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The Lamas at Kathok Gonpa prepare students to receive Dzogpa Chenpo teachings in the Longchen Nyingthig tradition.
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A teaching from Phakchok Rinpoche originally teaching given by Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche
'Many moons ago in Bhutan, perhaps the most memorable time of my life, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche besides being my root guru, was also like a father figure to me. I am where I am spiritually today only because of the kindness of my gurus.
One day in his audience, when he was talking about the Great Perfection, he gave me a piece of advice spreading out his five fingers in front of me and mentioned think of these as the five different motivations. He drew a line along his little finger and pointing to the lower half said, "One motivation we have is fear and the wish to be free from that fear in this life. For example, some people are sick or are experiencing some particular hardship and because of which, start practicing. That kind of intention is not very pure." Pointing to the upper half of his little finger he said, "This is the desire to gain excellent qualities in this life. For intance, wanting to have good health, long life and so forth. Both of which are samsaric motivations" he said. The second finger Rinpoche mentioned is neither positive nor negative, but of a neutral intention. The middle finger he said is the motivation of those with inferior faculties, thinking, "I fear falling into the lower realms and instead want to be liberated from the lower realms and because of this reason I want to practice observing karma." The next finger he said is the motivation of those with mediocre faculties, those at the Arhat level, who fear being in samsara. Finally pointing to the thumb he said, " This is the motivation of those with superior faculties, the superior motivation of pure bodhichitta." Pure compassion and wisdom. When these two are combined together then you have pure bodhichitta. When you lack one of these, it is not pure bodhichitta. So Rinpoche said, out of these five, which motivation should we have? This one, he said, with a big thumbs up.
Most of the time quite honestly speaking we have the lowest motivation. We have fear of suffering, obstacles and attachment to excellent circumstances and qualities. Sometimes we might reach the third or the fourth level, but then we fall back down again. We never reach the highest level. To close his advice, we mentioned, whoever you are and whatever practice you do, when you lack this superior kind of motivation that means you lack what? Enlightenment!'
- Phakchok Rinpoche
Teachings and Prayers for your home practice:
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" Each of the thousand buddhas that will eventually have appeared during this eon in which we live will have attained that buddhahood by relying upon teachers. None of them will have just figured it out themselves. It will be by undergoing a training process of his or her mindstream that the being will become a buddha. It is important that you follow a teacher." H.E. Lingtrul Rinpoche
An Introduction to Practitioners in Lifetime Retreat
Reflections on the Accomplishment of Guru Yoga
Please note: Additions were made to the following document on 04/03/2011:
A Flash of Enlightenment, Stories of Lama Gugu
The Sutra on the Essence of Transcendent Knowledge, The Prajnaparamitra, The Heart Sutra
Guru Rinpoche Seven Line Prayer
The Prayer of Kungtuzangpo, The Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra
Lingtrul Rinpoche's Long Life Prayer
Karzang Rinpoche's Long Life Prayer
Phowa Teachings
Lingtrul Rinpoche teaching 1998
Personal Reflections on aTara Retreat 2009
Invocation for Raising Windhorse
om ah hung The assembly of the three jewels-Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, the three roots-Guru, Deva and Dakini; gods and sages; the three protectors-mahasattvas-Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani Jayadeva, Padma Töterang, and the vidyadharas of India and Tibet; the glorious protector, Ganapadi with the divine armies of dralas, the five patron gods, the great being, Gesar, and so on, all those gods of the cosmic lineage who command coincidence, to all of those, I offer clouds of real and imagined good offerings. I supplicate you: with kindness, please grant your blessings. Curses, burial sorcery, döns, obstructing spirits, obstacles and so on, may all these signs of the weakening and corruption of windhorse be pacified. Strife, enmity, scandal, discord, warfare, lawsuits, recurrent calamity and so on, pacify all such obstructing discord. Multiply the power and strength of the virtuous windhorse, the four legged miracle. Please accomplish the spiritual and temporal, supreme and ordinary siddhas. And without exception, whatever mind desires.
om wagi shwari mum, om mani peme hung, om vajrapani hung, om ah hung, vajra guru pema siddhi hung, om ham ksha ma la wa ra ya, ha ha hi hi he he ho ho Sarwa vijaya siddhi hung, tak seng khyung druk di yar kye
Gather all, sarwa, gather, gather, ho. Rouse all our life, virtue and glorious windhorse higher and higher!
om ye dharma hetu prabhava hetun teshan tathagato hyavadat teshan tsa yo nirodha ewam vadi mahashramana svaha
All phenomena arise from causes: Those causes have been taught by the Tathagata, And their cessagion too has been proclaimed by the Great Sharawa
Essential Tendrel Nysel Practice
From the Medium Length Practice of Tendrel Nyesel
Padmasambhava, great embodiment of all the sugatas and bodhisattvas
Throughout the whole of space and time,
All you deities of the Tantras of the Illusory Net, the Düpa Do , Lama Gongdü and Kagyé—
Through the power and truth of your compassion and your blessings, Let nothing inauspicious ever come to be!
om vajra guru pema shanting krodha guhya jnana rulu rulu guru déwa dakini maha shri heruka sarwa samaya hung phat tendrel nyé tsok tamché shanting kuru svaha