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Showing the Path to Liberation: An Exhortation To Seek Isolated Places
༅༅།། དབེན་པའི་གནས་ལ་བསྐུལ་མ་ཐར་པའི་ལམ་སྟོན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། / Showing the Path to Liberation: An Exhortation To Seek Isolated Places / 勸居僻靜－示解脫道 ༅༅།། དབེན་པའི་གནས་ལ་བསྐུལ་མ་ཐར་པའི་ལམ་སྟོན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། "Showing the Path to Liberation: An Encouragement To Seek Isolated Places" 勸居僻靜－示解脫道 ༡ མི་མེད་ལུང་པ་ཡི་དབེན་གནས། ། མ་བཅོས་རང་བྱུང་གི་ཡུལ་ལྗོངས། །
Leave your mind unmodified
Leave your mind unmodified, clarity-emptiness, without grasping Meditate that your body is that of the Yidam deity. Hear all sound and language as the mantra. Between sessions of meditation, view everything as dream, as illusion.
Precious Human Life: Sowing seeds of virtue
If recitations sand other virtues of body, speech, and mind Are not motivated by universally altruistic bodhicitta, They do not become a cause for perfect Liberation; So, sister of good lineage, always adjust your motivation!
Excellent Path Of Freedom: The Jewel Ornament of Liberation in Brief
The English translation of last week's blog post is here! "Excellent Path Of Freedom: The Jewel Ornament of Liberation in Brief, " was originally written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche in 2017. See the English blog post
Music for Meditation
Many people who join Rinpoche for Saturday morning meditation enjoy the chanting that plays in the background and on the 5-minute break. Rinpoche wants to share a couple of those chanting YouTube links here--enjoy!
Venerable Gampopa’s Thargyen
No English translation, but it is in regard to Venerable Gampopa's teaching the Thargyen. The image shown is Gampopa. See the original blog: ༄༅།། ཐར་རྒྱན་བསྡུས་དོན་རྣམ་གྲོལ་ལམ་བཟང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། English speakers remember you can use Monlam AI to see
A Jewel Garland of Advice
A Jewel Garland of Advice O kind and precious root guru, Embodiment of all Refuges, Vajradhara in nature, I call on you from my heart with intense devotion: Please draw this one's mind to the
The Power of a Promise
The four powers (of purification) are: 1) The power of the basis 2) the power of remedial action 3) the power of regret 4) the power of not reverting to faulty conduct Fourth is turning