Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

Embrace Guru Yoga

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

The common practices are the four thoughts that turn the mind away from samsara. The uncommon practices are taking refuge, generating bodhicitta, purifying obscurations, and gathering the accumulations of merit and wisdom.

Exert yourself according to each of their commentaries until experiences arise. Especially, embrace guru yoga as the vital essence of practice, and practice diligently. If you do not, your meditation will grow slowly, and even if it grows a little, obstacles will arise and genuine realization will not manifest in your mindstream.

Therefore, forcefully pray with uncontrived devotion. After some time the realization of wisdom mind will be transmitted to your mindstream, and an extraordinary realization that cannot be expressed by words will definitely arise from within yourself.

-Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshé Dorjé
Wisdom Nectar – Shambhala Publications
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Whoever Gathers these Three is the Best Buddhist Practitioner

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Faith opens the door to the Dharma. Diligence forms their central pillar.
Practice is their final conclusion. Whoever gathers these three is the best Buddhist practitioner. This is old man Dudjom’s foolish advice.

Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice ~ Tsadra Foundation, 2005
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Meditation Practice

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

In meditation practice, you might experience a muddy, semiconscious, drifting state, like having a hood over your head: a dreamy dullness. This is really nothing more than a kind of blurred and mindless stagnation. How do you get out of this state? Alert yourself, straighten your back, breathe the stale air out of your lungs, and direct your awareness into clear space to freshen your mind. If you remain in this stagnant state you will not evolve, so whenever this setback arises, clear it again and again. It is important to be as watchful as possible, and to stay as vigilant as you can. ~ Dudjom Rinpoche

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