Alex Wilding

If you are performing at Sok Puzha alone, for example, perhaps at home, it's not at all uncommon to use something like crackers for the same job. Everything, after all, is in the devotion, the focus and the understanding of the participants, and everything has to be appropriate for the circumstances.

If you are performing at Sok Puzha alone, for example, perhaps at home, it's not at all uncommon to use something like crackers for the same job. Everything, after all, is in the devotion, the focus and the understanding of the participants, and everything has to be appropriate for the circumstances.

If you're going to do such a puja at home, maybe taking two hours, is it proportionate to have to spend four or five hours beforehand making fancy cakes? Is there not perhaps a better way of spending your time? As a contrast to what I've just been saying, And again to illustrate the variety of ways in which the idea of tsok is embodied, here is another case.

If you're going to do such a puja at home, maybe taking two hours, is it proportionate to have to spend four or five hours beforehand making fancy cakes? Is there not perhaps a better way of spending your time? As a contrast to what I've just been saying, And again to illustrate the variety of ways in which the idea of tsok is embodied, here is another case.

The taumas, which are the core offering in tsok bhushas, are traditionally made of barley flour, butter and other ingredients, particularly sweet ones such as sugar or honey to make them delicious. But in addition to this, they should have at least a small quantity of many other exotic ingredients, some of which should have been appropriately blessed.

The taumas, which are the core offering in tsok bhushas, are traditionally made of barley flour, butter and other ingredients, particularly sweet ones such as sugar or honey to make them delicious. But in addition to this, they should have at least a small quantity of many other exotic ingredients, some of which should have been appropriately blessed.

It's all very complicated, but there is no need to worry, because if you want to be this correct, you can buy this substance. It's called torze, and you can add a pinch to the mix. Now, the thing is, I did hear of a tradition It's not one that I'm part of, I should say.

It's all very complicated, but there is no need to worry, because if you want to be this correct, you can buy this substance. It's called torze, and you can add a pinch to the mix. Now, the thing is, I did hear of a tradition It's not one that I'm part of, I should say.

In fact, I think it's somewhere in the Giluk scheme of things, in which the practitioner takes these ingredients, blessed as they are by including the special substances, and makes tiny pellets which are then dried. The practitioner then carries these pellets around with them in a little bag.

In fact, I think it's somewhere in the Giluk scheme of things, in which the practitioner takes these ingredients, blessed as they are by including the special substances, and makes tiny pellets which are then dried. The practitioner then carries these pellets around with them in a little bag.

One pellet can then be added to the practitioner's food or drink six times a day, I believe, so that the practitioner can easily and discreetly, by also reciting an appropriate offering verse, do sockpushers six times a day, even when travelling in foreign lands. Ingenious, is it not? I'd like to finish by mentioning a popular sockpusher, much simpler than the one I described a few minutes ago.

One pellet can then be added to the practitioner's food or drink six times a day, I believe, so that the practitioner can easily and discreetly, by also reciting an appropriate offering verse, do sockpushers six times a day, even when travelling in foreign lands. Ingenious, is it not? I'd like to finish by mentioning a popular sockpusher, much simpler than the one I described a few minutes ago.

This one is quite suitable for solo practice, and in fact I had a Dharma friend who took it as his regular daily practice. It's called, in translation, the Shower of Blessings, and it's a sok puja based on Guru Rinpoche, along with the seven-line prayer. The practice was composed by the famous Jhumipam Rinpoche. It is, in fact, the puja that I was privileged to take part in at Benjin Monastery.

This one is quite suitable for solo practice, and in fact I had a Dharma friend who took it as his regular daily practice. It's called, in translation, the Shower of Blessings, and it's a sok puja based on Guru Rinpoche, along with the seven-line prayer. The practice was composed by the famous Jhumipam Rinpoche. It is, in fact, the puja that I was privileged to take part in at Benjin Monastery.

And I heard of a small center run by a Western Lama who is, as I happen to know, a guy who really, really knows his stuff, which uses this puja as its main regular practice. It is a Nyingma practice focused on Guru Rinpoche, and so for people who don't have a positive resonance with that tradition, it would not be very helpful. But for those who do, I would really strongly recommend it.

And I heard of a small center run by a Western Lama who is, as I happen to know, a guy who really, really knows his stuff, which uses this puja as its main regular practice. It is a Nyingma practice focused on Guru Rinpoche, and so for people who don't have a positive resonance with that tradition, it would not be very helpful. But for those who do, I would really strongly recommend it.

It's the kind of thing that does need transmission, at the very least empowerment for Guru Rinpoche and a reading transmission for the text, although in a group setting it's quite likely that some of the people attending will not have those qualifications, but that's fine. That said, these things are relatively easy to obtain, so go for it if you can. And so we've reached the end.

It's the kind of thing that does need transmission, at the very least empowerment for Guru Rinpoche and a reading transmission for the text, although in a group setting it's quite likely that some of the people attending will not have those qualifications, but that's fine. That said, these things are relatively easy to obtain, so go for it if you can. And so we've reached the end.

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