December 29, 2023 marks His Holiness Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje’s  36th year Parinirvana Anniversary. The Vajrayana Foundation will be reciting the Ka Ter Dorsem practice with tsok and dharma protectors beginning at 3:00 pm – 6;00 pm Pacific Time. This will be in person at Pema Osel Ling and by YouTube Livestream using this link ~~~> https://youtube.com/live/88JaDRpCw_8
The puja is free and registration is not required. Offerings for butterlamps and tsog can be made using this link ~~~>
https://www.vajrayana.org/pema-osel-ling-offerings/
Please visit Vajrayana Foundation event page for information about the text “Vajrasattva Practices for the Time of Death” and recommendations from Lama Sonam Rinpoche in the event that you are unable to participate. 

We share this concise teaching by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
 “Ngondro Practice According to the Dzogchen View”

“In the absolute sense there is nothing to be purified, no one purifying, and no act of purification. But since we cannot seem to leave it at that, the defilements and obscurations arise. In the illusory perception of our ego-clinging, we experience endless suffering. Since we feel a need for purification, we have this practice as a relative skillful means.

Vajrasattva arises from our nondual awareness, and we visualize his flowing nectar cleansing our defilements. Along with the visualization we say the hundred-syllable mantra, and at the end Vajrasattva dissolves into one’s being, so that ultimately we reach the level of rigpa. In this state there is no defilement that needs to be purified, there is no Vajrasattva who purifies, there is no hundred-syllable mantra as the means of purification. In the natural state of things, in the state of what is, everything is primordially pure like the sky. This is the absolute purification of Vajrasattva.”

Excerpted from Illuminating The Path: Ngondro Instructions According to the Nyingma School of Vajrayana Buddhism  by Venerable Khenpo Rinpoche.

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