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“When it comes to meditation, what is most important?
Certainty. Sure, open, relaxed confidence.”
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Photo of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche and Lama Jomo Lorraine enjoying a Sangha picnic and talent show during the 2011 White Lotus Summer Dzogchen Retreat.
Sat., February 27, 2021
3:30 – 6:00pm EST
Chötrul Duchen: Special ceremonies celebrating Buddha Shakyamuni’s miraculous activities at the conclusion of the Miracle Month.
Join the Live Webcast:www.padmasambhava.org/2020/08/live-teachings-and-meditations-with-ven-khenpo-tsewang-dongyal-rinpoche
During the first 2 weeks of the Tibetan New Year, it is celebrated that the Buddha displayed a miracle each day to increase the merit and devotion of us his future disciples. During this time, the benefit of one’s actions is multiplied 100,000 fold. The Miracle Month culminates on Chotrul Duchen: the Day of Miracles. On this full moon day, the effect of one’s actions is multiplied 10 million times. This is truly a most auspicious day for practice.
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will lead practice for the worldwide sangha webcast from Padma Samye Ling. We hope you can join!
A short teaching on Buddha Shakyamuni’s enlightened activities can be found by clicking here:
• Times are Eastern Standard Time. A time zone converter can be found by following this link:
Texts to Have on Hand
• Treasury of Mantras and Prayers (“Opening Prayer Book”)
• Extended Buddha Sadhana
• Dharmapala Prayers
• Stainless King
• Healing Practices
• If you would like to contribute to the feast offering, you can make an offering here:
The “Four Reliances.”
(1) Don’t rely on the person, rely on the teaching.
(2) Don’t rely on the words, rely on the meaning.
(3) Don’t rely on the interpretable meaning, rely on the definitive, ultimate meaning.
(4) Don’t rely on conceptual mind, but rely on wisdom.
“The Dzogchen teachings often speak of view, meditation, and conduct. The view means you understand the nature of your mind. You know it the same way that you know your own face when you see it in a mirror—instantly, without any doubt or hesitation. This is called “certainty wisdom.” The next step is meditation. Meditation means maintaining this view by continuously recognizing the nature of your mind as a way of life. Conduct refers to your speech and actions, which are the support for your view and meditation. Whatever you say and do should reflect, support, and strengthen your understanding of the nature of your mind. The essential point of conduct is to not accept or reject the six sensory experiences. If you continue to practice like this, your view, meditation, and conduct will merge into the result: your view will become indestructible, and you will no longer be distracted by thoughts or external events. You will maintain the view perfectly at all times and in all places. This result is not far away—in fact, it’s right here. But you must release your belief in thoughts to see it.
For the view, meditation, conduct, and result to manifest properly and fully we need a foundation, and that foundation is two-fold: (1) generating bodhichitta and (2) reflecting on impermanence. This is not only Shigpo Dudtsi’s teaching, but the teaching of all the great Dzogchen masters, from Garab Dorje until now. As we cultivate vast, impartial love, compassion, and wisdom, and develop a deep understanding of both the transience and preciousness of life, we’re crossing the bridge that leads from habitual patterns to absolute freedom. Bodhichitta and impermanence are not only catalysts for realization, but are expressions of the true nature of the mind.”
Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches
The Beauty of Awakened Mind: Dzogchen Lineage of the Great Master Shigpo Dudtsi (pgs 141-142)
Join Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Ganachakra of Guru Padmasambhava
& Great Master Shantarakhita
Along with memorial ceremony for Ven. Lama Chimed Namgyal
Live Webcast
Monday, February 22
3:30-6:00pm EST
Join us for an extra special guru tsok ceremony. This 10th Day we will also honor the co-founder of Tibetan Buddhism, Great Master Shantarakshita.
The 10th day of the Miracle Month is also the mahaparinirvana anniversary of Ven. Lama Chimed Namgyal, beloved father of the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches. Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will lead the PBC Sangha’s 10th Day practices as we remember the precious legacy and blessings of this great hidden yogi’s joy, devotion, courage, and commitment.
• We will add two practices in honor of Great Master Shantarakshita and Ven. Lama Chimed Namgyal Rinpoche.
Click above link for complimentary downloads.
Click here to join the live webcast Monday, February 22 @ 3:30 pm EST
• Shower of Blessings from Mipham Rinpoche will be the main practice.
• Shantarakshita Guru Yoga
• A Prayer of Loving Devotion, In Remembrance of the Only Father Lama.
• We will also recite the Stainless King and the Swift Fulfillment of Wishes.
• We will include our other daily healing practices as well.
• If you would like to contribute to the feast offering, you can make an offering here:
“Teachings beyond compare, heart essence of the dakinis!”
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
“…Having released clinging to a self, there is no need to justify yourself or make any demands on the universe. Pure being is pure seeing, the “heart essence of the dakinis.” It is completely without an agenda, seeing only what is there to be seen.
“Dakini is a Sanskrit word that roughly translates as “sky dancer.” The sky is a metaphor for the nature of mind, free of subjectivity, bias, and expectations. This is the nature of pure being, reality itself. The dancer is a metaphor for the phenomena we experience, for whatever is sensed, thought, or felt. To one who is still a servant of the ego, the dancer represents the confused projections that keep us circling in samsara. To one who is free of clinging, the dancer, the dancing, and the source of the dance—one’s open mind—are all the same. The “heart essence of the dakinis” is the pure enjoyment of knowing that whatever happens is the playful, graceful movements of one’s mind. One knows that every movement of one’s mind has no reason, meaning, or message beyond itself.”
Calling the Lama from Afar
Teaching on The Prayer of Calling the Lama from Afar: A Spontaneous Song of the Original Nature by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
Free Download of the 2007 PBC Pema Mandala Magazine (pg 6):
www.padmasambhava.org/sermon/spring-2007-issue
“We need to develop an open vision, a simple way of seeing that is totally receptive, free of all tendencies to label and judge. This is called “the view.” One who sees in this way truly has the eyes of the universe. We pray to attain great confidence in the view. Why is great confidence needed? To open up to the infinite we must open up our mind, and to do this we must be strong. When our defensiveness and habitual beliefs are under siege, hidden fears and desires erupt. This is the time for great bravery—no matter what occurs, we want to experience it nakedly as it is, without manipulating anything or closing anything off.”
Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches
Illuminating the Path: Ngondro Instructions According to the Nyingma School of Vajrayana Buddhism (pg 37)
Photo of Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche at Padma Samye Ling in 1994, by Henry Hose.
“I prostrate to the entire assembly of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha,
Who abide in the auspicious pure lands of the ten directions,
Which are the spontaneously perfect & pure nature of all apparent existence.
May everything be auspicious for myself and others.”
Excerpt from the “Tashi Prayer” by Mipham Rinpoche
Photo of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche praying in Kalmykia in 2010.
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Welcome the Tibetan New Year of the Metal Ox with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche with Live Webcast of a Buddha Shakyamuni Meditation!
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Friday, February 12, 2021
3:30pm – 6:00pm
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Join the free Live Webcast:
What Is More Precious Than This?
A Dharma Teaching by Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Dudjom Tersar Vajrakilaya Retreat
Padma Samye Ling
July 16, 2016