蓮師說：當修持佛法時，有七種型態的腐敗。

蓮師說：當修持佛法時，有七種型態的腐敗。

Guru Rinpoche said: When practicing the Dharma, there are seven types of depravities/corruption.

佛母問：是哪些？

Bodhisattva ask: What  are they ?

上師說：

Guru Rinpoche said:

1)當你的信心低微但聰明才智高的話，會因自認是上師而腐敗。

When you have low confidence but high intelligence, you will become corrupt because you think you are a guru.

2)當你有許多聽眾而自視甚高時，會因自認是善知識而腐敗。

When you have a lot of audiences and high self-esteem, you are corrupted by what you consider to be knowledgeable.

3)當你設想具有不共的功德卻沒把佛法放在心裡時，會因自認自己是領導者而腐敗。

When you imagine that you have uncommon merits, but don't take the Dharma in your heart, you will become corrupt because you consider yourself a leader.

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4)當你給予口訣卻自己不實修時，會因成為麻木的「佛學專家」而腐敗

When you receive an oral transmission, but don’t practice it yourself, you will become corrupt by becoming an insensitive "Expert in Buddhism"

5) 當你喜歡無聊的碎嘴而內心欠缺佛法時，會因成為攀緣的江湖術士而腐敗。

When you are bored, but with a long-winded and lack the Dharma in your heart, you will become corrupt because you become a warlock.

6) 當你懂得一些皮毛卻欠缺口訣時，會因成為一個或許信心強大的凡夫而腐敗。

When you know a little, but owe a little trick, you will become corrupt by becoming an ordinary person who may have overconfidence.

7) 一個真正的修行者，他的言行若符合正法，應能以聰慧解脫自身、以信心調伏內心、以聽聞法教來斬斷謬見、能拋卻世俗的考量、將心融入佛法之中、以聞思來完備智慧、以口訣來定心，以及用見修來獲得最後的定力。不過，那是很困難的。

A true practitioner, if his words and deeds conform to the Dhama, you should be able to liberate yourself with intelligence, tune your heart with faith, Listen to the Dharma teachings to cut off myths, and to cast aside worldly considerations, immerse the heart in the Dharma, complete one wisdom with practice of listening and contemplation, practise on transmission and to set one's mind at rest , and use the cultivation to get an ultimate concentration, However, that is difficult.

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The Seven Branches Prayers

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje stated: “The key points of the Seven Branches Payer is to gather the accumulations and purify the obscurations. 

There is no practice that is not included within these two. Gathering the accumulations means gathering all the favourable conditions for developing the path within our beings. Purifying misdeeds and obscurations means clearing away the conditions that counteract developing the path within.”

Seven Branches or Seven Limb Prayer serves as the basic structure of many Buddhist prayers, sadhanas and pujas.  It consists of following seven branches: 

1. Prostrations - antidote to pride and ego-clinging; the result of the practice is that one will never be separated from the Three Jewels and will be held with kindness, love and compassion of Lamas until Awakening. 

2. Offerings - antidote for desire and attachment; cultivating generosity and offerings (material and visualized) result in liberation of attachments and habits of attachments and it accumulates merit. 

3. Confession - antidote for negativities accumulated since time without beginning; results of such practice brings experiences of better forms of rebirth, for instance, a body which is an appropriate vessel for the practice of Dharma. 

4. Rejoicing - antidote for habitual patterns of envy and jealousy; it brings about support and inspiration of good Dharma friends and conditions favorable for practice of Dharma. 

5. Requesting the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to teach Dharma - antidote for ignorance; by the power of this aspiration one can develop the wisdom to understand the profound meaning of the Teachings. 

6. Requesting the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas not to pass away - antidote to wrong views; this request purifies disturbing emotions arising from our wrong perceptions and gives rise to the proper view. 

7. Dedication - antidote to unskillful or stupid acts; proper dedication is characterized by two facts: one dedicates whatever merit for nothing less than Enlightenment and aspires to it in order to benefit all sentient beings; it results in the development of skillful means of Bodhisattvas and attaining complete Awakening.

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May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.

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By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Short verses of offering and aspiration to the Dharma protectors

Dharma Protector prayer day, according to the Tibetan month calendar and the Dharma Protectors prayer day is to be done on the 29th of the Tibetan lunar month calendar, and this is also to be known as the 'Dharmapala' day. 

There are certain days are considered auspicious day for certain practices, and on these particular days of the practices,  the effects of positive or negative actions are multiplied 100 times. 

From their looks you might think they are evils and the demonic terrifying appeances. But Dharmapalas are wrathful bodhisattvas who protect Buddhists and the Dharma. Their terrifying appearance is meant to frighten forces of evil. 

Short verses of offering and aspiration to the Dharma protectors

Ngontse orgyen chenpo chen nga ru

I offer to all the Dharma protectors who long ago.

Chozhin drupar chepe gang zag la

have promised, in the presence of the Great Uddiyana.

Mayi bu zhin kyongwar zhal zhe pe

To protect, like a mother protects her child.

Chokyong sungma namla chopa bul

Those who practice in accordance with the Dharma.

Ngontse orgyen chenpo chen nga ru

May there be the auspiciousness of all the Dharma protectors who long ago.

Chozhin drupar chepe gang zag la

Have promised, in the presence of the Great Uddiyana.

Mayi bu zhin kyongwar zhal zhe pe

to protect, like a mother protects her child.

Chokyong sungma namkyi tashi shog

Those who practice in accordance with the Dharma. 

The above texts are offered to the sangha to practice. Although it is not necessary to have received specific empowerments or oral transmissions to read these texts, there is nevertheless great blessing and benefit if you can receive the oral transmissions for them. 
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For those who had received the empowerment of this Tantric practice, you are reminded not intentionally or unintentionally to disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practice, and by disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors. 

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.

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May it arise and not decrease

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Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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Lhabab Duchen Festival November 19, 2019 - Buddha descent from the God realms

Tuesday, 19 November 2019 , it is known as the Lhabab Duchen. Lhabab Duchen is one of the four Buddhist festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Lhabab Duchen falls on the 22nd day of the ninth lunar month, according to Tibetan calendar and widely celebrated in Tibet and Bhutan. 

The festival is  celebrated to observe the descent of Buddha Sakyamuni from the heaven back to the earth. On that day, there are a large number of pilgrims in Lhasa. Ladders are painted afresh on rocks around many monasteries to symbolize the event.

It is said that the Buddha had left for heaven at the age of 41, having ascended to the Heaven of Thirty-Three (Trayastrimsa) in order to give teachings to benefit the gods in the desire realms and to repay the kindness of his mother by liberating her from Samsara. 

The Buddha was exhorted by his follower and representative Maugalyayana to return, and after a long debate managed to return. This is considered to be one of the eight great deeds of the Buddha. He returned to earth by a special triple ladder prepared by Viswakarma, the god of machines.

On Lhabab Duchen, the effects of positive or negative actions multiply ten million times. It is part of Tibetan Buddhist tradition to engage in virtuous activities and prayer on this day. 

Tibetan people hold Buddhist activities on this day each year, celebrating the Buddha's return to the human world and promoting Buddhism. According to the local custom, people paint the outside walls of their own houses or the temples on this special day to greet the Buddha's return.

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