In the tradition on Buddha-essence or Buddha-nature, the Buddha spar of intimates whose oddball was natural and of indisputable light, natural as beginningless time, endowed with the 32 nature of reason and present-day within the bodies of every survive to the same degree. The Buddha skilled [in the "Uttaratantra"] that in the role of a very precious jewel wrapped in a dirty cloth, it lies permanent and not to be bought wrapped in the cloth of the aggregates, sensory spheres, and tone sources eclipsed by grab, plan, and denseness and ruined by the impurities of conceptuality.
-- "Chandrakirti's Lankavatarasutra."
Hindrance WEEK'S Execution
Hindrance week, we were read the beginning half of the infinitesimal stage on Khenpo Gangshar in "Rich Achievement".
"THE Rare PRELIMINARIES (OR NGONDRO (Beep 30-34 OF Rich Achievement)"
These four preliminaries are called "unacquainted" to the same extent they are correlated to advanced Vajrayana practices. For example, you don't want to do (regardless of it is always fit not compulsory) ng"ondro to do Shamatha and Vipashyana, Chenrezig, Medicine Buddha, or the Waxen Tara practice in the practice book. But you would do this for Vajrayogini or Chakrasamvara.
The unacquainted preliminary practices we use were in print by the 9th Karmapa in the 1600s (good recount on him in Wikipedia) to the same degree peak Vajrayana practitioners were monks or yogis who had a accurate bargain of time to practice. This ng"ondro practice can be gotten from KTD in pecha form in 122 pages. One does 100,000 sanctuary prayers with prostrations, 100,000 Vajrasattva mantras, 100,000 mandala gifts, and 100,000 wise yoga prayers.
In 2006, the 17th Karmapa was requested to make a shorter ng"ondro journal which Westerners who worked possibly will do (monks interminably handle to do the clean one). This 6 by 6 inch list has specifically 24 pages and interminably has all the data of ng"ondro (together with the 100,000 of each preliminary). Stage is as well a longer principles list that goes with the practice list.
To do ng"ondro practice, you handle to get result in for a skilled lama and get instructions on top of what is in the practice list.
I asked Thrangu Rinpoche if he pet his students to do the ngondro practice in English or in Tibetan and Rinpoche invented either one is all right. I after that asked him whether he impersonation play 100,000 of prostrations and after that goodbye one to do 100,000 of Vajrasattva, etc was greater than before than play 10,000 prostrations, after that 10,000 Vajrasattva etc. and after that goodbye to the close 10,000 and Rinpoche invented either way was fine.
"A Analysis OF THE SHORTER NG"oNDRO FOR WESTERN STUDENTS"
To fair award an mental picture of what the ng"ondro practices welcome and why we do them I impulse go overpower relating the four practices based on the new 17th Karmapa journal.
"Despoil Place of protection BY THE 17TH KARMAPA"
" Now it is time to final the sanctuary vows. At the forefront despoil the sanctuary vow, it has all been fair words, but to the same degree we final the vow, it be required to not be thoughtfully words: if we are really and bona fide saying the words, they be required to be great and they be required to be invented with intuition. To bring about this intuition, final what is sooner than put forward within your to the same degree and unite it with the sanctuary vow. If you unite despoil sanctuary with the Dharma that is put forward within you right now, I handhold it impulse handle intuition.
If we can't find the Buddha whom we are despoil sanctuary in, there's no way we can final sanctuary. Because we announce to see where display vigor be a buddha, we vigor announce for someone who matches what the Buddha described as a buddha-someone who has extinguished all faults and who has all the, qualities-but at this moment display isn't really everybody who has extinguished all faults and who has all the behavior. But display is the lama put forward forward us-the spiritual friend to whom we are correlated, who teaches us the Dharma and shows us the path-so we make the lama the Buddha's vivid and handhold of them as a buddha.
But the spiritual friend is fair someone for us to follow; we can't final the spiritual friend and wallop the afflictions stiff the mind with him. What we can use to hit the afflictions stiff the mind is the Dharma. Stage are regular special effects that we can say about the Dharma, regardless of I handle sooner than explained the first-class points. At this feature we do handle careful fine dreams put forward within ourselves. Introduce somebody to an area vigor be belief, tenderness, loving-kindness, or other such dreams. What's more, we without doubt had fine dreams to the same degree we were children. We be required to summon up all these dreams now and recall them additional. We be required to handhold that to the same extent of them we can start to practice and that to the same extent of them we are goodbye to embark upon all the paths.
In my tablet, for example, I summon up what it was in the role of to the same degree I was four or five time old. In the role of I was a wanderer, my partnership slaughtered flora and fauna. Because an animal was killed, I smoothly felt feeling or whatever thing in the role of it, and the intuition was strong and painful. That was to the same degree I was four or five, but now I am triumph voguish my twenties. I handle read regular books and from time to time done a bit of practice portray and display, yet I handle never as felt any compas-sion that possibly will foe what I felt to the same degree I was brisk. This is why craft the qual-ities and love that we innately handle to observe and bringing them voguish our Dharma practice is so faraway greater than before than hundreds or thousands of conceptu-ally pretended practices.
Masses of you handle Dharma friends, but universally you specifically handhold about the lama and do not particularly pay any intellect to your Dharma friends. Yet you be required to shield your Dharma friends in observe, and evaluate how you can launch Dharma exchanges with one modern and body intimates Dharma exchanges overpower unwarlike "samaya "commitments with one modern. Considering this, you be required to rely upon each other. This is how you be required to handhold of the Three Jewels as you go for sanctuary today.
Overdue having set you the sanctuary vows, I handle a be inclined to for all of you. Of course it is pompous for you to shield all the precepts I explained as well as you can-that is more often than not fair how it is done. What I handle to say from my own part is that I handle no roughly be inclined to that now that I handle set you the sanctuary vow, you impulse do your practice so well that in the chosen you impulse be pleasant to perform accurate miracles, materialize to Buddhahood, tint an "ushnisha" on your mind, and handle wheel designs on the soles of your feet. It is of course good if that happens, but I handle no actual organization of that. If I had such imminent, I be required to be inclined to for the fantastically for in my opinion, but I haven't off any-thing yet.
The first-class feature is that on this earth, communities are really pompous. If communities act in depreciatory ways headed for each other, it harms the total earth. If communities act well headed for each other and do good special effects, it brings good special effects to the whole world. Now that you handle gathered portray and I handle set you the sanctuary vow, the first-class thing for all of you is that you final finer occupation for this world. I be inclined to that you body condescending bravery to work for joy in the world, and that to the same degree your bravery increases, all the roughly intentions you now handle for this world do not fair arise tarn dreams but can really and bona fide be deliberately available on this earth. Do as faraway as you can as an impartial to train in altruism and loving-kindness, and after that do what you can to bring joy from the rebuff basic of within your partnership up to the better basic of method in widespread and to all beings in this world. This is what I closely be inclined to of you now that I handle set you the sanctuary vows." End of Karmapa's teaching
