December 13-14, 2014
Vajrakilaya Practice according to the Nyingmapa Tradition
Brooklyn, New York City [Weekend meditation workshop]
In his heart, an enlightened being like the Buddha or a Great Bodhisattva, is calm and totally compassionate. But in order to subdue and transform negative energies and evil spirits, especially those that arise directly from the poisonous passion of anger, it is necessary on occasion for a compassioante enlightened beings to display a wrathful face and form and engage in wrathful actions. Thus, when the demon sorcerer Rudra threatened to enslave and even extingish nascent humanity in prehistoric times, the great Bodhisattva Vajrapani adopted this exceedingly terrifying form of Vajrakilaya in order to subdue Rudra and his minions. The demon Rudra symbolizes the inflated ego and the evils it causes. In general, the function of Vajrakilaya practice is to overcome obstacles and demolish negative energies afflicting the life of the individual practitioner. These methods include the higher spiritual practices (stod-las) for attaining liberation and enlightenment and the more practical ritual actions (smad-las) for transforming negative energies in everyday life. For the overcoming and subduing of demons, evil, spirits, and negative energies generally in his own time, it is said that Vajrakilaya was the personal meditation practice of Guru Padmasambhava himself, as well as that of his consort, the Tibetan princess Yeshe Tsogyal, who wrote the first Tibetan commentary on this practice. Vajrakilaya has become among the most widespread and popular Terma cycles in Tibet today among both monks and Ngakpa Lamas of the Nyingmapa tradition. This seminar will introduce some of these practices for Vajrakilaya according to the Düdjom Tersar, in particular, the sPu-gri reg-phung, “the Razor that Destroys at a Touch.”
Contact: James Bae, [email protected]
Lama Vajranatha, Vajrakilaya, Brooklyn -12/13&12/14
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