Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma Teachings of the Buddha Part III | Vajrayana

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Video Library | Set Up

http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=12223132&ac=now Breathe by Frozen Light | 4:51 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImTEB35new0&feature=player_e mbedded#! | Meditation on the Five Elements | 10:25 min. OPTIONAL

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Pre-session Video
http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=122231

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Bodhichitta
Bodhichitta, precious and sublime: May it arise in those in whom it has not arisen, May it never decline where it has arisen But go on increasing, further and further!

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Self-generated Meditation
Look inward to observe the nature of mind
Observe its origin

Observe its going

Observe its staying Carefully trace its own form

and figure Inquire about the nature of mind, over and over again. Examine all thoughtsare they positive? are they negative?
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The Minds Natural Clarity

When we recognize and become grounded in awareness, the wind of emotion may still blow. But, instead of being carried away by the wind, we turn our attention inward, watching the shifts and changes with the intention of becoming familiar with that aspect of consciousness that recognizes, OH, THIS IS WHAT IM FEELING, THIS IS WHAT IM THINKING. As we do so a bit of space opens up within us. With practice, that spacewhich is the minds natural claritybegins to expand and settle.

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Kasyapa
South- facing Buddha succeeded by Guatma

Koagamna
East-facing Buddha

Gautama

Kakusandha
8 North-facingBuddha

West-facing Buddha at Ananda Temple, Bagan, Myanmar

Trisong Deutsen Emperor of Tibet (755 to~804 C.E.)

2nd of the three great Dharma Kings of Tibet, playing a pivotal role in introducing the tantric and Dzogchen teachings and the estblishment of the Nyingma School

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Padmasambhava
Guru Rinpoche Master Padma Padmakara

http://www.turtlehill.org/khen/eman.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQPmnGTUHYU Gnosis, The Spirit of Tibet A Journey to Enlightenment 46:09 min.

The Life of His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche This film is an authentic portrait of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's great contemporary teachers, considered to be a "Master of Masters" among the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Narrated by Richard Gere and music by Phillip Glass. Renowned as a great meditator, guru, poet, scholar and as one of the main teachers of the Dalai Lama, the Nyingma Lama Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche died in 1991. Ten years in the making, this film began in 1989 when translator Matthieu Ricard and Vivian Kurz began taping extensive footage of their teacher. Shot in rarely filmed Kham, Eastern Tibet, as well as Nepal, Bhutan, India and France, the film shows the rich and intricate tapestry of Tibetan Buddhism and is a witness to the strength, wisdom, and depth of Tibetan culture.

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Avalokitesvara
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The Fire Sermon

The mind is burning, ideas are burning, mind-consciousness is burning, mind contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful nor pleasant that arises with mind contact for its indispensable condition, that, too, is burning
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The Buddha said the whole world was on fire.

Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion..
form is burning, feeling is burning, perception is burning, volitional formations are burning, consciousness is burning. Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple experiences revulsion towards form ... feeling ... perception ... volitional formations ... consciousness .... Through dispassion [this mind] is liberated....
From his Fire Sermon

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'in the heat of passion; 'a burning desire'; 'she has a new flame. This is the fire of creation. Its not just my sacred energy I need to be in touch with and aware of, it is the fire of all creation from moment to moment to moment. Nancy Baker

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Dont project space as being there; dont grasp awareness as being here! This is because space and awareness are a primordial unity.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert Einstein 17 Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

In the State of Innate Consciousness

At ALL TIMES!
Altered States: Intentional, recreational, religious An ASC can sometimes be reached intentionally by the use of sensory or sleep deprivation, an isolation tank, lucid dreaming, hypnosis, meditative prayer, psychoactive drugs, or disciplines (e.g. Mantra Meditation, Yoga, Sufism, Dream Yoga, Surat Shabda Yoga (Kundalini)).

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Accidental/Pathological
An altered state of consciousness can come about accidentally through, for example, fever, infections such as meningitis, sleep deprivation, fasting, oxygen deprivation, nitrogen narcosis (deep diving) , psychosis, temporal lobe epilepsy, or a traumatic accident. It can also occur in healthy women experiencing childbirth, hence the introduction of the term gender-specific states of consciousness. It also can occur when you are about to slip and fall down, go into another car, lose control of your balance, and the like. There is that moment of pure awareness.

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Drawing from Your Experience

Can you recall an instance when you had an unexpected responsewhen, for example
time stood still, colors were suddenly brighter, there were instant, bright lights, and/or an extraordinary sense of calm and quiet in this void?
If you have had such an instance, you have had a glimpse to the nature of your mind.
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Mental (Thought) Experiments

Einstein's theories sprang from a ground of ideas prepared by decades of experiments done by others. This is definitely true of the Buddha and of all who have experienced the nature of mind. "In light of knowledge attained, the happy
achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the lightonly those who have experienced it can understand it.Einstein
The equation E = mc2 states that energy always exhibits relativistic mass in whatever form the energy takes. The Buddha said emptiness is form, form is emptiness.

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only those who have experienced it

can understand it.
o Mind is like a crystal. Just as o Mind is like a mirror. Just

a crystal adopts the color of whatever surface you place it on, the mind will become just whatever we allow to occupy it.Sogyal Rinpoche

like a mirror reflects whatever is before it, mind can only give you a shadow experience: Never the real, never the original. And yet, when you perceive the mirror as pure, it is pure awareness.
When the deluded in a mirror

look, they see a face, not a reflection.

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only those who have experienced it

can understand it.
o The mind is naturally radiant

o It is like a lake, and you

and pure.Buddha

can see the full moon in the lake reflected, but the reflection is not the real moon. And if you start thinking that the reflection is the real moon, you will never find the moon.

o Can you identify it as

presence? o Can you experience it as pure awareness? o Can you experience it as instant presence?

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only those who have experienced it can understand it.

The nature of mind cannot be defined in concrete terms.
Persevere in your careful inquiry, examining the mind until you reach a positive conclusion that it is empty, pure and utterly inexpressible, that it is a non-entity and free of birth and death, coming and going.
No matter what system of mindtraining you practice, unless you realize the nature of your mind, severing its root, you miss the point of the Great Completion.
From The Flight of the Garuda

The great primordial, initial purity is just so. Not made by anyone, self-luminous, From the beginning, it is just itself.

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Siddhi
Skill Perfected/Accomplishment
anima: decreasing one's size

at will antardhana: making oneself invisible kamarupitva: assuming forms at will kamavasaita: power to control one's passion khecara: the power to fly kramana: the power to enter another person's body (i.e. possession) laghiman: the power to cancel out gravity (i.e. levitation) mahima: increasing one's size at will

mohana: rendering a person

unconscious manojavitva: achieving high speed padalepa: to move about anywhere, unnoticed prapti: the power of obtaining everything prakamya: irresistible willpower stambhana: causing temporary paralysis in someone vasitva: control over others vikaranadharmitva: infinite mental powers

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The Tantric Vehicles

Kriya Tantra emphasizes external, ritual behavior Charya Tantra includes the above and special internal practice Yoga Tantra more emphasis on internal practices with a lot of mudras (hand gestures) and complex mandalas Mahayoga Tantra Generation stage and complete state, working with imagination to do visualizations of ourselves as Buddha figures and imagine nonconceptual cognition of voidness and a blissful mind, including rigpa practices. Anuyoga Tantra
Specific tsalung practices (opening the chakras) with the channels and winds, including rigpa practices.

Atiyoga Tantra Being in the actual rigpa state.dzogchen practice

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Tantra and Tantric Practices

Methods/Tools
The Swastika (It is Well), an Ancient Symbol about the Universe and the Law of Polarity | the full spectrum of possibility ranging from the extremely light to the extremely dark and any number of points in between 28 Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma


The mind, though free from arising and ceasing, manifests in various ways so that the Nirmanakaya (minds awareness and clarity) is the unceasing appearances of the expressive power of mind.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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http://www.berzinarchives.com/

The Kalachakra (time-cycles) Mantra, Deities, and Mandala for World Peace

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Text of Kalachakra Tantra

Five chapters
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Ground Kalachakra deals with the physical world, the birth and death of universes, our solar system, and the workings of the elements.
o The last three chapters deal with

o Inner Kalachakra deals with the

Alternative Kalachakra on the Path of Fruitionexplanation of meditation practices, the practices themselves on the mandala and its deities, and the six fruition stages of yoga on attainment of siddhi and enlightenment.

human body and experience in o Includes Astrology"as it is terms of channels, winds, drops, outside (the cosmos), so it is chakras, etc. within the body, acknowledging profound interdependency. Deities hold symbols against the ultimate root of evil the self-cherishing conceptual identity that gives rise to the five poisons of ignorance, desire, hatred, pride, and jealousy.
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Kalachakra (Cycle of Time)

A teaching from Buddha Shakyamuni showing the interrelation of the phenomenal world, the physical body, and the mind. Compiled between the parinirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni and the beginning of the 10th century C.E., spanning the vast areas of Afghanistan, northwestern Pakistan (Sodiyana), the Punjab, Swat, and Kashmir.

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http://dalailama.com/webcasts/post/225-kalachakrapreliminary-teachings | FYI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBsVcxFIARQ&feature=relmfu
FYI

Kalachakra Ritual Dance

Namgyal Monastery monks perform the Kalachakra Ritual Dance during His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Kalachakra for World Peace in Bodh Gaya, India, on January 7, 2011, before a crowd of almost 200,000.

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Majuhr

is the embodiment of all the Buddhas wisdom. The name can mean Beautiful Glory. Manjushri is regarded as the crown prince of Buddhist teachings. With his right hand, Manjushri holds a double-edged flaming sword that represents the sharpness of wisdom that cuts through illusion and duality. In his left hand, he holds a lotus flower on which rests the Prajnaparamita (Great Wisdom) that symbolizes transcendent wisdom as pure as lotus to tame the mind.

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Majuhr Mantra
o a ra pa tsa na dh (Tibetan ) The seed sound is dh
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Mantras
Not all mantras are associated with deities. For example

Sabbe satta dukkha muccantu (may all beings be free from suffering) Om gate gate

paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha (Gone, gone,

gone beyond, gone utterly beyond, Enlightnment, hail.)

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http://buddhabookclub. weebly.com /medicine-buddha.html

FYI

Tayata, Om, Bekandzeh, bekandzeh Maha-bekandzeh, Radza samungateh Soha

(Tibetan)

TAYATA OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNIYE SOHA (Sanskrit)

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Avalokitesvara
Om Mani Padme Hum

Mahabodhisattva,
the Buddha in his compassion

aspect

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Meditation Mantra / Mudra on the Five Elements

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Mla Yogas Foundation Practices

Four Essential Practices
Refuge & Prostration Development of Bodhicitta Meditation of Vajrasattva Offering the Mandala

3-D representation of the 37-point Mandala Offering

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I. Taking Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha

Kagyu Refuge Tree Nyingma Refuge Tree

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II. Bodhichitta | Regarding All Sentient Beings as Ones Own Parents

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II. Bodhichitta
Bodhicitta & Detachment as practices are
of utmost importance. Without it, ones practice can become perverse, destructive, pathological, criminal. Dialectic debate, another cornerstone practice; without it, there is no proving the opponent's argument is incorrect. If you disagree, death.

Case in point:
Reichfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler, an amateur anthropologist and architect of the death camps, was an avid reader of the Bhaghavad Gita, a spiritual text disguised as an epic of a Aryan warriors, to justify enshrining war and warriors . He told his personal masseur Felix Kersten that he always carried with him a copy of the Bhagavad Gita because it relieved him of guilt about his final solution to exterminate the nonGermans. He felt that, like the warrior Arjuna, he was simply doing his duty without attachment to his actions. 45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v= zGcA8q4hX_0#! NaziThe Occult Conspiracy / Full | FYI

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III. Vajrasattva
o va jra sa ttva sa ma yam a nu p la ya va jra sa ttva tve no pa ti ha d ho me bha va su to yo me bha va su po yo me bha va a nu ra kto me bha va sa rva si ddhi me pra ya ccha sa rva ka rma su ca me ci tta re ya ku ru h ha ha ha ha ho bha ga van sa rva ta th ga ta va jra m me mu ca va jr bha va ma h sa ma ya sa ttva a

OM VAJRA SATTVA HUNG

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May we attain the stage of Vajrasattva and place all sentient beings in the stage with us!

We are engineered to amaze!

slogan of Quicken Loan, a mortgage company

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IV. Mandala Offering (2-D)

1) Mount Meru 2-5) The four continents 6-13) The Eight subcontinents 14) The jewel mountain 15) The wish-fulfilling tree 16) The wish-fulfilling cow 17) The harvest which needs no

sowing
18-24) The seven attributes of

royalty
25) The vase of great treasure 26-33) The eight offering goddesses 34) The sun 35) The moon 36) The precious umbrella 37) The royal banner victorious in

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Does Buddhism Have Deities?

Yes, only two
Yin/Yang (female/male) Yab/Yum (father/mother) Creative Energy Union of the 2 Poles Elohim (male/female God in One) Unio Mystica Logos/Eros Reason/Emotion Nature/Spirit Animus/Anima WE, The Cosmic Secret The female bell/the male vajra (photo)

Are they worshipped?

No.

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Love | Yin & Yang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=NVKSjt6 BmXE&NR=1 Ken Wilber, Too Evolved for Relationships, | 10:25 min.

The Feminine & Masculine Energies

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Quantum Polarity
As the name implies, deals with polarity, the foundation of our cognitive system, not to mention our DNA.
We are the couple to make us complete. There is no other half out there. We are the mudra of voidness and bliss together. Each one is the Vajra (male) & the Bell (female)
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Shambhala

A Buddhist Holographic universe

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For example: Sacred Sex

It is an ancient ritual involving

extensive preparation and prior education by the practitioners under the close direction of their guru (teacher). Tantric sex is practiced by some advanced students of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. One of the most important goals in Buddhism is to overcome desire. Practitioners feel that the best way to achieve this goal and to work towards enlightenment, may be to experience desire "... fully and thereby drain it of every mystery."
Vajrakilaya a Nyingma wrathful yidam deity

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Yidams
Peaceful Deities Wrathful Deities

Vajradhara/Bhagavani 58 Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

Palden Llamo
(only female protector of Dharmapala)

Chakrasamvava/Vajravarahi Kurukula (Red Tara) 59 Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma Vajrayogini

FYI

http://www.berz inarchives.com/ media/audio/en/ lo/6_sess_yoga_ 16bit/6_session_ yoga_part3_16k b.mp3

Which Deity to Visualize; an Explanation (audio)

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Yeshe Tsogyal

Deities of Long Life

Ushnishavijaya (lit. "Crowning Victory"), is
one of three deities of long life. She holds several attributes in her hands:

The first right hand holds a crossed vajra at the heart. The second holds a lotus on top of which sits Amitabha. The third holds an arrow. The fourth is in the gesture of supreme generosity.
The first left hand is in the threatening mudra, holding a vajra noose. The second holds a bow. The third is in the gesture of giving refuge. The fourth is in the meditation gesture, holding a precious vase filled with nectar. Her body white, she has three faces, yellow , white and blue. Her frontal face display of ferocious wrath with fangs. She is also one of 21 Taras.

The other two are White Tara and Amitayus who is mostly depicted sitting and holding in his hands a vessel containing the nectar of immortality.
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Amitayus | Prayer
ikten drenp tsowo tspakm Buddha of Infinite Life, chief guide for beings in this world, d min chiwa ma l jomp pal Glorious one who overcomes all untimely death, gn m dukngal gyur pa nam kyi kyap Refuge for suffering beings without protection sangy tsepakm la chak tsal lo To you, the Buddha Amitayus, I prostrate!

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White Tara | Longevity

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Rahula Ekayati

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Vajrasadhu

The Ultimate Couple

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YIN (feminine) / YANG BALANCE

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(masculine)

Compassion in a Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALk_wCAhNY Kenneth Wilbur Compassion in a Box | 9:22 min.

FYI

Absolute Bodhicitta
Relative Bodhicitta

Non-dual
Morals Ethics
Dual

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True Spiritual Vision?

Awareness Consciousness of Reality and the Illusion of Reality
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Pure Awareness of Two Realities

Everything with concrete substance is called form; and all forms are the unity of appearance and emptiness: that is the vajra body.
All sounds are resounding and yet empty:

that is the vajra speech.

When we recognize awareness, we realize that it is free from arising, dwelling, and ceasing: that is the vajra mind and the reality that is absolute.
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Father & Son, Preservationists

Drenpa Namka Padmasambhava

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My View of Like/as the color(s) It sounds (like/as) It looks (like/as)

_a precious life__is

______________ ______________ ______________

How I Sense My View toward_____

Write a list of similes to

describe your subject, in this case, Life is Impermanent.

Start out with a structure of

It smells (like/as)
It tastes (like/as) It feels [tactile] (like/as) And My is [motion/ kinesthetic sense] (like/as)

______________ ______________
______________ ______________ ___________________ ___________________

How I View Suffering, using like or as at first to draw the comparison.

Then transform the simile into

a metaphor by simply stating it as if it were fact.

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For example, Life smells like a rose (simile). Then rewrite it into a metaphor, Life is a perfumed rose. ~ Make it feel real to you.

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May All Sentient Beings obtain the omniscient state of enlightenment and conquer the enemy of delusion birth, old age, sickness, and death.

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