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So Drum A Kar Mu La Ting Nam Ö Du Mu Yé Tsé Nri Dzah
Tsewang Rigdzin is known to Bon practitioners as the “King of Longevity.” He was the son of the 8th Century Tibetan master Drenpa Namkha. As a Dzogchen lineage master himself, he composed ritual texts aimed at relieving suffering. By practicing his wisdom teachings, we can heal physical, emotional and energetic imbalances in our lives. The result is an extended lifetime of service to others.
The great master of Bon, Tsewang Rigzin, is considered the main long life deity of Yungdrung Bon. He taught that clearing the soul of negative influences helps to increase the life span, heal the soul, and encourage a happy life.
In a deep meditative state, Tsewang Rigzin received the special teaching about soul healing. It was transmitted to him by the dakini, Yum Chen Thuk Je Kundrol. The teaching itself was identified as Tse Du Jha Ri Ma, which is composed of the long life empowerment rituals, soul retrieval, and life force retrieval. The related Long Life rituals help to facilitate healing and bring harmony. Lopon Rinpoche will present this ritual and empowerment with the aim of enabling the participants to achieve a long life and to heal the connection between body and soul.
Tséwang Rikdzin is the embodiment of the Five Buddha Families and can therefore bestow any quality or wisdom that is needed.
One of the most powerful healing practices in the Bön tradition is the Tibetan Soul Retrieval Ritual combined with an internal rebalancing of the Five Elements in each participant. In Tibetan medicine, each disease is described in detail and an imbalance of the five elements of Space, Air, Water, Fire and Earth. These elements are the essential building blocks of all phenomena expressing an energetic quality and taking a physical form. Each element needs, supports and affects the other elements. Together they provide a cohesive whole within an individual being. When the Five Elements are out of balance, illness, negative emotions, and disharmony manifest.
The soul is made up of five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and space. These elements pervade all life and are the foundation of health and a strong immune system. A traumatic event, shock, grief, stress, pain, chronic illness, viruses, infections, pandemics, and environmental disasters can cause one to lose connection with the elements and become dispirited. The shamanic rites of soul and life-force retrieval are methods of balancing and healing an individual by calling on the essences of these elements: elemental spirits.
Life force is the presence of energetic forces within oneself. It is possible to retrieve life force using meditation and symbols in rituals. Through mantra and ritual one can bring back the positive qualities that are missing or weak.
How can you tell if you are experiencing soul loss?
The most obvious signs are unexplainable long-term sickness, illness and disease that are undiagnosable or unresponsive to conventional medicine and treatments, depression, persistent lethargy, and lack of interest in life. Many patients say, “Something just doesn’t feel right.” One patient said, “I feel as if there is a hole in my heart.”
The shamanic practices of soul and life-force retrieval are methods for restoring the positive qualities of elements that have been lost, stolen, damaged or weakened. Restoration of the vitality of the elements and their spirits is brought about using chants and mantras. Chants and mantras release illness and remove obstacles to health and healing. Their sounds contain the power and blessings of loving-kindness from fully enlightened Bön protectors and goddesses. Reconnection to divine primordial energy and the elements has the potential for profound healing at all levels of experience—physical, energetic, psychological, and spiritual.
Yumchen Thugje Kundrol
Thus, although death is certain, we do not know when death will come.
The conditions are uncertain and the place is uncertain.
Our family, siblings, and beloved male and female friends and so forth, We must leave them all and go alone.
Empty handed without the lamp of virtue, the mind will be in a state of regret. Helpless, the body and consciousness must separate.
Therefore, the essence of the practice of prolonging human life is the long life practice of the King of Longevity.
From practicing the method, longevity will come.
For any kind of being who wishes to attain the precious level of liberation and omniscience, and be free from the ocean of perpetual suffering of cyclic existence, the Buddha taught many types of spiritual texts. To attain the ultimate fruition, the path of listening, contemplation and meditation is necessary.
In this regard, first, from listening to the teachings of the Lamas and Geshes and so forth the wisdom arisen from Hearing.
Then, by thoroughly investigating and analyzing by oneself the meaning of what has been heard, the wisdom arisen from contemplation is generated.
Then, from accomplishing the purpose of one’s analysis, familiarizing with that again and again is the practice of the path of skillful means of meditation. Unceasing effort is necessary, for there is no way to study the tradition of the teachings of the Buddha without this.
Therefore, this time the focus of the students will not be merely on listening, but connecting to the application of what has been heard.
The Practice of Tséwang Rikdzin’s Supreme Collection that was Received upon Charima.
Whatever sentient being whose life is exhausted or life is weakened and so on will benefit from this practice. From Yumchen Thugje Kündrӧlma, the All Liberating Supreme Compassionate Consort, for the benefit of all sentient beings, at the place of Charitsugden, where all the Rigdzin and Khadros gather and reside, Khopo Lotro Thogmed, at that time received the longevity accomplishment and longevity blessing lineage from Khadro Thugje Kündrӧl.
The Steps for the Activities of the Practice of the Rigdzin King of Longevity:
Establishing the Boundary
The Contemplation of the Visualization
Visualization of the Celestial Palace
Reciting the Essence Mantra of Tsewang Rigdzin & Praise of the Mantra
The Offering
The Praise of the Qualities of Tsewang Rigdzin
Gathering the Pure Essence of the Five Elements from the Five of the Four Directions and Center into the Elements and Five Organs of One’s Body to Nourish the Luster of Life
Reciting the Twenty-One Longevity Mantras of Khadro Thugje Kündrӧl
The Dedication
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