NEWS update …

 2013 Ngondro Retreat with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche photo credit: Jeremy E Spino

 

The Ngondro Accumulation Webcast has been rescheduled for next week,
Tuesday, February 27th @ 5:30PM pst.
Get well Regina!


We have good news! 

Tulku Thadral Rinpoche is here at Pema Osel Ling and will give teachings on
Guru Yoga for our next teaching webcast, Saturday, March 10th @ 2PM pst.
Don’t miss the opportunity to receive teachings from this great master and ask questions.


2018 Annual Ngondro Retreat
March 24th – April 1st

March 24-25: “Leap into the Waterfall: The Joy of Natural Discipline”
with Sam Bercholz

March 26-April 1: Teachings & Practice of the Dudjom Tersar Preliminary Practices with Amy Green and Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche

This Ngondro Retreat, March 24-April 1, 2018, will be a multi-faceted intensive retreat for those wishing to start, resume or accomplish Ngondro. Sam Bercholz, senior student of Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and author of the book, A Guided Tour of Hell, A Graphic Memoir, will offer teachings based on Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche’s Cascading Waterfall of Nectar.

Retreat Information and Registration:
http://www.vajrayana.org/events/117/

Remember, as Ngondro Participants to the
Vajrayana Foundation Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Program,
you receive at 10% discount on the retreat fees.
(Lodging and meals are not included.)

 

 

 

Beginningless Wisdom of Buddhas


The beginningless wisdom of Buddhas is not ordinary beings’ wisdom. When the state of full enlightenment is reached, there is no name of worldliness. One cannot only conceptualize this. Fully enlightened Buddhahood is full wisdom and full wisdom activity. Buddhas’ mind is wisdom, but Buddhas such as Guru Rinpoche and many others emanate in samsara to benefit beings. Buddhas teach faith, meditation, and realization, manifesting in the state of impure worldly wisdom to guide others, but the mind is fully enlightened Buddhahood. This wisdom excels beyond samsara, but is performing in samsara. Buddha Shakyamuni manifested in samsara in order to guide beings by showing a history and an order of stages of how to enlighten, but Buddha does not have any conception of order. If there is no conception, there is no stage. When Buddhas emanate, they have to emanate according to beings’ phenomena, showing histories to other beings, such as that of Buddha Shakyamuni learning, studying, and enduring hardship for six years so others can follow the example of these histories and open Buddha nature through practice, as Buddha taught according to Mahayana, until finally reaching the fully enlightened state in which there is no fixation of time, place, or direction, where all Buddhas abide. So, Buddhas manifest within pure worldly wisdom. Full enlightenment has no pure worldly wisdom, but the fully enlightened can still manifest anything, whether in male or female form or as any kind of being, in any world or realm, while their mind is fully enlightened. This way of excelling is not like stone; it does not appear and just remain as it is. Whatever excels does not stay in one state. Whatever is shown is like magic and will change miraculously. That is why whatever manifests cannot be made a certain way.

Cascading Waterfall of Nectar
Thinley Norbu

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In this photo Tulku Jamyang Rinpoche

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The Wisdom Mind of the Great Perfection

In order to sustain the wisdom mind of the Great Perfection, if one wonders how body, speech, and mind are directed to engage in this practice, it is as follows. For beginners, in order to purify the flow of karmic energies so that they enter the space of the central energy channel, the body must be straight. If the body is straight, the channels are straight. If the channels are straight, the vital energies can flow. If the vital energies can flow, awareness becomes clear. Whenever awareness becomes clear, the pure essential nature of mind becomes apparent, free from clearing away or keeping.
In order for that to occur, in the seven-point vajra posture, the legs are crossed, the hands are in the gesture of evenness, the stomach is pulled back toward the spine, the chin is slightly lowered, the shoulders are open like a condor’s wings, the tongue is touching the palate, and the eyes are looking out over the tip of the nose like a tiger, directly into space. Various methods increase and enhance samadhi, including the vajra recitation with the movement of breath by inhaling with the syllable OM, letting the breath remain with the syllable AH, and exhaling with the syllable HUNG; and samadhi with emanating and drawing in, and so on. These are all important to rely on in order to increase stability in samadhi. According to the wisdom mind of the extraordinary Great Perfection, however, if one is a great practitioner of sustaining self-nature as the sole essence of awareness, then all phenomena are synthesized as wisdom appearances, sound, and awareness. Only knowing that the self-nature of one’s own mind is the Three Kayas and never wavers from dharmadhatu, there is nothing other than the uncontrived natural abiding of body, speech, and mind, so it is absolutely unnecessary to apply effort to fixating on accepting and rejecting.

Kyabje Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Cascading Waterfall of Nectar

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