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The Teaching on Essence Extraction of the Three Kāyas

Chulen

10 Sessions total
1st session starting 13th of May (Tuesday)
Reccomended donation: $200 USD
6pm-7:30pm ET via ZOOM
*Payment plan options & limited scholarships available.
RECORDINGS AVAILABLE FOR ALL SESSIONS for one week after each session for those who can't participate live and for review
Recordings from previous Lamps available to new students for request and some donation fee

“The root cause of wandering in the city of samsara is coarse, sinful food.
If you abandon it and enjoy the food of Contemplation,
The body of Bodhi mind will grow day by day.
May you quickly attain the state of the three supreme enlightenments.”

If one practices these nine levels of essence extraction of the three kāyas, the benefits are inconceivable. Most diseases generally arise from food; relying on Extracting the Essence of the Three Kāyas is one of the best ways to eliminate them.

For the time being, the need for food and clothing is eliminated, and one's desire for the wealth, possessions, and enjoyments of this life's saṃsāra is completely reversed. By exhausting the desire for attachment to this life's saṃsāra, one grasps the path to liberation in future lives. Through this, all virtue one does becomes a cause for liberation.

Ultimately, one no longer needs to spend the most vital part of life on saṃsāric activities for the sake of food. This creates the opportunity to practice the Dharma one has heard and to cultivate meditation, which progresses higher and higher. As meditation develops, realization gradually arises in one's mindstream, leading to the attainment of Buddhahood.

Shardza Rinpoche said: “Wandering in saṃsāra is due to not cutting the attachment and clinging to food. Who does not implicitly understand that if the attachment to food is cut, there is no other cause for saṃsāra? Therefore, for the sake of food, saṃsāric beings accumulate negativity, suffering, and bad talk, and spend their entire life's aspirations on it. There is nothing more ignorant than wasting future enlightenment. So, if there is someone who relies on such advice and primarily focuses only on future enlightenment, it is like the udumbara lotus among flowers—a very wonderful thing.”

The Main Topics in the Practice of Extracting the Essence of the Three Kāyas

Preliminary

1. Purification Practice
2. Recognition of the Three Kayas

Actual practice

A༽ The Essence Extraction Practice of the Dharmakāya of the supreme yogi.

1. Practice of Essence Extraction Depending on Wind.
2. Practice of Essence Extraction Depending on Water.
3. Practice of Essence Extraction Depending on salt water.

B ༽ The Essence Extraction Practice of the Sambhogakaya for Intermediate Yogi.

1.Practice of Essence Extraction Depending on Excellent Medicine Myrobalan.
2.Practice of Essence Extraction Depending on Pills.
3.Practice of Essence Extraction Depending on Cōngzhī.

C ༽ Essence Extraction practice of the Nirmanakaya for the Lowest Yogi.

1.Practice of essence extraction Depending on the milk gruel. (Milk Thukpa)
2.Practice of essence extraction Depending on the nettle.
3. Practice of essence extraction Depending on the Bagril.

Sarva Mangalam
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CHULEN -The Teaching on Essence Extraction of the Three Kāyas


Ongoing events...

THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SIX LAMPS OF THE DZOGCHEN ZHANG ZHUNG NYENGYÜ

The Sixth Lamp

The Lamp of the Time of the Bardo


The Lamp of Direct Introduction of the Pure Realms

10 Sessions total
1st session starting 3th of April (Thursday)
Reccomended donation: $200 USD
6pm-7:30pm ET via ZOOM
*Payment plan options & limited scholarships available.
RECORDINGS AVAILABLE FOR ALL SESSIONS for one week after each session for those who can't participate live and for review
Recordings from previous Lamps available to new students for request and some donation fee

The main points of the Sixth Lamp

The Lamp of the Time of the Bardo, which is the essential point of reaching the border of delusion and realization and the way cyclic existence and transcendence of suffering separate.


1. How the body and mind separate.
2. How liberation comes from realization: How those of superior faculties are liberated, how those of middling faculties are liberated, and how those of lesser faculties are liberated.
3. How delusion comes from non-realization.

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Past events

Basic Knowledge of the Subject & Object of the Mind

Dudra
The collections of the basic knowledge of Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen.


Dudra


starting Sep 27, 2024

The collections of the basic knowledge of Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen.

Brief Explanation:


Understanding dharma terminology is crucial, as a single word can have multiple meanings depending on the teaching level. Clear definitions are necessary to avoid misunderstanding and to analyze and comprehend teachings properly. Knowing provisional definitions and definienda provides a solid foundation for receiving teachings and enriches the practice experience. Tashi Delek to all

THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SIX LAMPS OF THE DZOGCHEN ZHANG ZHUNG NYENGYÜ

The Fifth Lamp

The Lamp of Direct Introduction of the Pure Realms


The Lamp of Direct Introduction of the Pure Realms

10 Sessions total
1st session starting 23th of January (Tuesday)
Reccomended donation: $200 USD
10:15pm-11:45pm ET via ZOOM
*Payment plan options & limited scholarships available.
RECORDINGS AVAILABLE FOR ALL SESSIONS for one week after each session for those who can't participate live and for review
Recordings from previous Lamps available to new students for request and some donation fee Tashi Delek to all

THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SIX LAMPS OF THE DZOGCHEN ZHANG ZHUNG NYENGYÜ

The Fourth Lamp

The Water Lamp of the Far Reaching Lasso


The Lamp of the Flesh Heart

3 Sessions total

The main points of the Third Lamp

The Water Lamp of the Far Reaching Lasso, which is the essential point of naked vision of Rigpa of whatever shines out of the doors.


1. How the channel arise
2. How Primordial Wisdom arise
3. How Rigpa is Nakedly Seen

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THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SIX LAMPS OF THE DZOGCHEN ZHANG ZHUNG NYENGYÜ

The Third Lamp

The Lamp of the Smooth White Channel


The Lamp of the Flesh Heart


starting 10th of December (Tuesday) 2024
Sessions – Every Tuesday & Thursday

The main points of the Third Lamp

The Lamp of the Smooth White Channel is the key instruction on the arising of all-pervasive primordial wisdom through the path of the central channel.


1. How the body and mind are generated in the mother’s womb through the five elements.
2. How the three channels and six chakras are formed.
3. How the five organs, five sense powers, the limbs and secondary limbs arise.
4. How the branch channels and secondary channels divide.
5. How Primordial Wisdom arises in the path of the central channel.

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THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SIX LAMPS OF THE DZOGCHEN ZHANG ZHUNG NYENGYÜ

The Second Lamp

The Lamp of the Flesh Heart


The Lamp of the Flesh Heart

The main points of the Second lamp

The Lamp of the Flesh Heart, which is the essential point of where the base of self-knowing Rigpa is and how it arises within.


1. The Universal Ground and Rigpa do not reach the limits of cyclic existence and transcendence of suffering
2. The Way the Universal Ground and Rigpa Abide
3. How the Universal Ground and Rigpa pervade the body
4. How the Intellect Arises
5. How the Body and Mind Combine and Separate

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THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SIX LAMPS OF THE DZOGCHEN ZHANG ZHUNG NYENGYÜ

The first Lamp

The Lamp of the Abiding Base


The Lamp of the Abiding Base

20 Sessions total
starting 3th of September (Tuesday)
Sessions – Every Tuesday & Thursday
6:00-7:300pm ET via ZOOM
*Payment plan options & limited scholarships available.

The main points of the first lamp

Main subject


A. The abiding mode of the essence of the base of the natural state of the mind.
B. The way cyclic existence and transcendence of suffering arise.

A 1. The abiding mode of the Essence of the Base of the Natural State of the mind

  1. The universal ground it as primordial purity.
  2. The universal ground it as spontaneous present.
  3. The universal ground it as neutral.
  4. The universal ground it as the single sphere.

A 2. The abiding mode of Rigpa

  1. The basis of arising of self-knowing Rigpa Wisdom.
  2. The essence of self-knowing Rigpa primordial wisdom.
  3. The dynamic energy of self-knowing Rigpa primordial wisdom.
  4. The synonyms of self-knowing Rigpa primordial wisdom.
  5. The way self-knowing Rigpa arises in the minds of sentient beings.
  6. That Rigpa primordial wisdom is the root source of cyclic existence and the transcendence of suffering.

A 3. Third, the mode of abiding of the Intellect

  1. The basis of the arising of the Intellect.
  2. The essence of the Intellect.
  3. The synonyms of the Intellect.

B 1. The way cyclic existence and transcendence of suffering arise

  1. How Küntu Zangpo was primordially awakened
  2. How the primordial wisdom of Rigpa arises
  3. How Rigpa attains freedom
  4. How the emanations of transcendence of suffering arise
  5. How sentient beings wander in cyclic existence
  6. How cyclic existence arises
  7. How karmic traces collect in the universal ground
  8. How the outer world arises from the mind.
  9. How sentient beings arise from the mind
  10. How cyclic existence arises from not recognizing Rigpa

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Heart Drops of Küntu Zangpo
The Instruction Manual of the Stages of the Path of Clear Light Dzogpa Chenpo
Second Main Section: Tӧgal with Geshe Tenzin Gelek Rinpoche
Kuntuzangpo

20 Sessions total
starting 3/19/24 (Tuesday)
10 Sessions – Every Tuesday & Thursday – 3/19 – 4/18
10 Sessions – Every Tuesday & Thursday – 4/30 – 5/30
6:00-8:00pm ET via ZOOM
I will teach each of the forty-two secret essential points of the Tӧgal from Heart Drops of Küntu Zangpo, that are able to achieve the result of the three bodies of enlightenment in one life and one body, explained one by one as stated in the root text. Practitioners who have been seized by these special oral instructions will naturally purify all the appearances of saṃsāra, which are deluded appearances, and naturally seize the natural ground of awareness in the body of the great transference of the body in the space of the original purity of the ground." Geshe Gelek Therefore, Geshe Tenzin Gelek welcomes all fortunate disciples, wherever they are, who wish to engage properly in the practice of the Great Perfection of Tögal.

Sessions include time for teaching, questions, answers, and guided group meditations.

This material will be presented in a way that is open to those who are both brand new to learning Dzogchen and/or the Yungdrung Bön tradition and those who have practice experience.

Liberation Through Meditation: The Explanation of the Path of Thögal

Topic

    How Thögal Is Superior To Trekchö in Terms of Seven Essential Points.
  1. Establishing Certainty With the Essential Points of the Secret Instructions.
  1. The Essential Points of the Body, Speech, and Mind.
  2. The Essential Point of the Arising at the Door.
  3. The Essential Point of the Basis of Arising of the Objects
  4. The Essential Point of Slowing the Winds and Rigpa.
  5. The Four Special Great Channels.
  6. The Four Magical Lamps.
  7. Where the Rigpa, Abides.
  8. The Four Great Visions.
  9. The Five Primordial Wisdoms Are Actualized
  10. The Three Secret Syllables Are Displayed to the Mind.
  11. The Attaining Free Entrance.
  12. The Three Immoveables.
  13. Three Stabilities.
  14. The Four Attainments
  15. The Four Confidences
  16. The Four Wisdoms.

This is all of the 42 essential points of the luminous Thögal practice, which was taught by Küntu Zangpo, and which the Khandromas bound them in coded verses. The past experts were not able to decode and explain them. I (Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche) have had the fortune to do this. Now Geshe Tenzin Gelek Rinpoche will give a clear and concise explanation of this topic, using the words of the text. Therefore, please consider this.

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