the 14th Birthday of His Holiness the Fourth Drubwang Pema Norbu

Heartfelt congratulations on the 14th Birthday of His Holiness the Fourth Drubwang Pema Norbu

, Mingyur Dechen Garwang Zilnon Dorje Rinpoche

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Maha siddha Naropa

One need ask no more when the true nature is seen.

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- Maha siddha Naropa

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Mahaguru Padmasambhava

"O son of noble family, if you do not recognise your own projections, even though you have practised dharma for an aeon and are learned in all the sūtras and tantras, you will not become a buddha. But if you recognise your projections, with one secret and one word you will become a buddha...

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Mahaguru Padmasambhava

 The Tibetan Book of the Dead

THE GREAT LIBERATION THROUGH HEARING IN THE BARDO

BY GURU RINPOCHE ACCORDING TO KARMA LINGPA

Translated with commentary by Francesca Fremantle & Chögyam Trungpa

SHAMBHALA Boston & London 2010

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His Eminence 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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His Eminence Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche

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Maha guru padmasambhava

7. THE BENEFITS 

The benefits of training in the Bodhicitta you have thus developed are as follows. Elevated above the shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, you are included in the assembly of Mahayana practitioners. Your disturbing emotions, misdeeds, and obscurations are all annihilated from their very root. All the virtuous actions of your body, speech, and mind become causes for what is meaningful and a vast gathering of merit will be perfected in your being. You will always be watched over by the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and the great protectors of the Dharma. All sentient beings will love you as their own child and find you beautiful to behold. You will never be separated from the Mahayana teachings. In short, you will quickly accomplish the superior qualities of Buddhahood and awaken to true and complete enlightenment. Thus the qualities are inconceivable. Therefore be persistent in just this.

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Dakini Teachings

PADMASAMBHAVA'S ORAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LADY TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by YESHE TSOGYAL Revealed by NYANG RAL NYIMA ÖSER and SANGYE LINGPA

Translated according the oral teachings of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG

RANGJUNG YESHE PUBLICATIONS

BOUDHANATH, HONG KONG & ESBY

1999

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His Holiness 16th Karmapa

"You keep going. That is the bodhisattva’s way. As long as it benefits even one being you have to, without any sense of discouragement, go on."

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His Holiness 16th Karmapa

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Namkhai Norbu

"When we do not identify with thoughts, they libe-rate themselves, There is no one thinking—there is only clarity."

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Namkhai Norbu

Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State

Orginal photo by Ralf Pluschke

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His Holiness The 42nd Sakya Gongma Trizin Kyabgon Ratna Vajra Rinpoche

Wishing His Holiness The 42nd Sakya Gongma Trizin Kyabgon Ratna Vajra Rinpoche a very happy western birthday . We wish him long life, good health and success in all his Dharma endeavours.

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Tertön Sogyal

Tertön Sogyal proceeded through the foundational practices of the Dzogchen training. During this period, he had only one robe and nothing on which to sleep. He lived among the forest animals, sleeping on the ground or flat rocks just as they did. He had no pans with which to cook, so his daily sustenance consisted of roasted barley porridge mixed with crystal water from a nearby spring. He endured these austerities without saying a word to his teacher. When Nyoshul Lungtok became aware of Tertön Sogyal’s asceticism, the teacher ordered him to take up residence next to the tent-kitchen.

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 Fearless in Tibet

Book by Matteo Pistono

Nineteenth-century Tibetan mystic Tertön Sogyal was a visionary, whose mastery of meditation led him to be a revered teacher to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama.

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His Eminence Jhado Rinpoche

At the beginning of any ritual practice it is most important to meditate on refuge, to take refuge very strongly in the Three Jewels, to generate a very powerful feeling of refuge and than begin one’s ritual practice.

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His Eminence Jhado Rinpoche

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HH KARMAPA

Compassion itself is noble 

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Ogyen Trinley Dorje, The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out

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Mahaguru Padmasambhava

"Investigate the root of mind!". Recognizing the empty nature of mind leads to the dawning of dharmata

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Mahaguru Padmasambhava

 

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Mahaguru Padmasambhava

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free." 

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Mahaguru Padmasambhava

 

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Freedom in Bondage

In prison camp, there were many rules that had to be obeyed very conscientiously. If religious followers broke one of these rules, they were punished much more severely than others. They kept a close eye on our actions and would not allow us to meet or talk to one another or exchange any news. Normally I couldn’t speak with anyone, but every now and then during a major gathering I would recognize someone in the crowd. When I was able to get teachings from anyone, it had to be shared in secret, sometimes even while visiting the toilet. Just the same, thanks to a monk from my monastery, who had already been in this prison for several years and had a good knowledge of the situation, I gradually learned about the presence of other lamas. I started asking him who was there and over time he was able to introduce me to about a dozen lamas. He told me their names, what lineage they were from, and whether they were of good or bad character. “So-and-so is a really noble character.that person is trouble, stay clear of him, don’t even talk to him.” Gradually, over those fifteen years in that prison, I got to meet some of these lamas and receive a few Dharma teachings along the way.

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Freedom in Bondage

The Life and Teachings of Adeu Rinpoche

Foreword by Tsoknyi Rinpoche

by Erik Pema Kunsang

Compiled and edited Iry Marcia Binder 

Rangjung Yeshe Pulslications 2011

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Tarapith

Tarapith

is a Hindu pilgrimage town in Birbhum district, West Bengal, famous for its Tantric goddess Tara temple and adjacent cremation ground (Maha Sasan), which is considered one of the 51 Shakti Pithas. It is a major center for Tantric spiritual practices and rituals, with the temple dedicated to Goddess Tara, who is believed to be the divine manifestation of the third eye of Sati.  

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Second attempt artwork Bengali Baba guru of swami rama

Second attempt artwork 

Bengali Baba guru of swami rama

Swami Rama regarded the Bengali Baba as his first and primary guru, who raised him from early childhood in the Himalayas and taught him the disciplines of yoga and philosophy. The Bengali Baba was a great Himalayan sage and a master of "immortal wisdom," who shaped Swami Rama's spiritual path before he pursued higher education and later founded the Himalayan Institute.

Bengali Baba guru of swami rama

Maha Guru padmasabhava

Then there is mantra recitation called recitation with cessation. The mental recitation is joined to the breath-ing so that it is not just a mental recitation. We recite one part of the mantra while inhaling, one part while holding the breath, and one part while exhaling. This does not involve actual sound. For example, with the Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) mantra, on the in-breath we recite OM AH HUNG and with the held breath we recite BENDZA GURU PEMA and with the out-breath SIDDHI HUNG. The reason this is called recitation with cessation is that this method stops all thoughts.

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The Practice of Tranquillity and Insight: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation

Book by Thrangu Rinpoche

SHAMBALA PUBLICATIONS

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His Eminence Tsering Dorje Rinpoche

གང་སྣང་བླ་མའི་གསང་གསུམ་རོལ་བར་འཆར། 

གང་བྱས་བླ་མ་མཉེས་པའི་རྒྱུ་རུ་འགྲོ། 

གང་བསམ་བླ་མའི་ཐུགས་རྗེས་མྱུར་དུ་འགྲུབ།

གང་དུ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱང་བླ་མའི་རྗེས་འཛིན་ཤོག །

I will enjoy the three secrets of the Buddha. 

 Whatever you do, please the lama. 

 May the lama's grace be fulfilled soon.

 Wherever you are born, follow the lama.

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subramanya swamy mandala

subramanya swamy mandala 

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