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Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche talks about the Mendrup Practice:

This is a short reminder addressed to the faithful students, dharma brothers and sisters, ordained and lay practitioners, male and female, of high and low status, all of you who want to enter the profound mandala of the group gathering practice connected with the profound ripening and liberating samaya substance düdtsi chömen (nectar medicine that makes all phenomena pure) here at Pema Osel Ling.

The pinnacle of the Buddhist teachings, the three collections of highest yoga tantras of the Secret Mantra Vajrayana, are differentiated from the common vehicles that use teachings from the Vinaya and Sutras, etc, because the Vajrayana has so many more techniques, greater methods, more profound meaning, less hardship, and the possibility of attaining buddhahood in one lifetime.

Düdtsi chömen, also called mendrup, is praised as the supreme samaya substance. It is a wish-fulfilling jewel that grants liberation without practicing, so among the four types of liberation it is called “liberation upon taste”.

In Eight Volumes of Nectar it says,
The three realms are, from the beginning, the five nectars.
They are uncontrived, spontaneously present, perfectly enlightened.
The three realms of the three poisons are wisdom body, speech, and mind
Because they are primordially pure nectar.
All phenomena that make up the three realms, including the five passions, the five sense pleasures, the five elements, and the five aggregates, are actually enlightened in their nature as the male and female deities of the Five Buddha Families.
That is why it is said that, They are primordially pure, self arisen,
United in equality with all buddhas.

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Anyone participating in the rolling process of drying the
Mendrup Chömen will receive a portion
when it is finished.

The Vajrayana Foundation invites you to join in the sacred practice of making Mendrup, Dharma medicine. This year during the Khandro Thik Thuk (a terma of Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje revealed as a gongter in 1928) Mendrup Drubcpen, this Tibetan medicine, believed to liberate through taste, will be empowered, blessed and consecrated.
Join us for three retreats:

1. Troma Nagmo Ngondro and Four Feasts Retreat and Empowerment
2. Shitro Ngakso 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities) Empowerment, Retreat and Neydren Ceremony
3. Collection of Seven Treasures Guru Rinpoche Retreat and Empowerment

We will engage in the physically demanding process of drying and rolling the Mendrup. Volunteers commit to six hours a day, with opportunities to attend retreat sessions. Accommodation and meals will be provided, with a contribution towards food appreciated. The rolling starts May 30th  and continues until June 16, with the possibility of extension. All volunteers receive Mendrup to take home whether full-time or part-time. Come share in this opportunity for merit, purification, and gathering with Sangha amidst the beauty of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Contact the Vajrayana Foundation office for details and  if you have physical limitations but wish to contribute.

Vajra Brothers and Sisters at Pema Osel Ling

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