January 10th, 2009 The Akshobhya Saddhana was recited for two afternoons on 9th and 10th January, and on the evening of the 10th His Holiness completed the Akshobhya Ritual with a fire puja. This began at 8.30pm, His Holiness with the sixteen retreatants who completed the fifteen-day Akshobhya retreat, gathered... read more →
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January 08, 2009 His Holiness said that regarding tomorrow’s White Tara empowerment, He will give preparation Tara teaching practice today. The image of Tara can be seen in many monasteries and stupas in India. No monastery in Tibet is without Tara. Tara is one of the most popular yidams in... read more →
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January 07, 2009 His Holiness drew several lessons from Milarepa’s story to illustrate how we should practice. The first concerned our commitment or rather lack of it, and our inability to tolerate hardship. Like all the great masters in the lineage, Milarepa renounced the world, expressed his disgust with samsara,... read more →
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January 06, 2009 The relationship between Marpa and Milarepa was unlike an ordinary lama-student relationship. Some lamas threatened their students that if they didn’t follow through instructions they would be breaking samaya, and so would go to a hell realm. In contrast, Marpa treated Milarepa like a son. Nor was... read more →
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Aspiration: A drop of water which falls into a great ocean will neither be exhausted nor cease to exist until the end of the universe. Likewise, a virtuous root dedicated toward attaining enlightenment will neither be exhausted nor cease to exist until you reach perfect enlightenment. - The Sutra spoken... read more →
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His Holiness Karmapa gave a short commentary: The Lord Buddha said that two things were essential: study and practice. Gampopa advised people to study first. The Kagyu is known as the practice lineage, and meditation plays a central role; it is the lineage of experience and realization. Like Milarepa, we... read more →
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Saturday January 04, 2009 His Holiness dedicated the first day of Kagyu Monlam Puja to the victims of recent Mumbai attack. 26th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo began with a quiet thick, damp fog blanketed all over Bodh Gaya. At 5 am the participants proceeded to the Mahabodhi Stupa, only gradually did... read more →
