Navara Mystical School

01/11/2021

Go deeper and deeper, never stopping, no matter how deep is the meditation. Never take for granted that any perception of God is the highest.
God is immeasurable.
Paramhansa Yogananda ❤️

27/10/2021

Our Karma is the cause of our happiness and sorrow; therefore put up with whatever comes to you.


Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

- Shirdi Sai Baba.

22/09/2021

26/05/2021

In our modern times, if people are asked what the essence of life is, we often hear, "To go to school, to get a job, to buy a house, to get married, to have children, and to have a long, healthy, and prosperous life."

Even though these aspirations are usually motivated by the desire for constant happiness, we instead often experience transitory happiness, and unsatisfactoriness.

Knowing that we can't take any family, friends, or possessions with us when we die, and given the rare opportunity that we have, is this all that we would like to achieve while we still have our precious human life?

Knowing that we've experienced problems and suffering before, can we be certain that we won't experience something similar, or something even worse after we die?

If we really contemplate all of this, we begin to look for something that we can put into practice which will prevent us from experiencing future suffering - and that is exactly what the Dharma is intended for.

~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

05/02/2021

Senior Tibetan monks often enter a clear-light meditative state leading to death, but it’s rare for common people to die this way

31/01/2021

During this difficult time in the world, when travel has become impossible for many people, some of you might be missing your Dharma teachers, brothers and sisters. But please remember that the energy of all of the buddhas has no centre and no boundary. Wherever you are, they are with you.

~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

27/01/2021

Three year retreat (Lo Sum Cho Sum)
The three-year retreat is the practice of remaining in strict meditation retreat for three years and three fortnights. The most favourable conditions for retreat can be found in a secluded place, with limited contact with other people. The benefits of such a meditative retreat are enormous.
According to the Vajrayana teachings, three years and one and a half month ( lo sum chok sum, three years plus three halves of 30 day lunar cycle) is the minimal period necessary to purify all winds of the subtle energies in our body and to transform them into primordial wisdom winds.
This timeframe is require to transform karmic energy into wisdom energy. It was derived from the teachings of Kalachakra Ta**ra.
It is said that generally, in the course of a day, we breathe in and out some 21,600 times. And every thirty-two times there is the arising of what is called the 'wisdom wind'. This means that in a single day the wisdom wind arises 675 times. If we consider the life expectancy of a human being to be roughly 100 years, then in one lifetime we experience the wisdom wind for a total of three years and three fifteen day periods.
According to Jamgon Kongtrul Lodrö Taye who had introduced this retreat practice wrote:
"All the wisdom energy which circulates during one hundred years equals three years and three fortnights. When all karmic energy is transformed into wisdom energy, enlightenment is attained. This is the reason why it is said that the state of the Buddha Vajradhara is achieved by meditating for three years and three fortnights."
In the Kagyu tradition, the title 'lama' is given to those who completed at least one three-year meditative retreat.
In three years, the best retreatants fully accomplish the practice; the average one attains qualities, such as the signs of heat, and the lowest on without error, takes hold of the beginning of the path leading to liberation and omniscience. In this way, retreat is endowed with many special benefits.
It is a tough practice and we lay people should show our deep respect and reverence to the fortunate Lam who has undergone such retreat.