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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