Month: April 2020

Guru Rinpoche ~ Powerful Protection for this Time

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Guru Rinpoche predicted the current time with its
many great challenges and suffering.

https://videopress.com/v/kuVUoXUk

Please join us Thursday, April 30, 10:45 am – 12:45 pm as Lama Sonam Rinpoche teaches on Guru Rinpoche’s prophecies and the remedies that he gave us to pacify and mitigate these current hardships and tragedies .


Click here for the YouTube link and to make donations for this teaching.

The Livestream Monthly Ngondro Teaching
with Lama Sonam Rinpoche
will be open to everyone on the World Wide Web
Sunday, May 3rd @ 5pm Pacific

Rinpoche will give the Lung, Oral Transmission, and Teaching with Q&A Cy Kassoff will be translating for Rinpoche.

Register at Vajrayana.org for the YouTube access link.
If you are currently in the Vajrayana Foundation Ngondro Program, you will receive the access link via email.

See you there!

Download webcast closing prayers:
https://dudjomtersarngondro.com/download/texts/free-text-downloads/webcast-ending-prayers/

Preliminary Practices of the Dudjom Tersar:
🔸DIGITAL
Preliminary Practices of the Dudjom Tersar –
Produced by Bero Jeydren Publications
https://sellfy.com/p/bGqP/

Complimentary copy of the Ngondro Retreat Booklet on the Ngondro Website:
https://dudjomtersarngondro.com/download/texts/free-text-downloads/dudjom-tersar-ngondro-practice-texts/

Join in on the upcoming livestream Virtual
Group Ngondro Accumulation Sessions:

  • May 5, 2020 Tuesday
    11:00 am Pacific Time
    Group Ngondro Accumulation Session
    with Choying Wangmo
  • May 21, 2020 Thursday
    5:00 pm Pacific Time
    Group Ngondro Accumulation Session
    with Choying Wangmo

We become Buddhists by Taking Refuge

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

We become Buddhists by taking refuge. Now, the root, the factor that brings us to take refuge, is faith, and this, therefore, therefore, is the very foundation of Dharma. At the outset, faith and devotion are what impel us to take refuge; they enable us to assimilate it and make it part of ourselves. If there is no faith, there is no refuge, and without refuge, we cannot absorb the blessings of the Three Jewels. Therefore, with sincere trust in the Three Jewels, and with confidence that they are our unfailing and constant guardians, we should seek their protection, relying on them totally. This is what taking refuge means. Our faith should be as solid and unwavering as a mountain, as unfathomable and boundless as the sea. It should be constant. If it is unstable and we have only the appearance of faith, if we “take refuge” only when everything is going well and we feel fine, it will be hard for the blessings of the Three Jewels to penetrate our being.

Counsels from My Heart
Dudjom Rinpoche

Every Effort Should Be Made to Complete Ngondro

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

The difference between sentient beings and Buddhas is that the first has obscurations while the other does not. We are sentient beings because we have temporary “defilements” or obscurations to our wisdom mind. All sentient beings are inherently Buddhas, temporarily defiled by gross emotional obscurations and by the subtle obscuration of habit. When these are removed, the Buddha within naturally manifests. According to the Vajrayana path, only two methods exist for removing these two obscurations: first, accumulation of merit and wisdom, and second, the direct transmission from the guru’s mind to the student’s mind. Ngondro uses both methods and includes the essential practices of the Three Yanas (vehicles) Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. The essence of Hinayana practice is refuge. The generation of Bodichitta (enlightened attitude) is the essence of Mahayana practice. Accumulation, purification and the mind transmission of Guru Yoga are the essences of Vajrayana practice. Ngondro is a preliminary practice containing all paths, including the creation and perfection stages of the Vajrayana practice.

Since it contains all paths to the realization of enlightenment, then, every effort should be made to complete Ngondro in order to fully cultivate and realize its profound benefits.“

A commentary on the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro
The Preliminary Practice of the New Treasures of Dudjom
by Lama Tarchin Rinpoche

Photo by
Willie Korman
HH Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa Rinpoche
with Lamas and Pema Osel Sangha
Vajrayana Foundation Annual Summer Retreat
at the Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center
Santa Cruz Mountains California USA