I am very happy to be with all of you today. Although I am not a monk, still I have had the good fortune to have been able to study Kalachakra with a number of different great Lamas. Based on their kindness in teaching me, I shall try to pass on their wisdom to you by...

Review of Some Essential Points First, I shall speak a little about what is going to take place today. We have reached the point in the empowerment at which we have entered the mandala. First, we did so with blindfolds on and now our blindfolds have been removed. We have...

I have a stack of questions here in front of me. Let me try to answer some of them during the course of explaining what will happen today during the first day of the actual empowerment. Following the Visualizations One thing to keep in mind about what is going on here is...

Keeping Our Level of Participation Private By evaluating our preparation for receiving Kalachakra empowerment and our ability to keep the vows and commitments, we can make a realistic decision whether to attend as an active participant or an interested observer. Spiritual...

Setting the Motivation and Conferring the Inner Empowerment Preliminaries The disciples rinse their mouths, prostrate three times, and offer a mandala. Setting the Motivation The Guru-deity explains the proper motivation: Some people seeking to practice tantra enter the...

Theoretical Basis for Empowerment In general, there are three phases of empowerment that occur along the path to enlightenment. The first – causal empowerment that brings maturation – is conferred with such procedures as the Kalachakra initiation. It purifies the grossest...

To differentiate the common tantric vows from the Kalachakra root tantric vows, we follow here the explanation given in “An Explanation of Secret Mantra Ethical Discipline: A Cluster of Fruit of Actual Attainments” by Tsongkhapa.

That which will be purified as discussed before is the external and internal bases. The bases to be purified are death and rebirth. In order to have a good rebirth, one needs to build up large amounts of good karma, and so there are the practices for building up a network of...

Kalachakra Sadhana: The Preliminary Sections In the sadhana at the beginning, you focus on voidness. Within the context of voidness, what can happen or exist becomes very great. Next comes the instantaneous arising, within the context of voidness, of yourself as a simple...

This is a special Kalachakra version of the six-session practice written by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama that includes various expanded vows to include the further aspects of Kalachakra commitments. ​​