INVOCATION OF AKSHOBYA

Turning to the east,
In the time before dawn,
I bow to the deep blue light
That is the Buddha Akshobya.

Master of the depths,
You sit on a pale blue lotus,
Touching the earth
With the fingers of your right hand.
Balanced in your left hand, perfectly upright,
Is the golden vajra.

You sit deep in meditation,
Your lips glowing red,
Your eyes drawn inward.
Around you a nimbus of red light
And a wisdom aura of green
Surrounds your head.

You are the guardian of my depths.
Your knowledge is deeper
Than a thousand oceans.
You are a universe unto yourself.

In your heart, on a pale blue lotus,
Is the mystic seed syllable
Hum.

All deeds, all the past, all depth
Is contained within you.
You are immutable, unshakeable;
You cannot be fathomed.
However deep I am,
You are always deeper.

There is a universe within your heart.
 

You are the potential
Of the yet-to-be-born-day,
Of the time before dawn,
Of light gathering below the horizon,
Waiting to emerge.
You are gathering energy within you,
Like acorns waiting to grow,
Taking root.

You are the water element
that nourishes life.
You are the wisdom of the great mirror
Reflecting back all things
Clearly and undistorted.

You are the truth,
The strange mysterious truth
of the depths,
A truth which grows within us,
Slowly,
Like the gradual dawning of a new day.

There is a universe within your heart.
Stepping into it,
Hands folded to my own heart,
I enter the eastern pure land of Abhirati,
The realm of complete joy.

In this land,
Protected by you,
No vows can be broken,
No depths distorted,
No falsehood spoken.

It is a land of harmony with ourselves,
Of true and deep contact
With what we really are.

Once connected like this
We reside in a deep sense of well-being,
Of living in harmony with reality,
Rooted, unshakeable, fulfilled,
Whole.

O Vajra Akshobya,
You protect this,
You guarantee our depths

                                       Now and always.                                      

Written by Dharmachari Saccanama, Feb 1999.