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A Wonderful Winter Solstice Water Blessing
ཁ་སང་དགུན་ཉི་ལྡོག་པའི་ཉིན་མོ་ཀླུ་གཏོར་དང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་བྱིན་རླབས་ཐེངས་མ་ཉེར་བརྒྱད་པ་དེ་བྱས་པས་ཚང་མ་དགའ་མགུ་ཡི་རངས་བྱུང་སོང་། མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་མཁན་ཡོངས་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཞུ། Yesterday, which was the winter solstice, we held a Water Blessing at the beach; this was the 28th ceremony held in Pacific Grove. This blessing of the waters and the 4 elements is
Prayer of Kuntuzangpo (Kunzang Mönlam)
On Saturday, December 21st, 2024, on the occasion of the winter solstice, after regular meditation session, Rinpoche shared with us the Prayer of Kuntuzangpo (Kunzang Mönlam). The version we read was from the Vajrayana Foundation
༄༅། །སྒྲོལ་མ་སྐྱབས་བདུན་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། །Prayer to Tārā: A Sevenfold Supplication for Protection
Last Monday night during Green Tara practice, Rinpoche shared this beautiful video with us. It is "A Prayer to Tārā: A Sevenfold Supplication for Protection," by Drikung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön. Our deep thanks to Venerable
A Kind Heart
མི་ཡི་རིན་ཐང་ནི་བསམ་པ་བཟང་པོ་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་དེ་ཡིན། གལ་སྲིད་དེ་མེད་པའི་མི་མཐོ་དམན་སུ་ཡིན་ཀྱང་གཟི་བརྗིད་ཁོག་སྟོང་ཟེར་བ་དེ་ཡིན། བསམ་པ་བཟང་པོ་ནི་ཁྲོམ་ནས་ཉོ་རྒྱུ་མེད་ལ། གཡར་རྒྱུ་ཡང་མེད། དེ་ནི་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་སྒྲུབས་དགོས་པའི་ལས་ཀ་རང་ཡིན། Human life is made valuable by being kind hearted. Anyone who lacks this, no matter their status, is said to be empty of radiance. You can’t buy a good heart
Love and Compassion
All these infinite living beings have that wish to be of pain, suffering, problems, and experience happiness, fulfillment, peace. We have only one method that can bring that about, and that is love and compassion.
What Marvelous Happiness
On the ground of holy Dharma Grow thick forests of compassion, Dazzlingly bright with flowers of wisdom, The fragrance of shunyata wafting everywhere. EH MA HO What marvelous happiness For those of good fortune who
Protection from Extreme Hardship
As for the least result of Dharma practice, even if we do not reach either of the two results mentioned above, our Dharma practice should at least be able to protect us when we encounter
Dharma Protection
The second result of Dharma practice is that, even before we attain enlightenment, it will definitely protect us from many sufferings and difficulties while we are still wandering in samsara. Tibetan Dharma practitioners transform bad