Drukpa

𝓛𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮

You do not have to go miles away to understand what suffering is or read complicated texts. But you can begin to know a little more by being mindful of what truly speaks to your heart. Even as you read these words, don’t feel you need to follow everything; listen openly, contemplate, try things out and decide for yourself.
— 𝓖𝔂𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓰 𝓓𝓻𝓾𝓴𝓹𝓪, an excerpt from the book 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓔𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽

མཁས་ཤིང་གྲུབ་བརྙེས་དཔལ་ལྡན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན། །
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གར། །
གང་འདུལ་ངེས་པ་དོན་གྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཉིད་། །
ཞབས་པད་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཆོས་སུ་རྟག་བཞུགས་གསོལ། །

ཞེས་འབྲུག་པས་ཉེ་ཆར་དངོས་འཇལ་སྐབས་སྙིང་ནས་ཐལ་བའོ།། །།

- The Gyalwang Drukpa

𝓐𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you apply the skill of investigating your mind. It needs to be there all the time, in daily life, rather than something you bring out of the dusty cupboard just once every so often. As you develop attention during your every day, you begin to notice the details and you notice other people more.
- 𝓖𝔂𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓰 𝓓𝓻𝓾𝓴𝓹𝓪, an excerpt from the book 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓔𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽

𝓘𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼

I don’t wish for us all to become terribly conservative and abandoned the laughter and spontaneity in our lives, or to become very slow in all our decisions or actions because we then start analysing and overthinking everything. The key with mindfulness is that it is about developing your inner awareness rather than allowing your thoughts to take over. — 𝓖𝔂𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓰 𝓓𝓻𝓾𝓴𝓹𝓪, an excerpt from the book 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓔𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽

Gyalwa Dokhampa 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

🌺𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐠🌺

•⁠ ⁠Extracted from the “Buddhist Fasting Practice – The Nyungne Method of Thousand-Armed Chenrezig” by Wangchen Rinpoche

In the sutra Thousand-Armed Chenrezig’s Penetrating Mantra Power, it mentions that if a connection is made to Lord Chenrezig, one will never be abandoned:
Tathagata, any sentient being who recites and holds on to this awareness mantra of the Lord of Great Compassion, if they ever fall into the three lower realms, I, Chenrezig, vow to never attain enlightenment.

If they are not born into the pure land of the Buddha, I vow to never attain enlightenment. If they do not develop great samadhi and tremendous spiritual confidence, I vow to never attain enlightenment.

If their wishes in their immediate life do not come true, it shall not be called the mantra of the Great Compassionate One, unless they engage in wrong, unvirtuous activity, or recite the mantra without one-pointed concentration.

If there is a doubt in the power of the mantra, then the benefits will not come about. For those who commit the transgression of using offerings dedicated to the sangha, their deeds would only be completely purified through confession in the presence of a thousand buddhas; but if they recite the mantra of the Great Compassionate One, they will be able to completely overcome their misdeeds.

The karma of misusing the offerings and possessions of the Three Jewels can be overcome by sincere confession in the presence of the buddhas of the ten directions. During the recitation of the mantra of the Great Compassionate One, the buddhas of the ten directions will automatically be present and, because of their power and blessing, one will be able to overcome all negativities.

Furthermore, the ten unvirtuous deeds, the five sins which ripen immediately, and disparaging honorable beings, breaking vows, destroying stupas and temples, stealing possessions that belong to the sangha, etc., all such major transgressions will be overcome by reciting this mantra, unless you doubt the power of the mantra.

If you doubt this power, there is no need to mention the major transgressions; even the minor ones will not be overcome. In the long run, however, it will still be an enlightened cause.

Furthermore, Chenrezig vows to liberate sentient beings from the prison of samsara, and he wishes to gaze on all beings with his eleven faces and touch them all with his thousand hands:

“Noble sons and daughters who practice Nyungne on auspicious days, full moon or half-moon days, and bow down and recite the mantra 108 times, and hold me in their thoughts, even if they have the karma of the five sins which ripen immediately, I will bring such beings into the pure land of Great Bliss. If such beings ever fall to the lower realms, I shall never attain enlightenment.”

Anything and everything in the universe may change, but not the power of the ultimate truth of the bodhisattva’s vow; this is unchangeable.

Here is a passage from the sutra which basically summarizes all the benefits in this life and beyond:

Those who always rise early in the morning and recite this mantra 108 times will receive ten benefits in this very lifetime:

1.⁠ ⁠They will be free from physical illness.
2.⁠ ⁠They will be protected by gods and buddhas.
3.⁠ ⁠They will have abundant wealth and food.
4.⁠ ⁠Their enemies will be subdued.
5.⁠ ⁠They will be respected and honored by their spouse.
6.⁠ ⁠They will be free from harm by poisons, ghosts, and demons.
7.⁠ ⁠The sweet smell of their body will please everyone.
8.⁠ ⁠They will be free from the ill thoughts and ill speech of others.
9.⁠ ⁠They will be free from contagious disease.
10.⁠ ⁠They will not suffer from untimely death.

In addition, they will attain the following:
1.⁠ ⁠At the time of death they will see the Buddha and see a light in the sky and be worshipped by the gods.
2.⁠ ⁠They will not be born in the lower realms.
3.⁠ ⁠They will be born in the pure land of Great Bliss (Skt. Sukhavati).
4.⁠ ⁠They will inherit the attributes of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas.

This great mantra of Thousand-Armed Chenrezig is known to have been taught by eleven billion buddhas. If you have faith and recite this mantra you will undoubtedly receive all that you need and wish for and be free from all obstacles. Whoever thinks about Chenrezig and recites this long dharani will receive immediate and ultimate benefits.

🌸 We rejoice in the immense merit of all practitioners attending the annual Nyungney Retreat. May your heartfelt practice bring boundless benefit to all sentient beings.

📍Druk Ralung Shedrup Choling
📆8-16 June, 2026

On this auspicious Dakini Day, H.E. Sengdrak Rinpoche, Kyabje Kathok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu Chogtrul Rinpoche, Kyabje Khentrul Rinpoche, and Kyabje Chechok Rinpoche joined Gelongma and novice Drukpa nuns to perform Sengey Tsewa Chöd practice and special Dakini tsog offerings at Druk Amitabha Mountain DGK Nunnery. May all beings be benefited and may peace prevail.