Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 9-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche moves between two distinct threads from the preliminary practices curriculum. He opens with an esoteric detail: a bodily mark described as a curled hair that can extend vast distances and contract again, whose purpose is to prevent worldly deities and spirits from entering the central channel. He then explains that Mañjuśrī is not invited in through the central channel but is born within the mind itself — specifically, through the realization of emptiness. The second half turns practical: having transmitted the instruction on prostrations, Rinpoche urges daily practice, observing that even three prostrations a day builds to ninety in a month. Those unable to manage full prostrations are reassured that a short bow or simple gesture of homage is entirely sufficient.
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File: 13 PP 1989-06-17.mp3
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Teacher: Khensur Rinpoche
Collection: Preliminary Practices (Khensur Rinpoche)
Date: 1989-06-17
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 9.3 minutes
Words: ~407
Michael There are many, deities and different types of spirits within the central channel and this represents, the ability to overcome all of these powers which reside within the central channel. It’s been able to be blocked and amongst the various signs and marks, it is most difficult to obtain. That’s very beautiful. So this is there’s a a it’s a it’s curled up hair, and it can extend extremely far distances, and then it can be contracted back to the a hair curl. The various blocking the various, deities and spirits with that reside within the central channel.
The So you you don’t want them to come into your central channel? You try to get this keeps them for coming in. Worldly gods. We don’t we we we don’t have to worry about what we want to do is is have Mañjuśrī born in our mind and not entered through our our central channel. So in order to give birth to Mañjuśrī, we have to realize emptiness and then we can — he’ll be born in our in our mind.
Still don’t know it. What what what was his function? So, you can, since the mantra Om Ah hum is kind of the root mantra, you can use that mantra at that time. Aum Aum, recite that many times and bind the petals closed. Okay.
That’s our Okay. That’s our This is the root of all the mantras. That’s what Rinpoche said is is if we expand it a little. Okay. So having received this teaching on prostration, then you should make use of it and, you know, as best you can, if possible daily, make prostrations.
So So, you know, trying to make the prostrations of excellent quality, the concern most with that, but also trying to extend the quantity of our prostrations. If we only if we were to do say three a day, then in one month, we would we would have done ninety. And then in a year of doing that, we would add up more and more and more prostrations. We would have both quality and quantity. So having understood the practice, it’s necessary to put it into practice.
Otherwise, coming to an understanding of the practice is of no benefit unless it’s actually put into effect. And if you can’t do extensive prostrations, then you can do short prostrations or just a gesture of homage would be sufficient. Yeah. Good.