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GURU RINPOCHE DAY
Thursday, July 2nd
6pm - Tsok set-up, hanging of prayer flags
6:45pm - group photo and card signing
7pm - Shower of Blessings Puja and Tsok
Location - Padma Peace Park
All are invited to the monthly Shower of Blessings practice which summons the blessings of Guru Rinpoche. When we pray and practice with faith, Guru Rinpoche has promised to assist us instantly. This practice is one of the core meditations we do at PPOL.
Free and open to all....please bring food & drink to offer and share.
Please come early to assist with hanging prayer flags and to help with tsok set-up! This month, we will be collecting offerings to send to Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche (large or small, does not matter). Along with the offering we will send a card signed by everyone as well as a group photo.
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The Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche
Teaching on tsog
When we perform a tsog (Skt. ganachakra) we're accumulating merit and purifying negative karma. The first portion of the tsog is offered to the gurus, deities, and dakinis. In this way great merit is accumulated. The second portion is offered to confess all the negative karma we've accumulated from countless past lifetimes. The third portion is the offering of liberation. To make this offering we enter into the state of the pure awareness nature of the mind (rigpa), thus liberating ourselves from duality and realizing the pure primordial wisdom expanse. Delighting in that expanse is the third offering. The fourth portion, the offering of the remains, is a way of being generous to all those beings to whom we owe unpaid karmic debts, debts that we've been accruing for countless past lifetimes. By means of this fourth offering, if we can do it purely, with pure awareness, we're able to repay those debts and satisfy countless beings.
Excerpt taken from Great Perfection Buddha in the Palm of the Hand ngondro
commentary by Gyatrul RInpoche. (page 257)
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His Holiness Drubwang Pema Norbu Rinpoche
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Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche
"His Holiness is our whole dharma source. He has been so kind to us,
has helped us a lot, not even caring for his own body, only thinking of
benefit to the people and his monastery."
"When a great lama passes, the merit of practicing and making such offerings, the merit of offering even a single water bowl, is considered to bring 100,000 times more blessings and generate more merit than at other times."
Read entire text here.
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