Month: March 2020

Understand Impermanance

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

“Contemplating impermanence and death intensifies the motivation to practice dharma. Truly understanding impermanence means recognizing the nature of change inherent in all phenomena and the extraordinary opportunity to train your mind toward liberation. Reflecting, you begin to see that you must not waste precious time. As soon as you are born, it is guaranteed that you will eventually die. This inevitable death will deprive you of any further opportunity to practice. Begin to realize clearly that, instead of putting off practice until some further time, you must begin right now to extract some meaningful essence from your human birth. The point of understanding impermanence is not to feel sad about it, but to use it as an incentive to overcome laziness.”

A Commentary on the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro: The Preliminary Practice of the New Treasure of Dudjom by Lama Tharchin

Mandala Offering

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

The Dudjom Tersar Preliminary Practices of the
New Treasure of Dudjom with Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche.

https://youtu.be/bkuUbdguIQI

Third, the Accumulation of Merit through Mandala Offerings:

While actually arranging piles of substances symbolizing the mandala:

TSHÉ RAB KÜN GYI LÜ DANG LONG CHÖ PAL
My bodies, wealth, and glories of all my lives,

TSHOK NYIY DZOK CHHIR KÖN CHHOK SUM LA BUL
I offer to the Three Jewels in order to complete the two accumulations (merit and wisdom). Offer mandalas many times.

The Essence of the Path

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

To my Lord of Dharma, peerless, kind
My glorious Lama, homage!
His lotus feet I place
Upon my chakra of great bliss.

Here is my advice,
Some counsel useful for your mind.

Not to keep yourself from evil actions
Is to have no pratimoksha,

Not to work for others’ welfare
Is to have no bodhicitta.

Not to master pure perception
Is to have no Secret Mantra.

If illusions don’t collapse,
There is no realization.

If you opt for one side or the other,
That is not the View.

If you have a goal in mind,
That is not the Meditation.

If your conduct is a contrivance,
That is not the Action.

If you hope and wish,
You’ll have no Fruit.

Those with faith will go for refuge;
Those who have compassion will have bodhicitta;
Those with wisdom will gain realization;
Those who have devotion harvest blessings.

Those who have a sense of shame are careful how they act;
Careful in their actions, they are self-possessed;
Self-possessed, they keep their vows and pledges;
Keeping vows and pledges, they will have accomplishment.

Peaceful self-control: the sign of one who’s heard the teachings!
Few defiled emotions are the mark of one who meditates.
Harmony with others is the sign of one who practices.
A blissful heart is witness to accomplishment.

The root of Dharma is your very mind.
Tame it and you’re practicing the Dharma.
To practice Dharma is to tame your mind –
And when you tame it, then you will be free!

Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje