The New Treasure of Dudjom Ngondro The Condensed Meaningful Guide (with additions from the Long Ngodro)

First: Give Voice to the meaning of the four that turn the mind to engage (in dharma).

Namo: Lama who fully understands, protector of undeceiving teachings To encounter the leisure and endowments is extremely difficult From the moment of birth possessing impermanence and death Inescapable results follow from causes: positive and negative Cycling through the three realms, an ocean of sorrow Remembering this, may my mind turn to holy dharma|
Thus taking this up recite as much as possible to train the mind|

Second In the main preliminary| First to go for refuge| Before me in the sky the objects of refuge, the three jewels, all converged in essence the root Lama as such in the form of Guru Rinpoche through devotion actually dwells here|

From now until attaining the heart of enlightenment I take refuge in the Lama Three Jewels.
Thus, joining hands and prostrating, recite as much as possible| Second, generating the enlightened mind| Request the refuge objects as your witness|

From now until samsaras emptied I shall accomplish the benefit and happiness of beings

Thus train your mind as much as possible| Third, Merit accumulations through mandala offerings| By actually setting up the material symbolic mandala|

The body wealth glory of all my life-times To complete the accumulations I offer the three jewels
Offer mandalas again and again| Forth, purifying obscurations Absolute-beings meditation and recitation| Whilst in the state of my ordinary continuum|

Indivisible, Absolute-being and the Lama on my crown From whom all-purifying nectar streams down

Om Badzra Sa-tva Sa-ma-ya Ma-nu-pa-la-ya Badzra Satva Te-no-pa Tishtah Dri Dhah Me-bha-wa Suto Kshayo Me-Bha-Wa Supo Kshayo Me-Bha-Wa A-nu Rakto mebha-wa Sarva Siddhi Mme-pra-yatstsha Sarva Karma Su-tsa-me Tsittangm Shre Yangm Ku-ru Hung Ha Ha Ha Ha Ho Bha-ga-wahn Sarva Ta-tah-ga-ta Badrzra Mah-me Munytsa Badzri Bha-wa Ma-hah Sa-ma-ya Satva Ah
Thus, Focus on cleansing nectar descending with the hundred syllables and

[Lord protector: deluded through not understanding I have violated and damaged my sacred connection| Lama Protector please give me refuge| Lord of lords who holds the Vajra-Absolute| Manifestation of Universal Love-radiance| Greatest of all beings, I take refuge in you| All of my root and branch heart-vows to uphold Enlightened Body, Speech, and Mind All damaged and broken commitments, with remorse I confess| All of my accumulated non-virtues, negativities, blindnesses, faults, downfalls, and stains| Please cleanse and make pure, I pray|
thus fervently pray

The Absolute Being is pleased and smiles and speaks:| Child of noble descent all of your non-virtues, negativities, blindnesses, faults, downfalls, and stains| Accrued, are made pure, thus the holy pronouncement is made though devotion Sins and obscurations are all made pure and I am transformed into a crystal orb| Vajrasattva, being-absolute, melts into white light, once more filling my form| My manifestation is transformed into Vajrasattvas Body, Enlightened Absolute| and I see my experienced world as a divine play of infinite

purity] Om Badzra Sa-tva Huhng:

Absolute-being melts into light and melds with my world into a single experience
Thus, Absolute-being has condensed into oneself. There rest evenly. Fifth, To swiftly open to waves of blessings, the Guru Yoga:

Ones nature is the Indestructible-Yogini before whom In the sky the Root Guru transforms into The Lotus-born

All past present future Buddhas singular form To my supreme root Guru, my prayer is offered In this life, in-between and after, care for me with love; Bestow the flow of ceaseless blessings into all my times.

[Om Ah Hung|

Urgyen Guru embodying all the refuge fields. I prostrate to you with single pointed devotion in body speech and mind. Offering bodies and wealth without regret in clouds of offerings. Repenting and confessing defilements, down-falls, damaged and broken vows. Rejoicing in virtues, relative and ultimate. Requesting the turning of the true heart of the dharma teaching cycles. Beseeching you remain in this ever suffering world and not to pass beyond. I dedicate this virtue and all root virtues, To the attainment of all beings unsurpassable enlightenment. ]

Om Ah: Hungm Badzra Gu-Ru Padma Siddhi Hungm

light OM, (in his throat a blazing luminous) red light AH: and (in his heart a blazing luminous) blue light HUHNG (are imagined to) embody the Forms, Words and Minds of all the Enlightened Buddhas who have Gone-to-the-as-it-is. They dwell within (his single form) through devotion| From (guru Rinpoche) rays (usher forth) sublime luminous orbs filled with all the enlightened Forms of the Buddhas (from his forehead), all the Wisdom syllables of enlightened Words (from his throat), and the implements emblematic of Enlightened Wisdom Mind (from his heart) dawning immeasurably, like dust motes in sunlight, absorb into me, bestowing blessings and accomplishments both worldly and sublime without exception: imagine| )

[Partial Excerpt from Long Tersar Ngndro: Taking the Empowerments

From the Om in the teachers forehead arises a white ray of light like a shooting star.

Through being absorbed into one's forehead, the obscurations of the body channels are purified. One receives the precious Vase Empowerment into the Body of Enlightenment. One's physical body is blessed as the play of the Body of Indestructibility. The fortune to attain the stage of the Body of Emanations is placed in one's continuum. From the Ah in the throat, a red ray of light leaps out like lightening! Through being absorbed into one's throat, the obscurations of the speech/ energy airs are purified. One receives the sacred voice empowerment. Ones ordinary speaking is blessed as the play of indestructible sacred word. The fortune to attain the sacred Body of Flawless Exaltation is placed in ones mind stream. From the Hung in the wisdom heart blue black rays like a mass of clouds arise. Through being absorbed into ones heart, the obscurations of the mind tigle are purified. One receives primordially wakeful supreme wisdom-mind empowerment. Ones mind is blessed as the play of Vajra-mind. The fortune to attain the stage of the dimensionless dimension is placed in ones continuum. Once again from the teachers enlightened heart the non-conceptual form of realities essence.

Arises as a five colored orb of all-encompassing vital wisdom essence. And is absorbed into the center of my heart, completely purifying the two obscurations and all habitual tendencies. Receiving the precious sacred-word empowerment. Being blessed into the completely perfected Beatific sphere of all of the Victorious Buddhas inexhaustible qualities and miraculous activities. The opportunity to attain the stage of the Svabhavavikakaya is placed in my mind stream. .... The Lama dissolves into the quintessential ecstasy five colored light| An orb the size of a thumbnail dissolving into the center of my heart, my worldly mind transforms into the lamas enlightened wisdom mind indivisibly|] The Enlightened Body Speech and Mind empowerments are wholly and perfectly obtained.

Vajra Guru Kaya Waka Tsitta Siddhi Hung

The Lama melts into light dissolves into me indivisibly unconditionally The awareness without construct my true nature is seen
Thus the Lama concentrates within: rest evenly|

Lord of limitless light to you I pray

Bless me with mastery over the profound path of Powa

Now with my body and wealth, my very roots of virtue Without holding back I offer to all beings as if my mother So unobstructed great waves of benefit may ensue.
Thus. . . pray fervantly with enlightened aspirations etc.| Thus the Tersar Ngondro for those who do not understand the expanded meaning of mantra or are unable to do the Long Ngodro and clarifies the essential meaning in a Concise Recitation of the Preliminary Practice by Jigdral Yeshe Dorje. Yet also, for those desiring some elaboration having never even seen the long Ngodro, or not having the time to pursue it, desiring some elaboration I, the most deluded of Dudjoms disciples, have inserted some clarifying passages from the long ngodro without permission from anyone but my inner desire to benefit. May the results of any mistakes rain upon me and all benifits shine upon others. dPal.