Methods for keeping Samaya clean

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I was looking to get a general list of methods used for keeping Samaya clean. I know there's the usual ones such as the Vajrasattva mantra and participating in tsok practices, but I was wondering if there were any others. Does a daily practice session count? Or guru yoga? All of the above?
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Jangchup Donden wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:29 pm I was looking to get a general list of methods used for keeping Samaya clean. I know there's the usual ones such as the Vajrasattva mantra and participating in tsok practices, but I was wondering if there were any others. Does a daily practice session count? Or guru yoga? All of the above?
Reciting Vajrasattva long mantra 21 times a day prevents degeneration.
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Is any transmission or empowerment necessary to recite the long Vajrasattva mantra?
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Monlam Tharchin wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:33 pm Is any transmission or empowerment necessary to recite the long Vajrasattva mantra?
Yes.
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Malcolm wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:09 pmReciting Vajrasattva long mantra 21 times a day prevents degeneration.
Does reciting Vajrasattva short mantra 108 times a day prevent degeneration as well?
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Monlam Tharchin wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:33 pm Is any transmission or empowerment necessary to recite the long Vajrasattva mantra?
Generally, everyone who has received an anuttarayoga empowerment has the transmission.
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Lobsang Chojor wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:46 pm
Malcolm wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:09 pmReciting Vajrasattva long mantra 21 times a day prevents degeneration.
Does reciting Vajrasattva short mantra 108 times a day prevent degeneration as well?
Better to do the long one.
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Jangchup Donden wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:29 pm I was looking to get a general list of methods used for keeping Samaya clean. I know there's the usual ones such as the Vajrasattva mantra and participating in tsok practices, but I was wondering if there were any others. Does a daily practice session count? Or guru yoga? All of the above?
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BTW best method to repair samaya is completion stage.
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Malcolm wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:51 pm
Lobsang Chojor wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:46 pm
Malcolm wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:09 pmReciting Vajrasattva long mantra 21 times a day prevents degeneration.
Does reciting Vajrasattva short mantra 108 times a day prevent degeneration as well?
Better to do the long one.
Is this generally true when there are shorter and longer versions of a mantra or dharani? :thanks:
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Malcolm wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:13 am BTW best method to repair samaya is completion stage.
Are you talking about the dissolution stage during deity yoga or the physical practices like the six yogas of Naropa?
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Jangchup Donden wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:03 pm
Malcolm wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:13 am BTW best method to repair samaya is completion stage.
Are you talking about the dissolution stage during deity yoga or the physical practices like the six yogas of Naropa?
The former.
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If you have received Mahamudra transmission that is the most profound way, as it is the practice that will accomplish all the other practices at once.
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