Dudjom Rinpoche

The Play of Thought

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
During one of the 2025 Annual Dudjom Ngondro Accumulation Sessions with Choying Wangmo, she read from Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje’s “The Play of Thought”.
About the “The Play of Thought”.
In 1976, during his visit to Paris, Dudjom Rinpoche introduced the Dzogchen teaching known as “The Play of Thought.” This teaching emphasizes recognizing the nature of thoughts and allowing them to dissolve naturally, rather than engaging with or suppressing them. He illustrated this with the metaphor of the mind as a calm lake, where thoughts are like ripples that arise and fade without disturbing the underlying stillness. This approach aligns with the Dzogchen view of resting in the natural state of awareness, free from conceptual elaboration.
In 2020 Annual Dudjom Ngondro Retreat, Sam Bercholtz gave teachings on “Meditation and the Development of Faith: Essential Teachings” extrapolating from two texts The Play of Thought by H.H. Kyabje Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche and A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar by Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche.
Sam has said, “The Play of Thought” by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche is one of the best teachings you can study to help stabilize your mind”.
Download for free here ~~~>

https://www.vajrayana.org/media/files/files/bbc627f2/the_play_of_thought.pdf

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Dakini Day Blessings: Troma’s Wisdom & Hayagriva’s Power

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
Thangka by Sergei Noskov

Troma Chöd is the fearless path of severing attachment, dissolving self-grasping, and realizing the true nature of mind.

Dudjom Rinpoche teaches:

“The essence of Chöd is the wisdom of emptiness and compassion inseparable. When one truly cuts through grasping at the self and phenomena, all fear dissolves into the space of great liberation. This is the fearless path of the dakinis.”

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche reminds us:

“Troma is the direct path to realizing the nature of mind because it severs all attachment at the root. Through offering everything—our body, our emotions, our thoughts—we leave no place for ego to hide. What remains is pure, uncontrived awareness, free from hope and fear.”

7:30 am Shower of Blessings Dakini Tsog
HAPPY DAKINI DAY !

On this Dakini Day, we turn our devotion to the union of wisdom and enlightened activity—Troma and her consort, Wrathful Black Hayagriva—whose dynamic compassion subjugates all obstacles. Through the blessing of Tulku Thadral Rinpoche, we have the rare opportunity to receive the Wrathful Black Hayagriva Empowerment on February 22nd. 

Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche says:

“Extremely Wrathful Black Hayagriva has special power to affect beings’ minds and benefit those who are depressed, dysfunctional, or crazy, as well as to cure disease. This is the condensed essence of all the billions of Hayagriva practices. It is easy to practice and highly effective. Even hearing this practiced will subdue all classes of spirits. Remembering it will eradicate all wrong views and demonic forces. Touching the image of this Hayagriva will pacify all disease and the passions of the five poisons. For whoever has a connection to this practice the seed of samsara will be destroyed.”

As the Tibetan Wood Snake Year, draws near, we emphasize practices that address the accumlation of karma, purify negativity and avert obstacles. Join the Vajrayana Foundation, our Precious Lamas and Precious Sangha at The Pema Osel Retreat Center for this seven-day retreat centering on Black Hayagriva, a the wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. The retreat includes Black Hayagriva Empowerment, Oral Reading Transmission, Practice, including the Lower Activity culminating on Gutor Day with the Torma Burning Ritual.

Empowerment and  Retreat Details and registration: https://www.vajrayana.org/events/282/

Practicing the Black Hayagriva Sadhana
with Tulku Thadral Rinpoche

On February 15th and 16th, Tulku Thadral Rinpoche we received teachings on how to follow the sadhana as well as the meaning of the different sections of the practice that we will be doing at our 2025 Gutor-Losar Retreat.

You can replay the YouTube Livestream teachings here~~~>

Session One  Introduction to the Sadhana through the Mantra Recitation and visualization Session Two Lower Activity

See DharmaTreasures, the Vajrayana Foundation bookstore at Pema Osel Ling, for Practice texts, photos and recording teachings on the Wrathful Black Hayagriva. 

The Profound Path of Guru Yoga

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

“Wether our teachers present in person are ordinary beings or emanations of Buddhas or Bodhisattvas, if we are able to pray to them considering them as the Buddha, there is absolutely no difference between them and the Buddha or Bodhisattva or yidam deity in person, because the source of blessings is devotion. So whichever profound practice we are undertaking, whether the generation phase or the perfection phase, we should begin by making the teacher’s blessings the path. There is no more to it than that. But as long as we have not received the blessings, we will not be genuinely on the path. It is said that if disciples who keep the commitments give themselves wholeheartedly, with devotion, to an authentic diamond master, they will obtain the supreme and common accomplishments even if they have no other methods. But without devotion to the teacher, even if we complete the approach and accomplishment practices of the yidams of the six tantra sections, we will never obtain the supreme accomplishment. And we will be unlikely to accomplish many of the ordinary accomplishments either, such as those of long life, wealth, or bringing beings under one’s power. Even if we do manage to achieve a little, it will have necessitated a lot of hardship and will have nothing to do with the profound path. When unmistaken devotion takes birth in us, obstacles on the path will be dispelled and we will make progress, obtaining all the supreme and ordinary accomplishments without depending on anything else. This is what we mean by the profound path of Guru Yoga.”

~ Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom
Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices
Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
Shambhala Publications

Publication of Dudjom Rinpoche’s biography was
made possible through support of
Jnanasukha Foundation