Description

This teaching has two parts:

(i) A meditation on Guru Padmasambhava (details below)
(ii) A set of common prayers of Mahayana & Vajrayana that may be recited with mindfulness before and after one’s core practices to enrich the experience and accelerate the results.

Meditation on Guru Rinpoche (Guru Padmasambhava)

This is a powerful meditation practice for receiving the shower of blessings, protection, guidance and wisdom from Guru Padmasambhava for one’s spiritual and worldly deeds that are virtuous. Meditating upon Guru Rinpoche leads to inner wisdom that unfolds the profound depths of the esoteric aspects of Buddhism and simplifies the teachings. Guru Padmasambhava is regarded as the condensed essence of all the Buddhas making the appearance after the Parinirvana of Sakyamuni Buddha, as the Guru of Vajrayana to turn the fourth wheel of Dharma and guide practitioners of Vajrayana through specific instructions. The enlightened mind-stream of Guru Rinpoche is the combined expression of the innate compassion and wisdom of countless Buddhas from countless eons. In order to teach Dharma in general, and the secret mantra and Maha-sandhi-yoga (Dzogchen) in particular, Guru Rinpoche appears to beings of countless world systems in various forms suiting to the karmic dispositions of specific practitioners. In that way, Guru Rinpoche continues the miraculous Buddha-activities even in the degenerate times and remain accessible to every being.

Prayers

Prayers include, but not limited to the following: prayer to the three kayas, prayers that swiftly accomplishes all wishes, homage to 21 Taras, aspirational prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure-realm of Sukhavati (dewachen), etc.

Teacher: Lopon Chogyal Wangdi