Mantra – Luminous Emptiness

A Shower of Wisdom – A Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje

05/12/2024 | Leave a Comment

ཨཱ། བདག་གི་སྤྱི་གཙུག་པད་ཟླའི་གདན་སྟེངས་སུ། ། ah, dak gi chitsuk pé dé den teng su Āḥ! At the crown of my head, upon a lotus and moon-disc, དཔལ་ལྡན་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ། ། palden dorjé sempa trulpé ku Is the nirmāṇakāya emanation of glorious Vajrasattva, དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་དཀར་གསལ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུའི་ཆས། ། garab dorjé karsal tulkü ché Garab Dorje, brilliant white and with nirmāṇakāya ornaments, མཚན་དཔེའི་དཔལ་འབར་ཆོས་འཆད་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཅན། ། […]

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How Mantras Work

06/07/2005 | 1 Comment

I thought I’d post on the nature of mantras and how they work, as I’ve recently responded to a question asking this on a Dharma list …. Firstly though, I’d like to say that I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestions already made that the way to truly find out what mantras are and how they

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Vajrayana and the sacred and profane

22/03/2005 | Leave a Comment

Inhabiting the ‘world’ of Vajrayana in my practice, it seems that the symbolism of events is very much transforming my sense of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’. As appearances arise, they seem to naturally take on or perhaps, reflect characteristics of the Vajrayana symbolism of my Sadhana and practice. So when the wind blows during my Sadhana,

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Vajrayana

Mantras, Relative and Ultimate Truth – Appearance and Emptiness

10/07/2004 | Leave a Comment

Ah! one more reflection regarding visualisations and mantras *operating* at a relative level … something which I think if very important from a point of view of practice … In my limited understanding, both visualizations and mantras do operate on relative level. When you say ‘they operate’ it sounds like ‘they’ are doing the ‘operating’

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Mantras and Sambhogakaya

10/07/2004 | Leave a Comment

In response to the notion that: whenever we use words, we already operate on relative level 🙂 Words are just fingers pointing to experiential meaning in both cases. I’d entirely agree with you in the sense that the word itself, i.e. the concept, can only be a relative truth, from the two truths perspective of

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Mantras, Relative and Ultimate Truth

10/07/2004 | Leave a Comment

From an online discussion forum: Hi, can I take issue with you in the way you’ve described relative and ultimate reality? You seem to say that our bodies are at the level of relative reality and our minds are at the level of ultimate reality, if I’ve understood your implication correctly? Mantras provide a deep

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