Dharma Media Resources
These are Dharma media offerings in progress, lovingly created at Katsel Meditation Sterling. They include audio and video resources shared with the heartfelt aspiration to benefit all sentient beings. While not yet finalized, these materials are offered freely for review, reflection, and inclusive access. May they serve as a support on the path of wisdom and compassion.
Opening Prayers in Video, Text and Audio
Altruistic Motivation
All mother sentient beings—
Especially those enemies who hate me,
Obstructors who harm me,
And those who create obstacles on my path to liberation and omniscience—
May they experience happiness,
Be separated from suffering,
And swiftly will I establish them
In the state of unsurpassed, perfect, complete, and precious Buddhahood.
(Recite Three Times)
Altruistic Motivation
Action Bodhicitta
Action Bodhicitta
Thus, until I achieve enlightenment,
I perform virtuous deeds with body, speech, and mind.
Until death I perform virtuous deeds with body, speech, and mind.
From now, until this time tomorrow,
I perform virtuous deeds with body, speech, and mind.
(Recite Once)
Long Refuge Prayer
We take refuge in the kind root and lineage lamas.
We take refuge in the deities of the mandalas of the yidams.
We take refuge in all the exalted Buddhas.
We take refuge in the perfect Dharma.
We take refuge in the excellent order of the sanghas.
We take refuge in all the noble dakas, dakinis, and Dharma-guardians,
possessors of the eye of wisdom.
(Recite Three Times)
Long Refuge Prayer
Bodhisattva Vow
Bodhisattva Vow
Until I attain the heart of enlightenment,
I take refuge in all the Buddhas.
I take refuge in the Dharma and likewise in the assembly of the bodhisattvas.
As the previous Buddhas embraced the enlightened mind
and progressed on the bodhisattva’s path,
I, too, for the benefit of all sentient beings,
give birth to bodhicitta
and apply myself to accomplish the stages of the path.
(Recite Three Times)
Short Refuge Prayer
In the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha most excellent,
I take refuge until enlightenment is reached.
By the merit of generosity and other good deeds,
may I attain Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings.
(Recite Three Times)
Short Refuge Prayer
Four Immeasurables
Four Immeasurables
May all mother sentient beings, boundless as the sky,
have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May they be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May they never be separated from the happiness that is free from sorrow.
May they rest in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.
(Recite Once)
The Seven Limb Prayer
I bow down respectfully with my body, speech, and faithful mind
to all tathagatas in the ten directions:
those who have already reached the tathagata state,
those who are reaching it at present,
and those tathagatas still to come.
Through the power of Samantabhadra’s prayers,
may all Buddhas manifest vividly in my mind.
I prostrate to them, multiplying my body
as many times as there are atoms of the Earth.
In each atom, I visualize as many Buddhas as there are atoms,
surrounded by countless Bodhisattvas.
Thus, all space is filled with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
I praise all Buddhas through magnificent chanting,
expressing the great ocean of their excellent qualities.
To all Buddhas, I make offerings of various pure flowers,
flower garlands, music, anointing oils,
magnificent light and fragrant incense.
I make offerings to them of fine garments,
perfume and potpourri,
piled high as Mount Meru and arranged in the most beautiful way.
I visualize the highest and most extensive offerings,
and offer them with great faith to all Buddhas.
I prostrate to the Buddhas and make offerings to them,
following the deeds of the great bodhisattva, Samantabhadra.
I confess to you, Buddhas,
whatever negative actions I have done
due to the power of anger, desire, and ignorance.
I rejoice in the merit of all the Buddhas in the ten directions,
of the great bodhisattvas and pratyekabuddhas,
those who have attained arhatship,
those who have entered the path to arhatship,
and all other beings.
I request all great protectors and Buddhas
to turn the highest wheel of Dharma—
the light that dispels the darkness of the beings in the ten directions
and leads them gradually to the enlightened state.
I request those Buddhas intending to pass into parinirvana
to live long, for as many eons as there are atoms of the earth,
in order to benefit all beings.
Whatever merit I have gathered through prostrations,
offerings, confession, rejoicing, beseeching, and praying,
for the sake of the enlightenment of all sentient beings,
all this I dedicate.