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Tantra: Pure Vision and Physical Exercises
For the remainder of this seminar, I'd like to not follow a strict structure, but just answer questions you might have about tantra and let a wider p[icture of tantra unfold from that.Can Visualization Help with Dealing with Disturbing Emotions?When, on a practical level,...
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Transforming Our Minds and Energies with Tantra
Serkong Rinpoche’s Life and Personality
Rinpoche’s Role as an Assistant Tutor of the Dalai Lama Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche was a massive man – a monk with shaved head, red robes, and a deeply lined face that made him look more ancient than his years. His humble, wise manner and gentle humor made him appear like the...
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A Portrait of Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
The Guru as a Buddha in Tantra
Basis, Pathway, and Resultant Viewpoints Most Tibetan texts that discuss tantric masters' being Buddhas explain the topic of impure and pure appearances from a specific viewpoint. Often, however, the texts neglect to state their point of view. This may cause confusion. In...
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Seeing the Spiritual Teacher as a Buddha
Tantra: Concepts, Energy-Winds and Lineage
Categories in Tantra Conceptual thought involves categories. How is that relevant in tantra? There are categories with these Buddha-figures. So there is the category Chenrezig, Avalokiteshvara. There can be many different forms of that deity: with four arms, with two arms,...
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Transforming Our Minds and Energies with Tantra
The Fifth Dalai Lama’s Guidelines for Guru-Yoga
Review of the Qualities of a Spiritual Teacher A guru is a great teacher, a great spiritual master or mentor, someone who is not only able to teach from knowledge of the texts but is also able to teach us by his or her own example. A living example of what Buddha has taught, a...
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Theory and Practice of Guru-Yoga
The Special Need for a Teacher in Highest Tantra
The Special Role of Oral Transmission in Tantra Oral transmission and inspiration from spiritual mentors play an even larger role in tantra than they do in sutra practice. This is evident from the structure of the tantric texts themselves and from the indispensable role of...
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Matching the Level of Teacher with the Level of Student
Questions about What Is a Vow
Brief Review We have been discussing the fundamental elements that we need before taking the bodhisattva vows. We spoke about the foundations in the lam-rim, the graded stages of the path, and we spoke about the process and meditation for building up a bodhichitta motivation....
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Explanation of Bodhichitta Actions for Training & Vows
Six-Session Yoga: Refuge and Bodhichitta
Visualizing the Spiritual Master When it comes to visualizing the objects of safe direction, of refuge, then we visualize the spiritual master in the form of the yidam (the Buddha-figure) or in the form of Shakyamuni Buddha. But more comfortable here would be in the form of...
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Commentary on "An Extensive Six-Session Yoga" – Dr. Berzin
Six Yogas of Naropa: Preliminary Practices of Vajrasattva and Guru-Yoga
To purify ourselves of the various negative potentials that we have built up, it is necessary to do Vajrasattva meditation. To build up a great store of positive potential, there are the practices of guru-yoga, the methods to integrate with our spiritual master. These are the...
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Introduction to the Six Yogas of Naropa
Having Proper Friends and Cherishing Spiritual Teachers
Verses 5 through 8 When we recite the refuge prayer, we have the line, “By the force of my giving and so on…” It’s good to know that we can change this line to suit the occasion. So, if we are prostrating, we can say, “By the positive force of prostrating to the Buddhas and...
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Commentary on “37 Bodhisattva Practices” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II
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