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The 7 Preliminaries with Eva Natanya - 28 Some Notes on Sukhavati

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The Seven Preliminaries according Düdjom Lingpa

Eva Natanya
01 Apr 2020 – 26 May 2020
Online - Originally part of 2020 8-week retreat

The Seven Preliminaries according to the Revelations of Düdjom Lingpa. Teaching, translations, and oral transmission by Eva Natanya (Yangchen Osel) from the 2020 8-week Retreat.

Eva Natanya presents previously untranslated material on the Seven Uncommon Preliminaries (or Ngöndro) as they appear in the revelations of Düdjom Lingpa and in key commentaries from the Düdjom Lineage.

All materials and translations are not to be shared on the web, but must remain in the context of the oral explanation and transmission.

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Eva Natanya, 20 May 2020

On today’s session we will go through the five core preliminaries of the Khandro Nyingtik, leaving out Phowa and Chöd. Eva (Yangchen) suggests this as a daily solid foundation for shamatha practice. Before the practice, Yangchen talks about the four causes to be reborn in Sukhavati: foundational power to plant the aspiration, collecting merit, purifying obscurations, and the conducive condition of prayer. She clarifies some things about the amount of merit we have to accumulate; we don’t have to create Sukhavati.

Meditation starts at 10:50 , and is a transmission of the Khandro Nyingtik in Tibetan, with commentary by Yangchen.

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