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Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 55

Secret Enhancements in the Vajrayana 

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00:01:28: Introduction to a discussion about Enhancements. Negative and positive thinking. Embracing today as an enhancement. Making the most of this moment.  

00:12:15 The role of enhancements during different phases of one’s practice. Hunger being the best sauce. Thinking Allowed, Colin Wilson, recording on having enough energy to keep on going. 

00:17:15 The brain, willpower, comfort and discomfort. A simple practice of intention and will. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche instruction. Lessons from Alcoholics Anonymous. 

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Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 54

Aliens, UAPs and other beings from a Practice Viewpoint 

00:01:28: Introduction to a discussion about aliens, consciousness and Dharma. The importance of having a practice viewpoint. Trojan Horse by John Keel

00:07:30 Cultural conditioning and appearances. The Eight Class of Spirits in Tibetan Buddhism. 

00:14:20 A word of caution related to researching this topic. Erik Pema Kunsang. The importance of protection practices and lineage. 

00:25:00 Psychic powers, inclination toward shamanism, and Chod. Poonjaji quote. 

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Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 53

How to Establish a Home Shrine

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00:01:28: Introduction to a discussion about a home shrine in Tibetan Buddhism. Creating a sacred space for your meditation practice. A body/statue, dharma text, and stupa or crystal symbolizing Body, Speech, and Mind. A shrine as a mandala. 

00:11:15 Discussion of the offering bowls: water for drinking, water for washing, flowers, incense, light, saffron water (and Bumpa), food, and music. Ram Yam Kham, Om Ah Hung to purify and bless the offerings. 

00:17:55 The purpose of making offerings. Stories from Joseph’s recent trip to India.  

00:23:25 Damien shares about Guru Yoga and offering practice. The importance of making the practice your own. 

00:28:00 Encouragement to explore setting up a space for your home practice. Your intention is what is most important. 

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Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 52

Navigating the Guru Student Relationship - Continued Discussion

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00:01:00: Introduction to a discussion about the student teacher relationship and modern considerations. Lamas mentioned: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, 16th Karma Rangjung Ripe Dorje, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Sakya Trizin, Garchen Rinpoche, Dalai Lama. 

00:08:30 Seeing a Lama as representing the lineage. The importance of a Kalyanamitra or spiritual friend. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. Kilung Rinpoche. Learning from practice. Jigme Lingpa.

00:16:00 The importance of receiving teachings from a living lineage. Dr. Andrea Loseries and Chod practice. Ramana Maharshi. The importance of not giving up. Enthusiasm is as strong as a yak but as short as a yak’s tail. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The importance of a living Lama and Sangha. Garchen Rinpoche view on live and recorded virtual teachings and his Sambhogakaya form. 

00:26:15 The importance of getting to know the teacher and how to make a karmic connection with them. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche statement on practice. Joe shares about his Ngondro practice and his connection to Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Recognizing the Lama as a mirror. The essence of Samaya and training in Pure Vision. 

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Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 51

Pure Vision

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00:01:00: Introduction to a discussion about Pure Vision in the Vajrayana. What is Pure Vision, how do you cultivate and practice it? Discussion of the hallmarks of the different schools of Buddhism.

00:05:30 Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche teaching on visualization. Discussion of the Two Truths. Guru Yoga and seeing everything as the path. Joe discusses a Longchen Nyingtik Guru Yoga practice.  

00:12:45 Discussion of perception. 

00:17:40 A story from the John Blofeld autobiography, The Wheel of Life. Seeing through a pure lens. 

00:24:30 Joe shares a Pure Perception practice. Callback to episode on Aspirations. 

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Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 50

The Teacher Student Relationship in Vajrayana 

00:01:00: Introduction to a discussion about the teacher student relationship in Vajrayana. Role of the Guru. Damien shares how he connected with his first teacher. 

00:05:10: “Be a lamp onto yourself “ - Buddha. Joe recalls meeting Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Make daily aspirations that you may meet your karmically destined teacher. 

00:09:12: The different layers of relationships with teachers. The importance of creating a link with a teacher and an important question to ask them. 

00:19:05 The Inner Guru. The ultimate lama is your own awareness. 

00:25:25 The importance of the teacher and keeping the ego in check. The importance of having a link to lineage. 

Connect with Garchen Rinpoche at https://garchen.net/

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The Vajra Guru Mantra recited 108 times by Kathog Rigzin Chenpo RinpocheOM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

The Seven-Line Prayer Recited 108 Times by Adzom Paylo Rinpocheཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔hung, orgyen yul gyi nubjang tsamHūṃ. In the north-west of the land of Oḍḍiyānaཔདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔pema gesar dongpo laIn the heart of a lotus flower,ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔yatsen chok gi ngödrub nyéEndowed with the most marvellous attainments,པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔pema jungné zhé su drakYou are renowned as the ‘Lotus-born’,འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔khor du khandro mangpö korSurrounded by many hosts of ḍākinīs.ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱི༔khyé kyi jesu dak drub kyiFollowing in your footsteps,བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔jingyi lab chir shek su solI pray to you: Come, inspire me with your blessing!གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔guru pema siddhi hungguru padma siddhi hūṃTranslation from https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/guru-chowang/seven-line-prayer

Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 49

Signs on the Path to Stay Psyched

00:01: Introduction to a discussion about motivation and signs on the path. 

00:05:50 Importance of writing down your signs. Become familiar with symbols. Pure Perception. 

00:15:00 The importance of keeping signs secret and only sharing it with your teacher or other Vajra sisters and brothers as appropriate. 

00:19:20 Categories of signs. 

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Denver Dzogchen Podcast Episode 48

Establishing a Daily Practice 

00:01: Introduction to a discussion about setting up a daily practice. All we have is today. Start with a small practice and build upon that. 

00:07:05 The Three Excellences. 

00:16:20 The importance of an alter or shrine and considerations when setting up and closing down the space. 

00:23:10 Continuation of the Three Excellences discussion. Looking at your entire day as your practice session. “Thun” meditation session in Tibetan. The key to integration is daily practice. Tips for building a practice. Advice from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. 

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