you dear friend @jlufer💫