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The newly opened Contemplative Resource Center is offering their first retreat through their new center, an online retreat with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. It is titled: The Medicine Buddha: Intrinsic Health and Healing with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. It takes place from November 13-15, 2020 and featur...

https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/water-snake-aspiration I found this prayer, which could be a good alternative for those looking to purify who don't have the strength or mental ability to do the 35 Buddhas Repentance or the 88 Buddhas Repentance, which both ...

Some sources say he was born 1933, others say 1930. 1930 seems to be more accurate.

Here is an excerpt from an interview with HE Choden Rinpoche about the 1959 Uprising for Mandala Magazine: "By the time of the uprising against the Chinese Communists, most of the monks had already escaped. So many soldiers had arrived and the monks were afraid the monasteries would be destroyed. Th...

HE Choden Rinpoche, 1933-2015, great meditation master. HE Choden Rinpoche spent 19 years in retreat from 1965-1985, attaining many profound realizations in that time. Prior to 1965, he had briefly been imprisoned by the Chinese. While on retreat, he was pretending to be an invalid to avoid having t...

The prayer service is free.

Ati Ling, Tibetan Buddhist center affiliated with Chagdud Tulku, provides a prayer service for both humans and animals who have recently died. In their daily red Tara practice they will provide prayers for the deceased for the traditional 49 days: https://atiling.org/when-someone-dies/ . This is one...

Yes I'll ask my teacher. Good advice on keeping my mouth shut, too. Haha thanks.

In the dream, I was reciting Buddha Amitabha's name but this recitation wasn't helping the situation very much. That is when I switched to reciting the name mantra of Sitatapatra.

No I haven't

I participated in a lecture on Sitatapatra and looked up the name mantra online after the lecture.

Recently, I was in a dream with some difficult obstacles. I started reciting the Sitatapatra name mantra while in the dream "Om Namo Sitatapatra Devi" and the obstacles began to clear and disperse. I wanted to ask if this mantra needs permission to recite.

...Todd Garrison. He died by his own hand. He was a member of a chronic illness community that I was a part of. He had the same illness I have and so I can really feel for him.

I really enjoyed it. Thank you.

https://thewayofconsciousdeath.com/ This website has some really good information about conscious dying, including a great list of books related to death and dying. The author has had three experiences of being very near death and having to prepare for death due to a serious heart problem. So she ha...

One practitioner told me "the obstacles are the Amrita (nectar)". That stuck with me.

What's some of the best advice you've been given about the spiritual path (that you are comfortable with sharing)? Recently, someone reminded me of the importance of the 3 pillars of study, practice, and reflection . I had known about these three aspects of the path before, but for some reason this ...

I wish I could say I've embodied the theme of this poem, but I haven't; not yet. However, this topic inspires me to focus on having a more open mind, because I know that's where real progress is found. Actually, writing this poem inspired me to want to think more deeply about how I can utilize my sk...

Here are a few other poems I wrote: Matters Willful hatred? How can you hate what you don’t understand? When you begin to understand, hatred disperses Compassion begets order? “It can’t be,” you say You still don’t believe me Maybe you would in another time, in another place People everywhere are pr...