Practice Avalokiteshvara Guru Yoga to Help Overcome Covid-19

His Holiness the Dalai Lama in front of Avalokiteshvara.

Advice from Khadro-la

I recently shared a message from Khadro-la to help during Covid-19.

That message included the following advice:

"I have been asked what could be done to quickly bring this disease to an end. My advice is to practice the Guru Yoga of the Supreme Arya who has the Lotus in his Hand (Chenrezig) inseparable with the one who embodies the great compassion of all the Conquerors, the manifestation of the union of emptiness and great compassion, the dispeller of the three times (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)."

Avalokiteshvara Guru Yoga

The practice Khadro-la recommends, The Inseparability of the Spiritual Master and Avalokiteshvara: A Source of All Powerful Attainments (Avalokiteshvara Guru Yoga), composed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at age nineteen, is available for free download from FPMT.

The practice text contains this message from His Holiness:

" ... This devoti􏰁on contains a short glance meditation on the enti􏰁re graduated path and the mantras of the master and Avalokiteshvara. Although it is improper for me to write such a devo􏰁tion about myself, waves of inspira􏰁tion of the buddhas can be received from ordinary beings just as relics can come from a dog's tooth. Therefore, I have composted this with the hope of benefiti􏰁ng a few faithful disciples.

The Buddhist monk
Ngawang Losang Tenzin Gyatso
maintaining the 􏰁title of Holder of the White Lotus (Avalokiteshvara)"

The practice text mentions that this is a practice that can be done by anyone.

Practice Advice

Venerable Tenzin Namjong, an American monk in the geshe studies program at Sera Jey Monastery in South India, recently gave advice on how to do this practice as a retreat along with the accumulation of 600,000 OM MANI PADME HUNG mantras to help overcome Covid-19. 

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