The Cult of Tara

WORSHIP 189
whether with my body, my speech, or my mind:
I confess them all, every one.
At whatever merit, too, any living being may have,
the Conquerors of the ten directions, the sons of the Buddhas,
the solitary Buddhas, those in training, those beyond training:
I rejoice at it all.
The lamps of the worldly realm of the ten directions,
the successively enlightened Buddhas, attained to detachment:
to all these, to all my lords,
I entreat you, turn the supreme wheel.
With folded hands I pray you
who wish to demonstrate nirvana,
for the benefit and happiness of all beings
remain for world eras numerous as grains of sand.
Whatever little virtue I have acquired
by my homage, offerings, confession,
rejoicing, entreaty, and prayer,
I dedicate to the enlightenment of all.
2.2113 Awakening the thought of enlightenment
Then, with the following verses by Santaraksita, 248
they awaken
the thought of enlightenment:
Perfect Buddhas and sons of the Conqueror,
you are the witness, the attestor, the measure,
yuors is the power to serve the aims of beings
and the authority of enlightened minds: I pray you hear me!
Just as the Conquerors of the past
and the sons of the Conqueror, the heroes,
dwelling, dwelling on the terrace of enlightenment,
for the benefit and happiness of beings
awakened their hearts to their essence of Emptiness,
their own minds unarisen from the beginning,
the very self of selfless events,
were freed of all substance,
abandoned the aggregates, fields, senses,
renounced subject and object—
in that way I, too, and others like me,
awaken the supreme thought of enlightenment.
2.2114 The offerings proper
2.2114.1 General offerings
These preliminaries over, the monks make the actual offerings
to their guests with the beautiful verses from Santideva's Entering