[From a teaching on the Mahamudra of Terchen Barway Dorje, Part 2 by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] Jetsun Milarepa, in one of his songs, sang: “There are three nails to meditation. If I explain them: the first is that thoughts are the dharmakaya. The second is that awareness is lucidity. The…
The Medium of Intimacy
[From Ngondro Instructions for Practices in the Termas of Terchen Barway Dorje by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] A key point to understand […] is that your root guru and Guru Rinpoche are responsive to prayer. Do not think that you are praying as a mental exercise with the sole purpose of…
Unreserved Entrustment
[From a teaching on The Song of the Young Bee by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche in Evansville, Indiana in 2012. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] The next four lines of this song make a point that is of incredibly great importance for any vajrayana practitioner. In the first line he says: Unbearably intense longing and devotion…