Lama karma drodul biography of abraham

༄༅། །བདུད་འཇོམས་གླིང་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགས༔

A Prayer to Dudjom Lingpa

by Dudjom Lingpa

ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་འགྲོ་འདུལ་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ༔

orgyen gyaltsab drodul trulpé ku

You are the regent of Orgyen, an emanated tamer of beings,

གཞིར་གནས་ཆོས་སྐུ་མངོན་གྱུར་རིག་པའི་མཁར༔

zhir né chöku ngöngyur rigpé khar

Who actualized the dharmakāya that is present as the ground

འཁོར་འདས་དག་མཉམ་རོལ་པའི་གདིང་ཆེན་ཐོབ༔

khordé dak nyam rolpé ding chen tob

And, within the space of awareness, gained vast assurance that saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are the display of purity and equalness —

བདུད་འཇོམས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔

düjom dorjé zhab la solwa deb

Dudjom Dorje, at your feet I pray!

ཞེས་རང་སློབ་དམ་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བས་བསྐུལ་ངོར་བདུད་འཇོམས་རྡོ་རྗེས་བསྒྱུར་བ་དགེའོ༎ ༎

At the request of my own noble student, Dorje Nampar Gyalwa, this was composed by Dudjom Dorje. May it be virtuous!

| Translated by Abraham Ta-Quan, 2021.

Source: bdud 'joms gling pa. "gsol 'debs zhabs brtan/." In gter chos/_bdud 'joms gling pa. Thimphu, Bhutan: Lama Kuenzang Wangdue, 2004. TBRC W28732. Vol. 14: 447

Alex Li Trisoglio

Madhyamakavatara Week 8: Applying the View in Life

Introduction  [t = 0:00:06]

Good evening everyone, I’m Alex Trisoglio and I’d like to welcome you to Week 8, the last week of Introduction to the Middle Way. Before we start, I’d like to invite us all to just take a moment to set our intention, our aspiration. This week we are going to be talking about how everything we do in life is practice. And listening to teachings is also practice. So just take a moment to set the intention that you will listen to these teachings for the sake of enlightening all sentient beings. Think about what that means for you in terms of how you would like to listen to the teachings.

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Last week we completed Chandrakirti’s text, the Madhyamakavatara. We spent quite some time on Chapter 11, with its description of enlightenment and the qualities of the Buddha. In particular, we talked about how Chandrakirti emphasizes their inconceivability, which is what you would expect. He is describing non-duality, and we know that we cannot reduce or express the non-dual in concepts and language. At best, we might have a finger pointing towards the moon.

We also talked about applying the view of non-duality in our meditation practice. We talked about how this means changing our subject, our projections. We talked about cultivating equality, equanimity, and preferencelessness, for example in the way that we want to ensure that we treat others in the same way, no matter if they are friend or enemy. We talked about learning to take accountability for our projections, as in Chapter 6 from Shantideva’s Bodhicharyav