FORTNIGHT OVERVIEW
Dzogchen Bon The
Way of the Treasury
Spring - Fortnight 5 (Fire+Water)
Feast/May
26: The fifth and last fortnight of the Spring Season is associated with
Dzogchen and its 3 expressions.
First 5 Day KoDay
1-5 of 5th Fortnight
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Feast/Fast | Nyamchod Festival | - | - | - | - |
Practice | River Tsok Offering: Perform a tsok (feast offering) by a river, including water-based offerings like juice. Share the offering mentally with all beings, resting in rigpa as the fluid unity of giver, gift, and receiver. | River Gazing for Rigpa: Sit by a flowing river or stream, gazing at the water’s movement without fixation. Allow thoughts to arise and dissolve like ripples, resting in the fluid, non-grasping awareness of Dzogchen’s natural state. | Chang Offering Practice: Offer a small bowl of chang (Tibetan barley beer) on an altar to Guru Rinpoche, reciting his mantra (OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM). Contemplate the liquid’s fluidity as a symbol of rigpa’s effortless adaptability, then rest in non-meditation | Water Bowl Offering Meditation: Arrange seven water bowls on an altar, filling them mindfully with clean water as an offering to enlightened beings. As you pour, rest in rigpa, letting the act of offering dissolve ego-clinging, the water’s flow mirroring the mind’s fluid nature. | Stream Walking Meditation: Walk slowly barefoot in a shallow stream, feeling the water’s flow against your feet. With each step, release mental fixations, aligning with Dzogchen’s teaching of flowing naturally in the present moment. |
History | Semde | Semde | Semde | Semde | Semde |
Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal | Descent to Hell: Tsogyal journeys to infernal realms, liberating tormented beings with her boundless compassion. | Descent to Hell: Tsogyal journeys to infernal realms, liberating tormented beings with her boundless compassion. | Descent to Hell: Tsogyal journeys to infernal realms, liberating tormented beings with her boundless compassion. | Descent to Hell: Tsogyal journeys to infernal realms, liberating tormented beings with her boundless compassion. | Descent to Hell: Tsogyal journeys to infernal realms, liberating tormented beings with her boundless compassion. |
Second 5 Day Ko Day 6-10 of 5th Fortnight
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Feast/Fast | - | - | - | - | - |
Practice | Purification by Water Visualization: Visualize a cascade of radiant water pouring from Guru Rinpoche’s heart, washing away karmic traces. As the water absorbs negativities, rest in the pure, fluid expanse of awareness, free from dualistic grasping. | Moon Salutations - Honoring the moon for calmness. | Water Bowl Cleaning Practice: Daily, empty and clean altar water bowls with mindfulness, chanting OM AH HUM to consecrate the water. See the act as purifying the mind’s rigidity, adapting to the fluid spontaneity of rigpa. | Lake Reflection Contemplation: Sit by a still lake, observing reflections on its surface. Contemplate how appearances arise and vanish in the mind’s fluid nature, resting in Dzogchen’s non-conceptual awareness, like water undisturbed by ripples. | Rain Mantra Recitation: During rain, recite the Dzogchen lineage prayer or a short mantra (e.g., AH), visualizing each drop as a blessing dissolving obscurations. Let the mind flow with the rain’s rhythm, adapting to the natural state. |
History | Longde | Longde | Longde | Longde | Longde |
MytMythos of Yeshe Tzogyalhos | Dakini Coronation: Crowned a dakini by enlightened deities, she embodies the feminine principle of wisdom. | Dakini Coronation: Crowned a dakini by enlightened deities, she embodies the feminine principle of wisdom. | Dakini Coronation: Crowned a dakini by enlightened deities, she embodies the feminine principle of wisdom. | Dakini Coronation: Crowned a dakini by enlightened deities, she embodies the feminine principle of wisdom. | Dakini Coronation: Crowned a dakini by enlightened deities, she embodies the feminine principle of wisdom. |
Third 4/5 Day KoDay 11-15 of 5th Fortnight
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Feast/Fast | Yungdrun Gutor Retreat -5 day | Yungdrun Gutor Retreat -5 day | Yungdrun Gutor Retreat -5 day | Yungdrun Gutor Retreat -5 day | Yungdrun Gutor Retreat -5 day |
Practice | Tibetan Herbal Bath Purification: Tamarisk, Prepare a bath with sacred herbs (e.g., juniper, rhododendron) used in Tibetan rituals. Soak while visualizing water cleansing obscurations, adapting your mind to the fluid ease of pure awareness, free from rigidity. | Tibetan Herbal Bath Purification: Juniper | Tibetan Herbal Bath Purification: Rhododendron | Tibetan Herbal Bath Purification: Ephedra | Tibetan Herbal Bath Purification: Artemisia |
History | Menngagde | Menngagde | Menngagde | Menngagde | Menngagde |
Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal | Merger with Prajnaparamita: Dissolving into rainbow light, she unites with Prajnaparamita, becoming the essence of transcendent beauty and wisdom. | Merger with Prajnaparamita: Dissolving into rainbow light, she unites with Prajnaparamita, becoming the essence of transcendent beauty and wisdom. | Merger with Prajnaparamita: Dissolving into rainbow light, she unites with Prajnaparamita, becoming the essence of transcendent beauty and wisdom. | -Merger with Prajnaparamita: Dissolving into rainbow light, she unites with Prajnaparamita, becoming the essence of transcendent beauty and wisdom. | Merger with Prajnaparamita: Dissolving into rainbow light, she unites with Prajnaparamita, becoming the essence of transcendent beauty and wisdom. |
OTHER DAILY PRACTICE EXAMPLES
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Water Element Practices
Qualities: Fluidity, purification, depth,
adaptability, linked to wisdom nectar and cleansing energy.
Preliminary Stage (Water)
1. Water Bowl Offering
Purpose: Accumulate merit through offerings of
purity.
How to Accomplish: Fill seven water bowls on
an altar (body). Say, “I offer purity to Buddhas” (speech). Visualize the
water multiplying, purifying all realms (mind). Practice daily for 15 minutes.
2. Nagarjuna’s Purification Bath
Purpose: Cleanse karma through symbolic water
ritual.
How to Accomplish: Pour water over your body,
feeling cleansing (body). Recite, “Water purifies my karma” (speech). Visualize
impurities washing away, leaving clarity (mind). Practice weekly.
3. Fluid Breath Practice
Purpose: Cultivate mental adaptability through
rhythmic breathing.
How to Accomplish: Sit and breathe deeply, feeling
a wave-like flow (body). Say, “I flow with wisdom” (speech). Visualize
breath as blue water, cleansing obstacles (mind). Practice daily for 10
minutes.
4. Yeshe Tsogyal Purification Aspiration
Purpose: Purify obstacles by invoking Tsogyal’s
fluid wisdom.
How to Accomplish: Sit by water with Tsogyal’s
image, hands in prayer (body). Say, “Tsogyal cleanses my path” (speech).
Visualize her blue light washing your body and mind (mind). Practice daily.
5. Compassionate Water Offering
Purpose: Foster compassion by offering fluidity
to others.
How to Accomplish: Pour water into a river or
stream (body). Declare, “I offer flow for all” (speech). Visualize the
water carrying compassion to all beings (mind). Perform monthly.
Transformative Stage (Mother Lineage) (Water)
1. Deity Yoga of Kurukulle
Purpose: Transform relational desire into fluid
compassion.
How to Accomplish: Sit with hands in lotus mudra
(body). Say, “I am Kurukulle’s nectar” (speech). Visualize yourself as
Kurukulle, blue light flowing to transform relationships, inspired by Tsogyal
(mind). Practice daily for 20 minutes.
2. Chöd of Fear by Water
Purpose: Cut through relational fears to reveal
fluid wisdom.
How to Accomplish: Sit by water, offering your
body to demons (body). Say, “I release fear for all” (speech). Visualize
your form as blue water, flowing to nurture others (mind). Practice weekly,
no initiation.
3. Nectar Energy Exchange
Purpose: Transform relational energy through
fluid connection.
How to Accomplish: Sit by water with a partner’s
image, syncing breath (body). Declare, “Our nectar unites” (speech). Visualize
blue nectar flowing between hearts, dissolving separation (mind). Practice
daily.
4. Yeshe Tsogyal’s Nectar Ritual
Purpose: Transform community relationships with
Tsogyal’s purifying nectar.
How to Accomplish: Sprinkle water in a group
setting, gesturing outward (body). Affirm, “Tsogyal’s nectar purifies us”
(speech). Visualize Tsogyal’s blue light cleansing all hearts (mind). Practice
in gatherings.
5. Water Purification of Space
Purpose: Transform environmental relationships
through cleansing.
How to Accomplish: Sprinkle consecrated water
in a space (body). Whisper, “This space is pure nectar” (speech). Visualize
the space as a flowing river, radiating purity (mind). Perform weekly.
Dzogchen Final Stage (Water)
1. Trekchö of Fluid Awareness
Purpose: Rest in rigpa as boundless fluid awareness.
How to Accomplish: Sit by water, eyes open, feeling
flow (body). Say, “I am fluid rigpa” (speech). Rest in open awareness,
phenomena arising as fluid nectar (mind). Practice daily for 20 minutes.
2. Spontaneous Nectar Rest
Purpose: Embody non-dual presence in relational
contexts.
How to Accomplish: Move fluidly, feeling ease
(body). Affirm, “All is nectar presence” (speech). Rest in rigpa, seeing
relationships as waves of awareness (mind). Practice during interactions.
3. Dissolving into Nectar
Purpose: Merge with the natural state through
fluid dissolution.
How to Accomplish: Sit by water, feeling its
rhythm (body). Whisper, “I dissolve into nectar” (speech). Visualize your
form as blue water, merging with boundless rigpa (mind). Practice weekly.
4. Yeshe Tsogyal’s Nectar Vision
Purpose: Realize phenomena as fluid emptiness
with Tsogyal’s blessing.
How to Accomplish: Gaze at water, softening focus
(body). Say, “Tsogyal reveals pure nectar” (speech). Rest in rigpa, seeing
all as Tsogyal’s fluid awareness (mind). Practice for 15 minutes daily.
5. Compassionate Nectar Rest
Purpose: Radiate compassion from the natural
state.
How to Accomplish: Sit with water, hands relaxed
(body). Say, “Compassion flows freely” (speech). Rest in rigpa, letting
Tsogyal’s nectar-like compassion radiate (mind). Practice for 20 minutes
daily.
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