Manjushri for Enhancing Capacity

There are some things that are worth mentioning, but cannot be definitively proven. You will have to investigate for yourself if you have the right intention.

All Tibetans who practise and study the Dharma recite Manjushri’s prayer and mantra. This is said to enhance and improve one’s capacity to learn, memorise and understand: students use this mantra to help memorise many pages of text.

It has changed my life, but I cannot say for a fact that it was this practice, as so many synchronistic components come into play.

It’s worth looking into: the empowerment, or the reading transmission, can be received from an authorised person. The important point to remember is that we practise for the benefit of all sentient beings, and all practice is dedicated to them. In dedicating, we too receive merit, which in itself enhances our ability to practise.

As you will appreciate, there are many components to dissolving our path of confusion. Purifying obscurations is a major part of our practice, and this is expressed in our conduct (compassion and non reaction), which is the continuity of resting in essential nature.

From a Dzogchen perspective, first is the clear recognition of the nature of mind, which will then have an effect on our conduct in daily life: first we have to understand absolute bodhichitta and then express it through relative bodhichitta.

Rest in the ultimate.
Respect the conventional.

The view descends
and the conduct rises.

MANJUSHRI WITH THE SWORD OF WISDOM
AND TEXT IN LOTUS