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Vajrapani Empowerment
with Heart Essence Dzogchen Pith Instructions
on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
by Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
January 18-25, 2020
Buddha Vajrapani is one of the eight great bodhisattvas and lords of the three families. He represents the power of the buddhas and is especially responsible for transmitting the Tantras to the human realm as the “Lord of Secrets.” Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will bestow the empowerment according to the lineage of the great master Mipham Rinpoche.
The “Condensed Heart Instructions of the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen for Practitioners” are simple but powerful instructions that penetrate the heart essence the Buddha and Guru Padmasambhava’s teachings. This profound advice by the great master Raga Asye perfectly includes every level of the Buddha’s 84,000 teachings, and can be easily applied by every kind of Buddhist practitioner to achieve complete enlightenment this very life for the benefit of all beings.
The great master and terton Raga Asye (1613-1678), who was also known as Karma Chagme, was a most highly realized and accomplished scholar-yogis of Tibet. He was renowned as a reincarnation of Chokro Lui Gyaltsen and Prince Mutig Tsenpo—a Dharma heart son of Guru Rinpoche and Vimalamitra—as well as an activity reincarnation of the Karmapa. In addition, he was the teacher and student of terton Namcho Mingyur Dorje.
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche is a holder of the complete Buddhist Nyingma lineage of study and practice from the basic teachings of mindfulness to the most advanced meditation techniques of Dzogchen. Rinpoche has been a spiritual friend and resident of the Palm Beach community for over 30 years. Together with his brother, Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, he founded Padmasambhava Buddhist Center in the late 1980’s and is the principle director and teacher of Padmasambhava Buddhist Center International Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche has an amazing ability to communicate profound topics in simple words, touching people’s hearts and opening their minds to their innate potential of wisdom and compassion. Khenpo Rinpoche has co-authored over 35 Dharma books in English. He travels extensively worldwide giving empowerments, teachings, and personal instructions at PBC Dharma centers.
Sat. Jan. 18th Opening of Retreat and Sun. Jan. 19th Empowerment & Teachings at:
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Mon. Jan. 20st – Thurs. Jan. 23rd
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“We want to advise you to practice Phowa intensively for about one week. It would be good to practice it repeatedly until signs appear. According to the Buddha’s teachings, signs come easily in Phowa practice. The quickness of the signs depends upon the amount of concentration and devotion. If your meditation and devotion are strong, the signs come quickly.
Please keep your Phowa practice alive and active as much as you can. This practice is something that you should continue to do periodically, even after you experience signs of being able to accomplish it. All the Longchen Nyingtik lineage teachers, such as Patrul Rinpoche, his foremost student Nyoshul Lungtok, and Nyoshul Lungtok’s foremost student, Khenpo Ngagchung, encouraged their students to continue to practice it occasionally. Perhaps you could do this once a day—right before going to bed is a particularly good time. Simply mentally repeat the visualization and meditation.
It’s also strongly recommended to do a full session of Phowa once every week or two, to keep the process fresh in your mind. Even after experiencing signs, it’s good to do Phowa periodically. At the stage of accomplishment, you could do the transfer sequence only seven or twenty-one times in all. For instance, if you had planned to do Phowa for an entire week, once you experience signs, you can lower the number of times you do the transference. However, until signs do appear, if you want to have strong accomplishment, you need to keep practicing Phowa.
Non-attachment and the Desire to Go to Dewachen
It’s also very important that we continue to train in having less grasping. Particularly when the time of death comes, we must have courage and cut attachment to our body and sense of self, as well as to our belongings and loved ones. Having less attachment is very important if we’re going to accomplish Phowa. As time goes on, we need to be less and less attached to everything—our possessions, wealth, and the people close to us.
Try to see everything as magic or a dream. Everyday it’s good to offer whatever you own and whatever you use to Buddha Amitabha. Mentally make a mandala offering of your world and give it to all the buddhas, bodhisattvas, and arhats. Even if you still use those things the next day, by offering them again and again, you’ll have much less attachment and it will help you to die without hesitation or holding back.
Another general point is that we need to look forward to going to Amitabha’s pure land. In one of his prayers, the master Karma Chagme said, “When the time of death comes, may I go directly to the pure land of the Buddha Amitabha, without looking back, just like a bird freed from its cage.” When a bird is let loose, it doesn’t long to return to its cage. It’s happy to fly away, whatever its destination might be. This is a powerful message for us. When death comes, if you feel that you did what you wanted to do and fulfilled the purpose of this life, you can leave courageously and fearlessly. The Vajrayana teachings say that people who die this way are real yogis and yoginis. They demonstrate a truly heroic attitude.
Final Reminders About Phowa
In terms of benefiting yourself, when the time comes for your physical and mental aggregates to separate, you need the intention to shoot your conscious- ness like an arrow, straight to the target as you’ve planned. Without any hesitation, without looking back, take the attitude of looking forward to entering the pure land of Amitabha. As part of your motivation, look forward every day, as much as you can, to transferring your consciousness to the pure land.
Also, whenever you practice, it’s important to increase your devotion.Devotion plants us firmly on spiritual ground and makes our realization grow and develop. Without devotion, the ground of our practice is shaky. If we’re not well-rooted, we can get blown off course. As soon as we’re confronted with a disruptive situation, if we don’t have strong devotion, our practice could simply fall apart. In order to make our life meaningful and fulfilling, we need to practice, and devotion is an essential ingredient.
When you practice Phowa, cultivate devotion—particularly to Buddha Amitabha. Amitabha embodies all the buddhas of the three times and the ten directions. He is the embodiment of the dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya. Please feel in your heart that Buddha Amitabha is your true protector and support. While doing Phowa, meditate on yourself as Vajrayogini and feel the presence of Buddha Amitabha right above your head. Don’t see the place where you are as an ordinary place, but as a pure land. It’s the pure land of Amitabha, Guru Padmasambhava, Vajrayogini, and Yeshe Tsogyal. Bring all your outer perceptions and inner understanding back to the true nature, which is unaffected by dualistic thinking.”
The Essential Journey of Life and Death, Volume 2: Using Dream Yoga and Phowa as the Path (pgs 228-230)
www.padmasambhava.org/chiso/books-by-khenpo-rinpoches/essential-journey-of-life-and-death-volume-two
October 25, 2019
A 20 foot Enlightenment Stupa will be placed in the center, surrounded by the following 12 foot stupas in the four directions: a Heaped Lotuses Stupa, a Many Doors Stupa; a Complete Victory Stupa; and a Mahaparinirvana Stupa.
These five stupas honor and commemorate Buddha Shakyamuni’s birth, enlightenment, teaching the Dharma, extending his life, and mahaparinirvana.
The five stupas are made of solid volcanic rock, and were hand-carved in Indonesia by an expert craftsman. In addition, a small temple is being built in to honor and house a life-sized statue of “Looks Like Me” Guru Padmasambhava!
If you would like to support this glorious, meritorious project in honor of our lineage masters, or a loved one, please mail a check payable to “PBC” to Padma Samye Ling monastery, and note in the memo who the donation is being made on behalf of.
Padma Samye Ling
618 Buddha Highway
Sidney Center, NY 13839
(607) 865-8068
www.padmasambhava.org/psl-meadow-stupa-garden
On Saturday, October 19, 2019 H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche blessed the entire Three Kaya Temple, as well as the Lotus Thrones where five new stupas and a Guru Rinpoche temple are being built in the PSL meadow.
H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche—grandson of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and son of H.H. Shenphen Dawa Norbu Rinpoche—very kindly offered a special blessing ceremony of precious Dudjom Tersar relics at Padma Samye Ling monastery and retreat center in upstate New York on October 20, 2019 at the request of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche and the Sangha of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center.
H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Tulku Phulung Sangye Rinpoche, who was one of the principal root teachers of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche.
Support the PSL Stupa Garden here:
www.padmasambhava.org/psl-meadow-stupa-garden
Blessing Ceremony of Sacred Dudjom Tersar Relics by H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche
H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche—grandson of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and son of H.H. Shenphen Dawa Norbu Rinpoche—very kindly offered a special blessing ceremony of precious Dudjom Tersar relics at Padma Samye Ling monastery and retreat center in upstate New York on October 20, 2019 at the request of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche and the Sangha of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center.
H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Tulku Phulung Sangye Rinpoche, who was one of the principal root teachers of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche.
The blessing ceremony of sacred relics included personal items of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, as well as other precious objects related to the Dudjom Tersar lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. These are rare treasures that carry tremendous blessing and inspiration.
Some of the amazing, incredibly sacred relics that were present included:
- Guru Rinpoche’s Samye Terphur (terma phurba revealed at Samye Monastery)
- Terdak Thamchen Dorje Terphur (terma phurba of Dorje Lekpa)
- Samye Dhora (original dorje from the vajra wall around Samye Monastery)
- Dakini Kapala
- H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje’s Tsebum (long life vase)
- HH Dudjom Rinpoche’s Hat
- HH Dudjom Rinpoche’s Bell, Dorje, Bumpa, Dru Ze (rice pot), Chodram (drum), Kangling (trumpet), and ink pot (used to write down many termas)
On Saturday, October 19, 2019 H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche blessed the entire Three Kaya Temple, as well as the Lotus Thrones where five new stupas and a Guru Rinpoche temple are being built in the PSL meadow.
Join Us for a Special Blessing Ceremony of Sacred Dudjom Tersar Relics at Padma Samye Ling, NY by H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche
www.padmasambhava.org/…/blessing-ceremony-of-sacred…
Some of the amazing, incredibly sacred relics that will be present include:
1. Guru Rinpoche’s Samye Terphur (terma phurba revealed at Samye Monastery)
2. Terdak Thamchen Dorje Terphur (terma phurba of Dorje Lekpa)
3. Samye Dhora (original dorje from the vajra wall around Samye Monastery)
4. Dakini Kapala
5. H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje’s Tsebum (long life vase)
6. HH Dudjom Rinpoche’s Hat
7. HH Dudjom Rinpoche’s Bell, Dorje, Bumpa, Dru Ze (rice pot), Chodram (drum), Kangling (trumpet), and ink pot (used to write down many termas)
Padma Samye Ling
Sunday, Oct 20, 2019
10:00am – Noon
Join us to celebrate the Stainless Wisdom Lineage of the Dudjom Tersar!!!
H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche—grandson of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and son of H.H. Shenphen Dawa Norbu Rinpoche—will kindly be offering a special blessing ceremony of precious Dudjom Tersar relics at Padma Samye Ling monastery and retreat center in upstate New York on October 20, 2019 at the request of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche and the Sangha of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center.
H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Tulku Phulung Sangye Rinpoche, who was one of the principal root teachers of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche
The blessing ceremony of sacred relics will include personal items of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, as well as other precious objects related to the Dudjom Tersar lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. These are rare treasures that carry tremendous blessing and inspiration.
H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche will arrive to Padma Samye Ling on Saturday, October 19th, and everyone is warmly welcome to gather to receive him and honor the Dudjom Tersar lineage. On Saturday afternoon, H.E. Namgay Dawa Rinpoche will visit the main temple and also bless the site where five new stupas and a Guru Rinpoche temple are being built in the PSL meadow.
If you would like to show up early to help prepare for this special event, we would really appreciate your help! Please call us at Padma Samye Ling.
The special relic blessing ceremony will begin on Sunday, October 20, 2019 in the morning starting at 10am.
Suggested Donation : $25
Please RSVP to confirm your attendance for this special event. A variety of on-site accommodations options are available as well as vegetarian meals.
For further information click below or feel free to call us at (607) 865-8068.
www.padmasambhava.org/…/blessing-ceremony-of-sacred-dudjom-…
“My Dharma friend John Giorno, Yeshe Dorje (Indestructible Wisdom), met His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche in the early 1970s, and ever since has been a devoted and loyal disciple of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Under the guidance of this great master, John has worked with much dedication to establish and spread the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni and Guru Padmasambhava in North America. He has been very instrumental to all Buddhist lineages—particular the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
John was also a very good friend and supporter of my beloved late brother, Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, as well as to myself and the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center. I’ve known John since the mid 1970s in India, and consider myself one of his old Dharma friends.
John is one of the very distinct, open, and fearless minds of this time, always courageous to explore new lights within the culture. He is a well-known contemporary poet.
I’m so happy that his work is being displayed [in the 2017 “I LOVE John Giorno” exhibit in New York City], commemorating and glorifying his life of extraordinary activities for humanity. I’m sure this will touch the hearts and minds of the many people who will see his work for the first time.
Yours in Dharma,
Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Verses Commemorating the Great Poet
John Giorno Yeshe Dorje
Your marvelous birth took place in North America.
Bright, youthful, and open-minded,
You fortunately met the great terton and regent of Guru Padmasambhava, Lord Dudjom,
And contacted his lotus feet with unfailing devotion of body, speech, and mind.
Taken as a close student, this teacher bestowed empowerments and instructions,
And crowned you with the name Yeshe Dorje.
As the Lama wished, you established a Dharma center in the United States.
How amazing and fortunate you are John!
The excellent meanings of Dharma, wealth, desire, and liberation join together in a poem
Intoxicating body and mind with so much joy and delight
That everyone freely sings sounds of happiness!
Your reputation for great poetry resounds around the globe!
In the space of your open and contented mind
The sun and moon of the yoga of the two stages inwardly shine clearly.
Externally, galaxies of beautifully composed poems shimmer.
Shooting stars of fearless yogi activities flash.
Dzogchen yogi Yeshe Dorje,
This brief, unfabricated, natural life story,
On the occasion of your celebration
Was written by your Dharma friend, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal.
The above writings were excerpted from a letter that Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche wrote in 2017 about his long-time Dharma friend John Giorno.
