Month: January 2022

January 29 Group Ngondro Accumulation

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Program of the Vajrayana Foundation
is inviting the Ngondro Program Participants
to the monthly scheduled Zoom meeting.


January Group Ngondro Accumulation
with Choying Wangmo
January 29, 2022 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific


Join Choying Wangmo in this one hour focused Group Ngondro Accumulation Session. Choying Wangmo begins this session with a one minute guided meditation to clear and relax the mind and from there, takes you through the Concise Dudjom Tersar Ngondro with visualizations from the Four Thoughts to the Dedication of Merit and additional closing prayers recommended by Lama Sonam Rinpoche. At the close of the session, Choying Wangmo leaves us with a reading from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s Commentary on Padampa Sangye’s The Hundred Verses of Advice translated by the Padmakara Translation Group.

 

What to bring to the Accumulation Session:
Dudjom Tersar Concise Ngondro Text
Mala
Accomplishing Mandala Pan
Prostration board and oven mitts or furniture slider

Ngondro Resources:
Lama Sonam Rinpoche Video “How to Use A Mala”
Lama Sonam Rinpoche “How to do Prostrations”
Lama Sonam Rinpoche talks about “How to set up a simple shrine”
“How to make saffron rice” for your mandala offering

Click here to learn how to join the
Vajrayana Foundation Ngondro Program.

NOTE: All links will open to a new window.

Dudjom II Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Dechö (Parinirvana Anniversary Ceremony)
January 20 @ 9 am By Streaming
Vajrayana Foundation
https://www.vajrayana.org/events/207/


The Pearl Necklace (below) is the successive rebirths of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche. Here is the link to the Pearl Necklace PDF translated by Bero Jeydren Publication on Sellfy listed as for free, Pay What You Want: https://berojeydren.sellfy.store/p/kjis/

Pearl Necklace letter
  

In 2003, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche gave a teaching on Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche and the Dudjom Lineage at Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California and at Pema Ösel Ling, Corralitos, California on January 10, 2004 ~ Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is speaking in Tibetan with English translation by Ngawang Zangpo. You can listen to them streaming on SoundCloud with this link:: soundcloud.com/lamatharchinrinpoche. Both are also available for purchase at Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. 

Here is the 2004 teaching as video & audio downloads for purchase: https://www.heartteachings.com/products/dudjom-lineage-2004-m4v-video-download 

Here is the 2003 teaching as audio download for purchase: https://www.heartteachings.com/products/dudjom-lineage-open-secret 

 

 

Guru Yoga and the Essence of Practice

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

This is the essence of practice:

Pray to your Lama and, while praying, blend your mind inseparably with your Lama’s wisdom mind.
Having merged inseparably, settle in the state of naturalness, the nature of mind. 

To be settled in the state of naturalness, this fresh knowing
Uncontrived and unaltered, is luminous naked awareness.
When thoughts arise within that nature,
Recognize them on arising, and relax within that recognition.
Their arising and liberation occur simultaneously, like a drawing on the water’s surface. 

When thoughts do not arise, that is non-meditation free from thoughts.
Emptiness, beyond meditator and object of meditation,
Is called ultimate wisdom present from the beginning.
Give up hope and fear; hold to the natural state of awareness. 

Thoughts are delusion; stop following after them.
Hope and fear are obstacles; don’t go to greet them.
If you can rest within the nature that is beyond intellect and activity,
You will definitely discover the dharmakaya in your own heart.

Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje – Wisdom Nectar – Shambhala Publications

January 20, 2022 marks the anniversary of His Holiness Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche’s parinirvana (Dechö in Tibetan). Vajrayana Foundation will do a special puja and tsok reciting the Tsokye T’huk T’hik sadhana via livestreaming. The sessions are free of charge and no registration is necessary. Please consider making an offering for tsok or butterlamps.

Visit Vajrayana.org for more information.