Another meaning, which is incorporated into Chenrezigs mantra OM MANI PADME HUM is the Perfection of Wisdom Heart Sutra.

OM MANI PADME HUM has 6 syllables, which can be interpreted as the Heart Sutra's description of emptiness:

No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind

no visual form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no object of touch, no mental objects

no visual consciousness, no auditory consciousness, no olfactory consciousness, no taste consciousness, no tactile consciousness, no mental consciousness

LCR, June 2020

When people we know die, like family, friends and so, we can recite Chenrezigs mantra Om Mani Padme Humand that is like a rainbow bridge that leads them in the right direction. To a human rebirth, where they can get everything they need to develop.

Every colour of light closes a door to a certain rebirth. White light (OM) closes the door to a rebirth as a deva. The green light (MA) closes the door to a rebirth as an asura. Yellow light (NI) is a human rebirth, which is what we wish for, but a suitable human rebirth with optimal conditions to practice. With access to education, health, dharma etc. The turqoise light (PAD) closes the door to the animal realm (sometimes a grayish light). The red light (ME) closes the door to the preta realm, the hungry ghosts. The blue/black light (HUM) closes the door to the hell realms, a rebirth as a narak hell-being.

Especially if people die a not so good death, an accident, suicide, this is really good practice. We send a lot of light and incense together with Om Mani Padme Hum.

LCR, June 2020

Chenrezigs mantra: OM MANI PAD ME HUM

There are 6 syllables:

We need to generate the 6 Bodhisattva Perfections

generosity, ethics, patience, effort, concentration and wisdom

We need to heal the 6 samsara realms:

the hell realm (narak beings), hungry ghosts (pretas), the animal realm, the human realm, the jealous gods (asuras), the gods (devas).

We need to realize the wisdom of the 6 Buddhas (the 5 Dhyani Buddhas and Vajradhara):

mirror-like wisdom, discriminating wisdom, dharmadhatu wisdom, equalizing wisdom, accomplishing wisdom

LCR, June 2020

If you are having problems with your eyes, or have an eye disease, it is beneficial to do Migchey Chenrezig practice, or Chenrezig who opens the eyes.

This practice cannot only help heal eye problems, but can also be done, when one does not have eye problems, to open one's third eye or Wisdom Eye.

See the practice here..

This form of Chenrezig is white and has four arms. He has to hands in front of his heart in the open eyes mudra. The other two hands hold a vase to wash the impurities from your eyes and a mirror to see reality with wisdom (emptiness). He stands on a lotus flower with a moon cushion, with a peaceful face and the 6 jewels of a Bodhisattva (representing the 6 Perfections).

Lama Michel Rinpoche, May 1st 2020, Milan, Italy (edited)

“Panchen Lamaen sagde en gang til mig, at det var nemt at være en lama i Østen, fordi kulturen var sådan, at man var respekteret, fik offergaver osv. De rigtige helte var folk som Lama Gangchen som tog til Vesten, hvor man ikke fra start havde traditionel respekt. F.eks. da Rinpoche kom til Vesten startede han med healing af mennesker, f.eks. med at puste på deres krop. Det syntes folk var mærkelig, og de sagde lidt respektløst: det kan jeg også, og de pustede tilbage. Men ugen efter kom de igen og bad om at blive pustet på igen !

Rinpoche saw quickly that people did not love themselves and did not believe in themselves, so how could they love and believe in a guru? He started by teaching them only Shakyamuni's Mantra, OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNI SHAKYAMUNI SOHA, so much so that some people came to call him “One-Mantra-Lama”.

But this mantra has incredibly deep meanings.

OM is a union of three sounds, a o ma, representing the body, speech and mind. It also represent the gross, subtle and very subtle mind.

MUNI means capacity, so Capacity, Capacity

MAHA MUNI means Great Capacity

SHAKYA MUNI means the capable one of the Shakyas, that is Supreme Capacity

SOHA means So be it.

The first capacity is: love yourself ! We know some things are good for us, some things are bad for us. Choose what's good for you and discard what's bad for you. Both habits, things, emotions, food, and even sometimes people. Every day, remove one bad thing, add one good thing. Abandon what is harmful and cultivate what is beneficial.

The second capacity is: love others ! Be a real dharma practitioner, and not an actor. One day we will be dead, much sooner than we think. Help others ! Not by being a helper (that is the ego: I’m a big helper), but by helping. Reciting is important, meditating is important, but much more important is helping others.

The Great Capacity relates to seeing reality correctly, emptiness.

Supreme Capacity is Vajrayana's capacity: transforming the five negative emotions into the five wisdom consciousnesses and the five impure elements into the five pure ones.

Tro på dig selv ! Den eneste grund til at de utrolig store Guruer er der og arbejder så hårdt for os, er fordi DE tror på os. Hvis sådanne store væsener tror på os, bør vi så ikke også tro på os selv? Hvis de ikke troede på os, blev de i deres hule for at meditere. Ha’ en slags stolthed, uden arrogance, at du har mødt denne fantastisk store guru: du har alt det du har brug for, redskaberne, velsignelserne, eksemplerne. Tro på dig selv, og gør Rinpoche stolt af os.”

LMR, 01/05/2020

Dedicated to the pacification of Coronavirus

May all beings recover from the sicknesses of mind and body pollution and enjoy relative and absolute health now and forever.

See Long Life Mantras here: Three Long Life Deities