Saturn Jayanti tomorrow may 30th

Tomorrow

Shani Jayanti 2022 : Shani Dev, the Lord of Justice. Shani dev ( Saturn ) has a special place among nine main planets. Shani Jayanti is also known as Shani Amavasya. Shani Jayanti is observed in Krishna Paksha in the month of Jyeshtha. This year, Shani Jayanti will be celebrated on Monday, 30th May 2022.

Doyō (Sanskrit: Shanaishchara), or the planet Saturn, is one of the Nine Luminaries (Sanskrit: Navagraha) of the stellar system as originally defined in early Indian texts that were later incorporated into Buddhism. In China, Buddhist understandings of the heavens were intertwined with Daoist beliefs. Here, the planet is illustrated as an old man with a bull’s head atop his own, dressed in a flowing robe. Now mounted as a hanging scroll, the iconographic drawing once formed part of a handscroll including representations of other celestial bodies.

Some important Buddhist Mantras

Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoche, the Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Tubten Trinlé Pal Zangpo ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཕྲིན་ལས་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་

The Greatest Maha Siddha of Our Time, incarnation of Guru Padmasambhava himself and Heart son of Ridgzin Jigmed Lingpa. 

Source: http://mahasiddha.org/downloads/Rinpoche-Rebirth-Prayers-booklet-v2.pdf

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Buddhānusati

Itipi so bhagavā arahaṃ sammāsambuddho

vijjācaraṇasampanno sugato lokavidū

anuttaro purisa-damma–sārathi

satthā devamanussānaṃ buddho bhagavā

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Here is another example for someone who lacks faith. Let’s say that we tell them about how the American lifestyle is, about the beautiful houses and gadgets and so forth. That other person might reply, “I don’t believe you. I’ve never been there and seen them, so these things cannot exist. You’re lying: whatever I haven’t seen doesn’t exist.” This may sound absurd, but many, many people have said, “I don’t see any buddhafields, so they don’t exist. I don’t see any hell realms, so there are no such places.” The reason I do not think this way is that I trust in my main teacher, Buddha Shakyamuni. He could clearly perceive the three times and see the six realms of sentient beings and all the buddhafields in every direction. Because of the depth and profundity of his wisdom, I consider everything he said to be utterly and flawlessly true. Between Buddha Shakyamuni and myself there has been a lineage of great masters in whom I also have total trust. This trust extends all the way to my root guru, in whom I have complete faith from the very core of my heart. I have total confidence in all these beings; I don’t feel that any one of them ever told a lie. Since Buddha Shakyamuni there have been countless other practitioners who have had that same trust and confidence in the teachings of the enlightened ones. Through these qualities they were able to attain great accomplishment. They could fly through the sky, pass through solid matter and reach complete enlightenment in a single lifetime.

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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

BOOK Rainbow Painting

Don't seek sensations... Seek sensitivity... OSHO

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

What is your happy dream? I asked this question of a man I once met in California. Several years earlier he had quit an excellent job at a high-tech company in Silicon Valley. He had been reading books about emptiness and had come to the conclusion that his job was empty—empty of meaning, of value—and that the workplace, the status, the money, these things too were essentially empty. He decided that his life had no meaning, and he quit to do something that he had always wanted to do: become a painter. He spoke in an earnest manner, often bringing his hand to his mouth, as if checking on the accuracy of his words. His hair and beard were turning from black to gray, and he was dressed casually, but carefully. For several years he had worked in his studio making art and had led a rewarding life. Then he had attended teachings that I was giving on emptiness. After one session, he asked to speak with me. I like these emptiness teachings, he told me, but there is one problem. Before, I read books about emptiness, and I saw that my job was emptiness so I let go of it. I really like making art, but after listening to you today, I see that even my art is emptiness. Now maybe I need to let go of my artwork, but if I do that, I will have no money. I told him, Emptiness doesn’t mean nothing. He was quite shocked. I told him, Everything comes from emptiness. It is full of alive potential, full of possibility.

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In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

Book by Helen Tworkov and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

His Eminence Professor Samdhong Rinpoche

“Chinese authorities always try to destroy our religion and language as they believe that these are the root cause that separates Tibet from China. The prayers of most of the self-immolators were for the return of His Holiness to Tibet and the preservation of our unique culture and religion, therefore preserving Buddhism by studying and understanding its true meaning and promoting it by teaching it to the world is the greatest contribution one can give to Tibet and its people.”

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His Eminence Professor Samdhong Rinpoche

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse rinpoche

To have wealth and property is normally thought of as desirable, but attachment to them is actually an obstacle on your spiritual path. So someone who deprives you of your money and possessions is, in fact, freeing you from the fetters these things have created in your mind, and is preventing you from falling to the lower realms. You should feel nothing but gratitude. 

If you own nothing at all, you are free. No enemies or thieves will bother you. As the saying goes: If you have no wealth, thieves won't break in. If you carry no bags, robbers won't lie in wait.

 It is important to remember that if you lose everything you possess, it can only be the karmic result of your having deprived others of their possessions in the past. There is therefore no reason to feel angry with anyone other than yourself. Seen from that point of view, is it not you who are attracting enemies with your wealth, fame, and rank? If there were no target, there would be nothing at which to shoot arrows. As a result of negative actions in your past lives, you have set yourself up as a target at which the arrows of suffering are now being shot.

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THE HEART OF COMPASSION 

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse rinpoche

Translated From the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group

His Eminence Choden Rinpoche

In order to cut the root of saṃsāra, one needs both calm abiding and special insight. For example, if you want to cut down a tree, you need a sharp axe that will cut it directly, but it is not sufficient just to have the axe. You also need a strong, steady shoulder to swing the axe. Likewise, special insight is like the axe that directly cuts the root of saṃsāra, and calm abiding is like the steady shoulder that swings it.

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His Eminence Choden Rinpoche

OSHO on Art and Creativity

Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa

Wishing long life to HH Karmapa 

“We must keep non-violence as our goal”

Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa

The Long-Life Prayer for HH17 Karmapa, Thaye Dorje

written by HH Shamar Rinpoche

KAL-MANG GONG-NE THA-YE DRO-WEI-DON

Many aeons before have your cultivated enlightened thought and vowed to work for the well-being of all sentient beings.

BED-PAR DAM-CHE DEN-MON MA-DOR-WEI

Never to forsake but firmly abide by the resolve of your previous aspirations.

KYE-WEI TRENG-WAR SAG-PEI TSHOG-NYII-THU

Though the power of continuous gathering

MIN-PEI ZUG-KU KOD-PA TAG-TEN-SHOG

of the dual accumulations be eternally firm.

GANG-TSHE THUB-WANG DE-SUNG CHHO-KHOR-LUNG

The unceasing stream of dharma-teaching spoken by Buddha

DUI-JEI ZHING-LA DREN-PEI THAB-KYI-SANG

gently flows through the field of tameable beings fully endowed with knowledge, love and power

DZIN-LA KHYEN-NU TSE-WEI THU-NGA-WA

You uphold with majesty the secret method of Mantra. May you live long and abide firmly

MA-WEI WANG-PO NGO-WOR TSHO-GYUR-CHIG

in the nature of Manjushree, the king of eloguent speech. You are the glory of upholding perfect stream-like ambrosia

PEN-CHEN NA-RO DAM-PEI CHHAG-GYA-CHEI

the profound quintessential instruction of Mahamudra given by Pandit Naropa.

ZAB-NED DUD-TSII GYUN-CHHOG DZIN-PEI-PAL

May your lotus feet be firm and enduring. Whilst perpetually,

DU-SUM KHYEN-PA GANG-DEI TRIN-LE-THA.

succeeding to the enlightened-activity, knower of three times.

YONG-SU DZIN-ZHIN SHAB-PED TEN-GYUR-CHIG

Thus have I prayed for the truth of my resolve.

DE-TAR DAG-GI MON-LAM DEN-PEI-DON

through the power of profound aspiration presented to the

CHHOG-SUM GYA-TSO CHEN-NGAR OOL-WEI-THU

ocean of Triple Gems, and by the power and strength of meeting auspicious

LU-MED TEN-DREL TSHOG-PEI NU-TOB-LE

and infallible concurrence. May my prayer be spontaneously

PAG-SAM SHING-TAR BED-MED DRUB-GYUR-CHIG

fulfilled like the wish-fulfilling tree.

Venerable Dr. Acharya Buddharakkhita

This whole world or worldly existence is nothing but dvandam-pairs of opposites, where one swings from one extreme to another.

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Venerable Dr. Acharya Buddharakkhita

1922-2013

shechen rabjam rinpoche

If you do not implement the teachings, your destructive emotions and self clinging will not diminish, and the Dharma instructions will be of no use to you, no matter how many you receive.

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shechen rabjam rinpoche