The Prayer in Seven Chapters to Padmakara
Dear Friends Near and Far:
I hope you have all been happy and healthy. I am in Arhus, Denmark at our meditation center and all is well here. For today’s Guru Rinpoche Day, I would like to share with you an excerpt from, “The Prayer in Seven Chapters to Padmakara”. And from the forth chapter, “The Prayer Requested by Namkhe Nyingpo”:
Do this towards all you see:
Outside, inside, environment and beings, all things-
Whilst seeing them, without grasping, remain.
This freedom from the trap of duality, subject-object clinging, is
the very form of the deity-luminous and empty.
To this lama, the very self-liberation of desire and
Attachment, we pray!
To the Lotus-born Guru of Orgyen, we pray!
Do this towards all that you hear:
All sounds, grasped as sweet or harsh,
Whilst hearing them, empty, without after-thought, remain.
This empty sound, with no beginning and no end, is the speech of the victorious ones.
To this empty sound, the speech of all the buddhas, we pray!
To the Lotus-born Guru of Orgyen, we pray!
Do this towards all that stirs in the mind:
Whatever thoughts and emotions of the five poisons arise,
Don’t invite them, don’t chase after them, don’t let mind fabricate or contrive:
Simply allowing them to settle in the face of their own arising, is liberation into the dharmakaya.
To this lama, rigpa’s self-realization, we pray!
To the Lotus-born Guru of Orgyen, we pray!
Thus, outwardly purify appearances of their allure;
Inwardly, free mind from grasping;
And, by the self-recognition of lumonisity,
May the compassion of all the sugatas of past, present and future
Inspire and bless beings like us with self liberation!
May we be able to mingle our minds with our Guru when reciting these lines with immense longing and devotion.
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche
 Dear Friends Near and Far:I hope you have all been happy and healthy. I am in Guadalajara, Mexico preparing for todays Guru Rinpoche Day’s feast offering. I am going to keep each and everyone of you in my mind during the feast offering.
So for today’s Guru Rinpoche Day, I would like to share with you a key that helps unlock the root of all hope and fear. To really understand the dharma, to practice the dharma, and to apply the dharma, you really need to understand this key. On a day to day basis, where does all our hope and fear arise from? It arises from identity, feeling, belief, and ego clinging. The root is ego, this self centered ego.
What is hope? Hope is a positive attachment. When you don’t receive that or don’t have that you feel pain. What is Fear? Fear is something that you don’t like to have or don’t want to be. So most of our thoughts and feelings are contained in hope and fear.
Now I am going to give you a short quotation:
“Without cutting or reducing ego clinging, no matter how much you want to practice the dharma or live a positive life it is not going to work.”
As usual, my advice is don’t believe me but see it for your own self. So usually I say “seeing” is the first step, “recognizing” is the second step, “admitting” is the third step, “changing” is the fourth step and “measuring change” is the fifth step.
From another quotation:
“Without cutting the root of ego, meditation is just a creation of mind. Understanding is just labeling. Thinking that you understood is just subtle pride. When you really cut the root of ego, you don’t differentiate between yourself and others, and then you will understand selflessness. It is then when the realization of emptiness and compassion is going to be inseparable.”
So it is very important to reduce the ego. My message today may sound complicating to some, helpful to a handful and completely gibberish to many! But from my part, it is, has been, and will always be a joyful pleasure to connect with each and everyone of you and be a constant reminder of impermanence with each passing GRD one year after another.
Enclosed is a picture of my grandfather, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche pointing his finger inward. Thinking of you all and keeping you all in the depth of my heart and aspiration.
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche |
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| Dear Dharma Brothers and Sisters,I hope you have all been happy and healthy. I have been well and busy hopping from one city to another on the eastern coast of United States. I started out this morning at the Garrison Institute and then to Bedford to do a puja at a close friend’s place and then to Irvington for an afternoon teaching followed by dinner with few friends and now finally in Room # 232 of some hotel an hour away from NYC. Yes, I am exhausted and therefore will keep todays GRD message short, my apologies.
So, whether in your mundane life or your spiritual, always remind your self of the three qualities:
1. Intelligence and wisdom in your brain
– Knowing your own negative emotions, knowing the dharma, and knowing how to practice the dharma.
2. Compassion in your heart
– Compassion without bias, compassion without judgement, and compassion without ego.
3. Dignity and confidence in your gut
– Knowing that you can succeed in your practice, seeing your improvement, and gradually gaining dignity in your practice without ego.
See it, experience it, and investigate whether having these three qualities in your life impact your life positively or not!
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche |
Lama Rinchen Phuntsok will be giving Dharma teachings about “Meditation for Body and Mind healing” on Thursday 16th August 2012 from 6pm to 8pm.
Venue: DMG books company, Amarin plaza 22nd floor, BTS station Chitlom.
This degenerate time beings are tortured and tormented by diseases, epidemics, and contagious diseases. In order to protect us from these
diseases, Lotus Born Padmasambhava has given many special techniques to protect us. One of these will be featured in the Dharma talk session.
สวัสดีครับ ขอแจ้งกิจกรรม ธรรมบรรยาย โดยพระอาจารย์ลามะรินเชน “การปฏิบัติสมาธิเพื่อบำบัดโรคทางกาย-ใจ” ในวันพฤหัสบดีที่ 16 สิงหาคม 2555 เวลา 18.00-20.00น ณ ห้องพุทธคยา DMG ชั้น 22 อาคาร อัมรินทร์พลาซ่า ใกล้สถานี BTS ชิดลม
About Lama Rinchen: The Venerable Lama Rinchen Phuntsok is a skillful teacher with a light and joyful manner. He is a scholar and meditation master of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. Born in Tibet, Lama Rinchen began receiving instruction in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism at the age of six in Tsasum Chokhorling Monastery in Tibet. After he left Tibet in 1958, he studied at Young Lama’s Home School in Dalhousie, The Buddhist Monastic School in Rewalsar, Nyingmapa Lama’s College in Dehra-Dun, and Zongdog Palri Monastery in Kalimpong. Lama Rinchen graduated from Sanskrit University in Varanasi India where he completed advanced studies in Sutrayana Buddhist philosophy and scriptures, commentaries, logic, literature, history, and the major sciences of the Tibetan curriculum. For more information please check http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html
Dharma talk and group practice on Preliminary practices (Dudjom Tersar Ngondro) by Lama Rinchen Phuntsok on Wednesday 8th August 2555 6:30pm-8:30pm
การปฎิบัติพื้นฐานแห่งธรรม บรรยายและปฏิบัติร่วมกันโดย พระลามะ รินเชน พูนสก วันพุธที่ 8 สิงหาคม 2555 18:30น.-20:30น.
At Welcome apartment (ram’s home)
RSVP: Please let us know if you’ll be coming by clicking “Attend” on the Mongkol Sri facebook event page or send request in contact us
ณ อาคาร เวลคัมชั้น 12 ติดสน. บางรัก ถ. นเรศ
สำรองที่นั่ง contact ที่นี่ หรือ Mongkol Sri facebook event page หรือโทร 081-9855564
Location
Welcome palace apartment (ram’s home). For directions please see below. Please feel free to call ram at 0819855564 orcontact us for more info and feel free to invite others who might be interested as well.
Date/Time: 6pm-8pm, Wednesday 8th August 2012
This event is free of charge suitable for everyone from beginner to advanced practitioner.
Please share this event with others who might be interested as well and if you wish, you could bring some vegetarian snacks and drinks which will be shared with others.
Directions
Welcome Palace apartment on Naret rd. (a one way street), off of Sriphraya road. If you are coming by Sub-way (easiest) you can take the Samyan station exit in front of the temple then catch a Taxi or take a Motorbike Taxi (20 Baht) from there by telling them to go to Bangrak Police station. If coming by BTS you can get off at Saladaeng station and take a taxi from there as well. You can just tell the taxi to come to the Bangrak police station if you are coming directly from elsewhere. Once at the police station, my building is an old white building just before the station, come on the 12th floor on the right side and you’ll see a big door and I’ll be in there. If you see a lot of Africans in the building it means that you are in the right building.
Saturday August 11 – Monday August 13 (long-weekend public holiday)
(the retreat registration form is below)
“Meditation and healing” retreat in Huahin (3 hours south of Bangkok), accommodation will be provided in few cottages and tents.
Retreat fees: Baht500 per person (all meals and place to sleep included)
Retreat starts on Saturday day time and ends on Monday afternoon, it will be helpful if you can manage to get there by yourself but if cannot then we can try to put you on some of other participants’ car if available (you might be required to help pay for some gasoline).
About Lama Rinchen Phuntsok
The Venerable Lama Rinchen Phuntsok is a skillful teacher with a light and joyful manner. He is a scholar and meditation master of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. Born in Tibet, Lama Rinchen began receiving instruction in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism at the age of six in Tsasum Chokhorling Monastery in Tibet. After he left Tibet in 1958, he studied at Young Lama’s Home School in Dalhousie, The Buddhist Monastic School in Rewalsar, Nyingmapa Lama’s College in Dehra-Dun, and Zongdog Palri Monastery in Kalimpong. Lama Rinchen graduated from Sanskrit University in Varanasi India where he completed advanced studies in Sutrayana Buddhist philosophy and scriptures, commentaries, logic, literature, history, and the major sciences of the Tibetan curriculum.
For many years Lama Rinchen was in charge of Zangdog Palri Monastery in India and also Urgyen Dongag, Choling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1980, His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche asked him to come to the United States to teach in his New York center where Lama Rinchen was director and resident Lama for four years. Since then he has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe at centers, colleges, and universities. (…)
For more information please check http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html
Location: Rai rak thamma-chat west of Huahin downtown about 45 minutes by public bus. If you are coming from Huahin town, take public transport (a truck with roof on the back) to Pa-la-oo waterfall and on the way you’ll see Tibetan temple on the left side, about 500 meters past that on the right side is the outer entrance to the retreat center area, come inside until you meet us.
Note
- The above costs do not include transportation cost from Bangkok to Huahin and back.
- In the case where there are not enough cabins for everyone then accommodation will be provided in tents. So if you can bring tents for yourself and others, please let us know, we might need to borrow them.
Overseas participants:
If you’ll be coming to this retreat from overseas then please contact us and let us know your travel plans so we can assist you properly.
For more information please contact 081-9855564
Dear Friends Near and Far,
I hope you have all been happy and healthy. I am keeeping well and writing to you all from Cooperstown, Upstate NY. I am here at our retreat center leading a retreat and we just finished performing a feast offering as today being Guru Rinpoche’s Day, the 10th day of the lunar calendar. It’s almost midnight here and I’m trying to send this post out before midnight. Since I didn’t get much time to think about what to write for today’s post, I thought of sending you this picture of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, considered to be the living representative of Padmasambhava, he was a great revealer of treasures ‘terma’ concealed by Padmasambhava. I always keep this picture along with Kyabje Rinpoche’s words close to my heart and as a constant reminder to check my mind.
May all beings see their own face in that very moment through the blessings of the Guru.
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche
On Sunday 29th July 9:30am-12:30pm, Lama Rinchen Phuntsok will be giving Dharma talk on “The Path to Enlightenment”
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 29 กรกฎาคม 2555 9:30น.-12:30น. ธรรมบรรยาย “หนทางสู่การตรัสรู้” โดย ลามะรินเชน พูนสก
ท่านสามารถนำอาหารมังสวิรัติและ เครื่องดื่มมาแบ่งปันให้ผู้มาปฏิบัติท่านอื่นด้วย
ณ อาคาร เวลคัมชั้น 12 ติดสน. บางรัก ถ. นเรศ
สำรองที่นั่ง contact ที่นี่ หรือ Mongkol Sri facebook event page หรือโทร 081-9855564
ไม่มีค่าใช้จ่ายใดๆ
Please share this event with others who might be interested as well and if you wish, you could bring some vegetarian snacks and drinks which will be shared with others.
Location: Welcome palace apartment (ram’s home). For directions please see below.
These events are free of charge and suitable for everyone from beginner to advanced practitioner.
RSVP: Please let us know if you’ll be coming by clicking “Attend” on the Mongkol Sri facebook event page or send request in contact us
Location
Welcome palace apartment (ram’s home). For directions please see below. Please feel free to call ram at 0819855564 orcontact us for more info and feel free to invite others who might be interested as well.
Date/Time: 9:30am-12:30pm, Saturday 28th July 2012
This event is free of charge suitable for everyone from beginner to advanced practitioner.
Directions
Welcome Palace apartment on Naret rd. (a one way street), off of Sriphraya road. If you are coming by Sub-way (easiest) you can take the Samyan station exit in front of the temple then catch a Taxi or take a Motorbike Taxi (20 Baht) from there by telling them to go to Bangrak Police station. If coming by BTS you can get off at Saladaeng station and take a taxi from there as well. You can just tell the taxi to come to the Bangrak police station if you are coming directly from elsewhere. Once at the police station, my building is an old white building just before the station, come on the 12th floor on the right side and you’ll see a big door and I’ll be in there. If you see a lot of Africans in the building it means that you are in the right building.
On Saturday 28th July we will have Ganachakra Puja/Tsok for Guru Padmasambhava birthday celebration from 10am-12:30pm
วันเสาร์ที่ 28 กรกฎาคม 2555 10:00น.-12:30น. พิธีบูชากานาจักร หรือ การถวายซก ในวันค้ายวันประสูติของท่านคุรุปัทมสมภพ หรือ คุรุ ริมโปเช เพื่อสะสมบุญและชำระล้าง ในการเดินสายสู่การตรัสรู้ เป็นวาระที่ดีที่ลามะรินเชนจะมาเป็นผู้นำในพิธีครั้งนี้
ท่านสามารถนำอาหารและเครื่องดื่มมาร่วมพิธีและแบ่งปันให้ผู้มาปฏิบัติท่านอื่นด้วย
ณ อาคาร เวลคัมชั้น 12 ติดสน. บางรัก ถ. นเรศ
สำรองที่นั่ง contact ที่นี่ หรือ Mongkol Sri facebook event page หรือโทร 081-9855564
ไม่มีค่าใช้จ่ายใดๆ
You can bring some food for this puja which will be shared by everyone for lunch. For more information about what Ganachakra puja/Tsok offering is please check:http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Tsok
Please share this event with others who might be interested as well.
Please come and join us, and if you wish, you could bring some food and drink which will be shared with others.
These events are free of charge and suitable for everyone from beginner to advanced practitioner.
RSVP: Please let us know if you’ll be coming by clicking “Attend” on the Mongkol Sri facebook event page or send request in contact us
Location
Welcome palace apartment (ram’s home). For directions please see below. Please feel free to call ram at 0819855564 orcontact us for more info and feel free to invite others who might be interested as well.
Date/Time: 10am-12:30pm, Saturday 28th July 2012
This event is free of charge suitable for everyone from beginner to advanced practitioner.
Please share this event with others who might be interested as well and if you wish, you could bring some vegetarian snacks and drinks which will be shared with others.
Directions
Welcome Palace apartment on Naret rd. (a one way street), off of Sriphraya road. If you are coming by Sub-way (easiest) you can take the Samyan station exit in front of the temple then catch a Taxi or take a Motorbike Taxi (20 Baht) from there by telling them to go to Bangrak Police station. If coming by BTS you can get off at Saladaeng station and take a taxi from there as well. You can just tell the taxi to come to the Bangrak police station if you are coming directly from elsewhere. Once at the police station, my building is an old white building just before the station, come on the 12th floor on the right side and you’ll see a big door and I’ll be in there. If you see a lot of Africans in the building it means that you are in the right building.
Dharma talk on “The Basis of Meditation” by Lama Rinchen Phuntsok on Wednesday 25th July 2555 6:30pm-8:30pm
พื้นฐานแห่งสมาธิ ธรรมบรรยายโดย พระลามะ รินเชน พูนสก วันพูธที่ 25 กรกฎาคม 2555 18:30น.-20:30น.
At Welcome apartment (ram’s home)
RSVP: Please let us know if you’ll be coming by clicking “Attend” on the Mongkol Sri facebook event page or send request in contact us
ณ อาคาร เวลคัมชั้น 12 ติดสน. บางรัก ถ. นเรศ
สำรองที่นั่ง contact ที่นี่ หรือ Mongkol Sri facebook event page หรือโทร 081-9855564
Location
Welcome palace apartment (ram’s home). For directions please see below. Please feel free to call ram at 0819855564 orcontact us for more info and feel free to invite others who might be interested as well.
Date/Time: 6pm-8pm, Wednesday 25th July 2012
This event is free of charge suitable for everyone from beginner to advanced practitioner.
Please share this event with others who might be interested as well and if you wish, you could bring some vegetarian snacks and drinks which will be shared with others.
Directions
Welcome Palace apartment on Naret rd. (a one way street), off of Sriphraya road. If you are coming by Sub-way (easiest) you can take the Samyan station exit in front of the temple then catch a Taxi or take a Motorbike Taxi (20 Baht) from there by telling them to go to Bangrak Police station. If coming by BTS you can get off at Saladaeng station and take a taxi from there as well. You can just tell the taxi to come to the Bangrak police station if you are coming directly from elsewhere. Once at the police station, my building is an old white building just before the station, come on the 12th floor on the right side and you’ll see a big door and I’ll be in there. If you see a lot of Africans in the building it means that you are in the right building.
