Dudjom Ngondro

The Thief of Meditation

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

When thoughts come while you are meditating, let them come; there’s no need to regard them as your enemies. When they arise, relax in their arising. On the other hand, if they don’t arise, don’t be nervously wondering whether or not they will. Just rest in their absence. 

If big, well-defined thoughts suddenly appear during your meditation, it is easy to recognize them. But when slight, subtle movements occur, it is hard to realize that they are there until much later. This is what we call namtok wogyu, the undercurrent of mental wandering. This is the thief of your meditation, so it is important for you to keep a close watch. If you can be constantly mindful, both in meditation and afterward, when you are eating, sleeping, walking, or sitting, that’s it – you’ve got it right!


Councels from my Heart
Padmakara Translation Group
Shambhala Publications

Relax at ease ~

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

This fresh present knowing,
Unbound by the intellect that clings to meditation,
Is naked unobstructed non-meditation.
Relax at ease
And settle in the state of naturalness.
This is the meaning of realization of meditation.
When thoughts move, let them.
Movement arises and is liberated without a trace.
When there is no movement, don’t search for it.
This is empty luminosity, naked empty awareness.
Tantric practice without suppression or cultivation of thoughts
Brings the accomplishment of the destruction of hope and fear.
There is nothing more to add to this.

Madman Dudjom said this:
Let it remain like this in your heart.

Dudjom Rinpoche
Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice
translated by Ron Garry

 

 

Vajrayana Foundation Annual Summer Retreat May 29 -June 30, 2020

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Orgyen Khandro Norlha May 29 – June 7
Live Streaming 

More Information and Registration Link:
https://www.vajrayana.org/events/168/

May 29th marked the start of the Vajrayana Foundation Annual Summer Retreat (May 29th – June 30th) at Pema Osel Ling with Orgyen Khandro Norlha running from May 29th to June 7th.

Due to the national SIP order, to continue the Annual Summer Retreat unbroken for 31 years, the Vajrayana Foundation has worked long hours to prepare for this first online Live Streaming Summer Retreat. As mentioned above, the first segment is Orgeyn Khandro Norlha with the Lung (Oral Transmission) given on the first day and scheduled for the end of the retreat, Daily Teachings by Lama Sonam Rinpoche with his translator, Cy Kassoff, and the practice from the The Secret Sadhana of the Great Master: The Heart Essence of the Lake-Born written by HH Kyabje Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche. We will be doing a practice called Tseyang Khabtruk, a uniquely uplifting combination of long-life and wealth-gathering practices that has never been done before in the west.

“The area on the mountainside near Rangjyung, Dungse Garab Dorje Rinpoche’s gompa, had a water problem for many years. Chu-ter healing water from the spring in Eastern Bhutan began to flow when blessed by Kyabje Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche’s practice. Now this is a place where people come from far away and stay to camp and partake of the healing water. From showering in and drinking this water, they become healed of many illnesses. It is this holy water which we have brought back from Bhutan and infused into the medicinal clay used for rolling the balls which fill each Treasure Vase.” Vajrayana Foundation

Troma Ngondro and the Four Feasts
Live Streaming  June 9 – June 14
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https://www.vajrayana.org/events/169/
Shitro and the Neydren Ceremony
Live Streaming  June 16 – June 19
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https://www.vajrayana.org/events/171/
Guru Rinpoche Drupchö
Live Streaming  June 22 – June 30
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https://www.vajrayana.org/events/170/