Friday, January 24, 2025

6:00 am – 12:00 pm

Online only via Zoom

Paula Chichester will lead the Vajrayogini Self Initiation on this special Vajrayogini Day. This will be done in chantable English. Please feel free to make offerings on your personal alter at home.

“The Tibetan 11th month (Gyal Dawa) is a special time for mother tantra, a special time for Vajrayogini, and a special month to offer Vajrayogini tsog. The Tibetan 12th month is a special time for father tantra, a special time for Chakrasamvara, and a special month to offer Chakrasamvara tsog. Especially in these two months it is very important to offer tsog.”—Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

This practice is restricted to those who have completed an approximation retreat with fire puja.

We will be using the text, The Intermediate Practices of Vajrayogini, published by the FPMT. Please download a copy of the text from the FPMT foundation using the link below:

Download the text here

Before joining on Zoom, you will need to prepare:

• Implements: vajra, bell, and damaru
• Inner offering
• Vajrayogini sindhura mandala
• Offerings for tsog

Who is Vajrayogini? She is the ultimate flowering of the female energy that lies within all of us, a fully enlightened buddha, the essence of totality—beyond duality, beyond ego, and fully controlled. Emphasizing wisdom, the yoga method of Vajrayogini trains us to identify with her divine qualities and leads us on the quickest path to enlightenment.

“The Vajrayogini yoga method is extremely powerful. It is just what we need in these degenerate times, with our delusions running rampant and our minds grasping at concretized sense pleasures. Therefore, a method such as this, which has the wisdom to transform delusions, is of the utmost need, especially as it has the profound property of becoming more powerful as delusions becomes stronger.” —Lama Thubten Yeshe