A Commentary on the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro

Dudjom Tersar Ngondro

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche embodied a great power, making it possible for anyone connecting with him ~ be it through seeing, hearing, touching or becoming his student ~ to attain liberation. Dudjom Rinpoche’s activities grew while he traveled and taught spreading dharma throughout the world. By revealing multitudes of mind treasure teachings, compiling and restoring many old termas, and creating volumes of text, he repaired and expanded the Nyingma lineage which had become dangerously thin. His texts included profound sadhanas and teachings, spanning the complete path of vajrayana from beginning to end.

The Dudjom Tersar Lineage includes both Dudjom Lingpa’s and His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s cycles of teachings. The Dudjom Tersar Ngondro is the foundation practice for both the Dudjom Tersar Lineage and the entire vajrayana Buddhist path.

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

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

Samsara

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

“The nature of samsara (cyclic existence) is is like a dance which is continually moving and changing. On the inner level, the state of our mind is in a state of constant flux. Sometimes we are happy, but that never lasts. Then we are sad, but that doesn’t last either. Then we become angry and that changes too.

On the outer level, samsara is a reflection of our own inner deluded mind which never stays the same. Clearly, the outer level is also a continual process of change. In relation to time, impermanence is reflected in the four seasons of the year. Summer changes to autumn, autumn changes to winter, winter changes to spring, and spring again changes to summer. We may feel the universe is unchanging, by virtue of its vastness, but it too is impermanent. The outer universe changes four times within each aeon. first, there is only emptiness, and from this emptiness the universe is born. Then it exists, and finally it dissolves back into emptiness. This whole process is called one aeon. ”

~ Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

An excerpt from A Commentary on the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro: The Preliminary Practice of the New Treasurer of Dudjom

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📸 Rachel Fresco ~ Nepal