Special Mailing December  2017

"With compassion, please bless us 
To pacify outer and inner opposing conditions."

  

Lama Yeshe teaching during a month-long course, Chenrezig Institute, Australia 1976.

For more than twenty years the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive has taken advantage of every means possible to make pure, precious Dharma teachings available and easy to access, such as  free books  and ebooks, multimedia presentations, and our newly redesigned  podcasts. 

We also provide you with 24/7 access to the advice and guidance of our great lamas by offering  tens of thousands of pages of teachings  freely available on  our website.

In addition to this constantly growing collection of teachings, we are constantly  collecting and digitizing archival video and audio recordings  to add to the existing archive, such as those on  our YouTube channel every month

Moreover, our staff and volunteers around the world are producing translations of LYWA publications in  15 languages  that are distributed through foreign language publishers and on our website.

Our annual year-end appeal has gotten off to a great start, with just over $10,000 raised towards our 2017 goal of $50,000. Our ongoing mission--with your support--is to protect, catalog and organize this ever-expanding collection so that it remains an unfathomably precious resource into the future. Please partner with us to sustain the gift of dharma.
A Remedy for the Negativity

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with a picture he painted for Sister Max in 1971 on the occasion of Lama Yeshe giving her her first Green Tara initiation.
Many people have contacted us in recent months asking for help in these turbulent times, for specific practices they can do to relieve their suffering and the suffering of those around us, and to calm their minds.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche recently translated a prayer to Tara, who helps sentient beings in numberless ways. It is included below. We offer it to those of you who are looking for comfort, solace and assistance in facing the many difficulties encountered in our daily lives.

Thank you all so much for your incredible support of the work we do for the benefit of all beings everywhere.

Much love,




Nick Ribush
Director

Lama Zopa Rinpoche painting Tara, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.

The Crying Child's Tormented Calling of the Perfect, Destroyer, Qualified, Gone Beyond, Exalted Mother Tara

May the Guru understand, Arya Tareya! 

Self-appearing action of all the victorious ones, 
Mother of the victorious ones, quick liberator, heroine: 
Persuaded by the strong longing from our hearts, 
Without separation, please guide us with compassion. 

Wherever anyone is in danger, 
Quickly guide them with compassion. 
Persuaded by the strong longing from our hearts, 
Without separation, please guide us with compassion. 

From all outer and inner poverty, 
Accept to quickly liberate. 
Persuaded by the strong longing from our hearts, 
Without separation, please guide us with compassion. 

All the success desired for anything, 
Action granting the wishes, 
Persuaded by the strong longing from our hearts, 
Without separation, please guide us with compassion. 

For the duration of this life, the next life and the intermediate state, 
Be the guide of everyone. 
Persuaded by the strong longing from our hearts, 
Without separation, please guide us with compassion. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To direct our mind toward holy Dharma. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To pacify outer and inner opposing conditions. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To succeed in obtaining the necessary conditions as wished. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To establish the banner of attainment. 

With compassion, please bless us
To train in renunciation and bodhichitta. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To realize ultimate nature without hallucination. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To actually meet your pleased face. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To be nurtured by the melodious nectar of your holy speech. 

With compassion, please bless us 
To increase experience of the two stages. 

In short, other than you, 
There is no object of reliance for anything. 

Like a mother who loves her only son, 
Without separation, please guide us with compassion. 

May the Guru understand! 
May the Guru understand! 
May the Guru understand! 

Colophon: This was written by the guru of the transmigratory beings of the three realms, the glorious, pure, perfect, Pabongka, inseparable from the supreme founder, the possessor of might, Vajradhara. 

Even a small part of this blessed Tormented Calling cannot be compared to wish-granting jewels equaling the number of sand grains of the River Ganga. This extraordinary exalted heart jewel was copied from handwritten notes of the holy speech of the glorious, pure Thakpu Dorje Chang Pema Vajra. 

Translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Light of the Path, Asheville, NC, USA, on August 25, 2017; scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett and edited by Ven. Ailsa Cameron.
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