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How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?

Let's say you are going by bus or at work sitting and suddenly you remember your guru and you want to practice guru yoga. Is it possible to visualize your guru on top of your head in his normal form (or as vajradhara, Guru rinpoche, Karmapa, etc) say for example lama khyenno few times and then let the guru "drop" into your heart and dissolve there into you and rest for a while in that state?

I am asking because I think I have read some similar instructions somewhere but don't know where to be honest and cannot find the source. Do you have some book or text that deal with this you could recommend me? Are there any other ways of doing that?
“Observing samaya involves to remain inseparable from the union of wisdom and compassion at all times, to sustain mindfulness, and to put into practice the guru’s instructions”. Garchen Rinpoche

For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.

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Miroku wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:10 pm How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?

Let's say you are going by bus or at work sitting and suddenly you remember your guru and you want to practice guru yoga. Is it possible to visualize your guru on top of your head in his normal form (or as vajradhara, Guru rinpoche, Karmapa, etc) say for example lama khyenno few times and then let the guru "drop" into your heart and dissolve there into you and rest for a while in that state?

I am asking because I think I have read some similar instructions somewhere but don't know where to be honest and cannot find the source. Do you have some book or text that deal with this you could recommend me? Are there any other ways of doing that?
Yes, of course you can do that.

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"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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you can use mind and imagine
just like when we are dreaming 😊

it is known that practicing in dreams is far more effective thant doing it while we are awake
why? because we put less limits

mind is like that

give it a try, but with awareness
there is no need for a deva-like ilusion hahaha
nor an accident either..

by the way this comes from my experience, it is not a lama's advice or instructions
true dharma is inexpressible.

The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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Miroku wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:10 pm How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?
Atiguru yoga. It can be practiced hundreds of times a day in all activities.
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Malcolm wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:10 pm
Miroku wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:10 pm How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?
Atiguru yoga. It can be practiced hundreds of times a day in all activities.
Where does ati guru yoga come from? Is it exclusive from chnn or is it present in other dzogchen linages?
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Malcolm wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:10 pm
Miroku wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:10 pm How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?
Atiguru yoga. It can be practiced hundreds of times a day in all activities.
You didn't really answer the question.
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Temicco wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:12 pm
Malcolm wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:10 pm
Miroku wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:10 pm How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?
Atiguru yoga. It can be practiced hundreds of times a day in all activities.
You didn't really answer the question.
Seems pretty clear.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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Temicco wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:12 pm
Malcolm wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:10 pm
Miroku wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:10 pm How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?
Atiguru yoga. It can be practiced hundreds of times a day in all activities.
You didn't really answer the question.
I answered it very precisely, actually.
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Temicco wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:12 pm
Malcolm wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:10 pm
Miroku wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:10 pm How can one practice guru yoga in daily life?
Atiguru yoga. It can be practiced hundreds of times a day in all activities.
You didn't really answer the question.
He did actually.
“Observing samaya involves to remain inseparable from the union of wisdom and compassion at all times, to sustain mindfulness, and to put into practice the guru’s instructions”. Garchen Rinpoche

For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.

- Arya Sanghata Sutra
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Thank you all. :thanks:
“Observing samaya involves to remain inseparable from the union of wisdom and compassion at all times, to sustain mindfulness, and to put into practice the guru’s instructions”. Garchen Rinpoche

For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.

- Arya Sanghata Sutra
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