Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Commentaries

Refuge

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
Page from Ngondro Commentary by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Lama Sonam Rinpoche has finished the section of The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma and will now begin the next Ngondro Teaching Series with the Seven Uncommon Inner Preliminary Practices. What are these Seven?:

  1. Going for Refuge
  2. Bodhciitta
  3. Mandala Offerings
  4. Vajrasattva Meditaiton & Recitation
  5. Guru yoga
  6. Phowa
  7. Severance Practice and Dedication and Aspiration Prayers

On November 5th we will begin with Going for Refuge and the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Oral Reading Transmission, also known as Lung. Join Lama Sonam Rinpoche and translator Cy Kassoff for these live stream teachings streaming from in front of our Guru Rinpoche statue at the Pema Osel Ling Shrine Room.

Ngondro Program Participants will receive the streaming link in your email. Watch for it.

There is no charge for these teachings but registration is appreciated. Registration includes live streaming with full access to the video recorded teaching.

Day of NOVEMBER 5th SCHEDULE:
Join Tulku Jamyang Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Rinpoche

8:00 am Vajrakilaya Daily Puja with Tsok
Streaming at https://youtu.be/VsPFBu23pN8
10:30 am -12:30 pm Ngondro Teaching
Get your livestream link at: https://www.vajrayana.org/events/183/

Online viewable text (Text will become live prior to session): https://dudjomtersarngondro.com/daily-puja-vajrakilaya/

Page turning guide (For physical texts): https://dudjomtersarngondro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Page_turning_guide_-_Vajrakilaya.pdf

 

essence of refuge

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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The essence of the refuge practice is unshakable, unchangeable faith and devotion. Without this kind of faith and trust, your mind cannot open. When your mind opens, it becomes soft and receptive. Buddha’s compassion is like a hook which catches the ring of your faith and devotion. Without faith, there can be no real connection to dharma ~ not blind faith, but rather intelligent faith, free from any doubt or confusion because dharma is pure and faultless, Buddha’s mind is like the sun shining on a snow-covered mountain. With devotion, the rays of your faith can melt the snow of Buddha’s nectar of blessing. 

~  Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Ngondro Commentary
© 2000 by Bero Jeydren Publications

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Refuge Ceremony ~ Tavish Nink with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

photo source: Sonam  Famarin
with permission to post by Tavish Nink

Join Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche November 5th, 2020 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Pacific to receive the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Lung (Oral Transmission) and series of Ngondro Teachings on the Preliminary Practices beginning with Refuge.

Visit the Vajrayana Foundation website at Vajrayana.org to receive the livestream link.

 

Beginningless Wisdom of Buddhas

~ DudjomTersarNgondro


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

Photographer unknown
In this photo Tulku Jamyang Rinpoche

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