Vajrayogini Self Initiation
Venerable Angie Muir
September 26, 2024
Vajrayogini Self Initiation
When: September 26, 2024- 5:00pm – 9:00pm (PT)
Where: Venerable Angie Muir will lead the Vajrayogini Self Initiation Online via Zoom, feel free to make offerings on your personal alter.
Prerequisites: This practice is restricted to those who have completed a Vajrayogini 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:
At home, you will need to prepare:
- Implements: vajra, bell, and damaru
- Inner offering
- Vajrayogini sindhura mandala
- Offerings for tsog
Zoom link will be sent to registered people a day before the event.
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
Teacher
Born in Scotland, in 1970, she obtained a Bachelors Degree in 1992. Feeling disillusioned with her prospective career path and life ahead of her, she left Scotland and combined travelling with work in Asia for 3 years until in 1995 she felt a calling to go to India to explore meditation and find her life path. Within a few months “I had the incredible fortune due to some previous karma” to discover Tibetan Buddhism, meet her main spiritual teacher Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche (of almost 30 years) and become ordained. Venerable Angie has been a buddhist nun for…
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