chöd.rite

A version of Magick Lebdon's 15th century Tibetan Chöd Rite. Please enjoy the script, while URLJUD prepaires for the next performance of the rite.

Chöd

Contents: Devotional Zeal; Five Directions;

Elementals of Egoism;

Gathering; The Prayer; Resolution; Dedication;

Prayer of the guru;

The Offering; The Feast; The Merit.

Devotional Zeal

Aum. Shape-shift into the goddess of

all-fullfilling wisdom, the

embodiment of truth, manifested as a Seed.

Possessed with the power of

enlarging thyself to the vastness of the Universe.

Endowed with all

the beauties of perfection. Blow the human

thighbone trumpet lowdly.

Dance the dance of the devotional zeal which

destroyeth erroneous

beliefs. Bang! Free from even the fear of death.

Dancing upon

corpses, threading under foot the shells of this

illusory human life,

renunciating the personal self and its physical

apperance. Able to

destroy all sense of individuality and all

division. One is all, all

is one. Dancing for the ultimate unity. Come to the

dance ye ancestral

gurus. Come to the dance ye heroes and fairies, as

innumerable as the

drops of the ocean. Come ye sky traversing ones who

wander everywhere.

May this zealous devotion be successful.

Five Directions

Bang! In the east. White. A world of superior

physique where the

titans and giants live. The heroes and fairies

dance in a crescent

shaped arena. Their feet flash as they dance upon

the prostrate forms

of disinkarnated black magicians, who symbolize

hatred and wrath. They

sound the flute of the mirror-like wisdom. Hoom

Hoom Hoom

Bang! In the south. Blue. A small world - our

world. The heroes and

fairies dance in a triangular shaped arena. Their

feet flash as they

dance upon the prostrate head of Yama, the lord of

reincarnation

representing pride. They drum upon the skull-drums

of the wisdom of

equality, with a peculiar sharp tapping sound. Hoom

Hoom Hoom

Bang! In the west. Red. A grass-land for creatures.

The heroes and

fairies dance in a cirkular shaped arena. Their

feet flash as they

dance upon the prostrate head of the orgress of

lust. They tinkle the

bells of the discriminating wisdom in sweet

harmonious tones. Hoom

Hoom Hoom

Bang! In the north. Green. A world of unpleasant

sound. The heroes and

fairies dance in a square arena. Their feet flash

as they dance upon

the prostrate heads of the mischievous sprites of

jealousy. The five

dried human skull-tiara of the All-fulfilling

wisdom glisteneth

brightly. Hoom Hoom Hoom

Ka-Pau! When dancing in the centre of the perfectly

endowed spot, the

arena for the dance of the heroes and Fairies is

blessed with their

divine influence. Their feet flash as they dance

upon the prostrate

head of the wampire of stupidity. The joyous songs

of hoom, of the

wisdom of the real essence, sound melodiously. Hoom

Hoom Hoom

Elementals of Egoism

The actor is now to take divine action and transfix

the five passions

or elementals of egoism with the spears of mother

goddesses,

majestically divine in appearance, possessed of

spiritually purifying

and exorcizing powers. Bang!

Hate and wrath. The Divine Fairie cometh from the

East, carrying the

Spear of all Embracing-Love.

Pride. The Precious Fairie cometh from the South,

carrying the spear

of Great Compassion.

Lust. The Lotus Fairie cometh from the West,

carrying the spear of

great affection.

Jealousy. The Karma Fairie cometh from the North,

carrying the spear

of great impartiality.

Ignorance. The Buddha Fairie cometh from the Centre

Carrying the spear

of Bodhisattvic Mind.

Standing on the prostate heads of the elementals of

egoism, and on

their limbs, in them implant their spears,

transfixing the elementals

immovably. Them the actor remain there motionless

in some asana, at

peace. Hoom Hoom Hoom

The actor having recognized the elementals hatred

or wrath, pride,

lust, jealousy, and stupidity of which egoism is

composed, must now

recognize the sacrificial gift of her own body.

Gathering

Bum! In supreme blissfullness or samadhi the actor

enters yet an

ecstatic condition of transcendental reality.

Gathering in the arena

all known gurus and deities, as numerously as storm

clouds amidst a

halo of rainbow hues and dazzling radiance. And the

gurus and deities

are welcomed with deep faith.

The Prayer

Aum "Dear autopoetic spirit being the omnipresent

uncreated. O may it come to

pass that those who are submerged in the ocean of

sorrow shall enter

the endless path, from where nirvana is just the

beginning." So be it,

and the prayer is repeatet three times."

The Resolution

"O! may the unenlighened mind which looket upon the

apparent as being

real, thoroughly be subdued by me. I shall master

and comprehent the

the true nature of the real. I now resolve to free

myself of all hope

and of all fear"

In performing the sacrifice, the actors body is to

be imagined as

constituted of every desirable thing, representing

all sensous

pleasures that bind mankind to the worldly

existence.

The Dedication

Puf "This illusory body which I have held to be so

precious, I

dedicae in sacrifice as a heaped-up offering,

without the least regard

for it, to all the dieties that constitute the

visualized assembly;

may the very root of self be cut asunder." Bang

Prayer of the guru

The actor calls upon the an omniscient diety,

knower of past, present

and future. The diety is visioned radiant with

majestic beauty of form

and gracefulness, in the midst of rainbow halo and

dazzling radiances

flanked by heroes and fairies.

The diety is proclaiming religious teachings in a

deep sonorous voice

- The actor fights with the dietys help against

all illusory

phenomena of her life: sights, sounds, smells,

touch, taste and

thought creations, as were they deamons: "Oh may

all these be cut of

her, so that she attains a divine body of thruth,

entering a heaven of

enlightenment."

Bang Bang Bang. The actor now keeps her mind in

yogic quisence.

The Offering

Then visualize this body, which is the result of

thine own karmic

propensities, to be a fat, luscious-looking corpse,

huge enough to

embrace the universe. Then saying Phat! visualize

the radiant

intellect which is within thee, as being a nude,

red and wrathful

goddess, standing apart from thy body. Having one

face with the third

eye open, and two hands holdning a knife and a

skull.Think that she

severeth the head from the corpse, and placed it as

a cettle over

fireplace made of 3 sculls - placed like legs of a

tripod that are

embracing the corners of the world. She cutteth the

corpse into bits,

and flingeth them inside the skull as offerings to

the deities.

Then sounds the three-syllable mantras Aum-Ah-Hoom

and Haa-Hoo-Hrii

and their rays of mystic power transmutes the

offerings into amrita -

the divine nectar - sparkling and radiant. The

mantras are repeated

several times, whereby the impurities of the body

offered in

sacrifice, are purged away and the offering as a

whole hath been

transmuted into amrita. The amrita is vizualised to

bee increased into

universe-filling quantities, for the good of all

beings.

The Feast

Pang! "Come to the feast all ye gurus, deities,

heroes and feries,

hosts of evil spirits who are worthy of charity.

This day, I the fearless, am offering in sacrifice

this illusory body

of mine, this body which creates the distinction

between the sangsara

and nirvana.

I have realised the illusion, thus may I see the

clear light, may I

enter the transcendent and attain liberation.

Having made the scull as wast as the corners of the

world, and filled

it with inexhaustible quantities of elixir of

wisdom.

To all of you, enjoying the miraculous power of

appearing in whatever

shape desired, this gift is offered without any

regret what so ever,

come eat it up.

As birds of pray flock round a dead body, come ye

all here now.

Heaped up flesh, blood and bones have been laid out

- " this is not

mine, this is not I.

Ungrateful would ye all be should ye not enjoy the

offering most heartly. "

The Skull-drum, which is the best and rarest of

drums, sounds a clear sound.

The plaid of human human hide, upon which the

feast is laid is

wondrous to behold.

The human tigh-bone trumpet gives forth a melodious

tone.

The bells, adorned with miniature bells, and the

tiara are fascinating.

"To each and every one, satisfying all their

desires, I dedicate this

mandala, my offering, as being an inexhaustible

store of sustenance.

And may every being whith whom I have, hereby and

everbeen brought

into contact with, attain to Buddhahood. And may

all karmic debts be

paid and cleared" Pang!

The Merit

The actor transcends into a illuminous rainbow body

of glory, whereby

the audience saturates their consciousness with

love, compassion and

the uncreated essence of a pure unborn mind.

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