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Preliminary Practices
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Advice Concerning Ngondro Preliminary Practices
The primary connotation of “ngondro” is preparation. These practices are absolutely essential preparation for undertaking and sustaining our “spiritual journey.”
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Preliminaries
The Mandala Offering of Request for a Teaching
We need first to understand what a Buddha-field or pure land is before offering a mandala.
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Preliminaries
What Is Tantra?
Introduction to tantra, a system of practice that allows advanced practitioners to efficiently attain the state of Buddhahood for the benefit of all.
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Buddhist Tantra
What Is Needed before Ngondro or Preparatory Practices?
In an age of addiction to constant distractions, focusing on the breath and quieting down our thoughts would be a good start before engaging in the preparatory practices.
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Preliminaries
The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to the Dharma
Our lives are sometimes so busy with meetings, work, holidays and other distractions, that it’s easy to forget the Dharma among the highs and lows. Whatever the situation we find ourselves in, the lam-rim indicates four points that we can contemplate to ground ourselves, bring...
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The Graded Path
Verses to Begin Kalachakra Study or Practice
Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche always used these verses from the “The Abridged Kalachakra Tantra” before beginning Kalachakra teachings and practice.
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Explanation of "The Seven-Limb Prayer"
Doing the seven-limb practice before listening to or reading about the Dharma, or before contemplating or meditating on the Dharma helps us to establish a properly receptive state of mind.
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Preliminaries
The Seven-Limb Prayer
This practice derives from Shantideva’s “Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior.” Doing these preliminaries before daily meditation or Dharma study helps to establish a properly receptive state of mind.
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Sutra Texts
The Main Features of Tantra
After completing preliminary practices and following an initiatory ceremony that activates our Buddha-nature potentials, along with taking bodhisattva and tantric vows, we transform our minds in tantra by imagining ourselves as a Buddha-figure and our environment as a mandala,...
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Tantra: Theory
Misunderstandings about Ngondro
There are many misunderstandings about ngondro practices, such as that they are a miracle cure for all our problems.
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