Summer Retreat 2020
Guru Rinpoche Retreat June 22 - 30
Recorded practice sessions and teachings with
Tulku Jamyang Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche
Guru Rinpoche Mantra Recitation and its Benefits
Text List and Page-Turning Guide
Support Materials Available Through Dharma Treasures
Make an auspicious connections with offerings for Tsok, Butter Lamps, Riwo Sangchod, and more.
List of Oral Transmissions Given during this retreat.
Texts Available for Purchase Corresponding to Oral Transmissions Given
You may contact office@vajaryana.org to make a donation and receive links to the recorded practice sessions and teachings.
Lama Sonam Rinpoche described the retreat this way: "This year during our Guru Rinpoche Drupchö*, we will focus our practice on praying for the benefit of the whole world. This will help to pacify problems for all of us as individuals and the entire world in general, serve as a dedication of merit for the deceased and a long-life practice for the living, help to pacify difficulties, material hardships, and obstacles, and help to alleviate all of the suffering in the entire world, especially the suffering of epidemic diseases like we are experiencing now.
"This year our aim is to accomplish what in Tibetan is called "Siddhi Dung Nyen" - one hundred million mantra recitations. We request everyone to join in helping accomplish this goal by practicing at home. Regardless of whether we reach that goal or surpass it, the more we recite the more beneficial it will be for the whole world."
On the benefits of the Vajra Guru mantra, Guru Rinpoche said,
“This is the essence mantra of all Sugatas, the accomplishment practice of all Victorious Buddhas in one. By meditating upon Me and reciting the Siddhi mantra, you will traverse the fifteen bhumis and five paths. It is the same as reading all the teachings of all the Buddhas of the three times.” Also, “This will awaken you from clinging to the solidity of appearing existence. It is the condensation of all the Victorious Buddhas of the three times. It is indivisible from all lamas. It subdues all elemental spirits and arrogant spirits. Dakinis and dharma protectors will gather like clouds. All the male and female dakas and dakinis be overjoyed and come to bestow supreme and common siddhis. If you do not receive signs of accomplishment, then I, Padmasambhava, have deceived sentient beings. Therefore, my future fortunate son, keep this in your heart. Samaya.” Also, “By reciting Padmasambhava’s twelve-syllable essence mantra twelve hundred thousand times, the seed of samsara will be eliminated. By reciting it 36 hundred thousand times, one will reach the level of the Awareness-Holders. By reciting it ten million times one will become equal to me, Padmasambhava.”
Lama Sonam Rinpoche reminds us that, "Our teacher, the perfect Buddha, through his great skillfulness and limitless compassion, gave an unimaginable variety of nectar-like Dharma teachings according to the different predispositions, faculties, and fortune of beings. The most supreme, the very best of all those teachings, is this complete and deceitless clear light Secret Mantra Vajrayana vehicle through which one can accomplish buddhahood in one lifetime, in which there is the path of diligent practice for those whose are inclined to gradual progress, and the supreme sudden path for those of the sharpest faculties and who have a karmic connection from past lives.
"We have the good fortune and karmic connection to have faith in the Lama, Guru Rinpoche, and to be able to practice this Collection of Seven Treasures, the most supreme among all Lama Accomplishment (Ladrup) practices. It was compiled by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche from seven great treasures of the Nyingma Lineage, the Gathering of Secrets (Sangwa Düpa) of Guru Chöwang, the Gathering of the Eight Commands (Kagyay Düpa) of Dorje Lingpa, the Gathering of the Innermost Essence (Yangnying Düpa) of Ratna Lingpa, the Gem Ocean (Norbu Gyatso) of Padma Lingpa, the Gathering of the Victorious Ones (Gyalwa Düpa) of Zhigpo Lingpa, the Complete Gathering of the Enlightened Intent (Gongpa Yongdü) of Düdül Lingpa, and the Complete Gathering of the Sugatas (Deshek Yongdü) of Dudjom Rinpoche himself. He compiled them all into one simple practice which encompasses the entire Nyingma Lineage, through which we can actually accomplish enlightenment in a single lifetime."
There was no practice commitment for attending the Drupchod except to accumulate the Vajra Guru Mantra as much as possible.
You may report your mantra accumulations to offerings@vajrayana.org. as we are contintuing until we reach 100 million. We update the accumulations periodically on our homepage. Lama Sonam Rinpoche described the visualization during the teaching sessions.
OM AH HUNG VAJRA GURU PEMA THÖ THRENG TSAL VAJRA SAMAYA DZA SIDDHI PHALA HUNG AH
or
OM AH HUNG VAJRA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG
Daily Schedule of Retreat was (Pacific Time Zone):
June 22:
8:30 am – 12:30 pm Practice Session
2:30 – 6:00 pm Practice Session
June 23 – 29:
Lama Sonam Rinpoche gave the oral transmission for the Collection of Seven Treasures Sadhana at 5:45 pm (Pacific) on Monday, June 29th.
June 23 – 29:
8:30 am – 12:30 pm Practice Session
2:30 – 6:00 pm Practice Session
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (approximately) Teachings with Lama Sonam Rinpoche
June 30:
8:30 am – 12:30 pm Practice Session
2:30 – 6:00 pm Practice Session