🙏🙏🙏The second of the Black Taras (Atisha Lineage) is the most wrathful of Black Taras, the great 14th Tara: Invincible Black Tara: Mantra Destroys 9 Types of Evil and 8 Types of Harm-Doers. To listen to her powerful mantra, (with powerful visualizations) see: ruclips.net/video/hiFriKgtaZM/видео.html 🙏 🙏🙏
Buddha Weekly, you guys are awesome! I've been looking at your videos and reading your articles for months and I've been practicing. You've revolutionized my whole life, or at least helped it. Much gratitude!
Dear holy mother Tara, may i not be separated from you and be in your lap of love and compassion. O mother Tara. I call you. My mind is disillusioned, i fell into the crevices of pleasure, name and fame, lust, bondages. I am trapped and i find no way out. Beings are in distress, beings kill eachother, beings rob eachother. Beings are trapped in illusion. Alas!
🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏Any temple with a Tara shrine is perfect. Although she is often practiced alone, most people practice Tara as part of the 21 Taras practice. Even if you do Black Tara practice, you usually start with a Green Tara Sadhana. So, any temple with Green or White Tara would be a very appropriate place for offerings, or even a small shrine at home with a picture and water bowls. It's what's in the heart that matters. In kindness, BW 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Precious content 🙏💫🦋 sipping negativity back into my heart, dissolving it from all outside reflections ✨☀️🌼☀️✨ Lama Zopa love ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️🌿🌼🌿🌼🌈🌈🌈 om tare tutare ture soha 🦚manyfold back within, singlepointed front without 🐒🐘 om tare tutare ture sarva vajra arja bhe phat svaha I dedicate with calm clear peace and gratitude to the wellnes by each of the many in the many of each. 🙏🥰
Thanks for the info. This year i had psycothic episodes, very scary and oppressive (sometimes i had to delay the meditation session because i sensed dark figures behind me, i felt like in constant danger. One time i was doing prostration in front of a statue of buddha but i had to interrupt it because i almost saw his eyes and mouth open in a pitch black color screaming) I rembember reading Shantideva: he wrote about hell, paradise ecc could occur in our daily life not only the afterlife. Every night i felt like drowning in an ocean of a gelid hel: it was all soo soo dark, enormous figures was eating and swallowing me alive. I remember seeing a light were my mother hugged me and told me it was all ok, then i waked up. Maybe that was tara helping me? I wonder if i chanted her mantra in that time what would have changed. Well i can do it now, buddism helped me with that paranoic psycothic episodes, every now and then reappear in my dream and in some form of shadow behind me. I feel a deeply connection with tara, my mother drew white tara on glass, i still had her in my room and every morning its a pleasure singing her mantra, i always saw her but only recently knew who she was. I want to live everyday in according to the dharma and the virtuos actions of buddhas, arya bodhisattva ecc... i don't know why i feel so bonded (or i should say i like?) Wrathfull deitys. Well thank you for helping me
@Nan0Nud0 OMG I am so sorry you went through all that, it sounds scary 😨. Please know that you are not alone. May the wisdom of all Buddhas guide you and protect you. May you find enlightenment and freedom through your practice; so you may become an example of how we can all overcoming suffering and find happines
🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for your suggestion. We do have a practice and mantra and origin stories of Green Tara in our in-depth video. (We do plan a series of stand-alone practices in future, plus we have a Tara playlist with the practice of 21 Taras, and more here: ruclips.net/video/-7LsdX6VRtg/видео.html&t (The Practice is a short one from Marpa the Translator and starts at time index 28:08) although prior to that is a great introduction with stories of her Siddhis and rescues. There's also a playlist, which has the 21 Taras practices, the actual Tara Sutra recitation and Dharani, and all of her many supplicating mantras and more. You'll find that here: ruclips.net/p/PL8d71VyWOwkHDj6bnxtvhGJMqxjcKvMqE The full contents of the in-depth Tara video are: 00:00-01:50 Why is Tara so beloved among Mahayana Buddhists? 01:50-03:37 Tara’s Endless Forms: Four activities of Karma Mother 03:37-03:53 Bhikshuni Chodron: “All problems will be solved” 03:53-05:08 Tara Rescues Garchen Rinpoche 8 times 05:08-05:54 Song of Longing for Tara: “Everything we wish” 05:54-07:43 Tara’s Activities: Green, White, Red, Black, Yellow and more! 07:43-08:39 Tara’s element: Wind-Air, Chi, Prana & Dharma Speech 08:46-09:32 How do we call for her help? Tara is One with Us 09:32-10:58 Bokar Rinpoche: Tara saves the caravana from bandits 10:58-12:36 How Tara Works: Praying to Tara for Help 12:36-13:29 All the Mahasiddhas and Buddhas Relied on Tara 13:29-14:13 Tara’s Eight Great Laughters and the Eight Dangers 14:13-16:33 Why Tara is called Mother of All the Buddhas 16:33-19:28 Arya Tara origin stories and Avalokiteshvara’s tears 19:28-20:52 Tara’s earthly manifestations: Dakinis Mandarva, Niguma, Yeshe Tsogyal 20:52-21:31 Tara’s urquoise Pureland Yurlod Kurpa 21:31-23:08 Delog Dewa Drolma’s Inspiring Story: Visiting Tara’s Pureland 23:08-26-28 Practicing Tara in our Daily Lives 26:28-28:08 Marpa Lotsawa’s Sadhana Puja of Arya Tara 28:08 Recitation of Tara’s Sadhana begins Hope this helps. In future we do plan more practices including Sadhanas for developing siddhis in future. Thank you. In kindness, BW 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Starting to watch now , I definitely need support from deities . I know in many videos it is said that it's okay to chant mantras after taking refuge . But what I also hear is we need to do (ngondoro) preliminary practice before being connected to these wrathful ones . Can't I be devotee to these wrathful ones without preliminary and empowerment ??? It would be great if people would share in comment how do they practice, did they start practicing after watching the videos of this channel or not and etc. Actually I love the videos of this channel and I want to do kurukulla particularly but have no empowerment and proper situation yet
Tara is accessible to everyone, although, as in all things, if you have a teacher, be guided by your lineage. In Tibetan there's a saying that babies learn Tara and Mani mantras before they learn any other words (it's just a saying). Tara and Avalokiteshvara is always accessible, compassionate and wise and cannot harm, esepcially the 21 Taras. This is the 7th of the 21 Taras, very accessible. So, on the question of devotion - yes, anyone can devote themselves to Tara, chant her mantra, ask for her help and she will be there. These are all aspects of Mother Tara. Ngondro is important (or Lamrim) for foundation, of course, but if you're in "trouble" you don't wait until you've finished Ngondro to ask for help. But you carry on, finish your preliminaries and continue to practice. The thing to remember is that the practice prohibition relates to self-visualization and practicing the sadhanas. Someone without the foundations won't necessary benefit from some practices. You said "devotion" which is fine for everyone. In this way, you visualize whichever aspect of Tara resonates with you IN FRONT OF YOU, with you giving praise, offerings, prostrations in front of her. You do NOT visualize yourself as Tara. Visualize your Self as Tara is advanced practice for which we really do need instruction, a teacher. And the first thing the teacher will likely ask you to do is Ngondro or Lamrim. But, that doesn't mean you can't offer devotional practices to any form of Tara or Avalokiteshvara. Their Bodhisattva vow is to help all sentient beings. The fact that you feel a connection to an aspect of Tara is your fortunate karma. Certainly, you can (and should) offer devotion to Tara, Kurukulle or Black Tara. Mantras are offerings, too, as well as intentions, prayers, praise, prostrations and so on. If you journey forward from there, you'll undertake Ngondo or Lamrim with a teacher, so that you'll have the foundation for more advanced meditations such as Kriya (activity yogas and self generation) practices, and so on, but you don't stop doing your foundations (prostrations, offerings, etc.). If you feel connection with one Yidam - you mentioned Kurukulle - then this is wonderful, cause to celebrate. You cannot at this point do self generation, but it means you have karmic connection, and she is with you. You have already connected with her, which is the first step. Fill yourself with devotion for her. Learn about her. Her mantra is fine. Frontal generation is wonderful, no need for deeper yogic practices until you have a teacher to support you. Hope that helps. In kindness, BW. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha
Considerable differences, aside from name, which in Buddhism is from the Sanskrit for "Star" (as in the Star guiding our souls context), so contextually "She Who Ferries Accross" (to the other shore, which is Enlightenment.) Tara, of course, in both traditions is wonderful, but the practices are entirely different, and labels and individual emanations are very fluid in Buddhism (Tara has 1008 Sutra forms (there's a praise 1008 names of Tara), but She's not limited to these. Since the ultimate nature of reality is Shunyata, you can certainly say they are also the same. There are many Enlightened forms that share names, and even aspects and you can at worldly level you can think of them as related at least through lineages back to the great Mahasiddhas in India and other areas, but in Buddhism, even though we label everything (for convenience in teaching) ultimately, we understand that the essence of Tara is the Enlightened Body Speech and MInd who emanates in different kayas to relate with us (sentient beings) since our understanding and obstacles are limiting. What makes Tara a "Buddhist Tara" is if we think of her as an Enlightened Buddha or Bodhisattva and take refuge in Her. If we think of her as a worldly god, then she is not, eseentially, the Buddha Tara. The root of all the emanations are various sutras (such as Prajnaparamita Sutra, MahaVairochana Sutra, and many others) that teach that any Enlightened Buddha can emanate in any form, including God Forms. So, Avalokiteshvara emanates as Hayagriva in a wrathful form, but this isn't the learned and wise Hayagriva, but actually an aspect (or appearance) of Avalokiteshvara. He can also appear even as animal forms. The sutras also say that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas emanately endlessly in every world system in the Universe, so there are many outerworldly forms (as many as the grains of sand in the Ganges according to Sutras). So, If we meditate on Buddha Tara (which includes Black Tara, that's just one of her 1008 forms) we are connecting with the Bodhisattva Tara, who is an Enlightened Being who returns endlessly to countless worlds to save sentient beings. She is literally a Star to Guide us. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha.
I tried the mantra of Black Mother Tara when I was tormented by negative thoughts that might come from a malicious person. It worked for a few days. Later it backfired to me. This was the time when I thought I no longer need her mantra. I don't know if I have offended her in some way. Mother Mara please forgive me.
As an Enlightened Deity, there is no need to worry about offending her. She is the Compassionate Mother. This is a supplication mantra. When you no longer supplicate her help for this particular issue, it's best to just chant her heart mantra without the supplication, as a praise and offering and blessing. Her heart mantra is Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha (this is the heart of all Tara mantras and all the supplication mantras begin with this.). Also, it is very soothing and wonderful to chant the praise to the 21 Taras. We have the heart mantra of Tara here: ruclips.net/video/KKPq1xgF-_Y/видео.html&t and her Praise in Sanskrit here: ruclips.net/video/0XlYma5HW_Q/видео.html These are both praises. Tara is always on your side! In kindness. BW🙏🙏🙏🙏
Tara emanates in the different forms to resonate with different personal needs (and also different lineage teachings), so you can say the Black Tara and Lion-Faced Dakini are both emanating from Mother Tara. They focus on slightly different magnitudes of "poisons" (which is the word used collectively to mean our challenges or issues). The wrathful emanations are mostly focused on hate and anger, and the more wrathful the more focused. Lion-Faced Dakini is somewhat more wrathful, as she manifests as a very active Dakini. Both are effective for both internal and external threats we often call demons (internal are psychological, external being illusory samsaric demons, etc.) and supernatural threats (in nicer terms, someone wishing you ill or bringing you negative circustamces, in supernatural terms, curses). Black Tara, though, as indicated in this documentary, is more approachable, and almost anyone can relate to the "angry protective mother form." Lion-Faced Dakilni puts a more energetic face on the wrath, which doesn't resonate with everyone. In Tibetan Buddhism Buddhism, image, archetype and symbols are languages that tap into our mindspaces, which is why visualizing Tara as a little "angry" can be effective when we need protection. Lion-Faced Dakini, is more like aiming a rocket launcher at the problem -- maybe too active for most issues we typically face. All of these emanations arise from the various challenges and preferences of people, as "wisdom" emanations of Tara. Tara, and ultimately Prajna Paramita, is called the Mother of the Buddhas, since she is the manifestation of the Wisdom of the Buddhas (while, the male aspects typically are the "Compassion" aspects.) Any aspect that has "Tara" in her name, is more approachable and motherly for most of us:-) In kindnesss, BW
Ekajati is one of the Black / Blue Taras among the 21 Taras, but a different one (usually 14th, but depends on lineage), who is Ekajati Tara (Sgrol-ma Ral-chig-ma): Ekajati Tara is known for her ability to protect against negative energies and obstacles on the spiritual path. But if varies depending on which lineage of 21 Taras (if you're going by numbers.) (Also among the 21 Taras, according to Nyingma termas are: 9th Tara: Green Tara 2: Sarasvati 4: Ushnishavijaya 5: Kurukulle 7: Black Tara, Shen Jom-Ma, Destroyer of Enemies 11: Vasudhara 14: Ekajati 19: Sitatapatra 21st Tara: Marichi However, in another lineage, these are not the associations. The important thing to realize is just that Ekajati is a form of wrathful black Tara. Ultimately, all Taras are Tara, regardless of form. Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form.
I recently found out that there are many forms of black tara, so I'm curious to know, which form of black tara are you chanting for in this video? What's her name?
This is the 7th Tara of the 21 Taras in all the lineages. (Regardless of name or mantra, She is still the same 7th Tara, just as approachable, loving and protective in all lineages). There are more than three lineages, but the three main lineages as the Atisha Lineage (the best known and requires no permission or empowerment), Nyingma (various terma), and the Surya Gupta (the most ancient, but most involved and complicated... empowerment takes 21 days, one for each Tara). This mantra is the most accessible one, as taught by many teachers, the Atisha lineage. In Lama Zopa's translation of her name, she is: She Who Conquers Others ( Rinpoche, Lama Zopa. The Power of Mantra: Vital Practices for Transformation (Wisdom Culture Series) (p. 69). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition. Surya Gupta, as mentioned, is a more involved system, but we do have the 7th Tara (Black Tara) the mantra chanted by Yoko Dharma here: ruclips.net/video/BpZajkbc9cM/видео.html If you're interested in learning more about the Nyingma or Atisha lineages, we have a full written feature (several of them) on BuddhaWeekly.com, including: buddhaweekly.com/21-taras-in-the-narjuna-atisha-and-nyingma-lineages-a-profound-powerful-precise-pleasing-daily-practice/ For Surya Gupta, we have a 3part series covering the 21 Taras: Part 1 is here: buddhaweekly.com/mother-taras-many-armed-protective-embrace-21-taras-according-to-surya-gupta-a-very-special-celebration-of-supreme-mother-tara-the-liberator/ (parts 2 and 3 are linked in the first feature.) In this documentary we cover all three lineages in images, but the mantra is Lord Atisha's lineage. Hope that helps. In kindness, BW>
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🙏🙏🙏The second of the Black Taras (Atisha Lineage) is the most wrathful of Black Taras, the great 14th Tara: Invincible Black Tara: Mantra Destroys 9 Types of Evil and 8 Types of Harm-Doers. To listen to her powerful mantra, (with powerful visualizations) see: ruclips.net/video/hiFriKgtaZM/видео.html 🙏 🙏🙏
Thank you for this great documentary. I'll show others. May mother tara be with you.
Om Ta Ray Tu Ta Ray Tu Ray Soha.
Buddha Weekly, you guys are awesome! I've been looking at your videos and reading your articles for months and I've been practicing. You've revolutionized my whole life, or at least helped it. Much gratitude!
🙏🙏🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤ So nice to hear, thank you for your kind words. May all beings benefit! 🙏🙏🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Sarva Vidya Avarna Ye Bhye Phat Svaha! Thank you Black Tara!
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Thank you for this video on Black Tara. Sadhu Sadhu.
Thank you for this presentation❤
Thank you. Namo Deva Arya Tara Namo Amida Butsu 🙏🏼⭕
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Can you make a video for maha cundi dharani
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I love her!
Excellent presentation. Thank you!
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Dear holy mother Tara, may i not be separated from you and be in your lap of love and compassion. O mother Tara. I call you. My mind is disillusioned, i fell into the crevices of pleasure, name and fame, lust, bondages. I am trapped and i find no way out. Beings are in distress, beings kill eachother, beings rob eachother. Beings are trapped in illusion. Alas!
Thank you
This is Great Work
Do you know a good Temple to Black Tara that I could go to worship?
🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏Any temple with a Tara shrine is perfect. Although she is often practiced alone, most people practice Tara as part of the 21 Taras practice. Even if you do Black Tara practice, you usually start with a Green Tara Sadhana. So, any temple with Green or White Tara would be a very appropriate place for offerings, or even a small shrine at home with a picture and water bowls. It's what's in the heart that matters. In kindness, BW 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Precious content 🙏💫🦋 sipping negativity back into my heart, dissolving it from all outside reflections ✨☀️🌼☀️✨ Lama Zopa love ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️🌿🌼🌿🌼🌈🌈🌈 om tare tutare ture soha 🦚manyfold back within, singlepointed front without 🐒🐘 om tare tutare ture sarva vajra arja bhe phat svaha
I dedicate with calm clear peace and gratitude to the wellnes by each of the many in the many of each. 🙏🥰
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THANK YOU SO SO MUCH BLACK TARA MAA .PLEASE PRAY FOR HALIL IBRAHIM CEYHEN. PLEASE HEAL HIM. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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Thanks for the info.
This year i had psycothic episodes, very scary and oppressive (sometimes i had to delay the meditation session because i sensed dark figures behind me, i felt like in constant danger. One time i was doing prostration in front of a statue of buddha but i had to interrupt it because i almost saw his eyes and mouth open in a pitch black color screaming)
I rembember reading Shantideva: he wrote about hell, paradise ecc could occur in our daily life not only the afterlife. Every night i felt like drowning in an ocean of a gelid hel: it was all soo soo dark, enormous figures was eating and swallowing me alive. I remember seeing a light were my mother hugged me and told me it was all ok, then i waked up. Maybe that was tara helping me?
I wonder if i chanted her mantra in that time what would have changed. Well i can do it now, buddism helped me with that paranoic psycothic episodes, every now and then reappear in my dream and in some form of shadow behind me. I feel a deeply connection with tara, my mother drew white tara on glass, i still had her in my room and every morning its a pleasure singing her mantra, i always saw her but only recently knew who she was.
I want to live everyday in according to the dharma and the virtuos actions of buddhas, arya bodhisattva ecc... i don't know why i feel so bonded (or i should say i like?) Wrathfull deitys. Well thank you for helping me
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha. May Tara always bless and protect you.🙏❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤🙏❤
@Nan0Nud0 OMG I am so sorry you went through all that, it sounds scary 😨. Please know that you are not alone. May the wisdom of all Buddhas guide you and protect you. May you find enlightenment and freedom through your practice; so you may become an example of how we can all overcoming suffering and find happines
thx a ton for posting video.. kindly make how to pray green Tara maa..n how to get sidhi
🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for your suggestion. We do have a practice and mantra and origin stories of Green Tara in our in-depth video. (We do plan a series of stand-alone practices in future, plus we have a Tara playlist with the practice of 21 Taras, and more here:
ruclips.net/video/-7LsdX6VRtg/видео.html&t
(The Practice is a short one from Marpa the Translator and starts at time index 28:08) although prior to that is a great introduction with stories of her Siddhis and rescues. There's also a playlist, which has the 21 Taras practices, the actual Tara Sutra recitation and Dharani, and all of her many supplicating mantras and more. You'll find that here: ruclips.net/p/PL8d71VyWOwkHDj6bnxtvhGJMqxjcKvMqE
The full contents of the in-depth Tara video are:
00:00-01:50 Why is Tara so beloved among Mahayana Buddhists?
01:50-03:37 Tara’s Endless Forms: Four activities of Karma Mother
03:37-03:53 Bhikshuni Chodron: “All problems will be solved”
03:53-05:08 Tara Rescues Garchen Rinpoche 8 times
05:08-05:54 Song of Longing for Tara: “Everything we wish”
05:54-07:43 Tara’s Activities: Green, White, Red, Black, Yellow and more!
07:43-08:39 Tara’s element: Wind-Air, Chi, Prana & Dharma Speech
08:46-09:32 How do we call for her help? Tara is One with Us
09:32-10:58 Bokar Rinpoche: Tara saves the caravana from bandits
10:58-12:36 How Tara Works: Praying to Tara for Help
12:36-13:29 All the Mahasiddhas and Buddhas Relied on Tara
13:29-14:13 Tara’s Eight Great Laughters and the Eight Dangers
14:13-16:33 Why Tara is called Mother of All the Buddhas
16:33-19:28 Arya Tara origin stories and Avalokiteshvara’s tears
19:28-20:52 Tara’s earthly manifestations: Dakinis Mandarva, Niguma, Yeshe Tsogyal
20:52-21:31 Tara’s urquoise Pureland Yurlod Kurpa
21:31-23:08 Delog Dewa Drolma’s Inspiring Story: Visiting Tara’s Pureland
23:08-26-28 Practicing Tara in our Daily Lives
26:28-28:08 Marpa Lotsawa’s Sadhana Puja of Arya Tara
28:08 Recitation of Tara’s Sadhana begins
Hope this helps. In future we do plan more practices including Sadhanas for developing siddhis in future. Thank you. In kindness, BW 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Starting to watch now , I definitely need support from deities . I know in many videos it is said that it's okay to chant mantras after taking refuge . But what I also hear is we need to do (ngondoro) preliminary practice before being connected to these wrathful ones . Can't I be devotee to these wrathful ones without preliminary and empowerment ???
It would be great if people would share in comment how do they practice, did they start practicing after watching the videos of this channel or not and etc. Actually I love the videos of this channel and I want to do kurukulla particularly but have no empowerment and proper situation yet
Tara is accessible to everyone, although, as in all things, if you have a teacher, be guided by your lineage. In Tibetan there's a saying that babies learn Tara and Mani mantras before they learn any other words (it's just a saying).
Tara and Avalokiteshvara is always accessible, compassionate and wise and cannot harm, esepcially the 21 Taras.
This is the 7th of the 21 Taras, very accessible. So, on the question of devotion - yes, anyone can devote themselves to Tara, chant her mantra, ask for her help and she will be there. These are all aspects of Mother Tara. Ngondro is important (or Lamrim) for foundation, of course, but if you're in "trouble" you don't wait until you've finished Ngondro to ask for help.
But you carry on, finish your preliminaries and continue to practice. The thing to remember is that the practice prohibition relates to self-visualization and practicing the sadhanas. Someone without the foundations won't necessary benefit from some practices. You said "devotion" which is fine for everyone. In this way, you visualize whichever aspect of Tara resonates with you IN FRONT OF YOU, with you giving praise, offerings, prostrations in front of her. You do NOT visualize yourself as Tara. Visualize your Self as Tara is advanced practice for which we really do need instruction, a teacher. And the first thing the teacher will likely ask you to do is Ngondro or Lamrim. But, that doesn't mean you can't offer devotional practices to any form of Tara or Avalokiteshvara. Their Bodhisattva vow is to help all sentient beings. The fact that you feel a connection to an aspect of Tara is your fortunate karma.
Certainly, you can (and should) offer devotion to Tara, Kurukulle or Black Tara. Mantras are offerings, too, as well as intentions, prayers, praise, prostrations and so on.
If you journey forward from there, you'll undertake Ngondo or Lamrim with a teacher, so that you'll have the foundation for more advanced meditations such as Kriya (activity yogas and self generation) practices, and so on, but you don't stop doing your foundations (prostrations, offerings, etc.). If you feel connection with one Yidam - you mentioned Kurukulle - then this is wonderful, cause to celebrate. You cannot at this point do self generation, but it means you have karmic connection, and she is with you. You have already connected with her, which is the first step. Fill yourself with devotion for her. Learn about her. Her mantra is fine. Frontal generation is wonderful, no need for deeper yogic practices until you have a teacher to support you. Hope that helps. In kindness, BW. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha
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Is there any difference in mother tara in Buddhism and mother tara in Hinduism...
Considerable differences, aside from name, which in Buddhism is from the Sanskrit for "Star" (as in the Star guiding our souls context), so contextually "She Who Ferries Accross" (to the other shore, which is Enlightenment.) Tara, of course, in both traditions is wonderful, but the practices are entirely different, and labels and individual emanations are very fluid in Buddhism (Tara has 1008 Sutra forms (there's a praise 1008 names of Tara), but She's not limited to these. Since the ultimate nature of reality is Shunyata, you can certainly say they are also the same. There are many Enlightened forms that share names, and even aspects and you can at worldly level you can think of them as related at least through lineages back to the great Mahasiddhas in India and other areas, but in Buddhism, even though we label everything (for convenience in teaching) ultimately, we understand that the essence of Tara is the Enlightened Body Speech and MInd who emanates in different kayas to relate with us (sentient beings) since our understanding and obstacles are limiting. What makes Tara a "Buddhist Tara" is if we think of her as an Enlightened Buddha or Bodhisattva and take refuge in Her. If we think of her as a worldly god, then she is not, eseentially, the Buddha Tara. The root of all the emanations are various sutras (such as Prajnaparamita Sutra, MahaVairochana Sutra, and many others) that teach that any Enlightened Buddha can emanate in any form, including God Forms. So, Avalokiteshvara emanates as Hayagriva in a wrathful form, but this isn't the learned and wise Hayagriva, but actually an aspect (or appearance) of Avalokiteshvara. He can also appear even as animal forms. The sutras also say that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas emanately endlessly in every world system in the Universe, so there are many outerworldly forms (as many as the grains of sand in the Ganges according to Sutras). So, If we meditate on Buddha Tara (which includes Black Tara, that's just one of her 1008 forms) we are connecting with the Bodhisattva Tara, who is an Enlightened Being who returns endlessly to countless worlds to save sentient beings. She is literally a Star to Guide us. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha.
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I tried the mantra of Black Mother Tara when I was tormented by negative thoughts that might come from a malicious person. It worked for a few days. Later it backfired to me. This was the time when I thought I no longer need her mantra. I don't know if I have offended her in some way. Mother Mara please forgive me.
As an Enlightened Deity, there is no need to worry about offending her. She is the Compassionate Mother. This is a supplication mantra. When you no longer supplicate her help for this particular issue, it's best to just chant her heart mantra without the supplication, as a praise and offering and blessing. Her heart mantra is Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha (this is the heart of all Tara mantras and all the supplication mantras begin with this.). Also, it is very soothing and wonderful to chant the praise to the 21 Taras. We have the heart mantra of Tara here: ruclips.net/video/KKPq1xgF-_Y/видео.html&t and her Praise in Sanskrit here: ruclips.net/video/0XlYma5HW_Q/видео.html These are both praises. Tara is always on your side! In kindness. BW🙏🙏🙏🙏
You gotta remember she is a buddah she isn’t petty
@@MrFree2nest This happened to me with Bagalmukhi when I stopped chanting her Mantra.
Dam i could do with protection from my Wild mind please
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A question, please. Is Black Tara different from Simhamukha? Aren't the two deities two aspect of Tara? Which are the differences? Thanks!
Tara emanates in the different forms to resonate with different personal needs (and also different lineage teachings), so you can say the Black Tara and Lion-Faced Dakini are both emanating from Mother Tara.
They focus on slightly different magnitudes of "poisons" (which is the word used collectively to mean our challenges or issues). The wrathful emanations are mostly focused on hate and anger, and the more wrathful the more focused. Lion-Faced Dakini is somewhat more wrathful, as she manifests as a very active Dakini. Both are effective for both internal and external threats we often call demons (internal are psychological, external being illusory samsaric demons, etc.) and supernatural threats (in nicer terms, someone wishing you ill or bringing you negative circustamces, in supernatural terms, curses). Black Tara, though, as indicated in this documentary, is more approachable, and almost anyone can relate to the "angry protective mother form." Lion-Faced Dakilni puts a more energetic face on the wrath, which doesn't resonate with everyone.
In Tibetan Buddhism Buddhism, image, archetype and symbols are languages that tap into our mindspaces, which is why visualizing Tara as a little "angry" can be effective when we need protection. Lion-Faced Dakini, is more like aiming a rocket launcher at the problem -- maybe too active for most issues we typically face.
All of these emanations arise from the various challenges and preferences of people, as "wisdom" emanations of Tara. Tara, and ultimately Prajna Paramita, is called the Mother of the Buddhas, since she is the manifestation of the Wisdom of the Buddhas (while, the male aspects typically are the "Compassion" aspects.) Any aspect that has "Tara" in her name, is more approachable and motherly for most of us:-) In kindnesss, BW
Thanks!
is black tara the same as ekajati?
Ekajati is one of the Black / Blue Taras among the 21 Taras, but a different one (usually 14th, but depends on lineage), who is Ekajati Tara (Sgrol-ma Ral-chig-ma): Ekajati Tara is known for her ability to protect against negative energies and obstacles on the spiritual path. But if varies depending on which lineage of 21 Taras (if you're going by numbers.) (Also among the 21 Taras, according to Nyingma termas are: 9th Tara: Green Tara
2: Sarasvati
4: Ushnishavijaya
5: Kurukulle
7: Black Tara, Shen Jom-Ma, Destroyer of Enemies
11: Vasudhara
14: Ekajati
19: Sitatapatra
21st Tara: Marichi
However, in another lineage, these are not the associations. The important thing to realize is just that Ekajati is a form of wrathful black Tara. Ultimately, all Taras are Tara, regardless of form. Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form.
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I recently found out that there are many forms of black tara, so I'm curious to know, which form of black tara are you chanting for in this video? What's her name?
This is the 7th Tara of the 21 Taras in all the lineages. (Regardless of name or mantra, She is still the same 7th Tara, just as approachable, loving and protective in all lineages).
There are more than three lineages, but the three main lineages as the Atisha Lineage (the best known and requires no permission or empowerment), Nyingma (various terma), and the Surya Gupta (the most ancient, but most involved and complicated... empowerment takes 21 days, one for each Tara). This mantra is the most accessible one, as taught by many teachers, the Atisha lineage. In Lama Zopa's translation of her name, she is: She Who Conquers Others ( Rinpoche, Lama Zopa. The Power of Mantra: Vital Practices for Transformation (Wisdom Culture Series) (p. 69). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.
Surya Gupta, as mentioned, is a more involved system, but we do have the 7th Tara (Black Tara) the mantra chanted by Yoko Dharma here: ruclips.net/video/BpZajkbc9cM/видео.html
If you're interested in learning more about the Nyingma or Atisha lineages, we have a full written feature (several of them) on BuddhaWeekly.com, including: buddhaweekly.com/21-taras-in-the-narjuna-atisha-and-nyingma-lineages-a-profound-powerful-precise-pleasing-daily-practice/
For Surya Gupta, we have a 3part series covering the 21 Taras:
Part 1 is here: buddhaweekly.com/mother-taras-many-armed-protective-embrace-21-taras-according-to-surya-gupta-a-very-special-celebration-of-supreme-mother-tara-the-liberator/
(parts 2 and 3 are linked in the first feature.)
In this documentary we cover all three lineages in images, but the mantra is Lord Atisha's lineage. Hope that helps. In kindness, BW>
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