Yuthok’s Guru Yogas
Sunday March 9th: Eliminating Obstacle Practice
9am Los Angeles | 12pm New York | 6pm Rome
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Year of the Wood Snake Guru Days:
March 9 | April 7 | May 7 | June 5 | July 5 | August 4 | September 2 | October 2 | October 31 | November 30 | December 29 | January 28
Starting with the new lunar year of the wood snake, Pure Land Farms will be hosting a monthly online practice of Yuthok’s guru yogas, the main Kyerim/ Creation stage practice of the Yuthok Nyingthig.
Throughout the year we will progress through Yuthok’s Four Guru Yogas: Outer, Inner, Secret and Concise.
To begin the practice and to start the new year, today we will practice Yuthok’s Eliminating Obstacle practice, a form of guru yoga for eliminating obstacles to study and practice.
This month’s practice will be livestreamed from Yuthok Ling at Pure Land Farms. If you are in the Los Angeles area and you may join us in person at Pure Land Farms.
Yuthok Nyingthig, the ‘Heart Essence of Yuthok.' This unique and comprehensive set of Tibetan Buddhist practices was transmitted by Yuthok Yönten Gönpo the Younger, the great 12th century Tibetan physician and meditation adept who is considered to be an emanation of Medicine Buddha. It is a complete system of practice from the Anuttarayogatantra (Highest Yoga Tantra) class of teachings, beginning with Ngöndro (the preliminaries) and progressing through Kyerim and Dzogrim (Creation and Completion Stage practices) to the highest practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
The tradition includes concise and essential methods perfectly suited for busy contemporary practitioners that offer both worldly benefits including improved health and longevity for oneself and others, as well as the ultimate benefit of complete spiritual liberation. The Yuthok Nyingthig is the main spiritual tradition connected with Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine), and it contains many unique methods to heighten the intuitive, diagnostic, and healing capacities of doctors. It is the only complete cycle of Vajrayana teachings in which Medicine Buddha as a yidam (personal meditative deity).
Yuthok Nyingthig meditation practices are traditionally done in the context of a seven day retreat, making them practical and accessible in these modern busy times.
Yuthok’s Eliminating Obstacle Aspiration Prayer:
“May my understanding of Sowa Rigpa and of all medical texts and traditions increase and benefit all beings equally like the light of the sun and the moon.
May everything I say be accurate and based in pure perception.
May everything I make be medicine.
May everything I provide be beneficial
May all the ordinary and supreme siddhis be bestowed upon me, this I pray!
— Yuthok Yönten Gönpo
CHRISTIANA POLITES
Christiana Polites received her Bachelor of Arts in the Comparative Study of Religion at Harvard University and has been immersed in Eastern spiritual traditions for over twenty years. She has studied both Tibetan and Chinese Daoist healing arts and received a Masters in Acupuncture from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She has traveled extensively around the world, seeking out authentic living lineages in both the healing and spiritual sciences. Christiana is the Director of Pure Land Farms and the Sowa Rigpa Institute. She is also the co-founder of Yangchenma Arts & Music, a community organization celebrating the richness and diversity of human cultures through their artistic and musical wisdom traditions.
VIDEO INTRODUCTION TO YUTHOK’S GURU YOGAS WITH DR. NIDA CHENAGTSANG
Livestreamed from Pure Land Farms November 2023
