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The Sangha
An opt-in directory of the sangha — each person a card with their photo, where they are, and how to reach them. You choose what to share, and with whom.
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Meditation
a sit, the length you choose
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Sound and timing
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Flight of the Garuda
Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol
as translated by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Song 1
What a Surprise
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Mind is the Essence of All Teachings
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Cut the Root
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Introduction to the Ground of Mind
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Introduction to the Ground of Delusion
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Pointing Out the Nature of Mind
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You Know
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Look Directly at Your Own Mind
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Magic Projection
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All in the Mind
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Emptiness, Appearance, Awareness
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Recognizing the Ground’s Three Kayas
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Self-Liberation of Five Toxins
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Self-Liberation of Six Sensorial Experiences
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Stillness, Motion, Awareness
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One Taste
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View, Meditation, Lifestyle, and Result
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Beyond Meditation
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Present Awareness
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Mastery of Nonduality
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Overcoming Obstacles
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The Five Buddhas are Within
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Life is the Teaching
▶ WatchFor the benefit of all beings.
May each attain the state of Yuthok.
Ku Nye · La Points
the points and their cycle
A clean chart of the La massage points and the Ku Nye practices, drawn in Bardo’s own style from Genla’s teaching.
Let Meditation Be Thy Medicine
from Genla’s book
Teachings and practices drawn from Genla’s book — a place to return to, a little at a time.
Dākinī Day
the live sit, together
This page will hold the Zoom link for the live sit, an image of the Dākinīs of the lineage, and a time calculator that shows when it begins in your own time zone.
Practicing with the Moon
Four days each month the sangha keeps together.
Dates are whole days, kept in your own local calendar.
25th day
Dākinī Practice Summary
Let it be an evening.
The twenty-fifth belongs to the night. If you practise in the morning, this is the day to move it later — after dark, once the house has gone quiet.
Offer something small.
This is the part people talk themselves out of. Genla is clear that the offering can be modest: tea, or milk, or a cup of coffee and a biscuit. Put it on a plate. Light a candle. Say the prayer. Eat it afterwards. That is not a lesser version of the practice. That is the practice.
Find one other person.
The tradition sets the smallest assembly at two. A partner. A friend. One other practitioner on a video call, eating the same biscuit in another country.
Begin something.
This is Lochen Dharmaśrī’s advice, and it costs nothing. A practice, a commitment, a conversation you have been meaning to start — this is the day the tradition says to start it. Beginnings placed here tend to hold.
Bring one real difficulty.
The four dākinīs are not decorative. Something to calm. Something you need more of. Something to bring under control. Something to be rid of. Pick one — the actual thing, the one you would be embarrassed to say out loud. Not a tidy spiritual version of it.
Mend one thing.
Damaged commitment is usually ordinary friction — a message not sent, something said too sharply, a person you have quietly stopped speaking to. This is the day set aside for repair. One message is enough.
And if the day still slips past — if you remember it at eleven at night with nothing prepared — stop for one moment and think of them.
10th day
Guru Practice Summary
Most people have no teacher in the next room and no temple in town. That is normal, and the tradition planned for it.
Make it a morning.
The twenty-fifth belongs to the night. The tenth is a daytime day, and the promise names the sunrise. If you usually practise in the evening, move it early on this day — before the house wakes up.
Say the seven lines. Once.
That counts as keeping the day, and the tradition means it.
Put a face where you can see it.
A picture of Padmasambhava, or of Yuthok, or a photo of your own teacher. One candle in front of it. On this day, that is a shrine.
Find this month’s deed.
Each tenth day remembers one scene of the life. Look up this month’s and read it — five minutes. Do that twelve times and you have read the whole biography.
Watch the week.
The lineage promises signs within a week of starting Yuthok’s guru yoga. Begin on the tenth and watch the week that follows. Not for miracles. For loosening.
Take it to work.
If you have a patient, a student, a client, a child — anyone who needs something from you this week — let that be where the blessing goes. Yuthok’s lineage measures the practice by what leaves your hands.
Begin something.
This is the one item that repeats from the other list, because Lochen Dharmaśrī’s advice covers both tenth days: whatever you start, try to start it on a tenth. A practice, a promise, a conversation. Things begun here tend to hold.
The next tenth is never more than a month away — with one difference. On this one, somebody is already on the way.
29th day
Protector Practice Summary
An ending gathers things — unfinished business, accumulated trouble, the month’s leftovers. The twenty-ninth exists so that none of it has to come with you into the next month.
Let it be an evening.
Dākinī Day belongs to the night; this day belongs to the hour just before it. Sunset is the protectors’ own time — the day’s ending inside the month’s ending.
Pour something.
The traditional offering cup is filled to overflowing — hot tea, or something stronger. If you have no cup and no altar, a glass of water and a biscuit are a real offering. Genla says it directly: if worrying about perfect offerings stops you from practicing, the perfect offerings are the obstacle.
Say what is actually wrong.
Don’t be vague. Name the trouble. Name the person who needs help, if there is one. A protector is asked for specific things. And the more specific, the better.
Let the month end.
Look back over it once — what got finished, what didn’t, what went wrong. Then let the whole of it go where obstacles go. That is what the day is for.
Take the offerings outside.
Afterward, give them to nature — somewhere animals can take them.
Mark the year’s last twenty-ninth.
Of all the twenty-ninths, that is the great one. One evening a year, the whole tradition carries out its accumulated trouble together.
Dorjé Düdul — the Medicine Mahakala — Shanglön. The month will end either way. It can end with a guard at the door.
Today’s Lojong
a slogan & a plain teaching
This page will carry a daily Lojong — a short slogan of mind training, with a plain, warm explanation of how to take it into the day.
Mantra
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Prayer to Yuthok
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▶ WatchVajrasattva
▶ WatchFour Immeasurables
▶ WatchSeven-Line Prayer
In progressGuru Yoga
In progressDedication
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When your compassion is great, whatever you do becomes Dharma.
— Yuthok
Song One
What a Surprise · Flight of the Garuda
Song Three
Cut the Root · Flight of the Garuda
Song Five
Introduction to the Ground of Delusion · Flight of the Garuda
Song Two
Mind is the Essence of All Teachings · Flight of the Garuda
Song Four
Introduction to the Ground of Mind · Flight of the Garuda
Song Six
Pointing Out the Nature of Mind · Flight of the Garuda
Song Seven
You Know · Flight of the Garuda
Song Eight
Look Directly at Your Own Mind · Flight of the Garuda
Song Nine
Magic Projection · Flight of the Garuda
Song Ten
All in the Mind · Flight of the Garuda
Song Eleven
Emptiness, Appearance, Awareness · Flight of the Garuda
Song Twelve
Recognizing the Ground’s Three Kayas · Flight of the Garuda
Song Thirteen
Self-Liberation of Five Toxins · Flight of the Garuda
Song Sixteen
One Taste · Flight of the Garuda
Song Fifteen
Stillness, Motion, Awareness · Flight of the Garuda
Song Fourteen
Self-Liberation of Six Sensorial Experiences · Flight of the Garuda
Song Seventeen
View, Meditation, Lifestyle, and Result · Flight of the Garuda
Song Eighteen
Beyond Meditation · Flight of the Garuda
Song Nineteen
Present Awareness · Flight of the Garuda
Song Twenty
Mastery of Nonduality · Flight of the Garuda
Song Twenty-One
Overcoming Obstacles · Flight of the Garuda
Song Twenty-Two
The Five Buddhas are Within · Flight of the Garuda
Song Twenty-Three
Life is the Teaching · Flight of the Garuda
Refuge
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Medicine Buddha
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Vajrasattva
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Four Immeasurables
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Dedication
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Prayer to Yuthok
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Mandala Offering
Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro
Dāna
offered without expectation
This is offered freely. Nothing here sits behind a price, and nothing is owed. If it has been of some use, that is enough.
If giving back feels right, hold it a moment. A way to give through Yuthok Ling’s non-profit in Arce, Italy is being arranged, and is not in place yet.
Or give closer to home. Feed the birds. Set out water. Light a butter lamp. Offer a smile and a kind word to the cashier at your corner store.
Yuthok’s Ngöndro
A Path of Compassionate Action
“Ngöndro practices are the root of all other practices.” Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
What the day is, and why the sangha keeps it.
The app adds a lock-screen player that remembers where you stopped.
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang