Lama Zopa’s Prayer for Lama’s Swift Return

A Prayer for the Kind Father Guru to Return Quickly

An Orphaned Child’s Sorrowful Plea.

Please Guru think of me!
Please Guru think of me!
Please Guru think of me!

Glorious kind Guru Heruka!
We remember you from the heart.
Please quickly guide us!
We your disciples, unable to be subdued by
    the three times Victorious Ones are
    refugeless and guideless, and
    smothering in the darkness of ignorance.
You have gone into the state of peace and
    suddenly! we have been left behind,
    with no one to rely on.
May your holy mind grow stronger
    in compassion and
Return soon, without delay, from the sphere
    of dharmakaya peace as a wonderful
    supreme refuge, a meaningful to
    behold supreme transformation.
Guide us from the disease of sorrow.
In devotion, we guideless migratory beings
    from the depths of our hearts and bones
    with one-pointed minds request:

Please quickly draw us up from the extremes
of samsara and peace without delay.
Hold us with your hook of compassion
and never separate from us.

Glorious kind Guru Heruka!
We remember you from the heart.
Please quickly guide us!
We guideless transmigrators, unable to be
    subdued by the great compassion of
    Shakyamuni Buddha are sunk in the filthy
    quagmire of attachment, experiencing
    unceasing suffering.
Suddenly we have been left behind.
You have gone into the peace of dharmakaya.
What can we do! There are no others to rely on.
If your holy mind is bound by great compassion,
    please return quickly from the dharmakaya peace
    as a supreme transformation meaningful to behold.
Please guide us from the disease of sorrow.
We children, guideless migrators, one-
    pointedly from our hearts in a single
    pleading voice request:

Quickly draw us up from the extremes of
samsara and peace without delay.
Hold us with your hook of compassion
and never separate from us.

Glorious kind Guru Heruka!
We remember you from the heart.
Please quickly guide us!
The sun of the mighty one, Shakyamuni
    Buddha, has set.
Even if it is discovered that you, Savior,
    are the only one accomplishing the
    actions of the Victorious Ones.
We guideless transmigrators were this time
    unable to be subdued by you.
While being destroyed by the innermost fire
    of unceasing anger and experiencing continuous
    suffering without happiness, we were suddenly left behind.
Now that you have gone to peace
    we have no others to rely on.
Because you have completed the two merits
    benefiting others and have attained the
    four kayas which spontaneously accomplish
    the two purposes,
Please return quickly as a wonderful supreme
    transformaton, meaningful to behold.
We child disciples from the depths of our
    hearts and bones. with one-pointed minds
    request in a single sorrowful voice:

Please quickly draw us guideless migrators
    up from the extremes of samsara
    and peace without delay.
Hold us with your hook of compassion
    and never separate from us.

Colophon: I was asked by the devoted students Italian gelong Thubten Donyo, Australian doctor gelong Thubten Donyo and the Dorje Pamo nun Cherry, who have found unshakable faith in the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha and the great virtuous friend, the savior Lama Yeshe, who was able to bear the great responsibility of accomplishing great works for the teachings and sentient beings, to write this prayer for the quick return of the guru, in actuality Heruka, more kind than the Victorious Ones of the three times; in outer aspect a bikshu, learned, pure in moral conduct and noble of heart; great yogi of the Vajrayana, having found the realization of the unification of bliss and voidness; great bodhisattva, able to bear the great hardships and able to accomplish extensive work for others; actual ascetic and pure practitioner, who, without the slightest clinging, saw samsaric perfections as illusory. Kinder than the Buddhas of the three times, my guru, Lama Thubten Yeshe, whose holy name is difficult to say, nurtured me, materially and spiritually, with far greater kindness than did my parents of this life. With devotion, seeing his qualities and remembering his kindness from my heart, I have written this short prayer.

Because of the merits of writing this prayer, may our great virtuous friend reincarnate quickly, without delay, and guide us sentient beings by revealing with skilful means the profound and extensive teachings which have the power to subdue the minds of all those to whom they are shown; may all students fulfil Lama’s wishes, and may all migratory beings quickly achieve Lama Heruka’s stage.

Written by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. Translated by the author, with gelong Thubten Dondrub.

Hri!
May the great virtuous friend
Who clarified the teachings of
Pure Wisdom Victorious One
The second Mighty One,*
With his transcendental Wisdom light that
Spread spontaneously in all directions,
Especially to the outlying dark lands
Quickly return.

*An epithet for Lama Tzong Khapa

Colophon: Translated by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, with gelong Thubten Dondrub

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