The Crucial Points of Ngöndro Part 1 (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) 

Blessing the Speech and Invoking the Lama

Date, Time and Place

25 November 2000, Clear Lake; 12 December 2000, Gangtok; 31 December 2000, Kirchheim; 24 March 2002, Sydney; 31 March 2002, London; 4 December 2002, Clear Lake; 12 January 2003, Paris; 31 December 2005, Kirchheim

Length

93 minutes

Tracks

1. Introductory Music
2. Blessing the speech (13 minutes)
3. The power of invocation (8 minutes 45)
4. What are we invoking? (15 minutes 46)
5. The nature of the lama (15 minutes 20)
6. The actual practice of Invoking the Lama (30 minutes 38)
7. The lama manifests as Rigpa, mindfulness, and awareness(5 minutes 50)
8. Chanting the invocation (3 minutes)
9. Concluding music