Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Monday, February 27, 2017
Traces of Guru Padmakara ! aka Guru Rinpoche aka Padmasambhava
Why did Guru Rinpoche left hand and foot prints on the rocks?
Guru Padmasambhava predicted that in the future, there would be people who did not believe that he was real or that anyone could do such miraculous things.
As a testimony, he left hand prints in the rocks around four different lakes in Tibet which can still be seen. He said, “I have definitely come to Tibet. These are my monuments.”
Guru Rinpoche also left four footprints in the four directions, two in Tibet and two elsewhere, south of Tibet. He even left his body print in the mountains of Bhutan, near the Tibetan border.
This is not just a story or a myth. You can still go there on pilgrimage and see his whole body impression in solid rock.
These are reminders that Guru Padmasambhava actually came into this world and shared his wisdom.
Guru Rinpoche himself said that in all the caves and places he has meditated people in the future could receive his blessing as if meeting him in person. There are different kinds of caves which represent Guru Rinpoche’s enlightened aspects such as Body, Speech, Mind, Quality and Activity.
Furthermore Guru Rinpoche mentioned that especially in the time of degeneration (Kaliyuga) visiting those Holy places would be very beneficial for one’s spiritual development and purification of sicknesses and obstacles.
May you all be blessed.
ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔
Photo of Padmasambhava's footprint in the Moon Cave at Drak Yerpa. It was taken recently by Nick Dudka.
Guru Rinpoche left His footprint, and imprinted in the stone in Tso Pema India.
Guru Rinpoche's body impressions at Gomphu Kora
Padmassanbhava's Handprint Outside Asura Cave, Nepal
Tshe ~Bume . The long life Vase used by Kabjey Dudjom Rinpoche in over 30 main empowerments including the Rinchen Terzod .
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1411176535569671&set=a.352111288142873.82296.100000320158474&type=3&theater
Guru Rinpoche Kutsab
Guru Rinpoche Kutsab
This detail of the Kutsab or representative of Guru Rinpoche enschrined in a reliquary container is kept by Khangsar Zhabdrung Rinpoche in Bhutan.
Kutsab (sku tshab), or ‘representative’ — a statue made in the likeliness of a buddha, yidam or great master. These images are used as objects of inspiration and a source of blessing for Vajrayana practitioners.
Many kutsabs of Guru Rinpoche were made during his stay in Tibet, concealed as earth termas, and later discovered by tertöns. These particularly sacred images were made by Guru Rinpoche and his twenty-five disciples out of sacred substances and relics, and blessed by Guru Rinpoche himself to be his representatives in the future.
Tulku Thondup writes:
Kutsabs are the most important and rare terma images of Guru Padmasambhava, blessed as his own representatives by the Guru himself. Generally, there are hundreds of terma images of him, but according to many Nyingma scriptures there are only twenty-five kutsab images.
The materials used to make kutsabs include:
materials gathered by dakinis from celestial realms and sacred places,
jewels from the gods and nagas,
gold from the Jambu river and sands of Lake Manasarovar,
soil from the eight great charnel grounds and twenty-four great sacred places,
fragrances from a tree of paradise,
medicinal essences,
various elixirs and extracts,
relics from Dzogchen masters (Garab Dorje, Manjushrimitra, Shri Singha, Vimalamitra among others) such as locks of their hair, clothing fragments, bone relics, practice substances,
Guru Rinpoche's own blood, hair and semen.
jewels from the gods and nagas,
gold from the Jambu river and sands of Lake Manasarovar,
soil from the eight great charnel grounds and twenty-four great sacred places,
fragrances from a tree of paradise,
medicinal essences,
various elixirs and extracts,
relics from Dzogchen masters (Garab Dorje, Manjushrimitra, Shri Singha, Vimalamitra among others) such as locks of their hair, clothing fragments, bone relics, practice substances,
Guru Rinpoche's own blood, hair and semen.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
When engaging in meditation practice, we should feel it to be as natural as eating, breathing and defecating. It should not become a specialised or formal event, bloated with seriousness and solemnity. We should realise that meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and the duality of liberation and non-liberation.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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