Session Three | April 19, 2013
PowerPoint PresentationA Tibetan YogiThe First Dodrupchen Rinpoche Jigme Trinley Ozer (1745-1821). The following includes the testament and brief biography of the first Dodrupchen was one of most important masters in the Nyingma and Dzogchen traditions. He revealed the Longchen Nyingtik cycle of training-teachings which will be discussed in another session. The future Dodrupchen Rinpoches became the principal vajra holders of the Longchen Nyingtik teachings. During his parinirvana, on the very night of his death, Dodrupchen made this spiritual testament received by his heart-felt student on his state of existence. Dodrupchen appeared in the sky in a radiant light body and an attire of lights. He was floating on a carpet of light, which was held up by four dakinis. In a very enchanting voice he sang the verses of his testament, which include the following lines: I am going into the expanse of the Wisdom of the Ultimate Sphere, Which is the state that transcends thoughts and expressions. I am going into the state of Mirrorlike Wisdom, Which is the ceaseless clear glow, fresh and open. I am going into the expanse of the Wisdom of Evenness, In which all the thoughts of grasping and grasper have vanished into the ultimate sphere. I am going into the Wisdom of Discriminative Awareness, Which is the clarity, the dawn of six kinds of foreknowledge. I am going into the state of the Wisdom of Accomplishment, Which emanates various manifestations in accordance with [the needs of] trainable beings. Son, please stay healthy. Now you have won over the obstructions of your life. Until all the phenomenal existents are liberated as the signs and teachings [of Dharma], [You should be] aware of samsara and nirvana as dreams and illusions. Dedicate yourself to the meditation where there is no reference point. This is the empowerment of total entrustment and aspiration. This is the supreme empowerment of empowerments. A Brief Biography: Born in the Do valley of Golok, and from childhood onwards. he had many pure visions and displayed extraordinary signs. The ceremonial cutting of his hair was performed by the second Shechen Rabjam Gyurme Kunzang Namgyal (1713-69), who gave him the name Kunzang Shenpen. He received teachings from about twenty lamas, including the third Dzogchen Rinpoche Ngedon Tenzin Zangpo (1759-92).Following Dzogchen Rinpoche's instructions, he carried out a seven-year retreat at Upper Gang-Trö, near Dzogchen monastery, during which he was helped by the Protectress Tseringma. Dzogchen Rinpoche also prophesized that the master with whom he had a special relationship by virtue of his past karma, and who would figure as his principal teacher was the great vidyadhara Jigme Lingpa. So at the age of thirty-nine Dodrupchen Rinpoche travelled to central Tibet and met Jigme Lingpa at his residence at Tsering Jong monastery in the Yarlung Valley. Jigme Lingpa recognised him as the future holder of his teachings, as had been foretold by Guru Rinpoche. He later became the spiritual teacher to the Queen of Derge and her son, founded a number of monasteries, including his seat at Yarlung Pemakö in the Ser valley, and spread the Nyingtik tradition in Amdo and as far as the Kokonor region of Mongolia. Dodrubchen was a 'treasure revealer' (terton) who discovered his own mind terma, he was recognised by Jigme Lingpa as the incarnation of Prince Murum Tsenpo, a son of King Trisong Detsen. 'Dodrupchen' literally means 'The Great Siddha from Do valley'. Amongst his disciples were the greatest Dzogchen masters of the time: the Fourth Dzogchen Rinpoche Migyur Namkhe Dorje, Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje, Gyalse Shenpen Thaye and Dola Jigme Kalzang. He blessed Paltrul Rinpoche (1808-87) as a child, making prophecies concerning his future eminence and gave him his name. དུས་གསུམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི། ། Empowered by Padmasambhava, omniscient in past, present and future, ཟབ་གཏེར་བདག་པོར་མངའ་གསོལ་འཁོར་ལོས་བསྒྱུར། ། As master over the profound treasures, universal King of Dharma, སངས་རྒྱས་གླིང་པའི་ཡང་སྤྲུལ་སྦས་ཚུལ་འཆང༌། ། The reincarnation of Sangye Lingpa, you who follow a hidden way, ཀུན་བཟང་གཞན་ཕན་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། །། Kunzang Shenpen, at your lotus feet I pray! Textual Material for Printing, Viewing, and/or Downloading
On Dependent Origination The principle of dependent origination as it applies to the problem of suffering and rebirth.
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B. Alan Wallace (born 1950) is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive, neuroscience, and physics. He endeavors to chart relationships and commonalities between Eastern and Western scientific, philosophical, and contemplative modes of inquiry.
In the podcast, Alan shares the conclusion of phase 1 of the Dudjom Lingpa’s Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra. Phase 1 covers taking the impure mind as the path (aka settling the mind), practicing diligently in this phase since shamatha (settling the mind) is indispensable when we venture into practice. You identify the impure mind that is dissolved into substrate consciousness. A sublime spiritual friend reveals the path. It is important to distinguish between path and not path. We know the taste of luminosity and cognizance of awareness. We know substrate and substrate consciousness.
ON RECEIVING WANG (EMPOWERMENT)
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