Dharma Wheel

I know about treasure vases.
contact me via PN
What the added value of burying IN the Ocean is, I don't know.
But if it's your Preference, you'll find a way to get that done.

As with many other teaching opportunities during times of lockdown and travel restrictions, Lama Lena too has expanded her online teachings. Besides Q&A, Garab Dorje, and Shabkar's Garuda, she too teaches Rushens and Dream Yoga to applicants. Check her site https://lamalenateachings.com/teaching-sch...

My dad passed away and one of the wishes he has conveyed to my mom was related to that he did not want his body to be disturbed and/or cremated for a specific amount of time after death. We think it was one week. She does not recall the details and what exactly it was based on, but it came from his...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyIpzHcipnk minute 53, Lama Lena describes the process not that I have rinpoche's qualities or know in what situation I'll decease. But that description helped me to start preparing. in particular my patien's provision concerning letting the corpse untouched before de...

Happy Saga Dawa, Dears!

I'd like to share the film BLINDSIGHT with you, available on VIMEO

(not on mental retardation though...)

If 183 words of mine are total BS, it's probably better for them to be deleted. So I requested the Admin.
@heart -Be so kind and also delete the quotation of mine.

I come to understand why there's such a big quota of "silent readers" in this forum...

What is the purpose to sleep in vajrasana Position? You may get a Feeling, if combined with intense vajrayana practise, how dream-like the awake state, how real-like the dream-state is. It can bring you easier in the awareness Levels necessary for dream yoga. And it breaks down the Limits usually pe...

I you're translating an LH text, it's easiest, because that implies that LH has the Copyright or an Arrangement thereof already. However, the mere effort to indulge in the translating process already can be a useful means to put your mind on a dharma path. Without wanting to get romantic, but Transl...

See here practise material by James Low including short Padmasambhava sadhana and Urgyen Rinpoche terma http://www.simplybeing.co.uk/ "Simply being is the ground or basis of every occurrence; it is the unchanging awareness which reveals the ever-changing play of experience. This is dzogchen, the who...

Dear Dharma friends, times are crazy and some amongst you may find themselves in quarantine or other kind of additional free time. By this post I would like to encourage those amongst you whose mother tongue is not English to use this time to translate the practise texts that are closest to your hea...

Gang Rinpoche and Gurla Mandata
axis mundi
for heavy times

This picture by Saky Trizin has been shared on Instagram
for protection against Corona Virus

Simon E. wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 4:01 pm I cannot tell you Ayu how much the information that visualising the exercise is as good for you as actually doing it has brightened my day!

plus one.
Thanks Ayu!

Also for some context, my teacher is 80 this year, and i would really love to recieve togal instrucitons before she retires. My goal at the moment is to strengthen my direct perception and broaden my bodhicitta, and ask for togal when i think it's right. I, uh, am not sure when it is right. Ceratin...

In Addition to what I wrote above about the Need to encourage in the Notion of taking refuge... Undeniably there is something conscious, however, unlike alaya etc. there is no essence whatsoever to it. Therefore, through personal experience, Aspiration and practise you can reach to see that the Sepa...

Which warnings about previous requirements would you have required? We all are on some path whatsoever. Advice from my side: as Long as you follow recordings or books on dzogchen, do so open-heartedly and cautiously. When sou see resonance, it's good to at least form the Aspiration to meet that teac...

In Shechen Monastery in Bodnath, Kathmandu, in the room of Dilgo Khyentse's Stupa, some guys with Engineering affinity have installed big prayer wheels that continuously Keep on turning by the force of magnetism. The attending monk Needs to repair them once on a while and can do other stuff for the ...

Not just the one neither the other. Giving and taking. If you are in a suffering state maybe a bit of the latter, if you are in good shape the former. All depends on your present feeling tone. This recording from a Pema Chodron teaching includes a guided meditation and I found it very useful https:/...

thanks everyone for the various input.

@Simon- any to add from your side?

@pema tsultrim- where is NM?

Lopon Tenzin Namdak, Dodrubchen Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche - where are they mainly located these days?