The Yangsi of His Holiness Drubwang Pema Norub Rinpoche

The Yangsi of His Holiness Drubwang Pema Norub Rinpoche

Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Lhakar Sang ( White Wednesday)

༄༅། །རྒྱལ་དབང་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ་འདེབས།

Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

adapted from a verse by Polhané Sonam Tobgyé

 

གངས་རི་རྭ་བས་བསྐོར་བའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། །

gangri rawé korwé zhingkham su

In the heavenly realm of Tibet, surrounded by a chain of snow mountains,

ཕན་དང་བདེ་བ་མ་ལུས་འབྱུང་བའི་གནས། །

pen dang dewa malü jungwé né

The source of all happiness and help for beings

སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་བསྟན༵་འཛི༵ན་རྒྱ༵་མཚོ༵་ཡི། །

chenrezik wang tenzin gyatso yi

Is Tenzin Gyatso—Chenrezik in person—

ཞབས་པད་བསྐལ་བརྒྱའི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་གྱུར་ཅིག །

zhabpé kal gyé bardu ten gyur chik

May his life be secure for hundreds of kalpas!

 

Adapted from a verse composed by Polhané Sonam Tobgyé (1689–1747) for the Seventh Dalai Lama, Kalzang Gyatso (1708–1757).

Maha Guru Padmasambhava

Om ah hung vajra guru Padma siddhi hung 🙏

Maha Guru Padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the master: After having practiced in this way, how does one awaken to enlightenment? 

The master replied: When you have trained in the thought-free nature of dharmata, thoughts—the causes of samsara—grow weaker and more quiet, while thought-free wakefulness becomes spontaneously present. This wakefulness is serene; its domain of experience is utterly pure; and the three kayas and other enlightened qualities appear naturally, like rays that shine from the sun. 

Once you have mastered this nature, your body may remain in the world of human beings but your mind abides at the stage of a buddha. Once you have practiced this way, there is no doubt that you will awaken to buddhahood in the bardo. In other words, within your sky-like personal experience—dharmakaya that is utterly uncreated—the sunlike sambhogakaya and nirmanakayas will, in the perceptions of others, work for the benefit of sentient beings, like the sun’s rays.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge

THE PROFOUND TREASURE INSTRUCTIONS OF PADMASAMBHAVA TO THE DAKINI YESHE TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by Yeshe Tsogyal

From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa

Translated and edited by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG & MARCIA BINDER SCHMIDT

Rangjung Yeshe Publications

Boudhanath, Hong Kong & Esby 2008

Maha Guru Padmasambhava

“Padmasambhava said: ‘Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.’ Don’t confuse one with the other. When training in the view, you can be as unbiased, as impartial, as vast, immense, and unlimited as the sky. Your behaviour, on the other hand, should be as careful as possible in discriminating what is beneficial or harmful, what is good or evil. One can combine the view and conduct, but don’t mix them or lose one in the other. That is very important.

‘View like the sky’ means that nothing is held onto in any way whatsoever. You are not stuck anywhere at all. In other words, there is no discrimination as to what to accept and what to reject; no line is drawn separating one thing from another. ‘Conduct as fine as barley flour’ means that there is good and evil, and one needs to differentiate between the two. Give up negative deeds; practice the Dharma. In your behaviour, in your conduct, it is necessary to accept and reject.”

~Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche

EVERYTHING IS A MOMENT ~ Tai Situ Rinpoche

(Transcription shared from Thubten Kway)

”As I move my fingers from here to there (moving hand from left to right), you see my hand is moving, that is an illusion because everything you see is already gone when you see it. It is a moment and that moment is not yet established.

Right now, we have a smallest particle and the fastest thing, light; when the light passes through that smallest particle, that is a moment. So when I do this (moving hand from left to right), many moments are gone and what you are seeing is a reflection that is left behind, a trace behind, ... it has already happened.

When you are hearing what I am saying, actually, the sound has already happened, it is already gone. It is wonderful, but it is an illusion, it is a wonderful illusion. We don't feel scared about it, we don't feel fear for it. We are not disappointed by it but the truth is: when you see something, when you hear something, it is already gone, long time back, millions of moments ahead and you are seeing and hearing it millions of moments later; same thing with taste, same thing with touch, everything.”

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His Holiness Chogtrul Gyangkhang Rinpoche

[Avalokiteswara clearly observed that the true nature of the five aggregates is Emptiness Such insight is the answer to all pains and struggles This line in the Heart Sutra a perfect description of her most distinctive trait the selfless devotion for the welfare of all sentient beings

This modern society our ignorance and pains have increased with ever-stronger attachments to lust, greed and desire According to Buddha, there are eight kinds of suffering birth, old age, disease, death, being surrounded by enemies, separation from loved ones, unfulfilled wishes, and unceasing activities of the five aggregates The first four sufferings are physical ones, while the latter four are emotional and mental ones All these sufferings have existed in a cyclic pattern srice the beginning of time. All sentient beings have suffered terribly in different ways in the world of cyclic existence. Where is the path: out of all the pain? How can we eradicate their root cause? Now I would like to introduce the path of Avalokitesvara and request everyone to believe and take up the path of Avalokitesvara and keep her presence in your mind at all time ...

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His Holiness Chogtrul Gyangkhang

Rinpoche

Ram Lalla Virajman

Ram Lalla Virajman

, the infant form of Rama, an avatar of Vishnu, is the presiding deity of the temple in Ayodhya.

VASUDHA SYMBOL

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Chogtrul Gyang Khang Rinpoche

རྣམ་གླིང་དབུ་འཛིན་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་གྱང་ཁང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་སྐུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་གྲངས་མེད་ཞུ 🌷🌷🌷 Wishing a very Happy Birthday to Chogtrul Gyang Khang Rinpoche, the chief of Namdroling Monastery 🙏🌷🙏🌷🙏

HH PADMA NORBU RINPOCHE

SPIRITUAL MESSAGE ON HOW TO FOLLOW THE SPIRITUAL MASTER

The sole purpose of Buddhism is to liberate ourselves from all the sufferings of Samsara and to achieve the perfect bliss of ultimate enlightenment. Most important thereby, is to rely on an authentic master and to practice his advice properly - the "do's and don'ts". All the Buddhas of the three times had achieved their goals by following the spiritual masters only. Nobody has ever attainted Buddha hood on their own nor will this be the case in the future. We thus have to faithfully rely on an authentic master in order to attain Nirvana. It is essential to stop acting wrongfully behind your master whilst pretending to rely on him and to guard your Samaya (spiritual bondage with the master) with a great care.

So, I request you all to follow this advice without any preconceived ideas and to generate irreversible faith in your spiritual master (lama) and practice his instructions in order to achieve the supreme happiness of liberation.

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THE ILLUMINATING LAMP OF DO'S AND DON'T S

COLLECTIVE ADVICES OF HH PADMA NORBU RINPOCHE

Sri Ramachandra

Even the slightest thought immerses a man in sorrow; when devoid of all thoughts he enjoys imperishable bliss.

YOGA VASHISTHA

His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

As the King of Aspirations for Excellent Conduct says: 

Until all beings are free from negative emotions, May my prayers never come to exhaustion.

 The attitude of a Bodhisattva must be extremely vast, constantly keeping in mind the infinity of beings and the wish to establish them all in Buddhahood. If your mind is vast, the power of your prayers is unlimited, too. If your mind is narrow and rigid, your accumulation of merit and the purification of your obscurations will also be very limited.

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THE HEART OF COMPASSION 

THE THIRTY – SEVEN VERSE ON THE PRACTICE OF A BODHISATTVA 

His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Translated From the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group

HIS HOLINESS KARMAPA

When I left Tibet, I carried with me those feelings toward the nat­ ural environment. Later, as an adult, I decided to organize a con­ ference in the city of Varanasi, India, in order to educate Buddhist monks and nuns on environmental issues. For most of them, this was their first exposure to the topic, and I saw that the monks and nuns attending that conference were deeply affected—not just in­ tellectually stimulated, but emotionally moved. Seeing that people could become inspired to act to protect the environment encour­ aged me to do more in the area of environmental activism. Not everyone has grown up in a situation where respect for the sanctity of nature is nurtured from childhood, but I saw that it is possible to instill this feeling of respect and awe for the environment later in life, too. That gave me the courage to try to do more.

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The Heart isNoble Changing the World From the Inside Out HIS H O L I N E S S  T H E  K A R M A P A Ogyen Trinley Dorje TRANSLATED BY Ngodup Tsering Burkhar & Damchö Diana Finnegan, PhD EDITED BY Karen Derris, PhD & Damchö Diana Finnegan, PhD

SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS

The Aghori Vimalananda.

It is always better to live with reality, because otherwise, without fail, reality will come to live with you.

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The Aghori Vimalananda.

Aghora III: The Law of Karma

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