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Taiwan's ongoing events:
We are delighted to announce the
following teachings by
our spiritual master
Tulku Rinpoche on;
24th--26th, Oct, 2008 @ main Taipei Palyul Center.
A teaching on the Heart Sutra
The Heart Sutra’s Mantra:
OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA
General
Translated:
OM,
GONE (GATE is gone), GONE, (then PARAGATE) GONE BEYOND, (PARASAMGATE)
GONE COMPLETELY BEYOND, (BODHI) AWAKE, (SVAHA) SO BE IT.
So: OM, GONE, GONE, GONE BEYOND, GONE
COMPLETELY BEYOND, AWAKE, SO BE IT.
There's lots of
translations of this, and one is:
OM, TRANSCENDING,
EVER TRANSCENDING, TRANSCENDING EVEN TRANSCENDING, TRANSCENDING EVEN
TRANSCENDING OF TRANSCENDING, SUCHNESS, SO BE IT.
Oct.
31st -- Nov, 2nd 2008
Venue: Association of Amitayu Buddhist Society
2F.-2, No.7, Lane 75, Sec. 1, Da-an Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City
106, Taiwan
Buddha Amitabha
Empowerment
and
Phowa Transmission Practice
teaching
Phowa means,
"transference
of consciousness at the time of death" but we can practice any
time. So, get ready to
direct transfer to Buddha Amitabha’s paradise or the pure land
of Buddha Amitabha, at the right after our final breath.
Mantra: Om Ami Dewa Hri
Continues
Phowa practice
on Nov, 15th , 16th,
22nd and 23rd 2008 @ same venue.
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We also organize consultations
and talks by Physicians in traditional Tibetan medicine and
astrology and especially Tibetan Buddhist traditional divinations.
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General
Knowledge:
What is the Nyungné Practice (Fasting)?
Nyungné Practice is the most
effective course of practices for purifying both environmental
pollution and our own negative karma. It was revealed by
Bhikshuni
Phalmo, who suffered from
leprosy. She performed the practice for 12 years through Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara)
practice and became a great siddhi, attaining the Rainbow Body of
the Buddhas. The retreat course involves powerful practices of
purification such as periods of fasting, prostrations, and silence.
Practitioners will also recite the six-syllable Mani Mantra (Om Mani
Peme Hung) which purifies the seeds of the six realms within
oneself. Moreover it has the power of pacifying all the suffering of
sentient beings. In this way, the practice increases peace
everywhere and can help bring about lasting World Peace, so needed
in these degenerate times. The purification practices increase
positive energies and so in and of themselves are causes for
happiness and harmony.
The inclusive vows should be kept during the practice:
l. No killing
2. No
stealing
3. No sex
4. No lying
5. No drinking
alcohol
6. No idle
chatter, singing or dancing, makeup or ornaments
7. No evening
meals
8. No sitting in
high seats
In case
you have doubts about your health or
your ability to physically handle this retreat, please consult your
doctor. The prostrations are somewhat strenuous, but it is possible
to perform them very slowly!
What is the
The Ritual of Fire Offering Puja?
The Ritual Fire Offering
originalted in the ancient Indian tradition, and plays an important
role in Buddhist Tantric practice. It was commonly performed at the
conclusion of the prescribed meditation retreats associated with
specific meditational deities, in order to compensate for any errors
that may have occurred during the practice. It can also be done to
pacify hindrances such as illness, and may be performed to increase
merit, wealth, life span and so forth. So, based on the unique
tradition left by the great Indian master Padmasambhava, we are
performing this ritual Puja here.
What is the
Mahakala Puja / Request to the Dharma protectors?
This Prayer is
traditionally offered to the Dharma
Protector Mahakala. It
is originally practiced for one day intensively in order to drive
away obstacles to peace and progress in the Dharma. It is an
effective way to let go of negativity and to purify our body, speech
and mind.
What is the
Mountain
of
Burnt offeriings Puja (Riwo
Sang ChÖt)
?
Riwo Sang ChÖt is
a form of smoke offering to all Buddhas, Deities, Dharma Protectors
and Dakinis. This enables participants to accumulate lots of merits
and blessings as well as to purify negative karma.
Also
function as offerings to spirits and all the sentient beings in the
six realms. It serves to pay off our Karmic debts of our previous
lives. In addition, the offerings can help one to get rid of all
kinds of negative Karma, sicknesses and obstacles as well as
increase wealth and life span. Besides there is
the power to gain victory over anything that disturbs or shortens
the life, as well as the power to protect one from black magic,
scandal, loss of face and loss of dignity.
More Dharma words and
meanings...........
Regular
Public Practice:
Shower of
blessings w/ Gana-Chakra every Saturday afternoon.
Nyondro practice
with meditation, 7 till 9
PM every Saturday.
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Do not forget the Guru, pray to him at all the time.
Do not be carried away by thoughts, watch the nature of
mind.
Do not forget death, persist in Dharma.
Do not forget sentient
beings; with compassion dedicate your merits to them. ~
Buddha Shakyamuni
Guru
Yoga (Meditating upon One’s Guru)
Practice entitled Shower of
Blessings
Homage to the Guru!
This is the
universal remedy that develops respect and devotion,
Bestows blessings
upon one’s heart
And perfects one’s
spiritual experience and realization,
Recite this prayer
with great enthusiasm.
Namo
Homage!
I pay homage to the
pristine awareness
The essence of the
three kayas appearing in the form of the guru
Great blaze of
compassion – aware and luminous
Liberating sentient
beings in the sphere of primordial liberation.
AH
In the nature of the
ever excellent unfabricated awareness
Beyond focus,
thought and expression,
Appears in the midst
of offering clouds above the space in front, a lion throne with sun
and moon seat
Upon which resides
the unparalleled kind “Lord of Dharma”,
The unequalled
Palden Yeshe, the Glorious Wisdom.”
Looking
astonishingly handsome and warrior-like,
Smiling, you gaze
upon me with compassion.
Your dark blue hair
is tied up on your crown
You wear a white
shamthab, zen(Buddhist monk robe) and blue shirt.
Adorned with
earrings, you hold a kila in your sash and wear a meditation belt
around your body.
Your two hands rest
in the posture of relaxing
And your two legs
are in the Vajra posture of meditation.
Merely remembering
you dispels the fears of both samsara and nirvana.
Merely seeing you
keeps the three poisons from arising.
I meditate upon you
as the essence of all the objects of refuge.
I prostrate before
you with reverence, respect and faith.
As the mudra of
offering I offer all appearances and existence.
I confess all
negativities and downfalls in the sphere of uncompounded reality.
I rejoice in all
positive actions and virtues.
I request that you
turn the dharma wheel of the three vehicles.
I beseech you not to
pass away into nirvana but to remain as the protector of beings.
I dedicate all merit
for all beings to attain liberation.
May I be able to
accomplish the ocean of intention and conduct!
Kye Kye!
You are the source,
from which all Buddhas emanate and dissolve,
You hold the
treasure of wisdom, compassion and power
And are as well the
embodiments of unparalleled compassion.
From the bottom of
my heart, I supplicate with faith.
Please ripen and
liberate my mind
And help me
actualize the intention of the three kayas!
OM AH HUNG VAJRA
MAHA GURU SARVA SIDDHI HUNG
Supplication prayer to the Previous Lives of the Great Master Palden
Yeshe
Emaho!
Although you
attained enlightenment primordially, in the perception of beings
You appeared as
shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas and vidyadharas.
The full display of
your manifestations is fathomless.
I pray to you,
compassionate and glorious protector.
In the Land of Noble
Ones, you appeared as Danasanskrita and
Were accepted with
compassion by Guru Rinpoche.
Mastering the yoga
of channels and winds through Mamo
[1] practice,
You tamed the mother
goddesses, the protectors of dharma, like servants.
I pray to Drokmi
Palgyi Yeshe!
Accepted with love
by Guru Rinpoche, Vimalamitra and Berotsana,
You gained mastery
over appearances and mind.
You have spread the
teachings of the Three Inner Tantras like rays of the sun.
I pray to you,
Gyalmo Yudra Nyingpo.
As the manifested
wisdom display of both Yudra and Drokmi
You were born in
Langpo.
By revealing many
treasures like the teachings of Kagye and the Three Roots,
You nurtured beings
according to their mental dispositions.
I pray to you, the
dharma holder, Dechen Lingpa.
As the rebirth of
Dechen Lingpa,
Born in Chong Gye,
you travelled to Mongolia and revealed
The treasure
teachings of Khandro Gongdu, the Collective Intention of Dakinis.
I pray to you who
thus raised the lamp of the teachings.
As Drokmi, the
translator born in Ngyag Rong.
You revealed the
Drolma Nyingthig, Tara’s heart essence teachings, from the sacred
place of Drongtul.
Benefiting whoever
you encountered, you passed away to celestial realms.
I pray to Dudjom
Dungral Lingpa.
Cared for by the
Lord of Siddhas, Choying Ralo and
Khanyam Lingpa, who
attained the rainbow body,
You became a
Dzogchen yogi who saw the ultimate and supreme reality.
I pray to you,
Khyabdal Dorje!
In these degenerate
times, you appeared in this world
And met with noble
beings.
Throughout your life
you established retreat centres of accomplishment.
I pray to Palden
Yeshe.
By the power of
supplicating you, the noble being,
May the two
obscurations be extinguished and the two merits accumulated!
May I be able to
stay in solitary mountain retreats and accomplish my practice
And become capable
of cherishing the two spiritual attainments.
If you wish
recite“Calling the Lama from Afar”.
Care for me,
unequalled master Palden Yeshe.
Look from the
expanse of reality, the pervading sameness of samsara and nirvana!
Unleash the knot of
dualistic grasping!
Make me actualize
the reality beyond thought!
Only father, kind
guru,
With intense
longing, I pray to you.
May you always care
for me with your compassion!
Please bestow the
blessings of the four empowerments now!
From the three
syllables at the lama’s three places
Lights radiate
spontaneously and instantaneously.
Dissolving into my
four places,
I receive the four
empowerments and cleanse the four obscurations
Becoming a suitable
vessel to practice the four paths
And a fortunate one
to attain the four kayas.
Finally, the lama
dissolves into me.
Becoming inseparable
through the lama’s blessings,
May I see all
appearances as the lama’s manifestations!
By the merit
accumulated from this practice,
May I attain the
level of my glorious protector lama
And lead all beings
without exception to this state!
While generating
intense devotion and respect, I, Pema Thugje Wangchuk, nurtured with
compassion by my root guru Palden Yeshe,
composed this prayer on the twenty-fourth day of the third Tibetan
month at a solitary retreat place in the Lion Mountain, due to the
persistent request by young monks including Jamyang and Pema
Wangchen and others. May this effort be meaningful!
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