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Ngon Dro Nyam Len: Lecture 1, Serial 00048

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The lecture explores the intricacies of visualization practices in Tibetan Buddhism, focusing on positioning oneself within a mental space surrounded by deities, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and the concept of Sangha. This visualization is not limited to monastics but includes lay practitioners who have reached a certain level of teaching. The significance of Sutra and Tantra practices is emphasized, especially the role of the Lama in receiving teachings and blessings. The discourse highlights the necessity of devotion and intense focus, particularly in seeking blessings for enlightenment and understanding the profound nature of the Buddha's teachings. Prostration practices and their variations in different Tibetan regions are also discussed.

  • 84,000 Teachings: Refers to the comprehensive teachings expounded by the Buddha, significant for understanding the full scope of Buddhist doctrine.
  • Sutra and Tantra: These are two major practices in Buddhism, with Sutra referring to canonical texts that form Buddhist teachings, and Tantra associated with esoteric traditions focusing on advanced meditation techniques.
  • Visualization of the Lama and Deities: Central to the lecture, emphasizing self-placement in a space with spiritual figures, crucial for developing devotion.
  • Three Buddhas (Past, Present, Future): The three facets of time-based aspects of Buddhas are crucial for emphasizing continuous spiritual guidance.
  • Five Buddhas: These Buddhas are visualized alongside the Lama, representing enlightenment aspects vital for practitioners’ spiritual guidance.
  • Jhana Practice: This practice involves intense meditative concentration, reflecting on the importance of focus and clarity in gaining insights into Buddhist teachings.
  • Prostration Variations: Highlighting how practices differ regionally in Tibet, showing cultural uniqueness in devotional expression.
  • Emphasis on Faith and Devotion: Essential for receiving blessings and overcoming obstacles, highlighting the mental attitude necessary for practitioners.

AI Suggested Title: Devotion and Visualization in Tibetan Practice

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Teaching by: Dezhung Rinpoche III

(Interpreted by: Sakya Dagmo?)

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But then all the tree and all the space, so you see the behind the lama, around the lama, and all the Buddha, Bodhisattvas, protectors, and all the Buddhist deities. God of wealth, God of worship. Anything you think about is sitting around our space. It's like when the storm comes, the clouds really kind of bite. These lamas and all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas sitting like that all around. Excuse me, who was on the green petal? Green petal, it's like a gundu, buddha, dharma. The Buddhist students, I think, what are they called?

[01:02]

Yes, gundu, gundu, and papa gundu. Sangha. Sangha. Sangha. And then they... No, Sangha itself is all right, Sangha itself students. And it's not just the monks, but anybody who reached the first level or teaching that, you know, any... Even like, you know, had jewelry on. Anybody. Ordinary. Ordinary. Ordinary. Human dress. Human cloth. Who has reached this level of structure. How many? How many of them would there be? I think we ought to know. Oh, I don't know. [...] This is the picture on the top, around the Lama, with the space.

[02:02]

There in the space above. There's space above or behind or all. Not exactly above. All over on the top of the lungs, behind. And also some other ones on the, we are visualizing this possum, special wishful tree, and even on the branches and the leaves and all over. I think Genesee's one is with a good, it's a front, yeah. Genesee's good, don't you know that? Jainism, first he mentioned that in the front, but he said, and we do the regular practice, and you can put Jainism wherever you wish.

[03:12]

Okay. Look, if you go in there, tell me, you got to get it. Yes. And then I'm going to eat it. And then I'm going to party. And then I'm going to eat it. [...] I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And then the... So you then...

[04:47]

You were sitting in front of Lama, much lower level, under. memory, space, ground. So you sit with the devotion with all the hands like this. And this is your body. stands, sits like this. And nga ku, it means nga is what your voice is very humble, and he cursed that blessing.

[06:19]

And on the right side of you, this time not long, right side of you, your father, whatever he is right now, like old, young, whatever his image, he's sitting in the right side of you, and your mother is sitting in the left side of you, and all your enemies, whatever you wish, are in front of you. And then all the six realms, you know, they're all... sitting all around of you, to all doing the same posture, posture, and then asking the blessing. And I just asked the six realms, like the hell realms, like hungry ghosts, ugly looking, and all the animals, how they cannot eat you. Just like you visualize the lama with the outside dojistama, inside lama.

[07:27]

But this same thing, these six... Things like not animal, they all are human, but inside the animal. But they can understand, they can do the devotion, they can hear what Lama's teaching. So don't visualize the six stones not the animal way. So everyone is asking. and jumbo so the in inside the human if you see a hungry ghost right and also he added pazo is not the human not uh the six talents between what is it what you call it okay thank you i like it even those And then, this is the very important part.

[08:27]

Now you're sitting past you this way, but you're asking that from now, today, until you are enlightened, I and all the sentient beings, the sake of all the sentient beings, until enlightened, you're the only one who can help in blessing and enlightenment. This is the jungle which you have to have. Asking with a very deep portion, deepest from your heart, not just asking. When I was a child, I used to go to school. [...]

[09:28]

I used to go to school. I used to go to school. I used to go to school. And then you're asking Lama, but there's a Buddha that soju means ten directions, east, west, south, and southeast, and up and down. All together is ten directions with the Buddhas. And there are three Buddhas that is past, present, and future. Everyone you're asking with help. So, the first thing I did was to go to the temple. When I went to the temple, I went to the temple.

[10:30]

I went to the temple. [...] You're asking the teaching, the teaching. This is two kind of a practice in Buddhism, sutra and tantra.

[11:53]

Sutra has the three Buddha, Dharma, and tantra. Sangha, two or three. And Tantra has added four, which is your Lama. And this is very important. We are all practicing Tantra, which is that Lama is the one who already shows you, wrote, and give a teaching, everything. So this is when you visualize and teach, asking Lama with your posture, with that. devotion and asking that the Lama is the cool body, soul, speech, cool mind, is knowledge, is activity, all five blessings you want to receive from.

[12:57]

and cool, but Lama is the same as the Nambananda. These are five Buddhas, Javaringa, I think, more like, those five visualized. Lama is the same thing, cool, Nambananda. Lama is like... And these five things, those five Buddhas, you know, right? And this is the same Lama. Sankhya Tanda, Sankhya Tanda, There is the activity, all those points. There's all the Buddhist teaching is collected in volumes of books there on Eighty-four hundred thousand.

[14:14]

Eighty-four thousand. Okay. Eighty-four thousand? Okay, eighty-four. Eighty-four. Eighty-four thousand? Okay, eighty-four thousand. That's the word, all that come from in the Lama. Okay. The Lama used a word like, Papagundi is the Sangha, or Ngādhaka means in the soul, which is the owner or head of the Sangha's Lama. Ngādhaka. And it's important not to do that, because if you don't do it, you will die. If you don't do it, you will die. If you don't do it, you will die. If you don't do it, you will die.

[15:16]

If you don't do it, you will die. [...] which means all the lineage of lamas. So the Yubadeva, the Pandit Lama, is a glorious lama. Yes, she went to take refuge. Until I'm enlightened. Yes. Thambi.

[16:22]

Thambi Chö means all the Buddhist teachings, the 84,000 teachings the Buddha has taught. Gyatso Chö. This is a transit from the first level into the tenth level. It's a public vijñāna, all the things. From first to the tenth. Oh, okay.

[17:29]

The first one, first one, it means if you don't know the road and somebody comes to lead you, The third one you said that the railroad go in. . [...] problems and obstacles to help protect you from those problems. .

[19:27]

When you say the word, you visualize the center of the lama, your root lamp, you know, the thing. When you say the word, you visualize the center of the lama, The second verse is, you think in the front that are white petals, all the rhythms, and then right side, you think those two visuals. On the left side, there's all the starting from first level monks and any other Buddhist students.

[21:16]

And that's where you visualize. So then you start in doing the concentrate, not thinking in other things. So concentrate every verses you think that are visualized. The white petal was the first verse? Mm-hmm. Central, the llama. The llama, okay. Central with the flower, the llama. And then just front and right. Front and right? Yes, front and right. And those four lines were the lines we were supposed to say 100,000 times. Oh. Yes.

[22:20]

That's the first one. What about the four lines before that? There, here. What was the four lines before? I said, if you do this mantra, like do maybe three times meditation, I mean, prior. What's it called? Pray three times a day or four times a day? So he showed you how to do the starting and until when you do the reside.

[23:27]

What's that sign? Reside. He said he just watched Rinpoche and he has done a retreat and has done several... 100,000s of a jungle. So if you watch me, how do you do in the beginning until one sets, so you will know how to do it. Then, for example, you do daily three or four times, recite so many thousands, and then end of the day when you finish that, then it's almost the same as Yantra, and saying that...

[24:37]

It's a different saying, but it's Nene's saying that he was asking the Lama to please and, you know, like to say in the refuge, and please bestow on my heart. The most important part is that you have to have faith to Lama and devotion and the completely All right, to believe, no any doubt.

[25:43]

And the more you have that, you will receive more blessing. And because if you don't have that, sometimes maybe obstacles will come without doubt. So when you're asking, you're asking not just talking, like just have really deepest devotion from your heart. That's the most important part. Okay, then it's the Kambungkota time, Lama Chodokincho.

[26:55]

Almost the same, Lama Chodokincho to me. What are you thinking? What was in English? No, but the meaning is different. Let's see. Salutation. Salutation. Okay. And Lama. And same is very similar. It's like in the beginning. And then... And I'm just going to number three of you. Number three. Chilip means that the meaning of chilip is when you receive the chilip in the body, which means the body is healthy and no problem with your health, that you received the chilip from God.

[28:49]

Also, the chilip received your speech. And when you talk, when you're teaching English, there's no problem speaking English. Not that one, the Chilap Machu Picchu. The Chilap didn't have any carbon, at least he just said that. And sometimes he can't talk and, you know, and startles and breaks the speech and this, and not receive the Chilap. And, ick! The tilap is the mind. The tilap is the mind. If it's not received, then you have the doubt in the lamas' teaching and also there's Poisons like your five poisons, anger, desire that your child ignores.

[30:09]

These, if you have, that means not to seek the heart blessing. And this is what you're asking. Please bless me without this. Help me. What do you think about this? What do you think about this? What is the Dāla Chūsambhava? The Dāla Chūsambhava, Chingjilobis, is the one we asked in the beginning. I missed that one. And saying that Dāla Chūs is Dā in ānā, Chū is Dāma. Drawa is that my thinking or my mind is think only Dāma. Otherwise, you think only with this life, you do the practice, anything for this life, which is not good.

[31:21]

And that's not the way to do the practice. And asking anything for this life is not good practice. I want to avoid from the sun-setter. I want to avoid from the sun-setter. I have a lot of children. [...] Well, how do you explain in English also, right?

[32:42]

means something you just make that. means you... Then also you mentioned that the book, in the book, the spelling was a little wrong, wrong too. So spelling was, Tibetan spelling was wrong. But tuwa shiwa ching jing do, namjit tuwa. Tuwa means what we do the daily... Something that you make mistake. Things, that's the tuwa. Namjit tuwa, if I'm... Mystic. Please bless me. Not mystic. Help. Not mystic. Once you receive the blessing, then it goes away. You don't have any mistake. Nam-tok is the something that you make up.

[34:01]

For example, anything with non-virtuous is nam-tok. And that's nga-pa-chin-dra. Nga means cut or stop. Yinjue means compassion. To increase, you increase. This is the main root of the Buddha's teaching. loving and compassion to others, all sentient beings.

[35:02]

And then the means cause that deceives you for the sake of sentient beings. The fast, as soon as you want to be enlightened, fast and make sure. means fast, quick. Right now. When I was a child, I used to go to school, and I used to go to school, and I used to go to school, and I used to go to school, I don't know.

[36:16]

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And then, how do you want to sit there? Sit there. This is conclusion, closing, when they are finishing. And Lama and all the lineage Lamas, all the Buddhists and Bodhisattvas, everyone is from them. to have a washi.

[37:34]

Washi is rays? All different colors, very bright, and come to you and put, which means, not just all put, means this washi come on you. strike strike strike on you and not only you with all the um that you have visualized that your father mother and all this sentient beings all those six realms out everybody struck and suddenly all the uh It's just like when the darkness outside, sudden sun come out, darks are gone, and visualize like that. Then tsuk ni, which means all that your devotion things, tsok tsok, which means received great merit.

[39:17]

OK. The Lama Kang, this rays strike on you and all the sentient beings. The sentient beings, with that devotion of them, merit, and they are all purified and then disappear in the Shinkang. They were in Shinkang. By Shinkang, we're talking about Heaven. I don't know if Shinkang is there. There are a few here talking. All the symptoms have gone away. There are so many. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we were talking before that all the sentient beings and other things, the now is disappeared down.

[41:36]

And then Tama is the end, and all the lineage lamas, How did you learn the language? I learned it from a teacher. [...] So, I asked the lineages how they dissolve from left to right or right to left.

[42:41]

He said, there is a way, you see, practice, but it's very hard. We're just starting. And he thinks the lamas all dissolve, the central lama, all the lineages dissolve to the center, you are a lama. And then Lama dissolved from top head down to about wherever his heart is down and dissolved from the tree all that he's thrown up and then went reach the center of his heart, and then turns the light blue, bold, like how size like we see sun right now. and that size, and then this sun, this blue light comes on your top of head and results on you to your body. And then if you meditate a little bit, now you received all the body, speech, mind, and you can .

[43:48]

And that time, if you do the meditation and see your own mind, that's the time you then bring that time. When I was young, I used to go to school with my friends. I used to go to school with my friends. When I was young, I used to go to school with my friends. When I was young, I used to go to school with my friends. When I was young, I used to go to school with my friends. So, I went to the temple and asked for help.

[45:03]

I asked for help. [...] I don't know. I don't know. So I think all you need to do is call your mother back and don't let them kill you.

[47:01]

So I don't know why you didn't know your mother. [...] This is very hard. Okay, this time, the time when you're concluding and you meditate. The same is your mind.

[48:15]

Stay as stable as possible. And to turn, look at yourself and your mind. And don't think about what you have to plan to do tomorrow, next day, business, and what you're working. Don't think that. And don't think what have you done before or what know all those things just to control your mind and stay stable and look in your mind and and they very hard to especially in the first stage it's very hard and but then sometimes kind of um it's a clear and there's something there but these you know there's no shape and no color and That means something, that means is that all of the sanghas. And then there's, and then, for example, that you can't say that you waste your mind with your body, you know, because it's, for example, like when you touch the fire, you get burned.

[49:32]

But where was the bone come from? And you don't know. It's in the fire, but where is, you know, that's this. So it's hard to separate from, but this example he gave me, but I myself don't know very well. And then the mind as stable as possible, and then between, you know, Try not think anything, and once you're not thinking anything, then clear. And when it's clear, then you may have some days sour. It's clear. Emptiness. Nothing you see, nothing you, you know, visual, nothing. And that means tomba. And between that is the... Okay, when do you... Do you mean something like... Do you mean something like...

[50:37]

When you can't separate from the emptiness to the truth, between sumjus, combined, that's the one is the Buddha. And then everything jhamro is what you visualize, everything, but it really is in all things in your mind. And all the jhamro, the four things, in your mind. And this is very hard. He said these Buddhist teachings are not that really for the special use of the mind. They are not easy to teach for the public and special teaching. which is very hard to understand and confuse and not practice, which is not good for the Lama or student body.

[51:50]

But since you're asking him to teach and he, the Lama, and his teaching, he hopes you will practice this. And also he added that The Lama who never practiced much about khyamdo and just to teach a student, that's not also right, but he has done many times. And so he can be able to teach you because he's done many times. And this is the... the old main root foundation. It's hard to understand, but this is the main thing. If you can't meditate at your own mind, you cannot enlighten, that's for sure. And don't look outside at what you've seen and what you think.

[52:58]

It's looking yourself in. And the tongpa is emptiness with the reminds. What is it? Rongjin? Jue means we don't meet. It's just a leave along what we want. Not meet. Jue means something like jue. In English, I don't know in Tibetan, somebody's helping you to do things.

[53:59]

Or you do, you help yourself. For example, I can't put this one. I put something here. It makes it stand out. That's good. Don't do that. No support. Support. That's a good one. No support. Don't support, say something. I don't support. If you support, then you will... You think the old, the future, past... If you grab onto anything. Right. Don't. All the teachings, the childhood temple, the king's teachings, it's just all in the mind. He said it's not really good to teach everybody this kind of teaching since lots of people don't know what he's talking, but he said he's doing some mantras for them.

[55:27]

But he also hopes, or he may, that students who, you know, there's a way, maybe some of you will practice and will succeed somehow. That's if someone, there's no matter how much you talked or how much, how he showed, you know, what he said, This is the dedication for the Gewa. All that you have done, what you have practiced, in the four verses, the last verses, Gewa means the conclusion. Gewa means what you did, virtue. Gewa means virtue. And then they're telling me, [...]

[56:35]

This talk roughly, but there's so many more details, has begun this. But he also liked to go one more time, again the same one, and some other time, and to do them stuff. And then I got to, I said, like, in the evening or so, [...] Mm-hmm. This is the beginning, when we started Asanjita, and the last part, the dedication, several verses. And these are very important, and you have to be done by even a student when we start in the dedication. So since we don't have that many books, and we all don't know this, and he hopes so, you know, he's going to write down that piece, and maybe we can...

[58:09]

copy that and everyone has it so you can do it. It is good to, you know, memorize some like Sangha Chöna. All my students have this, you know, when we do the Tibetan lesson, we do this, you know, so it's good to memorize. It's not just the four verses and then maybe the four or eight verses of dedication. Okay, that's the one he said, how Tick was teaching. Then it's now again, he's going to read it through how to do it, beginning to end. So you do all it together, so then you know how he's going to do it, what he's going to do now, and you do that next time. Chant Chant Satsang with Mooji

[59:26]

Satsang with Mooji Satsang with Mooji That is a song that is a victory. That is a song that is a victory. We pray, O Lord, that you would forgive us our sins, [...]

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Thou art Thine, Thou art Thine. [...] You know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about. Tathagata, Tathagata, Tathagata What God taught us from day to day, by day to night, [...]

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So long call, come what it may be, so do you, [...] The good son could be a son of wise children. The good son could be a son of wise children. The good son could be a son of wise children. Chant Chant Nandeshe nalai chasui chewa, Bhakti-tendene [...] nalai chasui chewa,

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Dhammi, Chö, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Pape, Kri, Lhe, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Pape, Kri, Lhe, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Dhammi, Chö, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Pape, Kri, Lhe, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Dhammi, Chö, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Pape, Kri, Lhe, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Pape, Kri, Lhe, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Dhammi, Chö, Nama, Lha, Chö, Tho, Chö, Pape, Kri, Lhe, Nama, Lha, Ch Thank you. Satsang with Mooji

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Thank you. Thank you.

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do [...] Oh, yeah. Now, now, let's do it.

[72:48]

Now, let's do it. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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Satsang with Mooji Satsang with Mooji Thank you.

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He said, I don't know. [...] At the end of the day, it's not a big deal. It's [...] all right, we're into that. I'm with you.

[79:57]

But today we're really starting, beginning, so we all kind of fast and loudly sing. But when you do the 100,000, you should do it a little slow and not too loud. And then when you're counting in the rosary, and many people are doing the rosary hand down, the right hand, but the leper himself will use the rosary and the Bible for your heart. And each of those you concentrate, and if you cannot pass the one verse, that way you should do. And he said this, and Angattukala himself, finishing several hundred thousand, and the general, but he said, he said, if you do diligently, and it will take maybe twenty-some days, but Yes. If you do religious law and construct, this is not probably a few hours' day at all. It's many hours a day, and I think one month will complete it, 1,000 jamborees.

[81:04]

Jamboree? Jamboree? Do you have something to say? If you did that with prostration at the church, how long does that take? How [...] long does that take? It takes a little longer, over a month or maybe 45 days, to do with the chaps together. In addition, he himself hasn't done that way. He gave the general his guide, and then chaps. He said 100,000 chaps, and he did. But the government told, putting that into a recitation about Tung Sha, which is a Buddhist teaching, Tung Sha kind of thing.

[82:07]

That Buddhist name is Tungpa. That's what I'm told. That's what I'm told. The leper himself is very diligent. He only sleeps three hours a day, and he couldn't get 5,000 taxes a day. Even, you know, even he was an old age, even 3,000 years. In particular, when he was young, he did the old age at 2,500. That's the best you can do. And... She finished 100,000 in one month.

[83:22]

100,000. One month. One month? One month. Because she said fast. She said, I mean, I stayed. And what the leper would do, he thought it was sedium. Sedium would do. And then would talk. I did talk to her. I mean, you were able to talk to her. It's too kind of me. It's too kind of me. Talk. Talk to her. And then you could get a little bit of time to do this. And there aren't big people talking. I mean, there aren't a lot of talking. You can learn to do this. I don't know what to say. [...] That's right, that's right. There's three kinds of prostration you can do.

[85:16]

The one is the whole body is stretched. And that's the one's had a laborer which has not done that. He has told that five is okay. He's not given a chance. and uh and then you're not soon the third one you just sit me down the little high place you just touch the like in the chinese child side and three and he used that's kind of um was done some in east tibet and mission which i thought well that's just you know it's not very good but later he saw the uh such a jitling topic and saying when you look at the kumarana and his biography, so it is okay if you do that, it's something you want. That also, so I, that's a promote. Putting your hands in. Yeah, you just sitting knee down already all the time.

[86:16]

And there are two hands in your head. You say, I'm going to do that, and basically someone might do this. I'm going to do, I mean. Now we're going to do the, when you do the bunta, you know, when you do the nlanda, when you do the hundred thousand, very slowly, like this way. Nlanda nlanda. Yes. Yes. . Mother, when you're born, you're not alone.

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You're not alone. [...] Lord, please forgive us our sins. Lord, [...] please forgive us our sins. I'm sorry. [...] Satsang with Mooji Satsang with Mooji

[89:26]

That's it. I think you're good. I don't know. [...] Tā kōne kōntō pēwāishu.

[91:45]

Pāsānyam bēcchā, Tā chūnyam mēngjirādham bēcchā, Tā gündēm mēntēdham bēcchā, Kāngu wā mēlā tāpsēn rūwāishu. Bhūpāndē sākyā, Bhēkhārēcchāntara tēcchā, Thank you. Don't tell me you don't have to buy some boys. Yeah, don't buy them. They need to get a seat. Oh, I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. Thank you.

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Thank you. I don't know.

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