Arya Jambhala

Om Jambhala Jalendraye Soha

If one is very stingy, and doesn’t practice much generosity, even if you perform the practice of Dzambhala, the wealth-giving Buddha, many times, it can take a long time for success to come. In daily life, practice whatever generosity you can, like when you meet beggars: just give whatever you can. It doesn’t only have to be beggars on the street, it can be anybody. When people come to your house, offer them food and drink, and so forth. Use that opportunity to practice Dharma by practicing charity.

 Especially make offerings to other students of your gurus, thinking they are the same as your gurus. This creates so much merit, much more than making offerings to the buddhas of the three times, to the Dharma, and Sangha, and to the numberless statues, scriptures, and thangkas that exist throughout other universes. You can do this in many different ways. Besides offering money, give where there is a great need for charity.

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His Eminence Lama Zopa Rinpoche

ga le ga ler shes - slowly/ gradually learn

ga le ga ler shes - slowly/ gradually learn

Vallalār

"TO PERSUADE THE WORLD TO WALK THE PATH OF ABSTINENCE BOTH FROM KILLING AND FROM EATING ANIMAL FLESH"

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Thiruvarutprakasa Vallalār Chidambaram Ramalingam (5 October 1823 – 30 January 1874), also known as Vallalār, Ramalinga Swamigal and Ramalinga Adigal, was one of the known Tamil saints and a notable Tamil poet of the 19th century. He belongs to a line of Tamil saints known as "gnana siddhars" (gnana means 'higher wisdom').[

WISHING YOU HAPPY AND MEANINGFUL BUDDHA JAYANTI SAKA DAWA 2024

WISHING YOU HAPPY AND MEANINGFUL BUDDHA JAYANTI SAKA DAWA 2024

No matter whether young or old, there is no one who doesn't have to die. And besides Buddha-dharma, there is nothing else that can help us during our death. No matter whether we posses a human's life or an animal's life - by having commited the non-virtuous actions and afflictive emotions since beginning less eons, we are all continuous wanderers in the three samsaric existence. Therefore, we have to think ideally and be able to seek out our own purposes once we have obtained a human's life endowed with the eighteeen favorable conditions.

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His Holiness Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche

MAHAGURU PADMASAMBHAVA

Lady Tsogyal asked the master: Which key point makes one naturally free of attachment?

 The master replied: The key point that appearances are self-display and naturally dissolve through nonattachment. Appearances appear as the display of your awakened mind. As this is the case, when attached and clinging, see that your attachment is to no real object. Let the thought bloom and the attachment will then naturally vanish. Appearances are self-display, their emptiness is a natural emptiness, and any attachment clears just like air does.

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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

HH 13TH DALAI LAMA Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal, abbreviated to Thubten Gyatso[1]

HH 13TH DALAI LAMA 

Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal, abbreviated to Thubten Gyatso[1]

“In particular, we must guard ourselves against the barbaric red communists, who carry terror and destruction with them wherever they go. They are the worst. Already they have consumed much of Mongolia, where they have outlawed the search for the reincarnation of Je-tsen Dam-pa, the incarnate head of the country. They have robbed and destroyed the monasteries, forcing monks to join their armies or else killing them outright. They have destroyed religion wherever they’ve encountered it, and not even the name of Buddha-dharma is allowed to remain in their wake. I am sure you have heard the reports coming out of Ulan Bator and other such places.

It will not be long before we find the red onslaught at our own front door. It is only a matter of time before we come into a direct confrontation with it, either from within our own ranks or else as a threat from an external [communist] nation.

And when that happens we must be ready to defend ourselves. Otherwise our spiritual and cultural traditions will be completely eradicated. Even the names of the Dalai and Pan-chen Lamas will be erased, as will be those of other lamas, lineage holders and holy beings. The monasteries will be looted and destroyed, and the monks and nuns killed or chased away. The great works of the noble Dharma kings of old will be undone, and all of our cultural and spiritual institutions persecuted, destroyed and forgotten. The birthrights and property of people will be stolen; we will become like slaves to our conquerors, and will be made to wander helplessly like beggars. Everyone will be forced to live in misery, and the days and nights will pass slowly, and with great suffering and terror.

Therefore, now, when the strength of peace and happiness is with us, while the power to do something about the situation is still in our hands, we should make every effort to safeguard ourselves against this impending disaster. Use peaceful methods where they are appropriate; but where they are not appropriate, do not hesitate to resort to more forceful means. Work diligently now, while there is still time. Then there will be no regrets.

The future of our country lies in your hands. Whether you are a chief minister or simple government official, monk or lay person, teacher or disciple, secular leader or ordinary citizen, I urge you all to rise up together and work for the common good in accordance with your individual capacity. One person alone cannot ward off the threat that faces us; but together we can win out in the end. Avoid rivalry and petty self-interests, and look instead to what is essential.

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Source: Mullin, Glenn. H (1988). Path of the Bodhisattva Warrior: The Life and Teachings of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. Snow Lions Publications, Inc. p 111-113.,