Rigzin Osel Ling
Ciruelos 457 Lomas de Valle Verde 22810 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

Guru Rinpoches History https://youtu.be/X00d197n-eE

AN EXPLANATION OF THE OUTER, LITERAL MEANING OF THE SEVEN-LINE PRAYER The Seven-Line Prayer, a practice endowed with extraordinary blessings, is extremely profo...und. May this secret instruction, the treasure of my heart, be found by Chökyi Wangchuk, compassionate and wise. In accordance with this instruction, we should visualize the supreme Lotus King clearly and steadily in the sky in front of ourselves, seated on a spotless lotus flower in the lake of Dhanakosha in the land of Orgyen, accompanied by his retinue of dakas and dakinis as numerous as the seeds in a pod of sesame. This constitutes the approach phase. To pray devotedly to Guru Rinpoche with the aspiration to accomplish the three vajras within our body, speech, and mind is the phase of close approach. These two practices (of approach and close approach) constitute the generation stage. In conclusion, like iron fragments drawn toward a lodestone, infinite Buddhas and Bodhisattvas dwelling in the ten directions come and dissolve into the Guru and his retinue. The latter then melt into light, which then dissolves into us. This constitutes the phase of accomplishment. The ultimate mode of being, the ground wherein both we and Guru Rinpoche are primordially inseparable namely, the self-arisen primordial wisdom, which is subject to no movement of discursive thought is referred to as Guru. Because deluded perceptions are themselves primordially pure, the path is free from all striving and the fruit is present spontaneously like a lotus in full flower. Therefore [the path itself] is referred to as Padma, or lotus. For the fruit is not something that occurs at a later stage as a result of the practice. In the ultimate expanse, which is self-arisen and spontaneously present, the primordial wisdom of self-awareness is clearly [and already] manifest. This is referred to as Siddhi, or accomplishment. And, although in terms of conceptual distinctions the self-arisen primordial wisdom may be classified as ground, path, and fruit, these three are not different in nature. This is directly perceived by self-cognizing awareness and is indicated by the syllable Hung. This refers to the great accomplishment phase of practice. The two steps of accomplishment and great accomplishment make up the perfection-stage practice. The meaning of this is that we should recite the Seven-Line Prayer while never parting from the practice wherein the generation and perfection stages are united. The first five lines describe the visualization and thus constitute the phase of approach. The sixth line expresses trust and confidence in Guru Rinpoche and is thus the phase of close approach. Then, with the seventh line, we mingle inseparably with the Guru, and this is the accomplishment phase. As we recite the mantra with our minds indivisible from the Guru, we behold the countenance of the great dharmakaya. This is the phase of great accomplishment. Therefore, all four phases of approach and accomplishment are complete within this very prayer. White lotus: an explanation of the Seven-line prayer to Guru Padmasambhava / Jamgön Mipham - Shambhala Publications

The ‘Tso Pema Ngakpas’ - Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche, Lama Dorje Namgyal (father of Lama Jigme Potalagate), and Lama Katog Rigdzin ( father of Lama Pema Dorje and Lama Dawa Chhodak). Rewalsar, India.

Sharing more vintage photos - this one of Lama Pema Dorje and Lama Dawa Chhodak - somewhere in India....1974.