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Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a reincarnate lama educated in the Tibetan
Buddhist
tradition. He has been teaching students from around the world
since 1990.
"Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you're not carefree
you keep
on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so
tight; it
gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from
within,
not constricted. Carefree doesn't mean careless. It is not that you
don't
care about others, not that you don't have compassion or are
unfriendly.
Carefree is being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not
conceit
but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence."
--Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Tsoknyi Rinpoche's teaching style embodies a vividness that is a
play
between himself and his audience. His immediateness includes
gestures
and examples that entice us to understanding. Through guided
meditations
he offers direct participation as a delightful enhancement to
our
practice. Simple, straightforward and profound, Carefree Dignity is
a
book that captivates our intellect while enriching our awareness.
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Rainbow Painting (Paperback)
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche; Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang; Compiled by Marcia Binder Schmidt; Edited by Kerry Moran
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Rainbow Painting is saturated with direct, pithy instruction, the
very quintessence of the Buddhist Spiritual approach. Tulku Urgyen
Rinpoche speaks from experience, expressing what he himself has
undergone, instructing us in the way we should train in a complete
and unmistaken manner. We come to understand that to become
enlightened we must experience what was always present within us.
The ultimate object of realization, the natural state of mind,
unmistakenly and exactly as it is, need not be sought for elsewhere
but is present within ourselves. Stability in this unexcelled state
of unity is not attained independently of means, proper conduct and
knowledge of the view. We should unite view and conduct; and this
book contains the key points for doing just that.
"Some people have the habit of thinking that something is bound to
happen after practicing meditation a while -- like going through
school -- that after ten or fifteen years you end up with a degree.
That's the idea in the back of people's minds: "I can make it
happen I can do enlight¬enment " Not in this case, though. You
cannot make enlightenment, because enlightenment is unconstructed.
Realizing the awakened state is a matter of being diligent in
allowing nondual awareness to regain its natural stability. It is
difficult to reach enlightenment without such dili¬gence, without
undertaking any hardship."
---Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
"Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche is someone who has lived at length in
mountain hermitages, spent many years in retreat, and done a
considerable amount of meditation training. For this reason, he
gives the very quintessence of the sacred Dharma spoken by our
compassionate Buddha Shakyamuni. He speaks from experience,
expressing what he himself has undergone, instructing us in the way
we should practice in a complete and unmistaken manner. These
teachings, saturated with direct, pithy instruction, are unique."
---Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
The ultimate object of realization, the natural state of mind,
unmistakenly and exactly as it is, need not be sought elsewhere
than in ourselves. We become enlightened through experiencing what
is always innately present. Stability in this unexcelled
unawareness is attained when view, the knowledge aspect and
conduct, the means are integrated. In Rainbow Painting, Tulku
Urgyen Rinpoche presents the practices to accomplish this
unity.
Treasures from Juniper Ridge combines meditation and pith
practice
instructions in a way that is easy to apply and comprehend. It is a
compilation
of discovered teachings, termas, by the greatest master of
Vajrayana
Buddhism, Padmasambhava, hidden by his female disciple, Yeshe
Tsogyal.
Treasures is replete with pieces that are direct, profound, fresh,
and pertinent
to our times.
These various revelations are for all levels of practitioners. They
provide indepth explanations of assorted aspects of practice,
including: deity, death
and dying, non-conceptual meditation and recognizing mind nature.
The
book outlines ways to apply these teachings for the modern student,
while
remaining true to traditional principles.
"Padmasambhava's pith instructions are extremely important because
he
is not just a legendary figure or an ancient myth. He is an actual
person
who continuously carries out spontaneous activities, including
manifesting
as treasure revealers, so that there is always a fresh, unimpaired
teaching
that people can practice. This also ensures that Padmasambhava's
spiritual
influence and blessings are unceasing.
The special quality of these terma teachings is that they provide a
method
for accomplishment that is appropriate for each specific
generation, period
of time, and individual person who meets them. The treasure
teachings
he gave on the Juniper Ridge of Crystal Pearls contain the
essential meaning
of hundreds of such instructions."
--Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche exactly defines deity practice from the
Dzogchen perspective, offering key points on how to engage in this
discipline as a pure Dzogchen yogi. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was one
of the greatest Dzogchen Masters of the last century. His teaching
style was direct, simple, and powerful, a comfortable ambiance
created by his compassionate humility that opened one up to being
able to absorb his profound words. He was fearless in teaching the
view, meditation, and conduct of the Great Perfection, due to the
strength of his realization. Although Dzogchen Deity Practice uses
the peaceful and wrathful practice as its basis, the efficacy of
these teachings on development and completion stage practices apply
to many other sadhanas as well. It is a hands on guide to engaging
in the skillful methods of Vajrayana that prepare us for this
life's experiences as well as what will unfold when we die and are
in the intermediate state or the Bardo. The beautiful poetry
offered expresses a reality beyond our mundane everyday life and
helps our minds to be open and aware.
How often do you hear the story of a man who was immaculately born
from within a lotus flower with a thousand petals, in the middle of
a lake, having been sent as a meteor from the heart of the Boudha
of Boundless light? Lotus-Born is the fabulous story of the mystic,
master scholar, and outrageous yogi, Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born,
who grew up an adopted prince, was banished, burned at the stake in
a neighboring kingdom, and continued miraculously unscathed,
wandering through cemeteries, dancing on corpses, and proceeded to
live more than five hundred years. He is regarded by the most sane
Tibetans as a real, historical figure, the founder of Buddhism in
Tibet where he subjugated demons and taught the Buddha's teachings.
The complete story of how Buddhism was planted in Tibet is
available in English for the first time with the publication of
this book. Lotus-Born is a translation of a biography of the great
master recorded in the ninth century by his foremost Tibetan
disciple, the princess Yeshe Tsogyal. Many of these biographies
were concealed as terma treasures to protect them against the
changes of time.
Padmasambhava, the Indian mystic and tantric Buddhist master, is
second only to Buddha Shakyamuni as the most famous personage in
the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. In the ninth century, he made
the journey across the Himalayan Mountains to establish Buddhism
for the people in that country. Now, more than 1,000 years later,
we are able to hear and be touched by his voice as contained within
this collection of oral advice. The selections in Dakini Teachings
are timely advice - short, direct instructions relating to the
three levels of Buddhist practice: Hinayana, Mahayana, and
Vajrayana. The main emphasis of Padmasambhava's teaching is that
spiritual knowledge must be personalized and not remain as mere
theory. The book includes an introductory discourse by Tulku Urgyen
Rinpoche and a short biography of Padmasambhava by Jamgon Kongtrul
the First.
The collection of teachings presented in As It Is, Volume II, is
selected from talks given by the Tibetan meditation master, Kyabje
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche between 1994 and 1995. The emphasis in Volume
I was on the development stage practice and in Volume II primarily
on the completion stage. However, to make such divisions is merely
for the convenience of the editors. In the reality of Rinpoche's
teaching method, no such separations exist.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was someone with extra¬ordinary experience
and realization, a fact known throughout the world. It is evident
to everyone that he was unlike anyone else when it came to pointing
out the nature of mind, and making sure that people both recognized
it and had some actual experience.
--Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was an incredible master, both learned and
ac¬complished. The great masters of this time -- the 16th Karmapa,
Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche -- all venerated
him as one of their root gurus and a jewel in their crown
or¬nament. He was someone who achieved the final realization of the
Great Perfection.
--Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche
The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that sentient
beings are busy fabricating. Our self-existing wakefulness is being
altered and contrived and as long as it continues to be so, that
long we will wander in samsara. Instead, we need to recognize the
nature of mind. Here I am explaining this to give you the idea, of
how it is. The next step is for you to experience; intellectual
understanding is not enough. You need to actually taste it and
realize it. Train till it becomes uninterrupted.
--Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Wellsprings of the Great Perfection presents the primary sources
explaining how the Dzogchen teachings came into this world, who
received them and through whom they passed. It is an impressive
collection of original translations from a vast number of classical
Tibetan documents, including songs of realization by the early
masters of the lineage.
" The Dzogchen teachings of the Greatest Secret, also known as the
Great Perfection, are the words of the compassionate Buddha, and
among the causal and resultant vehicles, they are of the type that
employ the fruition as the path, Wellsprings of the Great
Perfection describes the origin, and gives both short and detailed
historical accounts and teachings.
"I see a profound importance in studying, reflecting upon and
practicing the authentic statements and explanations of the
Dzogchen lineage masters- especially for people who aspire to
realize the Great Perfection- the Through cut of primordial purity,
the view of Trekcho. I therefore request readers to keep these
scriptures in the center of their hearts."
- Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, author of Present Fresh Wakefulness
"The ultimate origin and absolute teachings of Dzogchen inscribed
in this most sacred text and whispered by the greatest adepts of
its lineage are finally available in this volume. Every serious
student Dzogchen must study and enshrine it in their heart."
- Tulku Thondup, author of The Healing Power of Mind
Tara is an emanation of the mother of all the Buddhas of the three
times. She carries out all their activities, dispelling the
obstacles created through the eight or 16 types of fear. When
anyone supplicates Tara, her response is swift. The activities
resulting from her aspirations are extraordinary, and there is
ample evidence of this, right up to the present day. The special
quality of Tara is her extraordinary compassionate resolve to
benefit all beings by removing whatever causes them to feel anxious
or afraid. Tara is the heroine who swiftly carries out the
activities of all the Buddhas. She is the very identity of
enlightened activity -- beyond that which we can mentally imagine
or fathom -- and has incredible virtues that surpass any thought.
In short, through the symbolic meaning, you realize the true state
of original wakefulness. This book gives the devotee the tools to
apply the great energy and vitality of Tara in practice. Offering
an overview of the many practices associated with this incredible
Buddha, it gives of the gift of enlightenment into the palm of the
readers' hand and affords the possibility to benefit others.
The Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation
of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries. Consolidating
the intent of
Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of textbooks, it
is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition
of Tibetan Buddhism. This rich source book embodies the basics of
Prajnaparamita
and Madhyamika as well as Abhidharma from both the Mahayana
and Hinayana perspectives. Every volume in this series includes the
Tibetan text and the English translation on facing pages.
"The Tibetan master, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912) is an
exceptional
treasure of wisdom, compassion and scholarship. His accomplishments
in practice,
learning, composition and teaching are immense.
The student of The Gateway to Knowledge can begin to comprehend the
meaning
of the major works on Buddhist philosophy and of the traditional
sciences. When
you want to extract their meaning you need an "expert system," a
key. The Gateway to Knowledge is like that key, a magical key - it
opens up the treasury of precious gemstones in the expansive
collection of Buddhist scriptures. "
-- Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
Fearless Simplicity is about training in the awakened state of
mind, the atmosphere within which all difficulties naturally
dissolve. Here, the gifted Tibetan meditation master and author of
Carefree Dignity, Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche, in his exceptional and
skillful teaching style, guides us through the methods to be at
ease with our surroundings and ourselves. He shows us how to
de¬velop confidence and be in harmony with every situation as the
basis for true compassion and intelligence.
As confidence grows stronger, you find yourself turning into a real
warrior -- a compassionate bodhisattva warrior. The true
bodhi¬sattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom.
With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your
attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands. This is
my point about inner simplicity as the basis for living fearlessly
in a complex world. We are now open and spacious and from within
that sense of fearless simplicity, you can accommodate all
phenomena. You can naturally care for others unpretentiously; no
one is a threat any longer.
-- Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche spent many years in retreat, assimilating the
teachings within his experience. He spoke with humor and true
understanding, expressing plainly and simply what he himself had
undergone. Consequently, his teachings are uniquely accessible,
with a powerfully beneficial impact on those who hear or read his
words. This book, a selection of his oral and written teachings,
spells out the essential points of spiritual practice and leads
readers along the same path they would follow in the presence of a
master. Through direct, pithy instructions, students are encouraged
to question the master repeatedly, while at the same time
processing their own experiences. Representing the heart of
Rinpoche's teachings, "Repeating the Words of the Buddha" shows
that the enlightened essence is present within the mind of any
sentient being, and that it can be recognized by all who seek it.
The Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation
of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries. Consolidating
the intent of
Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of textbooks, it
is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition
of Tibetan Buddhism. This rich source book embodies the basics of
Prajnaparamita
and Madhyamika as well as Abhidharma from both the Mahayana
and Hinayana perspectives. Every volume in this series includes the
Tibetan text and the English translation on facing pages.
"The Tibetan master, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912) is an
exceptional
treasure of wisdom, compassion and scholarship. His accomplishments
in practice,
learning, composition and teaching are immense.
Volume III contains explanations on the five skandhas, the Hinayana
and Mahayana, Buddha Nature and the conditioned and unconditioned.
Crystal Clear, by the learned and realized Tibetan Master Thrangu
Rinpoche, is a companion volume to the classic medi¬tation
manual--Clarifying the Natural State. In his straightfor¬ward and
lucid style Rinpoche gives us an indis¬pen¬sable guidebook for
insight practice (vipashyana). For people who want more than just
theory, this is a handbook that begins with watch¬ing the breath
and leads practitioners through stages of realization, all the way
to complete enlightenment.
"In Mahamudra, as one takes the path of direct percep¬tion, a
per¬son can obtain true and complete enlightenment within the same
body and lifetime. Whatever the situation, Mahamudra provides
appropriate methods and techniques. So, whether one is able to
undertake a lot of hardship or not, whether one is very diligent or
not, whichever type of person you might be there is always great
benefit in practic¬ing Mahamudra. The practice can be done in the
solitude of retreat or while involved in the daily complexities of
mod¬ern life. Mahamudra training is always applicable in any
situation, at any moment of life."
--Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
This book main idea is that intrinsic to the heart, mind and spirit
in every human being is an identical essence which can be realized.
This realization makes any man or woman a Buddha. The focus of this
book is the method of how to implement that through a system of
training which is of timeless value, and not bound by cultural
limitations. The timeless truth it conveys is as meaningful for a
Westerner today as it was in India and Tibet.
During the centuries this system of effortless training has been
applied by people from all any occupation -- tailers and kings,
monks and business men - and provided them with a simple method to
not only withstand the changes of life but also to transcend them.
Like the waves on an ocean, the ups and downs, joys and sorrows, we
meet in our lives can be seen as movements in the ocean, giving
true peace and room for caring for others.
I will be hard to find another book which is as concise as Heart
Lamp.
The audience is the steadily increasing followers of Buddhism in
the Americas, Europe and Asia, which is grown in the wake of
Tibetan masters' teaching outside of Tibet. Heart Lamp is unique in
that its translator worked closely with several of the most
respected meditation masters of recent times and was able to
receive knowledge from the "lifeblood" of the living
tradition.
Heart Lamp is unique in its brevity without losing the depth of a
true spiritual lineage the training in which can bring about
enlightenment in a single lifetime. And, it is being used as the
textbook during meditation retreats around.
Vajrayana Buddhism differs from other branches of Buddhism in
providing an accelerated path to enlightenment based on Dzogchen
principles. The word "dzogchen, "translated variously as Great
Perfection and Great Completeness, conveys the idea that our nature
as intrinsic awareness has many qualities that make it "perfect":
indestructibility, incorruptible purity, non-discriminating
openness, flawless clarity, profound simplicity, all-pervading
presence, and attitude of equality toward all beings. The path to
connecting to these qualities was once secretly held and privately
transmitted; "The Great Gate: A Guidebook to the Guru's Heart
Practice "makes the Vajrayana path and techniques available to
contemporary seekers.
Drawing on the work of four renowned Tibetan masters, "The Great
Gate "compiles concise instructions on Dzogchen's foundational
practices, which comprise a powerful method for turning the mind
toward the Dharma and opening to the Dzogchen perspective. This
revised edition features a new translation and an extensive
commentary by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche.
" Don't mistake mere words to be the meaning of the teachings.
Mingle the practice with your own being and attain liberation from
samsara right now."
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava is the primary master of Vajrayana, the teachings for
our time. Out of his great compassion and wisdom, he instructed his
main disciple Yeshe Tsogyal to conceal terma treasures to be
revealed at the destined time for future practitioners. The
profundity of this advice is meant to be personally applied by all
individuals in all circumstances. It is a classic work, which
contains valid truth for anyone who sincerely wants to follow a
spiritual path.
"The chief compiler of Padmasambhava's teachings was Yeshe Tsogyal,
an emanation of a female Buddha. There may be some people who
believe that only men can attain enlightenment, but her life is
proof to the opposite. The awakened state of mind is neither male
or female."
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, from Introductory Teachings
Vajra Speech, by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, renowned for his
extra-ordinary experience and realization, is a wide ranging
collection of pith instructions for the Dzogchen yogi. This
Tibetan
master's advice reduces negative emotions and naturally
enables loving kindness, compassion and wisdom to flourish.
"A swan can separate water and milk when drinking. The
yogi should be like the swan in sepa rating the milk of
original
wakefulness from the water of ignorance."
--Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
"Compared to many years studying books and going through
analytical meditation, we found it more beneficial to ask
questions
of Tulku Urgyen and listen to his answers."
--Orgyen Topgyal Rinpoche
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