From the infinite sky of your pristine awareness, the totality of experience, and the great clouds of your aspirations and prayersWarm rays of compassion and showers of elixir stream down,Ripening the three forms in the fields, your students' minds.I bow to you, my teacher, my protector, supreme among the Three Jewels. With stronger aspirations I … [Read more...] about Longchenpa's 30 Pieces of Sincere Advice
Life
How I Live The Practice
From Tsulak Trengwa's biography This excerpt from Tsulak Trengwa's biography describes how a vajrayana practitioner approaches and experiences his life. Always I worked hard at pure actionsSo as not to waste the pith instructions. Although I haven't visited frightening burial grounds,I haven't seen any place more frightening thanAttitudes based on … [Read more...] about How I Live The Practice
Daily Bodhisattva Vow
Refuge Until I reach the heart of awakening,I take refuge in all buddhasAnd likewise in the DharmaAnd the host of bodhisattvas. Repeat three times. Seven Section Prayer With complete faith I bowTo Buddha Shakyamuni andAll the victorious ones and their followersWho abide in the ten directions and three times. I offer … [Read more...] about Daily Bodhisattva Vow
Dakini Song
by Khyungpo Naljor This song comes from a collection of songs by Shangpa masters. Khyungpo Naljor, a twelfth-century teacher in Tibet, had a visionary experience in which a lion-headed dakini appeared to him and sang this song about working with dakini energy: Crystal dakini guards against interruptions.Jewel dakini increases wealth.Lotus dakini … [Read more...] about Dakini Song
37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
A Summary of How an Awakening Being Behaves by Tokmé Zong-po (Thogs.med bzang.po, 1245-1369) Namo Lokesvaraya You who see that experience has no coming or going,Yet pour your energy solely into helping beings,My excellent teachers and Lord All Seeing,I humbly and constantly honor with my body, speech, and mind. The fully awake, the buddhas, source … [Read more...] about 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
Facing Fear
This article first appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Spring 2002. On Sept. 11, 2001, I watched in shock as the great cathedrals of globalism, the World Trade Center towers, crumbled into dust. The tallest and grandest buildings of any culture represent beliefs in invincibility, entitlement, and power. When these illusions are shattered, fear arises. … [Read more...] about Facing Fear