How to Accomplish the Ngöndro (MP3)

Ngöndrolinks are for students who are starting to study and practice the Ngöndro preliminary practices and who already have a firm understanding and experience of the Foundations and the Mahayana stages of the path, and have taken Refuge (the formal entrance to the Buddhist path) and have taken the Bodhisattva Vow (this follows the structure of Rigpa's curriculum for more information click here) 

Date, Time and Place

30 June 2003, Lerab Ling; 1 December 2004, Clear Lake; 11 September 2005, London; 10 December 2005, Lerab Ling; 20 October 2006, Lerab Ling; 18 March 2007, Sydney; 27 April 2007, Lerab Ling

Length

1 hour 10 minutes

Tracks

1. Introductory Music
2. Shamatha is a part of every practice (3 minutes)
3. Accomplishing the Ngöndro means transforming your basic being (14 minutes)
4. Study and accumulation deepen your accomplishment (10 minutes)
5. Meditating on love with analytical and resting meditation (ché gom and jok gom) (7 minutes)
6. A framework for all practice (22 minutes)
7. Wake up and realize your wisdom nature(8 minutes)
8. Dedicating merit towards omniscience and the benefit of all beings (6 minutes)
9. Concluding music