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Hurtful or sad news comes during the night or early morning, and serious issues must be faced.  Avoid the temptation to joke now; what’s happening is no laughing matter.  At the same time, kind and soothing words mean everything today.  A pleasant conversation with a sympathetic person can change someone’s world.  A dangerously depressing frame [...]

Habitual Tendency

Habitual Tendency

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Art of Dispelling Anger”

If you have the habit of gossip, go through the method. Fix it. Understand that if you allow that hatred in any form to continue, you will get more and more unhappy as you age. The people [...]

Astrology

Indecision!  You can’t make up your mind early in the day, so don’t do anything.  You may not have all the facts, or else a viable course of action may not have appeared.  Wait until you know for sure what you want to do and then move ahead.  Others feel the same way.  If you [...]

The Seed and the Fruit

The Seed and the Fruit

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Art of Dispelling Anger”

The fruit of potential and method is the awakening.  But in Buddhism we see all three as the same and it is taught that all three are the same. And in truth, there is no realization without [...]

Short Confession from Nam Cho Ngondro Vajrasattva

The following prayer is a short confession from the Nam Cho Dzogchen Ngondro Vajrasattva practice:

In the View, I confess all commitments broken through mental activity. Knowing the View is the all-pervasive foundational Bodhicitta; realizing that the View exists in non-existence, and practicing meditation that is non-existent, realizing that activity is neither existent nor [...]

Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

The following prayer is from “Buddha in the Palm of the Hand” Nam Cho Ngondro:

HUNG HRI: NGON GYI KAL PAI DONG PO LA HUNG HRI: In the past, at the beginning of this aeon,

ORGYEN YUL GYI NUB JANG TSAM In the Northwest country of Uddiyana,

DANA KO SHAI TSO LING DU On [...]

Prayer to The Guru

The following prayer is from “The Great Perfection: Buddha in the Palm of the Hand”

PAL DEN TSA WA’I LAMA RINPOCHE

Glorious, precious root guru,

DAG GI NYING GA PEMA’I ZE’U DRU LA

Upon the pollen heart of the lotus in my heart,

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Short Confession to the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities

This is an offering from Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo. This prayer is found in the “The Great Perfection: Buddha in the Palm of the Hand the Lama’s Oral Instruction Upon the Recitation and Visualization of the Preliminary Practice – Ngyundro” from the Nam Cho cycle of teachings revealed by Vidyadhara Terton Migyur Dojre.

From Jetsunma: [...]

Chenrezig in the Six Realms

Download the Chenrezig in the Six Realms practice

The following is the practice of Chenrezig or Avalokitesvara Appearing in the Six Realms

From the Nam Chö Treasure Revelations of Terton Migyur Dorje

TSIG DUN SOL DEB  – Immutable Seven Line Prayer

 

HUNG                ORGYEN YÜL GYI NUB JANG TSHAM

HUNG                On [...]

The Lama’s Oral Instructions

The following is respectfully quoted from “The Great Perfection, Buddha in the Palm of the Hand” Nam Cho Ngondro revealed by Terton Migyur Dorje:

The peacefully abiding, self-originating, great primordial wisdom is revealed by he who has actualized this self-nature. This Being, Ngag gi Wangpo, who is no different from Buddha Vajradhara himself, I [...]

The Four fold Prayer for Motherly Sentient Beings Equal to Space

The following prayer is from the Nam Cho Ngondro, The Great Perfection Buddha in the Palm of Hand

MA NAM KHA DANG NYAM PA’I SEM CHEN THAM CHED

I pray that all motherly sentient beings, countless as space,

LAMA SANGYE CHÖ KYI KU LA SÖL WA DEB SO

May realize the Guru’s [...]

Refuge and Bodhicitta

The following is respectfully quoted from the Namcho Daily Practice book published by Palyul Ling International:

OM AH HUNG

KHA NYAM SI ZHI KYAB KUN NYING PO CHU Of all the refuges in samsara and nirvana present throughout space, the quintessence

WANG DRAG RIG DZIN PEMA TO TRENG SAL Is the powerful and wrathful [...]

Medicine Buddha Prayer and Technique

The following is an excerpt from a translation by Sarah Harding:

Short homage to Buddha Men’a:

CHOM DEN DEY I bow before

DE ZHIN SHEK PA The Vanquisher, Tathagata

DRA CHOM PAR Conqueror of enemies,

YANG DAG PAR Completely pure and

DZOK PAY SANGYE Perfect Buddha

MEN GYI LA Menla,

BHE DUR YA King [...]

Refuge and Bodhicitta

The following are the Refuge, Bodhicitta, and Accumulation of Merit verses from the Long Chen Nying Gi Thig Le La’i Rigdzin Dupa;i Tshog Chöd Zhug:

Refuge

NAMO DAG DANG THA YE SEM CHEN KÜN

NAMO I and all the endless sentient beings,

CHOG SUM NGO WO LAMA DANG

The Lama, identity of the three [...]

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