Vajra Heart, A Spontaneous Song that Reveals the Ultimate

Lhatsün Namkha Jikmé according to the vision of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Courtesy of Himalayan Art.

Vajra Heart, A Spontaneous Song that Reveals the Ultimate (Wyl. rdo rje snying po don gyi thol glu) is a terma revealed by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in Tashi Ding, Sikkim, through a vision of Lhatsün Namkha Jikmé. The cycle mainly emphasises the perfection phase. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche writes:

Regarding the Ultimate Spontaneous Vajra Heart Song, while I, the fortunate, aimless yogi Mangala, was roaming about in free countries, I accidentally went to the celestial Tashi Ding Mountain in the hidden holy land of Sikkim. I had a mixed feeling of joy and sadness like a dense cloud, and my feelings of bliss and sorrow continued like a hailstorm. Singing a song of supplication, while mentally focusing on my master with intense longing and mingling my mind with his, I had a direct vision of the self-existing awareness Longchen Heruka, who also conferred a symbolic empowerment. Through his bless­ing, I also discovered the essence of this text and decoded it in a state of confidence. As one embodiment emanates innumerable magical displays, I also saw the joyful countenance of my master Jamgön Chökyi Lodrö, and while awakening to the nonconceptual expanse of realization, I kept receiving his comforting compassionate blessings...

Texts

• The Vajra Heart, A Spontaneous Song that Reveals the Ultimate, from The Life Drop of the Vidyadhari Dakinis, by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (རིག་འཛིན་ཌཱ་ཀིའི་སྲོག་གི་ཏི་ལ་ཀ་།རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོ་དོན་གྱི་ཐོལ་གླུ) (root text of the terma)
• The Activity Manual for the Vajra Heart, A Spontaneous Song that Reveals the Ultimate, from the Life Drop of the Vidyadhari Dakinis, composed by Rabjam Rinpoche (རིག་འཛིན་ཌཱ་ཀིའི་སྲོག་གི་ཏི་ལ་ཀ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོ་དོན་གྱི་ཐོལ་གླུའི་ལས་བྱང)

Empowerment

• Illuminating the Wisdom of Clear Light, the Stages of the Ripening Empowerment for the Guru Practice of the Vajra Heart, A Spontaneous Song that Reveals the Ultimate, by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པ་དོན་གྱི་ཐོལ་གླུའི་བླ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་སྨིན་བྱེད་འབོག་པའི་རིམ་པ་འོད་གསལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཉིན་བྱེད)

Commentaries

• The Appearance of Wisdom, Which Seals the Life Force, The direct and open instructions of the creation and completion yogas from The Life Drop of the Vidyadhara Dakinis: Vajra Heart, A Spontaneous Song that Reveals the Ultimate , composed by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (at the request of Chögyam Trungpa and others) (རིག་འཛིན་ཌཱ་ཀིའི་སྲོག་ཏིག་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོ་དོན་གྱི་ཐོལ་གླུའི་བསྐྱེད་རྫོགས་ཀྱི་དམར་ཁྲིད་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྣང་བ་སྲོག་གི་རྒྱ་ཅན)

Empowerments Given to the Rigpa Sangha

• Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, France, 8 November 2024

External Links

• Khyentse Lineage texts