Chenrezig

…So to fit the rhythm, wang, meaning something like powerful, is tacked on as an honorific adjective for Chenrezig. The merit of many, many other practices can be dedicated in this way. All that's necessary is to give it a four-syllable name. So there you have it for this week. I can only hope that you find that these things help you in one way or another.…

…For a number of reasons, some of them probably just tradition, but it also is highly appropriate. Verses like this are more often recited just once when we get to the end of the practice. At the end of a Chenrezig practice, what you might hear is The thing here is that Chenrezig only has three syllables.…

…We can begin, of course, with the relatively gentle mantras of Chenrezig or Tara, with their relatively simple requirements by way of commitment, But in due course, the connection can and probably will deepen. And that makes it more complicated, I can assure you. So the formalities of Vajrayana practice are important, but they're not by any means the whole…