Mani Wheel

Simple Practice to Do as You Turn the Mani Wheel

As you turn the Mani wheel, feel that light rays are emitted from the wheel and, like a vacuum cleaner suck all disease,spirit harms, negative karma and obscurations from you and all beings. All these are absorbed into the bottom of the Mani wheel.

Next, feel light rays and jewels pouring out from the top of the Mani wheel, filling you and all beings with light. You are blessed with health, wealth and happiness and feel all your problems and illnesses are purified.

Recite the mantra of Buddha Chenresig (Guan Yin), "OM MANI PADME HUM", as you do this practice.


Benefits of Turning the Mani Wheel

1. 
   The Buddha of Compassion, Chenresig (Guan Yin) manifest in the prayer wheel to purify all our negative karmas and obscurations, and to cause us to actualize the realizations of the path to enlightenment.
2. 
   Just by seeing, hearing, touching, or remembering the Mani wheel, you will quickly be liberated from the suffering of the lower realms.
3. 
   For the superior practitioner, turning the Mani wheel once is more beneficial than engaging in a one-year retreat. For the middling practitioner, turning the Mani wheel once is more beneficial than engaging in a seven year retreat. For the lower practitioner, turning the Mani wheel once is more beneficial than engaging in a nine year retreat.
4. 
   The four directional protectors and the ten directional guardians will protect you from all obstacles.
5. 
   The negative karma of the lower realms, the five uninterrupted actions, and the ten non-virtuous actions are purified.
6. 
   You will be reborn in the Pure Lands of the Buddhas.
7. 
   You will be protected from all the harm-givers such as spirits, ghosts, gods, spirit possessions, nagas, and the multitude of yakshas.
8. 
   You will be blessed by all the Gurus, and all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will grant realizations.
9. 
   The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will pay attention to you, and the Dharma protectors will eliminate your obstacles.
10. 
    Superior practitioners will achieve enlightenment and work for all sentient beings; middling practitioners will achieve fortunate rebirth and practise the holy Dharma; lower practitioners will achieve good rebirth and separate from the ten non-virtuous actions.
11. 
    If you make offerings to the Mani wheel, all your needs such as food and so forth will be bestowed upon you.
12. 
    Any sentient being who sees, hears, remembers, or touches the person who turns the Mani wheel creates the cause to accumulate merits, purifies defilements, and achieves enlightenment.
13. 
    All the beings (not only human beings but also the insects) in the area where the Mani wheel is built are saved from from rebirth in the lower realms; they receive a god or human body, or are born in a pure land of the Buddha.
14. 
    If you have a Mani prayer wheel in your house, your house is the same as the Potala, the Pure Land of the Compassion Buddha Chenresig (Guan Yin).
15. 
    If you have a prayer wheel next to you when you die, you will be reborn in a Buddha's Pure Land. Simply thinking of a prayer wheel helps a dying person take rebirth in the Pure Land of Buddha Amitabha or in the Pure Land of Buddha Chenresig (Guan Yin).
16. 
    Simply touching a prayer wheel brings great purification of negative karmas and obscurations.
17. 
    Turning a Mani wheel once is the same as reciting all the mantras contained in the Mani wheel.
18. 
    Anyone with a disease such as AIDS or cancer, whether or not they have any understanding of Dharma, can use the prayer wheel for meditation and healing.
19. 
    One is relieved of all headaches and plagues.
20. 
    Turning the Mani Wheel once has the same benefits as reading all the Buddhist commentaries. Turning the Mani Wheel twice has the same benefits as reading all the teachings of the Buddha. Turning the Mani Wheel 10 times, one's negative karma, even if they are vast as an ocean, are purified. Turning the Mani Wheel 1000 times, the wishes of oneself and others are fulfilled. Turning the Mani Wheel 100,000 times, one will be born within the retinue of Buddha Chenresig (Guan Yin). Turning the Mani Wheel 1 million times, you liberate the beings of the six realms. Turning the mani wheel 100 million times, one will become equal to the Buddha Chenresig (Guan Yin).
    

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