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Tara Ngalso Tchulen Taking the essence with the self-healing of Tara “Look into the mirror of your mind, the secret home of the dakini” (Drubchen Naropa)
Buddha Shakiamuni gave many different methods to help sentient beings to be free from sufferings; one of them is the practice of taking the essence. He lived long time in the mountains of Bihar taking the essence. Many great yogis of India had high realizations trough this practice, in places like Kania Gopha, in the mountains outside Mumbay, increasing their life and concentration. One of the greatest Yogi of India Padampa Sanghie (contemporary of the great Yoghi Milarepa) received this practise directly from Vajrayoghini, an emanation of Buddha Shakiamuni. The great adepts of India carried on with this mystical tradition verbally, until the times when Buddhism spread in Tibet. Was the Second Dalai Lama in His great compassion who wrote the first text “metog tchulen”, while He was in retreat in the monastery of Cho kor ghiel, close to the Lhamo Lhatso (the lake of the great female protector of Buddhism Palden Lhamo). In this small text (translated into English by Glen Mullin in the book “Life and teaching of the Second Dalai Lama” Snow Lion Press) the Second Dalai Lama says that the great Yogi Padampa Sanghie received the teachings of taking the essence directly from Vayrayoghini and lived 593 years. Countless Tibetan Yogis of all traditions adopted the tchulen practice; in the tradition of Lama Tzong Khapa it is practiced by the Yogis of the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama traditions until today. To take the essence is very important, especially nowadays that we don’t have much time to dedicate to spiritual development. We have very few occasions to increase our life and take advantage of it trough spiritual development. In general we live until the moment of death, without taking much advantage of the different ways to experience an authentic happiness and genuine inner peace. Trying the different methods, of an ancient spiritual tradition like the Tibetan Buddhism, can help us to heal our body and mind, from the unbalance of modern times, where spiritual or inner development is very little practiced, do to the busy life. Within our body-mind exist the potentiality to reach a space of inner peace and genuine happiness; the meditation of tchulen is a way to experience it. The practice consists on gradually cutting gross food and living for few days on the food of meditation and few pills made with flower petals, that are a strong protein for our body. For
the rest of the time we will experience the profound mind transformation
methods, described in the Tibetan text Claudio Cipullo alias Chansem Naljorpa Champa Togme, the instructor of tchulen, was one of the disciples of Gheshe Rinpoche who listened to the teachings translated in English by the Venerable Gonsar Rinpoche. The
retreat of tchulen is done in order to give a first experience of the
mystical practice of taking the essence, a little taste of genuine
happiness and inner peace. The
practice is enriched by the Tara Ngalso meditation a method to heal the
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