Recapitulation We’ve finished the first two parts of the main section of the sadhana, the supreme triumphant mandala, which was analogous to the body being formed in the womb, and then the supreme triumphant actions, which was analogous to being born and the development as a...

Outer, Inner and Alternative Cycles Now, let’s talk even more technically in terms of Kalachakra. Kalachakra means “Cycles of Time,” and it presents the external, internal and the alternative cycles of time. Externally we have the environment, and internally we have the...

Circle of Protection We have been going through the beginning part of the sadhana, which had the circle of protection and then the actual sadhana. The circle of protection had all these preliminaries for building up the two networks of positive force and deep awareness, and...

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...

Thinking of His Holiness as Kalachakra Manjushri, try to get some clarity. [Manjushri supplication, long mandala offering, taking safe direction and reaffirming bodhichitta] As one verse goes in the Abridged Kalachakra Tantra:  There is the suffering of (being conceived)...

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...

Melting, Being Roused by Songs, and Arising The second major part is the supreme triumphant actions, and this has a lot of different sections in it, but we’ll start here with Melting, Being Roused by Songs and Arising. It says, when in the ninth month everything is complete in...

In analogy with taking birth, you have the actual four-branch yoga. That’s the four branches of the supreme triumphant mandala, supreme triumphant actions, the drop yoga, and the subtle yoga. First of all, you have the supreme triumphant mandala, and that has the generation of...

Initial Visualization and Review Again, we should feel that we’re in a special place, the Kalachakra mandala, and all of us are in the form of Kalachakra Buddha-figures, and His Holiness is in front of us as the main Kalachakra figure. By the way, Kalachakra can sit down. I...

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. ​​