Questions About Practices for the Dead ∑ If the family doesn’t have the resources to make offerings to high lamas or masters, what can they do to help a dying relative who has no spiritual beliefs? Can the family say prayers and aspire to help their relative themselves? Would that be enough? Yes, absolutely! All…
The Throwing Star Weapon Literal Translation of The Wheel of Sharp Weapons A Mahayana Attitude-Training Theg-pa chen-po’i blo-sbyong mtshon-cha ‘khor-lo by Dharmarakshita I make prostration to the Three Rare Supreme Gems. “The Throwing Star Weapon Striking the Vital Point of the Foe.” I make prostration to forceful Yamantaka. In the case of peacocks Strutting in…
Mala divination: You visualize the deity (often Manjushri) and pray one japa of the mantra. You then hold the mala in your lap, and with each hand grasp a bead at random. You then count off in threes, moving the hands toward each other, until one, two, or three beads remain. You do this three…
The LobbyThe KangyurDiscoursesGeneral Sūtra Section Teaching the Four Factors Homage to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas! Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was dwelling in the Sudharmā assembly hall in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, together with a great gathering of five hundred monks,8 and very many bodhisattva mahāsattvas, including Maitreya…
Mind Teachings: Instructions for Dratsün Wangchuk I prostrate to the holy guru. O son of an excellent father, there’s no point in the activities of this life. Look at the ways people get sick, and look at the ways they die. Look at the ways they deceive themselves; through making plans to remain, they don’t…
The Legacy of Chögyam Trungpa: A review of The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa by the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche In 1980, I traveled with His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa to the U.S. During this visit, I had the great fortune to meet Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and experience his sharp presence and kind and gentle heart.…
Talk 1 Training the Mind RMDC 8/18/74 Synopsis of themes: What is mind? Who is meditating? Chitta: sense of separateness. Search for other. Search as euphemism for panic. Sense of weakness. Mind as minding. The working ground / the motive: from hopelessness. Ego-process. Trusting first thought. — [VCTR recording starts in the middle of a…
Bezos’ net worth on Jan. 1 was $99 billion. On May 1, it was $132 billion, meaning it rose $33 billion. If you divide that difference by the 120 days in that period, you find that he made $275 million a day. Divide that by 24 hours in a day to get about $11.5 million…
All beings consist of causes and effects, In which there is no ‘sentient being’ at all. From phenomena which are exclusively empty, There arise only empty phenomena. All things are devoid of any ‘I’ or ‘mine’. Like a recitation, a candle, a mirror, a seal, A magnifying glass, a seed, sourness, or a sound, So…
Since my father Chögyam Trungpa passed away twenty-five years ago, a generation has grown up exposed to his teachings but having never met him. They have come to know him though forming their own profound connections with his mind and understanding of his teachings in a way that is both relevant to their own experiences…
When keeping up with your practice, constantly think of the six bardos. –Bardo of this life The key here is to remember that the only thing that you can take forward is your practice — meaning the good deeds and the bad deeds you have accumulated in this lifetime. Practice bodhicitta, maintain your faith and…
THE RADIANT SUCCESSION OF SHAMBHALA: RIGDEN RAUDRACAKRIN The core of what follows is an account of the thirty-two rulers of the legendary Kingdom of Shambhala. The first eight were titled Dharma Kings and the latter twenty-five titled Rigdens or ‘Caste Holders’. The eighth Dharma King, Manjusrikirti-Yasas was responsible for the change of social arrangements resulting…
Nectar for the Ears of the Fortunate The Account of Chokgyur Lingpa’s Visionary Journey to the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain by Könchok Gyurmé here is the sixth narration of great wonder, a brief account of Chokgyur Lingpa’s boundless pure perception. Traveling again and again to the realm of Lotus Light in pure visions, he met with…
