8th LUNAR: SUPREME ACTIVITY DAY: Tara, Medicine Buddha

Supreme Activity Day is on the first quarter moon, the 8th Day of the lunar month. As Enlightened Activity Day, it is, therefore special to Mother Tara and the Karma Buddha Family of Amoghasiddhi. In wrathful form the karma activity deities are, Vajrakilaya and Diptachakra. Or, for example, if the activity you are practicing is medical or health, this can also be Medicine Buddha Day. As the moon grows towards a full moon, we think of the “Enlightened Activities” growing and multiplying.

Tara 7-Minute Practice with mantras, Refuge, 7 Limbs of Practice — a complete, concise practice:

 

Amoghasiddhi Karma Buddha 9-Minute Practice:

 

 

About Karma Mother Tara:

Activity Day, the 8th Lunar Day, like the other three lunar Dharma days, are extra merit days. We might practice the 21 Tara Praise, or recite Tara’s Sutra or practice the Sadhanas of Tara or Medicine Buddha. We might recite the supplication mantras of each of the 21 Taras to encourage those activities of power and magnetizing, pacifying, enriching and wrathful protective activities.

21 Tara Mantras’s in 21 Minutes — a Concise Practice

 

 

Tara’s Mantra Video:

 

About Amoghasiddhi:

Amoghasiddhi’s Mantra Video:

 

Playlist for the 21 Taras Mantras (one video per mantra 108 times each):

 

21 Taras Dharani in Sanskrit Video:

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