Buddha Shakyamuni Mantra (Song)

BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI MANTRA LYRICS
"Om muni muni mahamuni shakyamuniye svaha"
or
"Om muni muni mahamuni shakyamuni soha"

MANTRA TRANSLATION
“Om wise one, wise one, greatly wise one, wise one of the Shakyans, Hail!”
or
“Om wise one, wise one, great wise one, to the wise one of the Shakyanshail!”

PRACTICE
“As you recite the mantra, think you are purifying yourself and all the six realms’ sentient beings. They purify all the defilements and receive all the qualities. Think that all the gross and subtle defilements from beginningless rebirths are gone, totally purified.

Then a replica of Buddha absorbs into you and you are fully enlightened. Now, visualizing yourself as Shakyamuni Buddha, you send beams from every pore of your body.

Each beam carries a Buddha on top and these absorb into numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless asuras and numberless suras. Each being is purified.

Every one of them becomes Buddha, and then all the Buddhas absorb back into you, at your heart. Another way to visualize is that all the Buddhas go out from you and absorb into them, and all sentient beings become enlightened as Shakyamuni Buddha.”

BUDDHA GURU YOGA
There’s a beautiful passage in the Sutta Nipata (an early Buddhist text) where Pingiya talks about how he is never separated from the Buddha. He says that at any time he wishes he can see and hear his teacher, even though he lives hundreds of miles from where the Buddha dwells.