A Gift of Dharma for 2.14.10
by Danny Fisher
Today’s comes to us from His Holiness Kyabje Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987), the late leader of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism.
He is pithily described at the Dzogchen website this way:
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, was the supreme head of the Nyingmapa Order. Poet, author of many books, terton (visionary discoverer of hidden teachings), historian (see his two volume History and Fundamentals of the Nyingmapa), meditation master and tantric yogi, he was one of the most beloved and grandfatherly of the grand lamas of Tibet.
After establishing Yeshe Nyingpo Dharma Centers in Kalimpong, Nepal, Europe and America, he passed away in 1988 in Dordogne, France, and was enshrined in a stupa in a monastery in Bodhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal.
The teaching for today comes to us courtesy of Shambhala Sun‘s Tynette Deveaux over at MahaSangha News, and was translated by Karl Brunnholz last year. Tynette writes, “I just opened a New Year’s [email] greeting from Nalandabodhi with this powerful and pithy teaching by the late Dudjom Rinpoche…[with the caption] EMBRACE THE NEW YEAR!” This is it:
The primoridial ground of self-awareness is utterly changeless.
There is no good or bad in whatever happens,
the expressive play of the dharmakaya.Since my present wakefulness is the buddha in person,
Within my own heart,
I discovered the carefree guru of mind being at ease.
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