His Holiness Sakya Trizin will teach at Palpung Thubten Chokyi Ghatsal at 10 am on Sunday 7th June 2009, teaching on Parting from the Four Attachments and Dzambhala Transmission. Entry: $20

Parting From the Four Attachments

A short teaching spoken by Manjushri to the Sakya patriarch Sachen Kunga Nyingpo.

If you are attached to this life, you are not a true spiritual practitioner.
If you are attached to samsāra, you do not have renunciation.
If you are attached to your own Self-interest, you have no Bodhichitta.
If there is grasping, you do not have the View.

The first is grasping for this life. Second is grasping for anything that is for ourselves, for oneself. Third is grasping for everything that is samsaric. Fourth is grasping for the view, the perception, the philosophical view, all of that. Grasping on to any of these will hinder your enlightenment so you cannot expedite the path to enlightenment; they will hold you back and will become a hindrance. Therefore, these four you have to be free from.

Dzambhala

Dzambhala means the god of fortune. The Dzambhala deity is the embodiment of the perfect generosity of all Buddhas and bodhisattvas in the past, present and future. Dzambhala grants wealth and prosperity for accomplishing all virtuous aims and relieves poverty of sentient beings both on a psychological and material level. He helps dharma practitioners to have a stable life and to be free from worries while practicing dharma. He grants blessings to those who vow to support sangha and monasteries.

The practices of the Dzambhala wealth vase, torma offering to Dzambhala, water offering to Dzambhala, and recitation of the Dzambhala mantra will grant blessing to relieve poverty. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, these rituals easily increases one's financial prosperity.

Mantra: OM DZAMBHALA DZALENDRAYE SVAHA

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