Completion of Three-Year Vajrayogini Retreat

Completion of Three-Year Vajrayogini Retreat

Date of Advice:
December 2020
Date Posted:
December 2022

Rinpoche sent this letter to a student who had just completed a three-year Vajrayogini retreat.

My very dear one,
Billions of thanks for finishing this retreat, it’s so inspiring! And great that Geshe-la was able to help, then it’s clear for you.

Numberless thanks for doing the retreat and dedicating your life to sentient beings, following the wishes of His Holiness and Lama Yeshe. You were able to complete it with Geshe-la's help, as he did two three-year retreats, so you are fortunate!

I am sure Vajrayogini is blissed out and extremely pleased. Now you're ready to go to the pure land. In the world there are so many problems now, with COVID-19, the environment and so forth. Now you can go to Vajrayogini pure land and there you can become enlightened very quickly, much quicker than in Amitabha pure land, as it takes more than one life there.

This is a great inspiration in the world for others to do the three-year retreat of Vajrayogini.

Tsarchen Losel Gyatso, (the author of the special prayer bringing you to the pure land in the sadhana) said, according to the Heruka root tantra: "Just by reciting the supreme heart [mantra], that is making you closer to Vajrayogini and you can achieve the pure land."

It is true that is happening. There is the inner pure land and the outer pure land. The inner pure land is when you have actualized the clear light seeing emptiness.

The Fifth Dalai Lama said those who are most intelligent and those of middle [capability] are able to go to the pure land in this life [by doing this practice]. The last one [the person of lower capability] is welcomed by the dakas and dakinis in the intermediate state. The dakas and dakinis do prostrations and invite [that person to go to the pure land] or at least to go through to the next life and achieve realizations [in their next life]. There is extremely quick transference of the consciousness to the pure land at the deathtime.

With love and prayer ...

P.S. I hope all the students go to the pure land of Vajrayogini very easily; a holiday forever! Escaping from samsara, the ocean of suffering that has no beginning.