August 2016

Are You ready to receive Kalachakra Initiation 2017 ? by Stéphanie

30 August 2016

Omalaya Travel is happy to offer its customized Kalachakra tours to India to the devotees wishing to attend the precious Kalachakra 2017 Empowerment teaching. Omalaya-designed spiritual journeys are rooted in individual’s quest for self discovery and we incorporate the same outlook in designing the Kalachakra 2017 tour package. Omalaya Travel operated a successful Kalachakra tour to Ladakh in 2014. Omalaya-led devotees can receive Kalachakra initiation, teaching & empowerment under the expert guidance of tour’s spiritual guides like Geshe Tsering with Dr Chok and Geshe Lobsang with Tulku Phuljung. The Kalachakra initiation, given by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is incredibly powerful. If you are ready, not only to receive the initiation, but also to bring the practice into your daily life, the initiation will certainly change your practice. But how can you tell if you are ready? How do you know if now is the right time to receive the initiation? For most, the question can be answered by determining how prepared we are. Certainly the first step is to learn some basic information about the Kalachakra teachings and history as well as its connection to world peace. Another indication is to assess your current daily practice – including the prostrations that you do, the number of Vajrasattva mantras, as well as the way you interact with others and respond to your surroundings. After this, there are three other steps or areas to focus on in order to develop our readiness for Kalachakra. As you progress in your practice along the Buddhist path, you may make the decision to “take refuge,” which is simply a decision to look toward the Buddha, his teachings, and the spiritual community for guidance on moving through life in a positive direction. By taking refuge you commit to several things: looking at yourself and your life honestly, assessing your reoccurring problems in order to learn and grow from them, and working to gain qualities that will help you to be of benefit to all sentient beings. From this foundation you learn to see the law of cause and effect on your life. You work to understand that your negative thinking and behaviors lead to suffering and problems, and that your positive thinking and behaviors lead you to happiness. You learn to use the Buddha, the dharma, and the sangha to move toward happiness and away from suffering. One of the best indication of your preparedness for the […]

29 August 2016

Omalaya Travel is happy to offer its customized Kalachakra tours to India to the devotees wishing to attend the precious Kalachakra 2017 Empowerment teaching. Omalaya-designed spiritual journeys are rooted in individual’s quest for self discovery and we incorporate the same outlook in designing the Kalachakra 2017 tour package. Omalaya Travel operated a successful Kalachakra tour to Ladakh in 2014. Omalaya-led devotees can receive Kalachakra initiation, teaching & empowerment under the expert guidance of tour’s spiritual guides like Geshe Tsering with Dr Chok and Geshe Lobsang with Tulku Phuljung. Kalachakra is a Sanskrit word that can be translated literally as “wheel of time.” Kala, or “time,” is not linear time but the flow of all events, past, present, and future. This is similar to our concept of space, which does not imply a particular direction or limitation. The Kalachakra deity represents omniscience, for he is one with all time and therefore knows all. Chakra, meaning “wheel,” refers not only to the cycle of time but also to the way in which the enlightened experience of great bliss radiates like the sun from the self to all sentient beings. The wheel, with no beginning and no end, is also the universal symbol of Buddhism, representing the teachings of the Buddha. An important feature of the Kalachakra Tantra is that it is given for a community. The Buddha offered it for an entire country, in the mythical kingdom of Shambala, so historically the initiation has been given to large groups. The Dalai Lama has remarked that in earlier times communities were separated by valleys, rivers, mountains or oceans, whereas today, with instant communication and transportation, our community includes the entire planet. This is another reason why he feels Kalachakra is a teaching for our time. Teaching on Shambhala The real Kalachakra teaching of Shambhala has been secretly present on the Earth and throughout the Galaxy for over a million years. It is a teaching about cycles of cosmic and neurobiological personal evolution that is itself evolving, ever reaching out into the universe for fresh insights and know-how. Though the philosophy of the Kalachakra is at the highest level of Buddhism anyone can use it at any time. This philosophy urges us to reach a splendid, pure inner world while still living in our imperfect, earthly one, using Kalachakra as a model. For example, a pure body comes from healthy eating and not smoking, drinking alcohol, or taking […]

29 August 2016

Omalaya Travel is happy to offer its customized Kalachakra tours to India to the devotees wishing to attend the precious Kalachakra 2017 Empowerment teaching. Omalaya-designed spiritual journeys are rooted in individual’s quest for self discovery and we incorporate the same outlook in designing the Kalachakra 2017 tour package. Omalaya Travel operated a successful Kalachakra tour to Ladakh in 2014. Omalaya-led devotees can receive Kalachakra initiation, teaching & empowerment under the expert guidance of tour’s spiritual guides like Geshe Tsering with Dr Chok and Geshe Lobsang with Tulku Phuljung. Kalachakra is rarity as it is one of the most complex Buddhist teaching out there but still offered to the general public. Proper Kalachakra tantric initiation is required for the its practice like all Buddhist tantric systems. The receiver must possess certain qualities conducive for the smooth transition of initiations. An ideal disciple should have experience of the three principal aspects of the Mahayana path: renunciation of Samsara, Bodhichitta, and understanding of Emptiness or at least be intellectually and spiritually be drawn to these concepts. The most important of the three aspects is Bodhichitta, the desire for true, perfect enlightenment for the sake of others. Therefore, the primary mindset of a Kalachakra initiation recipient should reflect the thought “For the sake of all sentient beings I must achieve the state of Shri Kalachakra. Then I will be able to establish all other sentient beings in the state of Shri Kalachakra as well“. There are eleven Kalachakra initiations 7 initiations of entering like a child: The water initiation. This is analogous to a mother washing her child immediately after its birth. The crown initiation that is analogous. to the binding of a child’s hairlocks. The ribbon initiation is analogous to piercing a child’s ears and arraying it with ornaments. The vajra and bell initiation, is analogous to a child laughing and talking. The discipline initiation, it is analogous to the child’s enjoyment of the five desirable sense-objects. The name initiation, analogous to the naming of the child. Entering like a child initiation which is the mantra authorization initiation. This initiation empowers the disciple to eliminate obstacles and to achieve the magic powers of pacification, gaining prosperity, subjugation, and destruction. 3 exalted initiations The vase initiation is the gnosis of bliss and emptiness that arises from the disciple touching the consort’s breasts. The secret initiation is the gnosis of bliss and emptiness that arises from the disciple savouring the bodhichitta, The wisdom-gnosis initiation […]