4th 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


New Translation Schools: Kagyu, Sakya, Gelug Bon The Way of Divine Guide
Spring - Fortnight 4 (Fire+Earth)

Feast/May 11:The 3rd fortnight focuses in on later schools of Tibet - the so called New Translation schools of Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug.
 
 

First 5 Day Ko Day 1-5 of 4th Fortnight

Festival & Fast: Tseway like Festival on first day.
Practices: Earth related practices. (daily 20" exercise)
History:  Kagyu, founded in the 11th century by Marpa (1012–1097 CE), emphasizes meditation through an oral lineage from Tilopa and Naropa, centered on Mahamudra. Prostrations and Mahamudrafocused practices ground practitioners in true nature, fostering stability. Its unique direct insight into mind’s essence distinguishes it from textual traditions.
Mythos: Yeshey Tzogyal, first female Buddha of Tibet & Padmasambhava/Shenrab Miwo. Fortnight 4: Adventures and Dzogchen Mastery
 
Fortnight Day 1
Fortnight Day 2
Fortnight Day 3
Fortnight Day 4
Fortnight Day 5
Feast/Fast Tseway Festival - - - -
Practice  Bön Earth Spirit Ritual: Offer roasted barley (tsampa) on a flat rock to honor earth deities, seeking balance and fertility for the surrounding land. Kagyu Relic Stone Offering: Place flowers or grains at a stone shrine housing relics, honoring the earth as the foundation of enlightened presence. Mountain Meditation  - Meditating on or visualizing mountains for stability. Nyingma Earth Body Meditation: Lie on the bare earth, contemplating the body’s connection to soil and bones, dissolving ego into the ground’s vastness. Kagyu Cave Retreat Visualization: Meditate visualizing Milarepa in a rocky cave, feeling the earth’s solidity anchor your devotion and focus.
History Kagyu Kagyu Kagyu Kagyu Kagyu
Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal Ransoming Acharya Sale: Tsogyal frees Acharya Sale, her karmic companion, forging a bond for shared enlightenment. Ransoming Acharya Sale: Tsogyal frees Acharya Sale, her karmic companion, forging a bond for shared enlightenment. Ransoming Acharya Sale: Tsogyal frees Acharya Sale, her karmic companion, forging a bond for shared enlightenment. Ransoming Acharya Sale: Tsogyal frees Acharya Sale, her karmic companion, forging a bond for shared enlightenment. Ransoming Acharya Sale: Tsogyal frees Acharya Sale, her karmic companion, forging a bond for shared enlightenment.

Second 5 Day Ko Day 6-10 of 4th Fortnight

Festival & Fast: none
Practices:  Earth related practices. (daily 20" exercise)
History:  Sakya, established in 1073 CE by Khon Konchog Gyalpo, developed creation and completion stages, named for its grey earth monastery site. Earthtouching rituals and path integration cultivate disciplined realization, blending tantric and scholarly methods. Its unique synthesis of development stages offers a structured tantric path.
Mythos: Yeshey Tzogyal, first female Buddha of Tibet & Padmasambhava/Shenrab Miwo.: Fortnight 4: Adventures and Dzogchen Mastery
 
Fortnight Day 6
Fortnight Day 7
Fortnight Day 8
Fortnight Day 9
Fortnight Day 10
Feast/Fast - - - - -
Practice Dzogchen Earth Mandala Construction (Dzogchen): Create a large outdoor mandala using colored earth or chalk, outlining sacred syllables like OM. Walk its paths mindfully, resting in the ground’s empty yet supportive nature.

Outdoor Earth Mandala Creation (Nyingma): Gather stones, pebbles, and soil to draw a large mandala on the ground, shaped as a lotus or simple circle, representing the earth’s stability. Meditate at its center, visualizing Guru Rinpoche blessing the land.

 Sakya Grounding Visualization: Visualize a vast, golden earth plain during ngöndro, stabilizing the mind as a foundation for Vajrayana practices. Tara Grain Offering (Sakya): Scatter barley grains on a stone altar dedicated to White Tara, symbolizing the earth’s nurturing abundance and praying for longevity. Bön Clay Torma Offering: Shape a torma from clay, placing it on a stone slab as an offering to earth spirits, praying for harmony. Body Awareness  - Practices to feel the body's connection to the earth.
History Sakya Sakya Sakya Sakya Sakya
MytMythos of Yeshe Tzogyalhos Dzogchen Retreats: With Sale, she meditates in remote caves, realizing the nature of mind through Dzogchen teachings. Dzogchen Retreats: With Sale, she meditates in remote caves, realizing the nature of mind through Dzogchen teachings. Dzogchen Retreats: With Sale, she meditates in remote caves, realizing the nature of mind through Dzogchen teachings. Dzogchen Retreats: With Sale, she meditates in remote caves, realizing the nature of mind through Dzogchen teachings. Dzogchen Retreats: With Sale, she meditates in remote caves, realizing the nature of mind through Dzogchen teachings.

Third 4/5 Day KoDay 11-15 of 4th Fortnight

Festival & Fast: Nyungne 2 day fast on last two days of fortnight.
Practices:  Earth related practices. (daily 20" exercise)
History: Gelug, founded by Tsongkhapa in 1409 CE, prioritizes monastic discipline and study, establishing Ganden Monastery (1409 CE). Mandala offerings and rigorous scholarship anchor practitioners in ethical grounding and intellectual clarity. Its unique emphasis on logic and debate ensures doctrinal precision, influencing Tibetan governance.
Mythos: Yeshey Tzogyal, first female Buddha of Tibet & Padmasambhava/Shenrab Miwo.Fortnight 4: Adventures and Dzogchen Mastery
 
Fortnight Day 11
Fortnight Day 12
Fortnight Day 13
Fortnight Day 14
Fortnight Day 15
Feast/Fast - - - Nyungne Fast Nyungne Fast
Practice Nyingma Padmasambhava Stone Prayer: Inscribe a stone with Guru Rinpoche’s mantra and bury it in the earth, embedding prayers for blessings into the ground. Gelug Stone Stupa Offering: Stack stones into a small stupa on the ground, dedicating each layer to enlightenment, rooted in the earth’s strength. Earth Touching Mudra Meditation (Gelug): Sit with hands in the earth-touching mudra, connecting to the ground’s firmness, visualizing Shakyamuni Buddha’s resolve grounding your practice. Gelug Earth Prostrations: Perform prostrations directly on the ground, each touch purifying negativities and deepening humility through earth’s support. Stupa Circumambulation  - Walking around stupas for spiritual grounding.

Walking Meditation  - Slow, mindful walking to connect with the earth.
History Gelug Gelug Gelug Gelug Gelug
Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal Dharma Propagation: They travel Tibet, hiding terma treasures and teaching disciples to preserve the vajrayana lineage. Dharma Propagation: They travel Tibet, hiding terma treasures and teaching disciples to preserve the vajrayana lineage. Dharma Propagation: They travel Tibet, hiding terma treasures and teaching disciples to preserve the vajrayana lineage. Dharma Propagation: They travel Tibet, hiding terma treasures and teaching disciples to preserve the vajrayana lineage. Dharma Propagation: They travel Tibet, hiding terma treasures and teaching disciples to preserve the vajrayana lineage.

OTHER DAILY PRACTICE EXAMPLES
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Earth Element Practices
Qualities: Stability, interconnectedness, nurturing, the sole element for mandala work, symbolizing the sacred ground of enlightenment.

Preliminary Stage (Earth)

1. Mandala Offering Practice
Purpose: Accumulate merit by offering the universe as a mandala.
How to Accomplish: Create a simple mandala with rice and stones on an altar (body). Say, “I offer the world to Buddhas” (speech). Visualize the mandala as the cosmos, offered for liberation (mind). Practice daily for 15 minutes.

2. Grounding Prostrations
Purpose: Purify pride by connecting to the earth’s stability.
How to Accomplish: Perform 21 prostrations, touching the ground (body). Recite, “I humble myself to earth” (speech). Visualize negativities sinking into the earth, leaving stability (mind). Practice daily.

3. Yeshe Tsogyal Mandala Visualization
Purpose: Cultivate devotion by offering a mandala to Tsogyal.
How to Accomplish: Sit with Tsogyal’s image, hands in offering mudra (body). Say, “I offer to Tsogyal’s wisdom” (speech). Visualize a mandala of jewels before her, her blessings grounding you (mind). Practice daily.

4. Earth Touch Meditation
Purpose: Stabilize the mind through physical grounding.
How to Accomplish: Sit on the earth, hands touching soil (body). Say, “Earth anchors my mind” (speech). Visualize roots extending from your body, connecting to all beings (mind). Practice daily for 10 minutes.

5. Interconnection Mandala Ritual
Purpose: Foster compassion by offering interconnectedness.
How to Accomplish: Arrange stones in a mandala pattern in nature (body). Declare, “I offer unity for all” (speech). Visualize the mandala as a web linking all sentient beings (mind). Perform weekly.

Transformative Stage (Mother Lineage) (Earth)

1. Mandala of Yeshe Tsogyal
Purpose: Transform self-other relationships by embodying Tsogyal’s mandala.
How to Accomplish: Sit, hands in mudra of offering (body). Say, “I am Tsogyal’s mandala” (speech). Visualize yourself as Tsogyal at the center of a mandala, radiating light to connect all beings (mind). Practice daily for 20 minutes.

2. Chöd of Ego in Mandala
Purpose: Cut through ego to reveal interconnected wisdom.
How to Accomplish: Sit within a drawn mandala, offering your body to demons (body). Say, “I release ego for all” (speech). Visualize your form as earth, dissolving into a mandala shared with all (mind). Practice weekly, no initiation.

3. Mandala Construction Ritual
Purpose: Transform the world into a sacred, stable whole.
How to Accomplish: Build a sand or stone mandala in a sacred space (body). Declare, “This mandala awakens all” (speech). Visualize it as the pure land, uniting all beings (mind). Rebuild weekly.

4. Grounded Mandala Exchange
Purpose: Transform community relationships through shared mandala energy.
How to Accomplish: Sit in a group, each placing a stone in a mandala (body). Say, “Our mandala unites” (speech). Visualize the mandala connecting all hearts in a stable web (mind). Practice in gatherings.

5. Mandala Consecration of Space
Purpose: Transform environmental relationships by consecrating spaces.
How to Accomplish: Trace a mandala with soil in a space (body). Whisper, “This space is a pure mandala” (speech). Visualize the space as a radiant mandala, nurturing awakening (mind). Perform weekly.

Dzogchen Final Stage (Earth)

1. Trekchö of Mandala Presence
Purpose: Rest in rigpa as the stable mandala of awareness.
How to Accomplish: Sit within a drawn mandala, eyes open (body). Say, “I am mandala rigpa” (speech). Rest in open awareness, phenomena arising as a boundless mandala (mind). Practice daily for 20 minutes.

2. Spontaneous Mandala Rest
Purpose: Embody non-dual presence in relational contexts.
How to Accomplish: Sit grounded, feeling stability (body). Affirm, “All is mandala presence” (speech). Rest in rigpa, seeing relationships as a mandala of awareness (mind). Practice during interactions.

3. Dissolving into Mandala
Purpose: Merge with the natural state through grounded dissolution.
How to Accomplish: Lie on earth, within a mandala (body). Whisper, “I dissolve into mandala” (speech). Visualize your form as a mandala, merging with boundless rigpa (mind). Practice weekly.

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

5. Compassionate Mandala Rest
Purpose: Radiate compassion from the natural state.
How to Accomplish: Sit in a mandala, hands on earth (body). Say, “Compassion grounds all” (speech). Rest in rigpa, letting Tsogyal’s compassionate mandala radiate (mind). Practice for 20 minutes daily.
 

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