📸 Teacher~student time at Pema Osel Ling a few years ago
Dear Ngondro Program Participants,
Please join Lama Sonam Rinpoche, Cy Kassoff (Translator), Choying Wangmo (Regina who will host the Zoom Ngondro Q&A), Jeanne Pilli (who will translate from English to Portuguese) and other Ngondro Program Participants in this very special and intimate Q & A live stream over Zoom from Rinpoche’s Shrine Room. It will be a full house with new participants that have enrolled this past month, so please check in at least five minutes before to get settled in.
Sunday, February 28, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Via Zoom Meeting. Your logon information will be dropped in your email box.
Please check there.
On this most holy and auspicious day at 2 pm Pacific, Lama Sonam Rinpoche will give the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Lung (Oral Reading Transmission) and continue the monthly Ngondro Teaching Series with Series # 8
“Meditative Concentration and Wisdom”.
“O sir, the essence of Great Perfection practice is this:
All phenomena of samsara and enlightenment are only your own mind’s magical display. Primordially, your mind’s nature lacks substantiality;
It is unconditioned empty luminosity, the essential nature of awareness. It dwells primordially and eternally as dharmakaya’s essence. Yet not recognizing your own nature, transitory dualistic clinging creates delusion,
deceptive attachment to perceptions of happiness and suffering in samsara and enlightenment. In fact, your mind’s nature transcends the bounds of good and evil, hope and fear. In this space of great emptiness, free from transition and change, self-manifest awareness is present knowing. This relaxed settling in the uncontrived natural state is the view, and is also the key to meditation. When meditating, as soon as thoughts arise from awareness’s dynamic energy, use mindfulness to identify them: Self-arising, self-liberating, like waves on water. Recognize them as such and let them go without prolongation. “Meditation” is just the meager term we use to designate this. Continuously maintain boundless conduct free of action. Discard the six collections of consciousness; leave them as they are, without fixation. Do not hope for a result at a later time. It is in the present itself: reaching the unassailable state, attainment of self-mastery.
I, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, wrote this, corresponding to the request of Ngawang Zopa. May this virtue become the cause for simultaneous realization and liberation!”
— Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice by Dudjom Rinpoche