6 Vajra Yogas Program
2024 - 2031 at Dzokden Kalapa ProgramKalachakra Completion Stage Program Open to Non-monastic Practitioners
The Kalachakra Completion Stage Practices
It is important to make the chance to go at least one time in your life on a pilgrimage. Just think about when you really fall in love with someone, you dont want to be seperate from that person. If you could jump inside that person you would jump inside that person to be with them. So if we feel this strong pull to be with the ones we love in our samsaric meaningless life, how can we not make the effort to visit the places of our beloved enlightened beings even one time? When you are in love with someone, you often can’t even handle only seeing them once or twice, you go again and again. We can considering going on a pilgrimage like this. When we go on pilgrimage to make this connection, we need to generate that energy and feeling as great as samaric love. If you have that feeling and gratitude you can have very incredible experience regardless of your level of practice.
cultivate Compassion
The most important part is your motivation and attitude. With Bodhicitta connect with our spiritual ancestors because our goal is to liberate all sentient beings. Our reason to be alive and to be a sentient being who has Buddha-nature, is to become a Buddha to benefit all sentient beings. Enjoying the holiday and checking something off your bucket list needs to become secondary.
connect with sangha & guru
When you go on pilgrimage with the sangha and guru (who is part of the sangha), you have an incredibly fortunate opportunity to practice compassion and love to all of the sangha, experiencing warmth and forgiveness. Make friends in the global community.
Appreciate the opportunity
Every moment that you are on a pilgrimage you have a big purpose to connect with where enlightened beings have been. It took a lot of good karma and merit to have the chance to visit these places. So appreciate that you have this rare chance in this precious human birth. Do not think it will be easier next time. That you can put it off. There may never be a next time. It won’t be easier. Take the chance now and appreciate your good fortune.
Overview of the 6 Vajra Yogas
The Vajra Yoga Path consists of six branches of practice designed to establish and stabilise the realisation of the inseparable union of immutable bliss and sublime emptiness endowed with all enlightened qualities. Each of these yogas provides the prerequisite capacities needed to progress to the next yoga. The degree of realisation achieved at any given stage will depend on the level of mastery accomplished in the previous stages. As we do not know how long our present karmic conditions will remain, it is beneficial to develop an initial familiarity with these practices within the context of a three year retreat. By doing this, even if we are unable to master them before we die, we are still creating the necessary propensities to propel our mind into the Vajrayana Pure Realm of Shambhala, where we are guaranteed to complete the path within a single lifetime.
- The Yoga of Withdrawal (Skt. Pratyahara, Tib. sordut):
The essence of Withdrawal Yoga is to manifest empty-forms by stopping the movement of the coarse winds which support the conceptual mind.
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The Yoga of Stabilisation (Skt. Dhyana, Tib. samten): The essence of Stabilisation Yoga is to extend our realisation of empty-forms so that all perceptions arise as awareness
- he Yoga of the Life-Force (Skt. Pranayama, Tib. sogtsol): The essence of Life-Force Yoga is to subdue the subtle karmic winds so they are balanced in the central channel
- The Yoga of the Life-Force (Skt. Pranayama, Tib. sogtsol): The essence of Life-Force Yoga is to subdue the subtle karmic winds so they are balanced in the central channe
- The Yoga of Recollection (Skt. Anusmirti, Tib. jeeten): The essence of Recollection Yoga is to refine our experience of great bliss through the practice of Inner Fire (Tib. tummo).
- The Yoga of Absorption (Skt. Samadhi, Tib. ting nge dzin): The essence of Absorption Yoga is to abide in the Union of Immutable Bliss and Empty-Form.
2024 – 2031 Program Overview
Kalachakra
ཨོཾ་ཧ་ཀྵ་མ་ལ་ཝ་ར་ཡཾ་སྭཱཧཱ།
OM HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YANG SVAHA)
Harmonize the elements, connect with Shambhala, and dedicated to the Golden Age of Peace.
Shambhala Dharma Kings
Practice the Shambhala Dharma King Sadhanas to connect with the power of the compassionate warriors of Shambhala to create a Golden Age of Peace on our earth and liberate all sentient beings. Each King has their own mantra.
21st Tara Marichi
།ༀ་མ་རཱི་ཙྱཻ་མཱཾཿ་ སྭཱཧཱ།
OM MARITSAIYE MAM SOHA
Clear obstacles to enlightenment in life with the radiant goddess Marichi.
Green Tara
ༀ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་ཧཱ། OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA
ༀ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏཱཾ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ། OM TARE TAM SOHA
Prayer to the power of the mother of all Buddhas for protection and swift aid.
White Tara
ༀ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མཱ་མ་ཨཱ་ཡུར་པུཎྱེ་ཛྙཱ་ན་པུཥྚཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA AYUR PUNYE GYANA PUSHTAM KURU SOHA
Connect with the healing properties of White Tara to live a long life to help sentient beings.
Medicine Buddha
ཨོཾ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ། མཧཱ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ། ར་ཛ་ས་མུད་ག་ཏེ་སྭཱཧཱ།
OM BHEKANSE BHEKANSE MAHA BHEKANSE RAJA SAMUDGATE SOHA
Connect to the blue healing light of the medicine of the Dharma, which heals our true afflictions.
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Special Message from Khentrul Rinpoche
This opportunity has not come to the international community before. It’s the first time since the 13th Century these practices are being offered outside of Tibet to the international non-monastic community in global langauges. This incredibly rare opportunity to learn and practice the completion stage practice of the 6 Vajra yogas is something to have strong gratitude and appreciation for. If you are serious about your Dharma practice and Kalachakra, with strong motivation and a Shambhala warrior attitude, Rinpoche encourages you to prepare to take these practices.
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