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Tsok Bum Series: Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel (The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles)
July 29, 2020 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am +0545

Guru Padmasambhava

The Words of Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
In our own present world age, one thousand Buddhas will appear. Each one will be accompanied by an emanation of Guru Rinpoche to carry out the Buddha’s activities. In the present age of Buddha Shakyamuni, all the Buddha’s activity appeared in one emanation in the form of Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born One. Padmasambhava lived for a very long time. After his birth, he continued living in India for about one thousand years. Afterward, he arrived in Tibet and remained there for fifty-five years. Before Padmasambhava left Tibet, he made many predictions, hid many teachings to be revealed in the future, and blessed his close disciples to be inseparable from him. In this way, they would reincarnate in the future, reveal the hidden teachings, and be as powerful as Guru Rinpoche himself. In particular, he prophesied the coming of 108 great tertöns, ‘hidden-treasure revealers.’ World history fluctuates, causing particular difficulties to arise at different times. Having foreknowledge of these historic intervals, Guru Rinpoche designed special practices that specific tertöns would reveal at the appropriate times, in order to aid human beings. The tertöns discovering these termas, or ‘hidden treasures,’ would then give a totally fresh, up-to-date teaching meant for that specific time and situation.Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa

The unbroken Oral Lineage that comes from the scriptures,
the profound Actual Treasures and profound Mind Treasures,
the Rediscovered Treasures and the Recollected Treasures,
the Pure Vision Treasures and the Whispered Lineages —
the flowing river of these seven transmissions,
the foretold destiny of the king and his son,
will bring honor to the teachings in degenerate times.
They will be profound and vast in reach, spreading further than sunlight.
The king and son mentioned here are Trisong Deutsen and Murup Tsenpo, who were reincarnated respectively as Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Chokgyur Lingpa. Indeed, throughout his activity as a treasure revealer, Chokgyur Lingpa was closely associated with the two figures at the forefront of the non-sectarian Rimé movement – namely Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé, both of whom participated in many of his treasure discoveries and writings. These three masters were all related as teacher and disciple, each regarding the other two as gurus.Tukdrup Barché Künsel:
The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles

Words of Kyapjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche
The Barché Künsel is the heart essence of the accomplished master Padmasambhava, who perceives the three times in their entirety. It is the quintessence of one billion heart sadhanas of the guru, the most unique terma, buried in the land of Tibet. It is also the first of the Four Cycles of Guru Sadhana. This Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles contains in completeness all the profound key points of the view, meditation, and conduct of the three inner yoga tantras. It manifested from the secret treasury of great wisdom, the vast realization of the Second Buddha of Uddiyana, as self-existing, natural vajra sounds in perfect, melodious tones. Its expressions, which are unmodified by the intellect of ordinary people; its words, which are without delusion; and its meaning, which is unmistaken, are exclusively due to the kindness of the three powerful knowledge holders, Khyentsé, Kongtrül, and Chokling, the great beings of the three families, who incarnated as masters to compile and propagate an ocean of secret teachings. It is exclusively through their kindness that this teaching was established in writing, as the splendor of unending welfare and happiness for disciples in the Land of Snow, and propagated to flourish everywhere. This pure and perfect teaching, which effortlessly bestows, in accordance with one’s wishes, the all-encompassing supreme and common siddhis, temporarily and ultimately, was an unprecedented diffusion of the gemstones of profound meaning, opening up the treasury of the universal monarch.Tsok
The Feast Offering

Asura Cave

How to Direct Your Practice
Advice on the Feast-Offering Accumulation
by Phakchok Rinpoche
The upcoming series of feast-gatherings will be held at the extraordinary sacred site of Asura. The participants performing the offerings will be the sangha of monks, nuns, ngakpas (tantric practitioners) and lay disciples. In terms of the occasion, it will be held on Guru Rinpoche day, the tenth day of the lunar month. The Dharma to be practiced will successively be the Guru Heart Practices of the Dispeller of All Obstacles (Barché Künsel), The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Wishes (Sampa Lhündrup), The Heart-Essence of the Lake-Born One (Tsokyé Nyingtik), The Powerful Vajra Wrath Guru (Guru Dorjé Draktsal) and The Embodiment of All Realization (Chidril Gongpa Kündü), followed by the Yidam practice of Vajrakīlaya (Dorjé Purba) and the Ḍākinī activity of Kurukulle (Pema Khandro). When offering this feast-gathering, imagine that you are in the extraordinary sacred site of Asura, in the midst of sacred lands. There, visualize that Guru Rinpoche is present in person, as the embodiment of the three kāyas: Samantabhadra and all dharmakāya buddhas; the five family lords and all sambhogakāya deities; and all nirmāṇakāya emanations throughout the three times. All are indivisible from Guru Rinpoche, who emanates every activity without ever wavering from dharmakāya realization—this is how you should visualize and think of him. In this way, we gather the entire mandala of deities for the offering; we gather all the offering articles; we gather many people together for the recitation, both male and female, monastic and lay from all around the world who form the gathering circle of ḍākas and ḍākinīs. As for the motivation, the best among all motivations is that of bodhicitta, the resolve to attain awakening for the benefit of all beings. In terms of samadhi (meditation), visualizing that the Guru is there in person, we make offerings on the outer, inner, and secret level: Outwardly, we offer all the feast articles and substances that have been prepared. Inwardly, we visualize the entire phenomenal world, the vessel and contents, as the feast-offering, and proffer that. Secretly, trusting the indivisibility of our own minds with Guru Rinpoche, we rest in that recognition if we know how to meditate in this way, and if not, we can just think of the non-duality of mind and wisdom. This is the correct way to engage in feast-gatherings and their associated visualizations. In particular, these seven times 100,000 accumulations of feast-gatherings are especially being held this year to benefit the world at a trying time. As we face a pandemic as well as social, political, and economic turmoil in much of the world, it is particularly important for practitioners to accumulate merit and dedicate it to all beings so that they may overcome obstacles and receive temporary and ultimate happiness. It is therefore essential to keep in your hearts all those who are currently suffering while setting your motivation at the beginning of the practice and dedicating the merit at the end. Please keep all these points in mind while performing the feast-gatherings. Notes The short teachings given by Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Kyapjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche are excerpts from the book Dispeller of Obstacles: The Heart Practice of Padmasambhava. If you wish to find out more about Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel you can refer to this book:- Padmasambhava. Dispeller of Obstacles: The Heart Practice of Padmasambhava. Trans. Erik Pema Kunsang, ed. Marcia Dechen Wangmo. Rangjung Yeshe Publications: Hong Kong, 2014.
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- July 29, 2020
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8:00 am – 11:00 am +0545
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