Practitioners
who wish to benefit beings and attain realization based on Tara need to
garner her energy and apply it. Not only can we reach a level of
personal achievement; we will be able to help sick people, safeguard
fearful ones, and pacify mental suffering. Buddha Shakyamuni said that
among all buddhas, Tara has exceedingly great resolve, being an
emanation of the mother of all the buddhas of the three times, she
carries out all their activities. Of utmost significance is her vow to
emanate in female form until all of samsara is emptied.
If you are someone with devotion, perseverance, and pure
samaya, and exert yourself in Tara practice, you will, by means of the
‘indicating example wisdom,’ before long fully realize the intrinsic
great bliss that is ‘indicated ultimate wisdom.’ Tara is a manifestation
of discriminating wisdom, the nature of which is luminous wakefulness.
She is the heroine who swiftly carries out the activities of all the
buddhas, the very identity of enlightened activity—beyond that which we
can fathom—and has incredible virtues that surpass any thought….Within
this very lifetime you will accomplish the state of the utterly
indestructible, undefeatable and unchanging Vajra Tara of the innermost
essence, who is prajñaparamita.”
— Adeu Rinpoche