The unshakable confidence that Chagdud Rinpoche exhibits indharma springs from his own practice experience: that when one enacts the path with pure motivation and wisdom awareness there results benefit for oneself and others immediately and ultimately.
Rinpoche is committed to his western students and believes in our capacity to accomplish the path. Our aspiration and responsibility in receiving this heart essence is to courageously meet the challenge to integrate this profound meaning into our lives and carry it to fruition for the benefit of others.
Through Rinpoche's teachings we come to clearly understand the need for spiritual practice as the antidote to suffering and are aided in the process of integrating the noble attitude to practice for the ultimate welfare of beings into our lives.
In ignorance of the essential nature of mind, we judge our experience and then react to those judgements with attachment, aversion, jealousy or pride. These five poisons obscure recognition of birthless, deathless pristine wisdom and confine us to endless cycles of suffering.
Through Vajrayana practice, we are able to swiftly purify these poisons to reveal mind's nature beyond ordinary dualistic tendency . To embrace the Vajrayana path one enters through the doorway of empowerment, receives the teachings, then applies what has been learned through meditation, making it possible to fully realize the nature of mind in a single lifetime.
The ability to recognize and abide in non-dualistic essence is cultivated through the methods of the Great Perfection, Dzogchen. Receiving the Great Perfection teachings is like one cup that is poured to fill another. A qualified student is awakened to the essence nature beyond concepts by one who is already awakened to such essence nature themselves. To fully nurture such a relationship the student must cultivate a caliber of receptivity that makes of themselves a proper vessel to receive the teachings.
This is cultivated through the ngondro, or preliminaries, a series of contemplations and meditations involving visualization and mantra recitation. Upon the foundation of this receptivity, and through purification and accumulation of merit the mind is ripened, making firm the basis for attainment.
As His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche said in his Mountain Retreat Text, "To nurture calmness, experiences, deep concentration–these are common things. But very rare is the realization born from within from the guru's blessings, which arises by the power of enthusiastic faith. Therefore, the birth of understanding in your nature of the meaning of the Great Perfection depends upon these preliminaries. That was what Je-Drigung meant when he said, 'Other teachings consider the main practice profound, but here it is the preliminary practices that we consider profound'."
Rinpoche is a Dzogchen master who is generously accessible to students with sincere interest in taming the mind to reveal its essence nature. Rinpoche offers ngondro teachings at least once a year and Dzogchen teachings through a three-year cycle of Great Perfection transmission that takes place in an annual closed winter retreat.
This year's retreat will take place from December 27, 1990 through February 7, 1991. Upon completion of the ngondro practice and with Rinpoche's permission one may register by calling James Kalfas at (503)846-6942.
The unshakable confidence that Chagdud Rinpoche exhibits indharma springs from his own practice experience: that when one enacts the path with pure motivation and wisdom awareness there results benefit for oneself and others immediately and ultimately.
Rinpoche is committed to his western students and believes in our capacity to accomplish the path. Our aspiration and responsibility in receiving this heart essence is to courageously meet the challenge to integrate this profound meaning into our lives and carry it to fruition for the benefit of others.
Through Rinpoche's teachings we come to clearly understand the need for spiritual practice as the antidote to suffering and are aided in the process of integrating the noble attitude to practice for the ultimate welfare of beings into our lives.
In ignorance of the essential nature of mind, we judge our experience and then react to those judgements with attachment, aversion, jealousy or pride. These five poisons obscure recognition of birthless, deathless pristine wisdom and confine us to endless cycles of suffering.
Through Vajrayana practice, we are able to swiftly purify these poisons to reveal mind's nature beyond ordinary dualistic tendency . To embrace the Vajrayana path one enters through the doorway of empowerment, receives the teachings, then applies what has been learned through meditation, making it possible to fully realize the nature of mind in a single lifetime.
The ability to recognize and abide in non-dualistic essence is cultivated through the methods of the Great Perfection, Dzogchen. Receiving the Great Perfection teachings is like one cup that is poured to fill another. A qualified student is awakened to the essence nature beyond concepts by one who is already awakened to such essence nature themselves. To fully nurture such a relationship the student must cultivate a caliber of receptivity that makes of themselves a proper vessel to receive the teachings.
This is cultivated through the ngondro, or preliminaries, a series of contemplations and meditations involving visualization and mantra recitation. Upon the foundation of this receptivity, and through purification and accumulation of merit the mind is ripened, making firm the basis for attainment.
As His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche said in his Mountain Retreat Text, "To nurture calmness, experiences, deep concentration–these are common things. But very rare is the realization born from within from the guru's blessings, which arises by the power of enthusiastic faith. Therefore, the birth of understanding in your nature of the meaning of the Great Perfection depends upon these preliminaries. That was what Je-Drigung meant when he said, 'Other teachings consider the main practice profound, but here it is the preliminary practices that we consider profound'."
Rinpoche is a Dzogchen master who is generously accessible to students with sincere interest in taming the mind to reveal its essence nature. Rinpoche offers ngondro teachings at least once a year and Dzogchen teachings through a three-year cycle of Great Perfection transmission that takes place in an annual closed winter retreat.
This year's retreat will take place from December 27, 1990 through February 7, 1991. Upon completion of the ngondro practice and with Rinpoche's permission one may register by calling James Kalfas at (503)846-6942.
The unshakable confidence that Chagdud Rinpoche exhibits indharma springs from his own practice experience: that when one enacts the path with pure motivation and wisdom awareness there results benefit for oneself and others immediately and ultimately.
Rinpoche is committed to his western students and believes in our capacity to accomplish the path. Our aspiration and responsibility in receiving this heart essence is to courageously meet the challenge to integrate this profound meaning into our lives and carry it to fruition for the benefit of others.
Through Rinpoche's teachings we come to clearly understand the need for spiritual practice as the antidote to suffering and are aided in the process of integrating the noble attitude to practice for the ultimate welfare of beings into our lives.
In ignorance of the essential nature of mind, we judge our experience and then react to those judgements with attachment, aversion, jealousy or pride. These five poisons obscure recognition of birthless, deathless pristine wisdom and confine us to endless cycles of suffering.
Through Vajrayana practice, we are able to swiftly purify these poisons to reveal mind's nature beyond ordinary dualistic tendency . To embrace the Vajrayana path one enters through the doorway of empowerment, receives the teachings, then applies what has been learned through meditation, making it possible to fully realize the nature of mind in a single lifetime.
The ability to recognize and abide in non-dualistic essence is cultivated through the methods of the Great Perfection, Dzogchen. Receiving the Great Perfection teachings is like one cup that is poured to fill another. A qualified student is awakened to the essence nature beyond concepts by one who is already awakened to such essence nature themselves. To fully nurture such a relationship the student must cultivate a caliber of receptivity that makes of themselves a proper vessel to receive the teachings.
This is cultivated through the ngondro, or preliminaries, a series of contemplations and meditations involving visualization and mantra recitation. Upon the foundation of this receptivity, and through purification and accumulation of merit the mind is ripened, making firm the basis for attainment.
As His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche said in his Mountain Retreat Text, "To nurture calmness, experiences, deep concentration–these are common things. But very rare is the realization born from within from the guru's blessings, which arises by the power of enthusiastic faith. Therefore, the birth of understanding in your nature of the meaning of the Great Perfection depends upon these preliminaries. That was what Je-Drigung meant when he said, 'Other teachings consider the main practice profound, but here it is the preliminary practices that we consider profound'."
Rinpoche is a Dzogchen master who is generously accessible to students with sincere interest in taming the mind to reveal its essence nature. Rinpoche offers ngondro teachings at least once a year and Dzogchen teachings through a three-year cycle of Great Perfection transmission that takes place in an annual closed winter retreat.
This year's retreat will take place from December 27, 1990 through February 7, 1991. Upon completion of the ngondro practice and with Rinpoche's permission one may register by calling James Kalfas at (503)846-6942.
The unshakable confidence that Chagdud Rinpoche exhibits indharma springs from his own practice experience: that when one enacts the path with pure motivation and wisdom awareness there results benefit for oneself and others immediately and ultimately.
Rinpoche is committed to his western students and believes in our capacity to accomplish the path. Our aspiration and responsibility in receiving this heart essence is to courageously meet the challenge to integrate this profound meaning into our lives and carry it to fruition for the benefit of others.
Through Rinpoche's teachings we come to clearly understand the need for spiritual practice as the antidote to suffering and are aided in the process of integrating the noble attitude to practice for the ultimate welfare of beings into our lives.
In ignorance of the essential nature of mind, we judge our experience and then react to those judgements with attachment, aversion, jealousy or pride. These five poisons obscure recognition of birthless, deathless pristine wisdom and confine us to endless cycles of suffering.
Through Vajrayana practice, we are able to swiftly purify these poisons to reveal mind's nature beyond ordinary dualistic tendency . To embrace the Vajrayana path one enters through the doorway of empowerment, receives the teachings, then applies what has been learned through meditation, making it possible to fully realize the nature of mind in a single lifetime.
The ability to recognize and abide in non-dualistic essence is cultivated through the methods of the Great Perfection, Dzogchen. Receiving the Great Perfection teachings is like one cup that is poured to fill another. A qualified student is awakened to the essence nature beyond concepts by one who is already awakened to such essence nature themselves. To fully nurture such a relationship the student must cultivate a caliber of receptivity that makes of themselves a proper vessel to receive the teachings.
This is cultivated through the ngondro, or preliminaries, a series of contemplations and meditations involving visualization and mantra recitation. Upon the foundation of this receptivity, and through purification and accumulation of merit the mind is ripened, making firm the basis for attainment.
As His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche said in his Mountain Retreat Text, "To nurture calmness, experiences, deep concentration–these are common things. But very rare is the realization born from within from the guru's blessings, which arises by the power of enthusiastic faith. Therefore, the birth of understanding in your nature of the meaning of the Great Perfection depends upon these preliminaries. That was what Je-Drigung meant when he said, 'Other teachings consider the main practice profound, but here it is the preliminary practices that we consider profound'."
Rinpoche is a Dzogchen master who is generously accessible to students with sincere interest in taming the mind to reveal its essence nature. Rinpoche offers ngondro teachings at least once a year and Dzogchen teachings through a three-year cycle of Great Perfection transmission that takes place in an annual closed winter retreat.
This year's retreat will take place from December 27, 1990 through February 7, 1991. Upon completion of the ngondro practice and with Rinpoche's permission one may register by calling James Kalfas at (503)846-6942.
The unshakable confidence that Chagdud Rinpoche exhibits indharma springs from his own practice experience: that when one enacts the path with pure motivation and wisdom awareness there results benefit for oneself and others immediately and ultimately.
Rinpoche is committed to his western students and believes in our capacity to accomplish the path. Our aspiration and responsibility in receiving this heart essence is to courageously meet the challenge to integrate this profound meaning into our lives and carry it to fruition for the benefit of others.
Through Rinpoche's teachings we come to clearly understand the need for spiritual practice as the antidote to suffering and are aided in the process of integrating the noble attitude to practice for the ultimate welfare of beings into our lives.
In ignorance of the essential nature of mind, we judge our experience and then react to those judgements with attachment, aversion, jealousy or pride. These five poisons obscure recognition of birthless, deathless pristine wisdom and confine us to endless cycles of suffering.
Through Vajrayana practice, we are able to swiftly purify these poisons to reveal mind's nature beyond ordinary dualistic tendency . To embrace the Vajrayana path one enters through the doorway of empowerment, receives the teachings, then applies what has been learned through meditation, making it possible to fully realize the nature of mind in a single lifetime.
The ability to recognize and abide in non-dualistic essence is cultivated through the methods of the Great Perfection, Dzogchen. Receiving the Great Perfection teachings is like one cup that is poured to fill another. A qualified student is awakened to the essence nature beyond concepts by one who is already awakened to such essence nature themselves. To fully nurture such a relationship the student must cultivate a caliber of receptivity that makes of themselves a proper vessel to receive the teachings.
This is cultivated through the ngondro, or preliminaries, a series of contemplations and meditations involving visualization and mantra recitation. Upon the foundation of this receptivity, and through purification and accumulation of merit the mind is ripened, making firm the basis for attainment.
As His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche said in his Mountain Retreat Text, "To nurture calmness, experiences, deep concentration–these are common things. But very rare is the realization born from within from the guru's blessings, which arises by the power of enthusiastic faith. Therefore, the birth of understanding in your nature of the meaning of the Great Perfection depends upon these preliminaries. That was what Je-Drigung meant when he said, 'Other teachings consider the main practice profound, but here it is the preliminary practices that we consider profound'."
Rinpoche is a Dzogchen master who is generously accessible to students with sincere interest in taming the mind to reveal its essence nature. Rinpoche offers ngondro teachings at least once a year and Dzogchen teachings through a three-year cycle of Great Perfection transmission that takes place in an annual closed winter retreat.
This year's retreat will take place from December 27, 1990 through February 7, 1991. Upon completion of the ngondro practice and with Rinpoche's permission one may register by calling James Kalfas at (503)846-6942.
