Mothers

Besides sending flowers to Mom, Mother's Day is another good excuse to reflect on the fact that throughout countless aeons, all beings having been our mothers, repeatedly, and the great debt of immediate compassion and eventual liberation that we owe them.

The following, known as the Four Sky Mothers, originated as sutra. It was later embedded into a terma revealed by Terton Namcho Migyur Dorje in The Seven Dharma Seeds of the Great Compassionate One:

All motherly sentient beings,
equal in number as the sky is vast,
take refuge in the guru's All-pervading Dharmakaya Body.

All motherly sentient beings,
equal in number as the sky is vast,
take refuge in the guru's Sambhogakaya Body of Great Bliss.

All motherly sentient beings,
equal in number as the sky is vast,
take refuge in the guru's Nirmanakaya Body of Compassion.

All motherly sentient beings,
equal in number as the sky is vast,
take refuge in the guru as the Precious Buddha.