Recorded at: Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California, April 15, 1996
Language: Rinpoche teaches in English.

In this inspiring talk incorporating his personal history, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche explains what being a yogi or yogini (naljorpa/naljorma in Tibetan) means – one who practices to gain realization and perfect the genuine qualities of enlightenment with an emphasis on developing one’s experiential practice versus cultivating intellectual or scholarly knowledge. According to the Dzogchen Great Perfection path of the Vajrayana, yogis gain understanding and realization of the true nature of phenomena through practicing the three yogas of Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. Rinpoche recounts stories about his Repkong ngakpa yogi family lineage as well as his own development into a Buddhist practitioner with genuine faith and motivation to practice the Dharma.

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Posted in honor of Guru Rinpoche Day and Earth Day, April 22, 2021.

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History of a Yogi in Tibet

History of a Yogi in Tibet OS 1996

Teachings on Tara, 12 June 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil

We practice Dharma to be awakened, for enlightenment. But how do we long for something so abstract and un-longeable? Buddhist teachings use human psychology as a stepping stone for the path. In this case, shunyata appears as a shape, colour, 21 forms, etc. Our longing for a mother, sister, protector takes us to Tara; it makes us approach the deity. That longing then becomes a communication link.

Deity is all to do with our perception. It's not like Tara existed before we knew her. How she communicates and functions depends entirely on how we relate to her. According to how wholeheartedly we relate to her, in that same way we will have communication from her.

"The main thing is remembering her — anytime, anywhere, however short, even if it is a few moments, remembering Tara and considering that as a proper practice and being happy with that."

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Teachings on Tara, 12 June 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Part 1

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche gives a brief teaching on Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's most profound "Tsok Du Dak Nang Ma" concise tsok offering verse (Ying Kyi Bhendhar) as part of the Yeshe Tsogyal Retreat portion of Vajrayana Foundation's 9th Annual Summer Retreat in 1997.

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Concise Tsok Offering Verse Teaching 1997-07-04

Dhyāna, 15 November 2021, Hong Kong, China - Part 2

Meditation has become fashionable as a way to de-stress and calm the mind but being relaxed and peaceful is not the ultimate goal of the Buddhadharma. Our lives are full of anxiety, loneliness and alienation, and we view all our problems from a very narrow perspective. Understanding the three fundamental buddhist truths of anicca, dukkha and anatta can help us view our lives from a wider perspective and dhyāna or meditation is a method to help us see and maintain these three truths. Rinpoche ends the teaching with some practical advice about meditation.

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Dhyāna, 15 November 2021, Hong Kong, China - Part 2

Dhyāna, 15 November 2021, Hong Kong, China - Part 1

Meditation has become fashionable as a way to de-stress and calm the mind but being relaxed and peaceful is not the ultimate goal of the Buddhadharma. Our lives are full of anxiety, loneliness and alienation, and we view all our problems from a very narrow perspective. Understanding the three fundamental buddhist truths of anicca, dukkha and anatta can help us view our lives from a wider perspective and dhyāna or meditation is a method to help us see and maintain these three truths. Rinpoche ends the teaching with some practical advice about meditation.

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Dhyāna, 15 November 2021, Hong Kong, China - Part 1

འཁྲིད་མཁན། སེར་བྱེས་དགེ་བཤེས་འཇམ་དཔལ་བློ་ཤེས།
ཁྲིད་གཞུང་། ཡོངས་འཛིན་བསྡུས་གྲྭ་དབུ་ནས་ཐལ་འགྱུར་བར་གྱི་དོགས་སློང་། ༼ང༽ མཛད་པ་པོ། ཡོངས་འཛིན་ཕུར་ལྕོག་བྱམས་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ། ༼༡༨༢༥ - ༡༨༩༤༽ རྒྱལ་དབང་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་དང་བཅུ་གསུམ་པའི་ཡོངས་འཛིན་གནང་།

རིགས་ལམ་འཕྲུལ་ལྡེའི་དོགས་སློང་། ང ༼༠༡༽

Kuntuzangpo Molam, Bir, India - 21 June 2020
During the solar eclipse of 21 June 2020 Siddhartha's Intent hosted a global recitation of the Samantabhadra Aspiration Prayer.
We were fortunate to receive a teaching from Rinpoche, who painted a picture of the mind that, for lack of a better word, "composed" a prayer which has no composer: our naked cognisance, our naked awareness. The Kuntuzangpo prayer is just there; it's being recited and answered all the time. When a beautiful sunrise appears, if the owl doesn't see it because it's blind, too bad! If we can't see these prayers that are being answered, we're like an owl. There's not much we can do, just pray not to be an owl, which is what we do when we recite the prayer.
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Samatabhadra Prayer

31. Hum Dekhenge - Faiz ང་ཚོས་བལྟ་ཆོག།༷ ཕེཛ།

Return to Normal, 10-11 October 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
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回歸正常 | 2020年10月10-11日 | 台灣/台北市 
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Return to Normal, 10-11 October 2020, Taipei, Taiwan_1 | 回歸正常 | 2020年10月10-11日 | 台灣/台北市


འཛམ་གླིང་ཀུན་དུ་གྲགས་པའི་གླིང་གེ་སར།，གླིང་སྒྲུང་སྙན་པོ་ཐོན་པའི་དཔལ་འབར་ཡུལ།，གེ་སར་སྒྲུང་པའི་ཡུལ་གྱི་མཚན་བཟང་ལ།，གེ་སར་གཏམ་རྒྱུད་བཤད་སྲོལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་འཁྱིལ།，འཛམ་གླིང་ཀུན་དུ་གྲགས་པའི་གླིང་སྒྲུང་དེ།，དཔལ་འབར་བཞིན་དུ་ཁྲི་ལིང་སྐར་མ་འདྲ།，ཨེ་མ་སྒྲུང་མཁན་གྲགས་པའི་ཡུལ་དེ་ནས།，ངོ་མཚར་གླིང་སྒྲུང་མི་ཡུལ་འདི་ལ་ཕུལ།，སྒྲུང་མཁན་དང་པོའི་རྡོ་ཡི་དབུ་ཞྭ།，ང་ཡི་མཇལ་བའི་དུས་འདི་ལ།，གླུ་ཨ་ལ་ད་ལའི་མགྲིན་དབྱངས་སྙན་པོ།，ཡང་ཡང་རྣ་བར་ལྷང་ལྷང་ཐོས།，འཛམ་གླིང་ཀུན་དུ་གྲགས་པའི་གླིང་གེ་སར།，གླིང་སྒྲུང་སྙན་པོ་ཐོན་པའི་དཔལ་འབར་ཡུལ།，གེ་སར་སྒྲུང་པའི་ཡུལ་གྱི་མཚན་བཟང་ལ།，གེ་སར་གཏམ་རྒྱུད་བཤད་སྲོལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་འཁྱིལ།，འཛམ་གླིང་ཀུན་དུ་གྲགས་པའི་གླིང་སྒྲུང་དེ།，དཔལ་འབར་བཞིན་དུ་ཁྲི་ལིང་སྐར་མ་འདྲ།，ཨེ་མ་སྒྲུང་མཁན་གྲགས་པའི་ཡུལ་དེ་ནས།，ངོ་མཚར་གླིང་སྒྲུང་མི་ཡུལ་འདི་ལ་ཕུལ།，སྒྲུང་མཁན་དང་པོའི་རྡོ་ཡི་དབུ་ཞྭ།，ང་ཡི་མཇལ་བའི་དུས་འདི་ལ།，གླུ་ཨ་ལ་ད་ལའི་མགྲིན་དབྱངས་དེ་སྙན།，ཡང་ཡང་རྣ་བར་ལྷང་ལྷང་ཐོས།，སྒྲུང་མཁན་དང་པོའི་རྡོ་ཡི་དབུ་ཞྭ།，ང་ཡི་མཇལ་བའི་དུས་འདི་ལ།，གླུ་ཨ་ལ་ད་ལའི་མགྲིན་དབྱངས་དེ་སྙན།，ང་ཡི་རྣ་བར་ལྷང་ལྷང་ཐོས།，ང་ཡི་རྣ་བར་ལྷང་ལྷང་ཐོས།。 

Ling Gesar གླིང་གེ་སར། Norbu Samdup

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