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Heart Nectar of the Saints: His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche

Heart Nectar of the Saints: His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche

The following is respectfully taken from “The Lamp of Liberation: A Collection of of Prayers, Advice and Aspirations”

Heart Nectar of the Saints: A Prayer of Aspiration That Condenses the Essence of the Oral Teachings:

by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Sole unfailing and unchanging Refuge, Lord of the Mandala, Most [...]

Faults of Cyclic Existence

Faults of Cyclic Existence

[Adapted from an oral commentary given by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in conjunction with a ceremony wherein he bestowed the bodhisattva vow upon a gathering of disciples at Namdroling in Bozeman, Montana, November 1999. ---Ed.]

Of all worldly phenomena, whether great or small, nothing is permanent and nothing endures. Therefore, when you find yourself [...]

Only You Can Awaken Bodhicitta Within: Full Length Video Teaching

The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in Sedona Arizona:

Shown 9/20/09. Given just after the 9/11 tragedy, Jetsunma encourages us to look within and reinvigorate our practice within. She also explains the imbalance at this time between the male and female. As women are defiled, so Tara [...]

Astrology

An emotional situation or a family matter captures your attention today.  You are pulled away from outside matters, and you must deal with an internal situation.  A powerful force opposes this and tries to force you outward.   Do your best to balance both sides, giving each its due.  An act of generosity can mediate between [...]

Heart Nectar of the Saints: His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche

The following is respectfully taken from “The Lamp of Liberation: A Collection of of Prayers, Advice and Aspirations”

Heart Nectar of the Saints: A Prayer of Aspiration That Condenses the Essence of the Oral Teachings:

by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Sole unfailing and unchanging Refuge, Lord of the Mandala, Most [...]

Prayer to Take Rebirth in Dewachen (Realm of Great Bliss)

The following prayer is from the Great Perfection Buddha in the Palm of the Hand: The Lama’s Oral Instructions Upon the Recitation and Visualization of the Preliminary Practices of Ngondro revealed by Terton Migyur Dorje

If the following prayer is recited daily with faith, it will assure an auspicious rebirth:

EH MA HO The [...]

Purification of Moral Conduct

The following is a prayer from the Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony as translated in the Nam Cho Daily Practice book from Palyul Ling International:

Prostrate to all the Tathagatas!

Prostrate to Bodhisattva Mahasattva Avalokiteshvara!

OM AH MO GHA SHI LA SAMBHARA SAMBHARA BHARA BHARA MAHASHUD DHA SATO PEMA BHI BHU KHE TE BU DZA DARA [...]

Request to Remain Firm

The following is a prayer from the Nam Chö Daily Practice Book from Palyul Ling International:

As the single source of benefit and bliss, May the doctrine remain in this world indefinitely and May those of supreme birth who uphold the precious doctrine, Live long firm lives like banners of victory! May the lives [...]

Incense Offering

The following is a prayer from the Namchö Daily Practice Book from Palyul Ling International:

TSUL TRIM DRI DEN PÖ CHOG DAM PA DI This pure supreme incense, which bears the scent of pure moral self-discipline,

TING DZIN NGAG DANG CHAG JYAI JYIN LAB KYI By the blessings of mantra, mudra and samadhi

SANG [...]

A Prayer From the Sang Ti Kagyama: Secret Esoteric Instruction by Dudjom Lingpa

The following is from “The Lamp of Liberation: A Collection of Prayers, Advice and Aspirations“

Kye! To all the Buddhas of the three times Inseparable from the great absolute space, Great intrinsic nature of phenomena, Space of awareness uncontrived and ever-free, We bow in order to realize our self-nature, And vow from now not [...]

Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

The following prayer is from the Nam Cho Daily Practice Book by Palyul Ling International:

HRIH  NGÖN GYI KAL PAI DANG PO LA In the past, at the beginning of this aeon,

O GYEN YUL GYI NUB JYANG TSAM In the northwest country of Uddiyana,

DHANA KO SHAI TSO LING DU On an island [...]

Prayer to Manjushri

Prayer To Manjushri

Obeisance to my Guru and Protector, Manjushri,

Who holds to his heart a scriptural text symbolic of his seeing all things as they are,

Whose intelligence shines forth as the sun, unclouded by delusions or traces of ignorance,

Who teaches in sixty ways with the loving compassion of a father for [...]

Waking Up From the Deep Slumber of Ignorance

The following is a prayer from the Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony as translated in the Nam Cho Daily Practice Book from Palyul Ling International:

Alas! Fortunate ones!

Do not let ignorance overwhelm you.

Wake up now and be diligent.

Since beginningless time to this very moment

You have been sleeping in ignorance. Enough!

Now sleep [...]

Swift Rebirth Prayer for Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche

NGA GYUR KA TER TSUR KHOR LO GYUR; KHÉ DRUB GYAL PO THINLEY NORBU YI “You who have turned the wheel of oceans of transmitted and revealed texts of the Early Translations, king of enlightened scholars and practitioners, Action Jewel (Thinley Norbu),

CHOG GI TRUL KU DA ZHEL NYUR CHAR TÉ; SA SUM TRA [...]