Fear As a Doorway to Liberation, Part 2—Online

FEAR AS A DOORWAY TO LIBERATION, PART 2—ONLINE

Fear as a Doorway to Liberation, Part 2: The Tibetan Practice of Chöd. A teaching by Tenzin Wangyal; practice led by Tenzin Dolma, Tsering Wangmo, and Tenzin Wangyal.
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According to the Tibetan tradition, our false sense of ego identity brings us into disharmony with the natural world and all sentient beings. The global challenges emerging during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic can all be viewed as a karmic consequence of this disharmony. In a live Internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche gives a teaching on the ancient Bön practice of chöd and then performs the practice together with his wife, Tsering Wangmo, and chöd practitioner Tenzin Dolma.

Chöd is a meditation technique used to overcome fear and one’s attachment to the ego identity. Accompanied by melody, drumbeat and chanting, the practitioner visualizes cutting up his or her own body and offering it as a sacred feast to all beings, giving them everything they need to be perfectly satisfied. On both an individual and collective level, performing this practice helps us to cut the root of ignorance and the ego, to open our hearts, and to exercise generosity.

You are welcome to join the teachers in reciting from the text The Laughter of the Khandros: The Offering of the Body from the Great Treasury of the Ultra Profound Sky — View PDF