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Teaching by: Deshung Rinpoche (Dezhung Rinpoche III)

Interpreted by: Jared Rhoton (Sonam Tenzin)

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to prepare ourselves
five for the
for this session of dharma study we show that
recall the
instructions those instructions which
enable us to turn our minds and way from
worldly distractions
don't enter a conceptualizations that often
to detract from
one's obligation to dharma practice and the attainment of
the best result therefrom
that is we should approach this session of dharma practice with
proper attitude your proper attitude would be
the
would be a resolve to apply oneself wholeheartedly to the study of dharma today in order to
become able as a result of and studies to accomplish the highest good of all other bees
when any virtuous action such as this is motivated by this highest resolve to work for the enlightenment of other beings as well as meant so then
that action becomes magnified in it
result in it and in its efficacy
therefore
when she to begin with
this resolved to work towards enlightenment through this press these present efforts second too late
one should day the attentive
two p m
to the dharma that one is receiving putting aside all day
no distractions
when should listen over home single pointedly to the
teachings that are being given make a single point an effort to understand him and keep them in mind for one's own future practice thirdly one should relinquish all ordinary conceptualizations of this
of this present effort in studying the dharma this can be done
in several ways
first goal you can relinquish the conceptualization of this moment as being an ordinary one
this is
a dharmic event occurring and
a deeper level
where on a transmission of diamond knowledge is being in
enacted you should see the teacher as being none other
then shakyamuni buddha himself who is expanding the dharma to you visualizing the teacher as shakyamuni buddha
you should think that rays of light shine forth from his radiant body to dispel all the darkness from your and observations from your own mine
that your own mind thus purified
it becomes receptive of the dharma teachings able to understand them retain them and that also great insight into their profound meaning
arises within your own consciousness
you should think of yourself also is not been an ordinary person that visualize yourself in the form of the to wisdom manjushri a bodhisattva himself
you are that
bodhisattva of wisdom
tirelessly seeks out of the profound teachings in light on behalf of ignorant beings
nor is
the present situation and ordinary what think of your environment as being
ah
as be one in which all appearances
our
don't do up appearance and voidness
that's all
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of the deities mandarin
and that this present
a the present premises are a celestial mansion
wherein the transmission of dharma is taking place so if
if through these tantric visualizations and recollections when applies oneself single pointedly to listen to these teachings today
not only will the your
efforts in study be heightened enhanced through thus approximating
the transmission of dharma earn a higher level but
well once married in making these efforts will also be a likewise magnified and enhanced
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in know studies of the
londres system irritations
we have already
become familiar with the for recollections which
so to prepare as
for
advanced buddhist practices
you will recall that
we studied
progress play the meditations the reflections at burn
the
unsatisfactory knees are worldly existence as a whole
the
reflections or bone impermanence and death
reflections a bone
they

and failing operation at the law of karma
and then
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yes and the difficulty of obtaining
the opportunity to practice damage
through
these poor reflections
our minds were

our minds became progressively disengaged from
involvement in worldly activities
and strengthened in
the resolve to
apply ourselves in practice to these teachings of enlightenment while the opportunity was available to us
these were preparations for
the exoteric
the mahayana meditations such as training in the
in concentrated and insight
stages of meditation the realization of are two kinds of non-self etc
and
now we are in this second series up
studies
engaged in
in preparation for
another kind of advanced meditation
it is advanced tantric techniques
lead you to those
for reflections
are necessary as the first date
in practice unless our
and thus all hour later
in practices
derived from
the sense of renunciation
and that diligence that day is aroused in the mind through these for reflections of those meditations
will be ineffective
but if abundance for reflections we then prepare our minds
for advanced practice by undergoing first
training in the for
the foundation meditations
our meditations are all our later meditations will assuredly be fruitful
so
at this point we are now discussing the and
these for foundation meditations which prepares for advanced tantric
practice
there
overall purpose is to
enable us to acquire
a purification
and married

the for foundation meditations which prepares for
advanced tantric practices are as you know
refuge
luxury sought to and meditation
mandela offering
and the guru yoga
there is a fifth
a foundation practice that of prostrations which
is
usually and our system combined with the
practice at the refuge meditation
now
the first of these poor foundation meditations
is that of refuge
it's purpose is to

is too
is to enable us to enter into the path of practice
by reciting the refuge formula one hundred thousand times
want more
accompanied and unaccompanied this recitation with the
visualization md
ritual of taking refuge
our minds
so to speak embark upon the path we have a point of entrance into the experiences of the bath
and
by training our mind in these practices we develop a sense of reliance a bone
the
buddhists trinity and develop a sense of report with him which
makes us receptive to their blessings and guidance and also
our practice of refuge impels us
to make to progress further in subsequent stages of practice so in a word in the purpose of
the refuge foundation is to facilitate our entrance into the path of practice

the
once having entered into practice however
we become aware of the difficulties involved in practice we encounter
mental
triggs
or
physical problems in or
emotional
the negative emotional states which hinder us in making
an effective progress in our training

in order to purify these
karmic hindrances then these emotive in cognitive obscuration and obstacles which we have may have accumulated
through our past non dharmic of actions
it is necessary to purify body and mind and speech
no to remove these obstacles to effective practice
and so we undertake the
we undertake bags the meditation
the visor sutra
vice versa to it is the
here is the bodhisattva functions
as a purifying april
object of meditation
two reciting his hundred syllable mantra om one hundred thousand or more times comic our economic
obstacles and obscuration
will be purified
the purity alone mental and physical purity alone
or not
does not constitute
sufficient foundation
for advanced tantric practices

in our mind must be enriched strengthened matured through the acquisition of merit that is the result of virtuous
actions
while virtue is acquired through
patty unselfishly her body was mind
performing services for others and for the dharma working for the
dharma et cetera
one of the most effective ways of gathering married
according to the bosnian a tradition is through the practice of
the mandela offering now the mandela symbolically representing
our the whole of our being
the whole of our of all the components of our personal the
and in fact the whole of our universe subjective universe if offered in a spirit of
robert sincere
devotion and relinquishment selfishness to the
buddha's
for the highest good of all living beings
becomes
a
a
an act of worship on the highest level
and
accordingly
i am
accordingly
it brings about an acquisition of a great amount of afraid you are married
so the fourth the third foundation practice consist of offering the mandela that is the symbolic universe to the enlightened ones and behalf of all beings
at least one hundred thousand times or more
and results and if if affirmed effectively correctly results in the acquisition of a great store of america

having acquired having entered the path purified purified one's way of
internal and external obstacles and having acquired a store of merit
one needs finally
since of
guidance and confidence in
in undertaking in pursuing these

advanced stages of tantric meditation
and so the ford foundation of consists of the guru yoga practice through which when meditate upon one's own
a teacher
and consciously strives to invoke
i sent over a poor intimate report with his mind directly and invoke also
transmission of his inside blessings and as sense of
of his
only dynamic experience
which will serve as
a source of guidance whereas in our own uncharted practice
here when recites the
the
the formula invoking the grew and accompanied by
an appropriate visualizations and thereby develops through
this practice
practice of this fish degree of meditation for one hundred thousand or more times
one does indeed develop these strong sense of intimate rapport with guru so through the through all of these foundation practices that is to recapitulate
the
prostrations combined with grocery refuge meditation combined with prostrations accompanied by his the noble resolve of bodhicitta
and
the meditation of sri buzzer sought to and the

they
good or yoga meditation
the mandela offering and the guru yoga meditation one's mind becomes
i wouldn't mind and body become purified strengthened enriched and matured to such a degree that one is one is with assurance able to undertake these profound
practices of the advisory on it but and through having this this foundation upon which to practice which the baseless practices one can expect to succeed
failing
two failing to have achieved these
the
hold of these foundations
one really should not expect success in ne
advanced practices no matter what they might be
with these with these foundations to build a when again
safely and successfully undertake to practice undertake the to meditate it
about any of the tantric deities whether it be three have asthma or battery yoga knee or whomever and one has every reason to expect
the highest success from one's practice
if one has been diligent and
diligent and thoroughgoing in ones
prior practice of these foundation meditations so in know in the past few weeks we have discussed and giving you the instructions for the first two are the four foundations
that is that we discuss the refuge i should start to meditation tonight we will discuss the third foundation that is the mandela offering
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the sanskrit word mandela is translated
into tibetans
by the red king core
ah in english
both words madeleine kingaroy would be translated as simply a circle
the circle
no
the circle
a circle line signifies or represents totality or completeness and this is
what is signified when one performs be mandela offering that is that you are offering to
the enlightened ones
the whole
of your being
historically this
will love mandela offerings is traced to
an offering made to the buddha by
in a universal emperor
a chuck rewarded in writer chakra what the roger
that is an emperor of the universe once offered the buddha the whole of his empire the hold up his kingdom that is the whole universe
no
at present we're not able to
make a similar offering
but we can offer all that we have that is all that we might rightfully
claim as belonging to ourselves
that is that there is no other of which there is no other
okay
our own body voice and mind our faculties are experience our property property that belongs to us
and even went own family all that is
one zone
there is the whole of one's belongings can and should be
offered up to the enlightened ones in this effort to accumulate married because
i'm very disappointed through making a gifts and the more in selfish the merit the more thoroughgoing were in service to get more thoroughgoing the gift the more married just acquired
so the purpose of this
a foundation practice is to train ourselves in and in total and selfishness through this sir
this giving this offering up the totality of our own being and all our belongings
if
now
ah
but this
even this gift
must be performed rightly
first of all it must be sincere
and it must be and it must not be

i performed wrongly what would be a wrong
i'm offering to the voters
well
what if i let us say that most of the belongings that we have
most of our own property is has not been purely acquired we have acquired them ourselves navy sinfully through sinful for means
through certainly through greed for the mental poison of greed or selfishness or miserliness or through other
negative
means we have acquired what we're now offering up so there is the there is the fault the state that this team together of sinful acquisition
of the thing the very things that were no i am planning to offer the enlightened ones then in them even though we offer them up at the time we
at the time we're
offering them we may be holding back we're not we don't really mean it were merely doing it through wrote were merely doing it we're pretending to to to give them up were really thinking
miserliness we tried to hold about something for for ourselves we don't give up the attachment to
so there is still the taint of of clinging and even at the time of giving them up
and finally there is taint of
of pride
even if we do manage to get through making the gift then we become very conceited about it and thing well i did it i didn't want is hard for others to do i am i i'm really quite a giver i have given up all that i got and so forth and become very comfy
seated in proud

and so to at every stage in i gift are offering has been tainted with
it's not clear
no
you have to live him
so at all three
stages of i
magnanimous gift
it is dictated our actions were tainted with
with sin
with miserliness and with concede
ah
this kind of the offering however
they do is to be made here
this mandela practice of amanda law must not be
an offering such as is it is
total offering the totality once being and all that that pertains to oneself
without without clinging to it without concede about doing it but poorly only with thought that through this
offering to the enlightened ones while that i am have that may all beings acquire married enlightenment and been through this offering may also become enabled to help them in this said that is it is real offering now
the mandela
into the specifics of the practice of the mantle offering
the this offering of the totality of ones universe is symbolized by me is me
the mandela itself which is an arrangement
a symbolic arrangement
using certain instruments that is a mandela board if you will and there are specifications about the the type of
mandela
mandela or
circle
that when may use in the ceremony in the ritual now when we use let's talk about the material the mondelez now and i said amanda the now i'm talking about the specific instrument or the particular
we particular utensil that you're using in your
to symbolize this offering with your universe to enlarge miles
this may be
of three kinds of material
during classes and material
the best one would be of gold or silver the second best would be of of
of
lesser metals such as
bryant or
some compromise
like ipad or and the least preferable would be of stone or wood
now what about the size of this instrument if it is a gold and silver say the tibetan scholars it should be i have one
to toe in in diameter that is the the span between once the tipper when stand in the to performance middle finger
yeah whatever you can
if it is a wood or stolen however
if it is not a metal substance it should be
it should equal the diamond you should equal the distance from the tip of one's elbow the tip of once a hand
okay
should be larger
no
and it's quite all right to use these lesser materials for example images own great teacher got an hour lab or mha was very poor he couldn't avoid when it a costlier models so he used first a wooden mantel
a and he did
five
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mandela and so we used that here is be made five hundred thousand
the offerings of the mandela that using that wouldn't mind
and
then
and then he acquired a stone mandela and he used had to perform another five hundred thousand
offering said amanda know the of course they're shorter and longer versions of this mandela ritual he of course practise the longer version which is much longer than be sure to it i and they
so
he
whereas i
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the smaller at
a utensils smaller instrument spm
when mandela
i
got another local image he stressed that should be
they should be large he prepares the larger models because
not since the whole the whole point of making mandel offerings is this willingness to willingness to give in to make efforts in giving that that the larger the i big the effort to more the are three so it's right within the keeping up
of mandela the spirit of reminder offering to use that larger models and so forth
in any case
it's not right to scamper to use sub sized mandela surfaces
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arranging
it
arranging went offering up on the surface of this mandela
you must have seen in remember to turn it was holding the utensil which we are calling here a mandela
so holding one should first of all hold the mandela in your left hand
okay not in your right hold it in your left and then place your offering on the surface of the mind dinner with your right not with your lap if you offer with your left in it means that you
it means that you starved in the future
the
so
but before you place the offering the first a few things that you should know about the offering itself in the preparation for the place
first ball let's talk about the
material
you use in your symbolic offering
ideally it is
ideally you should over the five kinds of precious metals such as gold silver and so forth precious stones
if you don't have those then second best kind of offering would consist of medicines
the five
the five a prescribed kinds of the medicine these are herbal
in nature
and i can begin to tell you with their mirabella murcia
and
yeah in any case they grow in indian values
yes
so
when the makes the the second best will be an offering of medicinal herbs
if you don't have
even those if you are a poor meditator
it's all right to use
white stones like pebbles

all right
so having
having a
prepared you are
are you offering now you must prepare the mandalay the surface of the mandela for the
the ceremony is means that you must
i you must stay for is purified the surface of the mandela this you do
by reciting the hundreds liberal month from a purification you must know it from your browser software
meditations
he recited hundred syllable mantra a pilot the same time repeatedly
cleansing oil cleansing the surface or the mandela by rubbing it but with the
this portion of your right hand
the heel of your right hand
it must you can't use a rag or sponge or any other the to cleanse it's not that it
it's it's
the point is that you must use the surface of your own skin to
cleanses the surface smuggler while reciting the month
having done this then you next wash
i just watched the surface of the mandela
with ideally i
herbal water some kind of concoction of water in which
purifying herbs have been placed
the new
you pour a little bit over the surface of the year
the mandela clinton surface if you don't use if you don't have that this kind of herbal medicine
or herbal liquid then you can use
a substitute for example or less
by no less expensive a mixture of herbs or if you don't have that then just use clean water clean pure fresh water
all right
no
you are ready to begin the offering ceremony
the
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the offering itself that is reusing as your here not voters obama even stearns beans and rice
so the rise symbolizes are often take up a small
pinch of rice
the fingers of your right hand and then starting this
scan get starting at the front of a manner which is assuming that my hand has the mandela stating here you draw a line up to the center
of the very center of the mandalas surface
and there you may you place one pinch of rise

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