Akshobya Empowerment

Karmapa/ Language: Tibetan with English and Chinese Translation

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje bestowing the Akshobya Empowerment.

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Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 24 June, 2017 ����

“Buddhism for Beginners" by Ven. Chodron

The most important qualities necessary to live harmoniously with others are friendliness and genuine concern for others. The more we develop these internal qualities, the more they will automatically be reflected in our behavior and speech. Other people relate to and respect these qualities more than our sharing their views about such topics as intoxicants, the death penalty, and TV shows. If we are friendly, happy, and compassionate people, we will get along with others well. - From “Buddhism for Beginners" by Ven. Chodron

Ven Thubten Chodron has the most kind and loving energy within the Dharma world.  She brings a unique approach to teaching the Dharma wrapped in light hearted conversation on Youtube and via direct instruction.

The Great Terton Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa via Phakchok Rinpoche

We abide nowhere, we possess nothing. ~ Chatral Rinpoche

We abide nowhere, we possess nothing.

~ Chatral Rinpoche

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HAPPY DAKINI DAY FROM THE YOGINI PROJECT!

Kurukulle, also known as Red Tara, is said to be a female emanation of Amitabha.

"She has four arms because of the four immeasurable states of mind, namely, love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. She holds an arrow stretched on a bow entwined with flowers and leaves because she can give rise to thoughts of desire in the minds of others. In her other two hands she holds the hook that attracts and summons them into her presence and the noose by which she binds them to her will. Both of these implements enable her to catch those of us who have strayed from the path of the Dharma."

Read more about her adornments and enlightened qualities here: www.theyoginiproject.org/yoginis-her-story/female-deities#tab-id-6

Art print of this beautiful image of Kurukulle is available at: www.dakiniasart.org/shop/kurukulle-detail-e-images-enlightenment/

Proceeds go to support artists and the work of The Yogini Project!

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Donald Trump enlightened all sentient beings and brought them to the next level of spiritual evolution.

Donald Trump enlightened all sentient beings and brought them to the next level of spiritual evolution. Not sure if that was his intention or not (lol); but that was the way it had to be. He is the comical light side which inspires everyone to examine themselves; and the sign of old karmic patterns being swept away. I always knew this, as I am a deeply intuitive person, and saw the underlying meaning; and need for a change in this direction. The awakening brought about by Donald Trump (for both those who like and dislike him as well as those neutral and non-American) is a very good thing indeed; but many are still stuck in the old ways, and cannot see the utter failure of those old ways for the vast majority. Some people are so ostentatious that they cause everyone to, eventually, take a long hard look in the mirror; and the president is one of them. Perhaps it is the fact that hypocrisy became the norm over the last decade, or that over that same decade, virtue signaling became confused with true morality, or that Trump's very existence as president exposes all this as an 'emperor wears no clothes' charade which bothers his detractors the most; as it undermines their hitherto comfortable bubbles of self-justification; and requires them to actually examine their own attitudes and biases. Much could be said. In any case, it's been a pretty surreal show, and a grand display of genuine karmic purification on a mass level: For those who have the eyes to see.  -by Erick Tsiknopoulos

By the power of circumstance,
one moon appears through time as large or small.
By the power of needs,
one lama arises in different disguises.
By the power of vessels of water,
one moon appears in myriad reflections.
By the power of minds,
one lama appears as many.
By the power of clouds,
one moon is bright or dark.
By the power of concepts,
one lama appears as good or bad.
By the power of karma,
one moon seems to comfort or menace.
By the power of thought,
one lama arouses faith or disdain.
By the power of day or night,
one moon rises and sets.
In order to benefit beings,
one lama seems to come and go.


~ Paltrul Rinpoche (Taken from Kathleen Pratt)

Tara is talking to dumavati the smoke crow

Expressing Whatever is Pure and Spontaneous in our Heart ...... 💟

Sometimes we have a positive thought and are moved by an altruistic motivation to benefit others, but the response is not what we had hoped for. People might not accept our offer of help. We ourselves might feel our capacity was not adequate to the task, or we might be left with the feeling that our virtue lacked strength. However, when it comes to art, there are no such problems: for example, when children make drawings, they are not concerned about the reactions of grown-ups or other people. They simply express on paper whatever arises spontaneously in their heart or mind, without forcing or faking anything and without worrying whether others will like it or not.

Similarly, when it comes to engaging in virtue, it is important that we do not act to please or impress anyone. Rather, we should be expressing whatever is pure and spontaneous in our heart and mind, without pretence, phoniness or hesitation. First, we bring forth whatever we find within ourselves that is beautiful and spontaneous, and only later do we consider whether it will be accepted or not. Otherwise, sometimes others have strong expectations and we might feel we will not be able to show them what we have that is beautiful. This is the feeling that comes.

~ His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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📸 རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ།

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༄༅།། ༢༠༡༧ ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ ཚེས་ ༡༤ ཉིན་འབུམ་སྡེ་ལ་དགོན་རྩེ་དགའ་ལྡན་རབ་རྒྱས་གླིང་དུ་གསུང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉིན་བདུན་པར། ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་ཟམ་གདོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ཐོག་མར་ཆོས་ཉན་པའི་ཀུན་སློང་ཀུན་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་རིམ་པ་རྣམས་ཆོས་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པ་ནས་བྱུང་བ་བཞིན་ལེགས་པར་གསལ་བཏབ་སྟེ་གསན་དགོས་ཚུལ་གདམས་རྗེས། རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པས་མཛད་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་རིམ་འབྲིང་པོ་ལས་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པ་ལ་བློ་སྦྱང་བ་ནས་ཞི་གནས་སྐོར་རྫོགས་པར་བཀའ་ཁྲིད་བསྐྱངས།

14 June 2017
Today, on the seventh day of teachings at Gontse Gadhen Rabgyeling Monastery, Bomdila, His Eminence Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche began by advising on the motive and conduct in listening to the sublime teachings, as instructed in The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Thereafter His Eminence Rinpoche gave teaching on Jey Tsongkhapa's "The Middling Stages of the Path to Enlightenment" and completed the calm abiding meditation from the section: Training the mind on the stages of the path of a person of great scope.

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You all are the source of my Joy and Happiness.

Let us make a resolve, that for every one negative action we commit of the body , speech and mind, we will intentionally do three positive deeds .
In other words , if you utter one negative sentence about me , you better praise me three times too. hahaha . :)

Much love to all .
Thank you for being a part of my life .
With My Warmest Affection,

ND

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Pleiadian Message Summer of 2017 with The Leo King! What's NEXT? June 13...

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Video: Karma Sonam Dargye Ling/ Language: Tibetan/English/Chinese/ Published Date: 3 June, 2017

Day 4 🔴 His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje participates in the 4th Annual Dialogue of Three Major Traditions of Buddhism on the topic "Transforming Afflictive Emotions" organised by Karma Sonam Dargye Ling. 

His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa then has a lunch meeting with the Heads of Department of the University of Toronto on environmental issues.

University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1 June, 2017🇨🇦

Day 5 🔴 His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje bestowing teaching on "Applying Ancient Wisdom in Modern Times" organised by the Karma Kagyu Association of Canada

The Enercare Centre, Hall D, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 June, 2017 🇨🇦

A Daily Practice of Siṃhamukhā. A very POWERFUL PRAYER
(Pictures taken from Phub Dorji Wang)

༄༅། །སེང་གདོང་མའི་ཐལ་རྡེབ་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་ནི།
A Daily 'Hand-Clapping' Practice of Siṃhamukhā1

by Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche

སྐད་ཅིག་རང་ཉིད་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ། །
kechik rangnyi khandroma
In an instant I appear as the ḍākinī

སེང་གེའི་གདོང་ཅན་སྐུར་གསལ་བའི། །
sengé dongchen kur salwé
With the face of a lion, visualized clearly;

ཐུགས་ཀའི་སྔགས་ཀྱི་འཕྲོ་འདུ་ཡིས། །
tukké ngak kyi trodu yi
The mantra in my heart emanating and reabsorbing rays of light

གནོད་བྱེད་མ་ལུས་ཚར་བཅད་གྱུར། །
nöjé malü tsarché gyur
In order to eliminate entirely all causes of harm!

ཨཿཀཿསཿམཿརཿཙཿཤཿདཿརཿསཿམཱཿརཿཡཿཕཊཿ
a ka sa ma ra tsa sha da ra sa ma ra ya pé

ཅེས་ཅི་ནུས་བཟླས་མཐར།
Recite the mantra as many times as possible.

ན་མོ། རྩ་བརྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ཡི་དམ་ལྷ། །
namo, tsa gyü lama yidam lha
Namo! Root and lineage gurus, yidam deities,

མཁའ་འགྲོ་བདུད་འདུལ་དྲག་མོ་ཡི། །
khandro düdul drakmo yi
And the ḍākinī, the wrathful mother subduing the māras:

བདེན་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱིས། །
denpa chenpö jinlab kyi
Through the blessings of your great truth,

བྱད་ཁ་ཕུར་ཁ་རྦོད་གཏོང་སོགས། །
jekha purkha bötong sok
Turn back all curses, spells and evil sorcery,

མི་མཐུན་ཆག་ཆེ་ཉམ་ང་ཀུན། །
mitün chak ché nyam nga kün
All forms of adversity, tragedy and threats of danger!

སྡང་བར་བྱེད་པའི་དགྲ་ལ་བྷྱོ། །
dangwar jepé dra la jo
Turn them back upon the hostile enemies: bhyo!

གནོད་པར་བྱེད་པའི་བགེགས་ལ་བྷྱོ། །
nöpar jepé gek la jo
Turn them back upon the obstacle-makers who harm us: bhyo!

བདུད་དགྲ་བྱད་མའི་སྟེང་དུ་བྷྱོ། །
dü dra jemé tengdu jo
Turn them back upon negative influences, enemies and sorcerers: bhyo!

རྗེས་ཤུལ་མེད་པར་ཟློག་གྱུར་ཅིག །
jeshul mepar dok gyur chik
May they be averted completely, without leaving any trace behind!

ཅེས་ཐལ་རྡེབ་བྱ།
Clap your hands together as you recite this. Then:

ཁྲོ་མོའི་རིག་སྔགས་ནུས་པའི་མཐུས། །
tromö rik ngak nüpé tü
By the power of the wrathful mother’s awareness-mantra,

བྱང་ཆུབ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་བར་ཆད་བདུད། །
changchub drubpé barché dü
May the māras that obstruct the attainment of enlightenment

གནོད་བྱེད་མ་ལུས་ཚར་བཅད་ནས། །
nöjé malü tsarché né
And all causes of harm be annihilated,

བསམ་དོན་ཡིད་བཞིན་འགྲུབ་པར་མཛོད། །
samdön yishyin drubpar dzö
And may all our wishes be fulfilled, just as we desire!

ཅེས་དང་བསྔོ་སྨོན་བྱའོ། །
Dedicate and make aspiration prayers.

འདིའང་རྒྱུན་གྱི་ངག་འདོན་དུ་འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེས་བྲིས་པ་ཛ་ཡནྟུ། །
Written by Jikdral Yeshé Dorjé as a daily recitation. Jayantu!

Senge Dongma (Tib. སེང་གེ་གདོང་མ་, Wyl. seng ge gdong ma; Skt. Siṃhamukhā, the lion-faced dakini. In the Nyingma terma tradition, she is considered as one of the many forms of Padmasambhava, specifically a secret form of Guru Rinpoche manifested to avert spiritual obstacles and negativity. Also, there is a beautiful practice by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu in his booklet, The Practice of Simhamukha (requires transmission). This practice includes the five Buddha families.

HH17th Karmapa visit to Centre Rigpe Dorje Montreal Rigpe Dorje Center June 10 2017

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje visiting Centre Rigpe Dorje (Seat of His Eminence Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche).

Quebec, Montreal, Canada, 10 June, 2017

Terdag Lingpa Gyurme Dorje, (1646-1714)



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When we love others, we don't expect anything in return. We accept people for who they are and try to help them, but we aren't concerned with how we'll benefit from the relationship. Real love isn't jealous, possessive or limited to just a few near and dear ones. Rather, it's impartial and is felt for all beings. —Ven. Chodron in Buddhism for Beginners http://thubtenchodron.org/books/buddhism-for-beginners

“The great Kadampa masters of the past used games in training their minds. To play a game of mindfulness, they carried black and white stones to count the times they won or lost against their afflictions. Looking at the win-loss ratio was a way to get into positive habits. We must continually examine our minds since change will not happen by merely wishing things to be so. We need to put continued effort into seeing our mind clearly.”

// the Karmapa speaking on Mind Training.

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AWAKENED

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AWAKENED

When illusion is gone, suffering disappears. When misunderstanding is gone, we are awakened. So we should have a drum all the time to wake us up, because we are constantly sleepy and ignorant. The time that we spend to be awake is so short and difficult to sustain, and the time that we keep ourselves busy, stressed and worried and desired about useless things is almost 90% of our life. Even if there is someone beating the drum for you, you don't even pay attention. Our life is gone like this. Life after life, we come back and keep missing many chances, doing the same illusive activities. Then, lives are like endless dreams or sometimes nightmares, even if we live a hundred lives, we will not be awakened. ~ The Gyalwang Drukpa

True Guru

"The true guru will never humiliate you, nor will he estrange you from yourself. He will constantly bring you back to the fact of your inherent perfection and encourage you to seek within. He knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of reminding you. But the self-appointed guru is more concerned with himself than with his disciples" (Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981), I Am That,Dialogue 83, Dec. 18, 1971).

Many babas or fake teachers are powerful vampires with siddhis, feeding off the life-force of those around them, manipulating thoughts/kundalini through subjugation. This is pure deception; an act of being taken prisoner and not knowing it. There is a story about "An Astrologer who Fell into a Well" that is, a fable based on a Greek anecdote concerning the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales of Miletus. Actually, the story of Thales falling into a well while gazing at the stars was originally recorded in Plato's Theaetetus. The point is: How can you understand the world without knowing yourself first? Self-deception is easy and as alluring as the stars above us are, if you are only looking up you might miss that hole below you. Obstacles help clarify the path. As Dilgo Khyentse advised us: "When the world is filled with evils, place all setbacks on the path of liberation.



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Please pray daily (The one below and the 7-Line Guru Rinpoche Prayer) to avert a nuclear war that might be started...

“A PRAYER TO AVERT NUCLEAR WAR"
by CHATRAL SANGYE DORJE RINPOCHE

[…] We are beings born at the sorry end of time;
An ocean of ill-effects overflow from our universally bad actions.
The forces of light flicker,
The forces of darkness, a demon army, inflames great and powerful men.
And they rise in conflict, armed with nuclear weapons
That will disintegrate the earth.
The weapon of perverse and errant intentions
Has unleashed the hurricane.
Soon, in an instant, it will reduce the world
And all those in it to atoms of dust.
Through this ill-omened devils' tool
It is easy to see, to hear and think about
Ignorant people, caught in a net of confusion and doubt,
Are obstinate and still refuse to understand.
It terrifies us just to hear about or to remember
This unprecedented thing.
The world is filled with uncertainty,
But there is no means of stopping it, nor place of hope,
Other than you, undeceiving Three Jewels and Three Roots,
If we cry to you like children calling their mother and father,
If we implore you with this prayer,
Do not falter in your ancient vows!
Stretch out the lightning hand of compassion!
Protect and shelter us defenseless beings, and free us from fear! […]
~~~ Full version in English and Tibetan: https://static1.squarespace.com/…/A+Prayer+to+Avert+Nuclear…

9 Dragons

Following the Live to Rescue Mobile Dog Clinic, the Drukpa nuns and local participants did three ceremonial kora (circumambulations) around the Swayambu Stupa, and began a cleaning sweep around Swayambunath. Countless bags of toxic plastic waste was removed from water sources, gutters, and living spaces -- an inspiring reminder to respect and care for all beings on our earth.

In a wonderful and heart-warming sign, a light rain and rainbow appeared over Swayambunath just as the participants completed the effort.

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