Chapter 5 of “Ganges Mahamudra: Tilopa’s Pith Instructions to Naropa”
[…] something different from ambition, wanting, going after. Ken: Yeah. Sure. Joe, may I use you as an example? Joe: You may. Marie: There’s a line in the prayer here. Ken: Yeah. In aspirations, basically it’s forming a wish. And one of the things Rinpoche said—when I first heard him saying this I went, “Yeah, […]
Chapter 1 of “Chö: Cutting Through the Thickets of Thinking”
[…] outer chö is offering your body to gods and demons. Okay? Other questions? Now there’s one text here which starts on page 31, . This is a prayer that was written by a teacher, oh, I think in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, generally known as Karma Chagmé, who was a very prolific writer, […]
Practice Material
[…] fearlessness on the other. Recite the mantra for Limitless Light a number of times, feeling your own yearning to be completely at peace with your life. Prayer of Guidance om ah hum In this sacred and joyful setting, Realm of Joy, Our family has gathered, Brought together by noble wishes made long ago. […]
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[…] of formulating such wishesTo all my mothers who are as limitless as space.May we all be free from suffering, know sublime happiness,And together attain full awakening. This prayer was composed in the Male Earth Dragon Year (1928) by Karma Rangjung Kunchab (Kalu Rinpoche) who is the latest in the line of transmission of the […]
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A Cry to the Guru from Afar1 namo gurave Everyone knows the form of prayer called a call to the guru from afar. The key to invoking the energy of faith is devotion, devotion that is inspired by both disillusionment and determination,2 devotion that comes not merely from your lips mouthing the words but […]
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[…] keeping with our prayers. Aspirations for The Great Seal, the actual aim of practice, was composed by Lord Rangjung Dorje, Karmapa III. Ken McLeod originally translated this prayer at the request of a number of students who wished to make it part of their practice. In 2024, at Donna McLaughlin’s request for the mahamudra-practice.com […]
Chapter 10 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] me om padma padma padmasambhave sukhavate gatcham tu svaha So, it’s human nature to mark these events in some way. So I’ve also brought with me a prayer from another text by the same author, Karma Chakmé, which is a prayer for all of those who have died. I’d like to repeat this with […]
Chapter 8 of “Stand-Alone Talks”
[…] say, don’t be afraid of faith, or that yearning quality, which is often felt as a pain in the heart. Now on my website you’ll find a prayer called Devotion Pierces My Heart. And it’s a long prayer written by a great teacher in the nineteenth century. And he’s using traditional vocabulary, but every […]
Chapter 1 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] aside. Unbeknownst to me, I had already had a previous contact with Tokmé Zongpo but didn’t know that it was Tokmé Zongpo when I had translated a prayer, which goes something like: “If it’s better for me to be ill, may I be ill. If it’s better for me to recover, may I recover. […]
Chapter 4 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] keep attention in the whole room. Kati: Exactly. And it keeps everyone on their toes instead of just the mic person, like levitating on their toes. Opening prayers Ken: Let’s begin with the prayers. May my heart turn to practice. May practice become a path. May this path dissolve confusion. May confusion become wisdom. […]
Chapter 12 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] Now we get into something that comes up in different guises again and again. It comes up in Longchenpa, comes up in Rangjung Dorje in the Mahamudra Prayer. To say anything—Eric? Eric: On the verse on awakening mind, if he’s not referring to the way it’s traditionally taught, what is he referring to then […]
Chapter 7 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] Four Instructions of Gampopa Ken: And go through the refuge in the same way. It’s, oh, this is something that makes sense to me. And these verses, prayers, are the ritual way that we connect with that kind of emotional quality. And this is very, very clear. This is not a reactive emotion, that […]
Chapter 6 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] (pron. om mani peme hung), just all the time. The purpose of repeating a mantra all the time like this—and the same thing applies to the Jesus prayer in the Orthodox Christian tradition—you say it over and over again so that it becomes something that’s just going on in you all the time. And […]
Chapter 8 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] everybody, was intolerant, had no patience for anything. She also was a very devout devotee of Amitabha. And she would sit in her house and say her prayers in an extremely loud voice which everybody in the village could hear. So it didn’t make the village a peaceful place, and nobody wanted to talk […]
Chapter 27 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] this at some point here—I want to give you a larger context for this. And what I am quoting from here, is a translation of the Mahamudra Prayer, by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, who is three or four generations—well at least three or four generations—after Gampopa, but very much in the same lineage. […]
