3rd FORTNIGHT of FIRESTAR
As Utilized by the 5 Mt System of Miryai
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendant Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.

FORTNIGHT OVERVIEW


First 5 Day KoDay 1-5 of 3rd Fortnight
Festival & Fast: Ngonshe  like Festival on first day.
Practices: Zephyr related practices. (daily 20" exercise)
History:  Padmasambhava, active in the 8th century CE, introduced Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet, founding Samye Monastery (c. 779 CE) and hiding terma texts for later discovery. Meditations on emptiness and termafocused rituals cultivate spacious awareness and futureoriented revelation. His unique idea of concealed teachings for specific times distinguishes Nyingma’s esoteric approach.
Mythos: Yeshey Tzogyal, first female Buddha of Tibet & Padmasambhava/Shenrab Miwo. Fortnight 3: Discipleship with Padmasambhava
 
Fortnight Day 1
Fortnight Day 2
Fortnight Day 3
Fortnight Day 4
Fortnight Day 5
Feast/Fast Ngonshe Festival - - - -
Practice  Yab-Yum Statue Offering: Place a metal yab-yum statue (e.g., Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal) on the altar, offering incense smoke to honor the union of wisdom and compassion in the void. Meditation on Divine Union: Contemplate the union of Samantabhadra and Samantabhadri, visualizing their metal-hued forms merging into the void, embodying ultimate reality. Dissolving Practice  - Visualizing oneself dissolving into space.

Space Visualization  - Imagining vast space for mental expansion.

  Star Gazing  - Reflecting on the cosmos for perspective.

Metal Mirror Meditation: Gaze into a polished metal mirror during meditation, seeing reflections dissolve into emptiness, revealing the mind’s true nature.

 Metal Bell Ritual: Ring a metal ritual bell during puja, its clear tone symbolizing the void’s resonance, purifying the mind of delusion.
History Padmasambhava Padmasambhava Padmasambhava Padmasambhava Padmasambhava
Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal Meeting the Guru: Tsogyal encounters Padmasambhava, recognizing him as her destined teacher, and pledges her devotion. Meeting the Guru: Tsogyal encounters Padmasambhava, recognizing him as her destined teacher, and pledges her devotion. Meeting the Guru: Tsogyal encounters Padmasambhava, recognizing him as her destined teacher, and pledges her devotion. Meeting the Guru: Tsogyal encounters Padmasambhava, recognizing him as her destined teacher, and pledges her devotion. Meeting the Guru: Tsogyal encounters Padmasambhava, recognizing him as her destined teacher, and pledges her devotion.

Second 5 Day Ko Day 6-10 of 3rd Fortnight

Festival & Fast: none
Practices:  Zephyr related practices. (daily 20" exercise)
History:  Yeshe Tsogyal (757–817 CE), Padmasambhava’s consort, became a key terma revealer and practitioner, mastering tantric practices in caves like Paro Taktsang. Space visualizations and star gazing reflect her path to female Buddhahood, uniting inner realization with outer action. Her unique status as a fully enlightened woman elevates the mother lineage in Nyingma.
Mythos: Yeshey Tzogyal, first female Buddha of Tibet & Padmasambhava/Shenrab Miwo.Fortnight 3: Discipleship with Padmasambhava
 
Fortnight Day 6
Fortnight Day 7
Fortnight Day 8
Fortnight Day 9
Fortnight Day 10
Feast/Fast - - - - -
Practice Altar Offering of Metal Bowl: Offer a polished metal bowl filled with rice or jewels on the altar, symbolizing the purity of emptiness and devotion to the divine. Open Awareness  - Meditating without focus, allowing full spaciousness.

Meditating on Emptiness  - Contemplating the void nature of phenomena.

 Yab-Yum Dream Yoga: Before sleep, visualize a yab-yum deity pair (e.g., Chenrezig and consort) dissolving into a metallic void, carrying awareness into dreams. Sky Burial Meditation  - Contemplating impermanence through space. Vajra Recitation  - Using the vajra to symbolize cutting through concepts.

Metal Dagger Visualization (Phurba): Visualize a metal phurba (ritual dagger) piercing delusions, anchoring the practitioner in the empty clarity of awareness.
History Yeshe Tsogyal  Yeshe Tsogyal  Yeshe Tsogyal  Yeshe Tsogyal  Yeshe Tsogyal 
MytMythos of Yeshe Tzogyalhos Tantric Initiation: She receives empowerments, mastering vajrayana practices and unlocking her inner potential. Tantric Initiation: She receives empowerments, mastering vajrayana practices and unlocking her inner potential. Tantric Initiation: She receives empowerments, mastering vajrayana practices and unlocking her inner potential. Tantric Initiation: She receives empowerments, mastering vajrayana practices and unlocking her inner potential. Tantric Initiation: She receives empowerments, mastering vajrayana practices and unlocking her inner potential.

Third 4/5 Day KoDay 11-15 of 3rd Fortnight

Festival & Fast: Nyungne 2 day fast on last two days of fortnight.
Practices:  Zephyr related practices. (daily 20" exercise)
History: Ngakpas, emerging with Nyingma’s 8thcentury spread, are nonmonastic tantric practitioners, historically active as householders wearing white robes. Open awareness and cosmic meditations sustain their lay spiritual life, bridging monastic and worldly realms. Their unique idea of tantric practice without renunciation preserves Nyingma’s accessibility.
Mythos: Yeshey Tzogyal, first female Buddha of Tibet & Padmasambhava/Shenrab Miwo.Fortnight 3: Discipleship with Padmasambhava
 
Fortnight Day 11
Fortnight Day 12
Fortnight Day 13
Fortnight Day 14
Fortnight Day 15
Feast/Fast - - - Nyungne Fast Nyungne Fast
Practice Torma Offering with Metal Tools: Craft torma (ritual cakes) using metal implements, offering them to deities as symbols of cutting through to the void. Visualization of Vajrasattva in Union: Visualize Vajrasattva in yab-yum with his consort, their metal-like radiance dissolving impurities into the void of non-duality.  Dzogchen View  - Practices to realize the fundamental ground of being. 

Visualization of Stainless Light: Meditate on a metal-like radiant light emanating from a yab-yum deity, dissolving all concepts into the clear void of pristine awareness.

 Void Meditation (Dzogchen): Sit in silent meditation, focusing on the empty nature of mind, cutting through thoughts like a metal blade to rest in pure awareness. Breathless Void Contemplation: Practice kumbhaka (breath retention) briefly, resting in the still, empty space of mind, sharp like a metal edge.
History Ngakpas Ngakpas Ngakpas Ngakpas Ngakpas
Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal Sacred Union: As Padmasambhava’s consort, she engages in profound meditative practices, harmonizing wisdom and compassion. Sacred Union: As Padmasambhava’s consort, she engages in profound meditative practices, harmonizing wisdom and compassion. Sacred Union: As Padmasambhava’s consort, she engages in profound meditative practices, harmonizing wisdom and compassion. Sacred Union: As Padmasambhava’s consort, she engages in profound meditative practices, harmonizing wisdom and compassion. Sacred Union: As Padmasambhava’s consort, she engages in profound meditative practices, harmonizing wisdom and compassion.

OTHER DAILY PRACTICE EXAMPLES
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Metal Element Practices
Qualities: Clarity, precision, purity, introspection, linked to vajra-like sharpness and wisdom.

Preliminary Stage (Metal)

1. Vajra Mudra Purification
Purpose: Purify mental obscurations through vajra clarity.
How to Accomplish: Sit with hands in vajra mudra (body). Say, “I purify with vajra” (speech). Visualize a silver vajra in your heart, clearing confusion (mind). Practice daily for 10 minutes.

2. Polished Mirror Offering
Purpose: Accumulate merit through offerings of clarity.
How to Accomplish: Place a mirror on an altar, reflecting light (body). Declare, “I offer clarity to Buddhas” (speech). Visualize the mirror reflecting pure wisdom to all beings (mind). Perform weekly.

3. Precision Breath Practice
Purpose: Sharpen concentration through precise breathing.
How to Accomplish: Sit and breathe slowly, counting breaths (body). Say, “Clarity sharpens my mind” (speech). Visualize breath as a silver blade, cutting ignorance (mind). Practice daily for 10 minutes.

4. Yeshe Tsogyal Clarity Aspiration
Purpose: Cultivate wisdom by invoking Tsogyal’s stainless mind.
How to Accomplish: Sit with Tsogyal’s image, hands in wisdom mudra (body). Recite, “Tsogyal grants me clarity” (speech). Visualize her silver light purifying your mind (mind). Practice daily.

5. Refined Contemplation
Purpose: Develop insight through introspective reflection.
How to Accomplish: Write precise reflections on impermanence (body). State, “Wisdom refines my path” (speech). Visualize your thoughts as polished jewels, radiating clarity (mind). Write weekly.

Transformative Stage (Mother Lineage) (Metal)

1. Deity Yoga of Manjushri
Purpose: Transform perception by embodying Manjushri’s vajra wisdom.
How to Accomplish: Sit with hands in sword mudra, holding a book (body). Say, “I am Manjushri’s clarity” (speech). Visualize yourself as Manjushri, silver light cutting through relational ignorance (mind). Practice daily for 20 minutes.

2. Chöd of Confusion
Purpose: Cut through relational confusion to reveal stainless wisdom.
How to Accomplish: Sit, gesturing to offer your body to demons (body). Say, “I release confusion for all” (speech). Visualize your form as a silver vajra, radiating clarity to others (mind). Practice weekly, no initiation.

3. Vajra Energy Exchange
Purpose: Transform relational energy through precise connection.
How to Accomplish: Sit with a partner’s image, aligning breath (body). Declare, “Our clarity unites” (speech). Visualize silver light flowing between hearts, refining bonds (mind). Practice daily.

4. Yeshe Tsogyal’s Clarity Ritual
Purpose: Transform self-other relationships with Tsogyal’s wisdom.
How to Accomplish: Sit with a mirror, reflecting Tsogyal’s image (body). Affirm, “Tsogyal’s clarity awakens us” (speech). Visualize you and others as silver light, united in her wisdom (mind). Practice daily.

5. Purification of Space Ritual
Purpose: Transform environmental relationships through vajra clarity.
How to Accomplish: Clean a space with a metal object (e.g., bell) (body). Whisper, “This space is vajra pure” (speech). Visualize the space as a stainless vajra, radiating wisdom (mind). Perform weekly.

Dzogchen Final Stage (Metal)

1. Trekchö of Vajra Clarity
Purpose: Rest in rigpa as pristine vajra awareness.
How to Accomplish: Sit with eyes open, holding a vajra (body). Say, “I am vajra rigpa” (speech). Rest in open awareness, phenomena arising as stainless clarity (mind). Practice daily for 20 minutes.

2. Spontaneous Clarity Rest
Purpose: Embody non-dual presence in relational contexts.
How to Accomplish: Move precisely, feeling focus (body). Affirm, “All is vajra presence” (speech). Rest in rigpa, seeing relationships as clear awareness (mind). Practice during interactions.

3. Dissolving into Vajra
Purpose: Merge with the natural state through vajra dissolution.
How to Accomplish: Sit, imagining sharpness (body). Whisper, “I dissolve into vajra” (speech). Visualize your form as silver light, merging with boundless rigpa (mind). Practice weekly.

4. Yeshe Tsogyal’s Vajra Vision
Purpose: Realize phenomena as vajra emptiness with Tsogyal’s blessing.
How to Accomplish: Gaze at a mirror, softening focus (body). Say, “Tsogyal reveals pure clarity” (speech). Rest in rigpa, seeing all as Tsogyal’s vajra awareness (mind). Practice for 15 minutes daily.

5. Compassionate Clarity Rest
Purpose: Radiate compassion from the natural state.
How to Accomplish: Sit with a vajra, hands relaxed (body). Say, “Compassion shines clearly” (speech). Rest in rigpa, letting Tsogyal’s vajra compassion radiate (mind). Practice for 20 minutes daily.

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