Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

GURU RINPOCHE DAY – Saturday, August 22nd

~ DudjomTersarNgondro


Guru Rinpoche Day falls on Saturday, August 22nd, and we will celebrate with the Tsokye Thuk Thik puja and Tsok at Pema Osel Ling at 8:00 AM, or you may join us via YouTube Live (link).

On the tenth day, we remember Guru Rinpoche—not simply as a great master of the past, but as the living presence of awakened wisdom.

H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje reminds us that the tenth days of the waxing moon mark the extraordinary deeds of Guru Padmasambhava’s liberating life story.

On this tenth day, Guru Rinpoche was thrown into the River Ganges by the tirthikas. Through his miraculous power, he reversed the flow of the river, rose into the sky, and performed a vajra dance. Inspiring devotion and establishing the kingdom in the Buddha’s teachings, he became known as Guru Khading Tsal — Guru Rinpoche soaring in the sky like the Garuda.

But the significance of the tenth day reaches beyond remembering these extraordinary events.

Dudjom Rinpoche quotes Guru Rinpoche’s own vajra promise:

“On the tenth day of every month
To you I will come in person, and this I swear.”

For practitioners of Guru Yoga, the tenth day is therefore a precious opportunity to remember the Guru, renew our devotion, gather merit, and make aspirations for the benefit of all beings.

Happy Guru Rinpoche Day. 🙏🏼

Based on The Concise Benefits of the Festival of the Tenth Day, by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.

The One Thing

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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Although hundreds or thousands of explanations are given,
There is only one thing to be understood –
Know the one thing that liberates everything –
Awareness itself, your true nature.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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Lama, think of me!

My kind, precious root Lama, essence of all Buddhas in one, to you I pray.

Bless my mind stream, I beseech you!

Grant your blessings that the essence of leisures and opportunities remain.

Grant your blessings that I remember death and impermanence.

Grant your blessings that trust in karma arises.

Grant your blessings that my attachment to samsara collapses.

Grant your blessings that I see my Lama as Buddha.

Grant your blessings that my mind blends with the Dharma.

Grant your blessings that I become free from attachment to this life.

Grant your blessings that I have no unfinished business in my mind at death.

Grant your blessings that I have no extreme pain at death.

Grant your blessings that I be adept in the profound path of transference.

Grant your blessings that I be liberated in the intermediate state’s clear light.

Grant your blessings that I recognize the nature of phenomena (chos nyid).

Grant your blessings that delusion be liberated within itself.

Grant your blessings that I receive supreme assurance of rebirth in the pure lands.

Grant your blessings that I awaken to my true nature, awareness itself.

Grant your blessings that I accomplish the immortal vase body.

Grant your blessings for the spontaneous completion of the two goals!

I, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, wrote this in response
to a request by the faithful lady Dechen Tso.
May this prove virtuous!