Tsa Tsa Instructions According to Lama Atisha

If you do nine tsa tsas according to the tradition of Lama Atisha, prepare everything according to what is normally instructed for making tsa tsas.

When you make the first tsa tsa think and dedicate: I will make this tsa tsa to complete all the wishes of the holy mind, that the three times (past, present and future) virtuous friend has.

Second tsa tsa: Dedicate, thinking to purify: May the tsa tsa purify completely, purify the obscurations and accumulate the merits of all the fathers and mothers of the past, present and future.

Third tsa tsa: Dedicate to purify the obscurations and negative karma of having collected the five heavy negative karmas without interruption of myself and all sentient beings.

Fourth tsa tsa: Dedicate for myself and every sentient being to not be reborn in the eight states, which have no freedom to practice Dharma.

Fifth tsa tsa: Dedicate, particularly, for myself and every sentient being to not be reborn in the three lower realms.

Sixth tsa tsa: Dedicate to heal all the diseases of all the sick people, myself and every sentient being.

Seventh tsa tsa: Dedicate that all devas who are dying not be reborn in a suffering world.

Eighth tsa tsa: Dedicate for intermediate state beings (to not have fear, to not suffer and to be born in a pure land where they can become enlightened or attain a perfect human body and meet Dharma in order to achieve enlightenment).

Ninth tsa tsa: Dedicate for all the sentient beings (to purify all the obscurations and achieve enlightenment).

Lama Atisha gave this advice on how to dedicate tsa tsas to Zue Dorje Gyaltsen (zus rdo rje rgyal mtshan). Then Dorje Gyaltsen gave this practice to Geshe Drogpo Kharpa (dge bshes grog po mkhar pa). Then he gave to Geshe Draknakpo (dge bshe brag nag pa), who gave to Gomrimpa (sgom rim pa), then he gave to Droe (grod) then he gave to Zhang (zhang) and then he gave to Chim (chim).

This is Lama Atisha’s tradition of practice for making tsa tsas, his holy heart practice. This is how he practiced. It is very inspiring. It gives incredible inspiration; then we want to make tsa tsas.

This is the idea of totally mad Zopa. In the West it is easier [to do this practice] as tsa tsas are not made from earth dust, they are made from plaster, so you can make many tsa tsas at one time. You can dedicate each tsa tsa according to what Lama Atisha explained. You can do like that or if you want to do more then you can dedicate for each two tsa tsas, each three tsa tsas or five tsa tsas, like that. You can do like that and if you don’t have time at all, if you are going to die right now then make one tsa tsa before the breath stops. Make one tsa tsa but dedicate that for all the nine purposes, the nine reasons.

OK. You are most welcome to enlightenment and to liberate sentient beings from the oceans of samsara as quickly as possible and to bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much.