Some verses you'll hear again and again. Not a definitive list – there ain’t no such thing. But if you know these by heart and can join the recitation at the drop of a hat, you will achieve one great thing: you will look good! The "Three Jewels" (I don't know who to credit - it's all over the 'net) The Refuge formula: Lama la kyab su chi o ‘I go for refuge to the lama.’ Sangye la kyab su chi o ‘I go for refuge to the Buddha.’ Chö la kyab su chi o ‘I go for refuge to the Dharma.’ Gendün la kyab su chi o ‘I go for refuge to the Sangha.’ Some words or phrases you might want to look up: Bodhicaryāvatāra Śāntideva #Buddhism #Vajrayana #DoubleDorje #Refuge #Bodhicitta
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bread and butter bread and butter sounds a bit boring but we can keep going back to it Hello dear listeners, thank you for listening in today to this episode of the Double Dorje podcast. I'm Alex Wilding and today I thought it might be nice to look at some extremely common prayers.
These are prayers that it's really nice to know off by heart, partly because if you can join in their recitation at the drop of a hat, you will look as if you know what you're doing. Before getting into the real stuff, the usual quick reminders. First, please pause, if you will, for a moment to like this episode. Even better to subscribe, and better still to share it with your friends.
And secondly, I almost always do include some extra material, such as words you might like to look up. These are never essential, but this week they'll be particularly helpful. So if you don't find it on your listening platform, do take a look at Podbean, where the episode is first hosted.
There is no definitive list of such prayers, so I have just picked a small enough number that learning them off by heart isn't too difficult, and also they are sufficiently popular that, as far as I know and believe, you'll find them in all various traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Well, I say that there is no definitive list. If you are attached to a well-established and organised centre,
that centre may well have printed up in some relatively polished form a number of the prayers that they use in precisely the version that they recite. That's great, of course, and if you are in that position, you should definitely get hold of that text and use it.
But don't be surprised when at some other centre the prayers used are different or that they are recognisably the same but in a different version. Like I said, they can pop up at various stages of a group's hardener, and if you can drop straight into the flow and start swimming, it not only does look good, but it's actually very helpful for your internal flow, so to speak.
In private, you can use them at times such as when you wake up, you're waiting at a bus stop, and many, many other occasions. So, let's take a look at what they mean and how to chant them. We'll start with refuge. Taking refuge in the three jewels is, as many of you will know, the number one step in actually practicing Buddhism. It's the gateway.
I don't want to come over all prescriptive and say, you must do this, you must do that. But I think it is fair to say that any and every Buddhist of whatever stripe should be able to recite a suitable version of the refuge prayer. Most importantly, of course, it's in your heart that you take refuge in the three jewels. Taking refuge formally is just an expression of that.
You can do this for that matter yourself, although when you have taken refuge formally with a preceptor or teacher, it does go up another notch. In an earlier episode, actually I've just seen it was episode 28 about karma, I referred to a book with the title of A Lamp Illuminating the Path to Liberation by Kenpo Jeltsin.
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