Dharma Wheel

This is an expanded clip of advice of HH Gongma Trizen's advice to the Bhutanese people in English (6:30 min). He specifically advises people to recite Guru Rinpoche's (Padmasambhava) mantra.

I tried to do a search on both "Sur Offering" and also "Smoke Offering" but I cant seem to find anything and hence I am starting this thread. Sang offering practice in the Palyul (Nyingma) lineage requires lung in order to do it yourself, on your own. The sang offering most ofte...

a bodhisattva is also a buddha. No. A Bodhisattva is a sentient being whose actions are completely devoted to enlightenment specifically for all beings. A Bodhisattva aspires to lead all sentient beings to enlightenment. A Bodhisattva does not have to be on the bhumi's to be a Bodhisattva. Arya Bod...

Who are some authentic Dzogchen teachers in Europe? Also in Asia? The Palyul centers in Europe teach Dzogchen but they take a gradual approach (Mahayoga, Anu mostly at first). So they are not "just Dzogchen" (most teachers/ organizations aren't just Dzogchen). https://palyul.eu/ https://p...

Do essence mahamudra and dzogchen semde also work with the body, channels, lung and so on? If by essence mahamudra you mean something like Ganges Mahamudra, then no, at least not directly. However there are practices associated with these lineages that do use channel, etc. practices. Dzogchen sende...

Well, this was actually at least 3 videos:

But since I am also helping a group of students with learning how to do a quite long sadhana (rigdzin dupa, 130 pages) and mudras are part of that, I would prefer to give them proper names of the mudras, rather then "give-me mudra" or "go-away mudra" et cetera. At least in the R...

Since you'll probably ask, "but how...?" again, I will leave it to someone else to answer. I am not a scholar on the intricacies of interdependent origination or tendrel, so this is pretty much all I got lol. Maybe Tsele Natsok Rangdrol's text will be helpful. From memory (because I can't...

Crazy Wisdom, the long rumored movie whose existence seemed to be mostly a vapor, although there was always a hint that something was being produced (as tantalizing clips were sometimes viewable), has finally (finally, how long really?) made it's public appearance. On YT in this case. Crazy Wisdom: ...

And, in Nyingma and Kagyu, one is routinely allowed to start ngondro accumulations without having received an initiation. I can't speak for other Nyingma (even though I have Nyingma teachers from another lineage) but in Palyul empowerment is required before starting ngondro accumulations. The way t...

And, in Nyingma and Kagyu, one is routinely allowed to start ngondro accumulations without having received an initiation. I can't speak for other Nyingma (even though I have Nyingma teachers from another lineage) but in Palyul empowerment is required before starting ngondro accumulations. The way t...

There is a popular English "translation" of the famous four verse Diamond Sutra Gatha that goes like this: "So you should view this fleeting world A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." According to...

All in Tibetan but the video offers a different perspective on getting around Bodhgaya

There is a popular English "translation" of the famous four verse Diamond Sutra Gatha that goes like this: "So you should view this fleeting world A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." According to...

It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. What exactly are you thinking o...

It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. What exactly are you thinking o...

Brad Warner on Seung Sahn Sunim's Don't Know Mind

As far as I can tell this is the only legitimate organization with a legitimate lama associated with them that offer Mo divination online: https://www.ripaladrang.org/donate/divinations/ Mahasiddha.org also offers extensive prayers but no Mo divination as far as I have seen. Having said that, you co...