Guru Yoga

Specific Points on the Different Stages of Receiving Blessings ~ Part 2

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
Chatral Sangye Dorje, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, Dilgo Khyentse

Continuation from August 23rd  ~ b. In particular
On the outer level, having gained the certainty that the triply kind teacher is the embodiment of all refuges, to pray with intense yearning, faith, and devotion is the approach.

On the inner level, the Secret Mantra Vehicle method of purifying ordinary appearances, sounds, and thoughts, which are based on deluded attachment, into the great, infinitely pure display of the teacher’s three secrets is the accomplishment.

On the secret level, to take the ultimate, absolute nature—the primal wisdom that is the essence of the empowerment—as the path and to grasp the ultimate accomplishment, the desired goal, is the activity.

One begins by clearly visualizing the support for empowerment, according to the text. One then condenses the essential points of accumulation, purification, and increase by accumulating merit and purifying one’s mindstream with the seven branches. With intense faith and devotion, one prays one-pointedly and invokes the teacher’s mind by reciting the mantra. Finally one receives the blessings—the wisdom of the four empowerments—in the path empowerment, with the emanation and dissolution of rays of light. By the force of one’s devotion, the support for empowerment melts into light and dissolves into one. The teacher’s mind—the wisdom devoid of thought—blends indistinguishably with one’s own mind, like water added to water, and one rests in evenness, maintaining, without tension or effort, the very nature of the Buddhas’ wisdom, the great self-manifestation free of bias.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom
Shambhala

Specific Points on the Different Stages of Receiving Blessings ~ Part 1

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
HH Dudjom Rinpoche with Nyakpuwa Sonam Zangpo

2. Specific points on the different stages of receiving blessings: the approach and so forth

There are two sections.

a. IN GENERAL To approach an authentic teacher, who is the source of all perfection and virtue and the root of the Diamond Vehicle path, and to then please that teacher with great respect, physically, verbally, and mentally, and thereby properly receive the maturing empowerments and liberating instructions and acquire the treasure of the teacher’s mind, is the approach.

To one-pointedly put into practice the profound generation and perfection phases as instructed by the teacher and attain realization inseparable from the teacher’s mind is the accomplishment.

Having obtained accomplishment—realization of the innate natural state that is one’s own mind—to do whatever one can to benefit the doctrine and beings and especially to propagate the essential teaching of the Supreme Vehicleh is the activity.

It is by following these stages that one will fulfill the wishes of the knowledge holders of the past and hold their lineage; one will obtain accomplishment for oneself and benefit other beings, and by doing so one will join the ranks of the knowledge holders oneself.


~ Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom
Shambhala

Continues next week August 30th.

 

The Union of Inner and Outer Guru in Guru Yoga

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

When practicing guru yoga, we are not only visualizing Guru Rinpoche, but also visualizing the union of inner guru and outer guru, we receive empowerment through the blessing from outer guru, and the benefits of the empowerment is the cause of vast, secret, wisdom and word empowerment bestowed by guru, and the consequence is we can reach the achievement of the five kayas and widoms such as dharmakaya, sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya…etc in the future, the empowerment in the same time will also cleanse the most subtle habits and obstacles of three gates. Under the moment, we need to focus on our guru, and Guru Rinpoche, and in the same time dedicating the merits of practicing guru yoga to all the sentient beings, praying for reaching the great accomplishment of buddhahood, or even attaining vidyadhara in Guru Rinpoche’s pureland (Oddiyana) before buddhahood. We need to pray for these great accomplishments not just for small worldly benefits (health, wealth…etc), and these worldly benefits will follow without pursuing deliberately.

— Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa Rinpoche
Repost from – 敦珠法王官網 – H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Official Page

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