White Jewel Mountain

White Jewel Mountain Retreat Center & Healing Sanctuary located in Crestone, CO, USA. Weekly program "Nature of Mind Series" is available in-person & via Zoom.

Riwo Sangcho every New Moon. Spiritual Director: Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche. www.whitejewelmountain.org Healing Sanctuary & Retreat Center located in the weirdest town in the United States!

05/29/2026

COLOPHON - THE WONDROUS VAJRA PRAYER
The Hare-Marked Moon Seen Supreme Above All Texts
"Not knowing its profundity, some narrow fools declare that it is hollow words and has no depth.
There is no profundity, they say. There is nothing hard to grasp. They have no praises for these
vajra verses vast and deep. But when, upon the limpid ocean of the wondrous mind, the stars of
faith cast down their shining images, the hare-marked moon - this wondrous vajra prayer - is seen
supreme above all other texts."
Source: White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava,
Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, 2007)
Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche closes White Lotus by being honest about two ways of encountering
this prayer.
The first way: you read the seven lines and they seem simple. Nice, perhaps, but not particularly
deep. This is a real experience many people have.
The second way: the mind becomes still and open like a calm lake at night that perfectly reflects
the stars. In that state, the same seven lines reveal something that seems inexhaustible.
The words did not change. The mind receiving them did. That is the whole teaching in one image.
And it is the image Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche chose to close with.
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White Jewel Mountain | Crestone, Colorado Rooted in the Adzom Drukpa Lineage

05/29/2026

There is a line in Longchenpa that stops most people.
Everything that exists and appears displays itself in the space of unborn reality.
Not some things. Not the pleasant things.
Everything.
Your coffee this morning. Your commute. Your argument last week.
The grief you are carrying. The joy you keep forgetting.
All of it: display in the space of unborn reality.
This is not a poetic statement.
It is a precise description of what awareness sees when it recognizes itself.
Longchenpa is one of the root voices of the Adzom Drukpa lineage.
His Seven Treasuries are among the primary transmissions our Spiritual Director Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
carries.
If that single line landed in you: come study with us.
That landing is not accidental.
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05/29/2026

PITH INSTRUCTIONS - THE HEART PRACTICE
Mingles in a Single Taste with the Indestructible Essence-Drop
"We should consider that Guru Rinpoche, visualized above the crown of our heads, descends into
the center of the eight-petaled lotus of our hearts and mingles in a single taste with the
indestructible essence-drop. We should then remain in a state of meditative equipoise in the
primordial wisdom of great bliss."
Source: White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava,
Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, 2007)
This is one of the most intimate moments in the entire practice.
Guru Rinpoche is not imagined as far away and descending from a great height. He is already
close - at the crown of the head - and moves inward, into the center of the heart. And there,
something merges.
A single taste. Like salt dissolving into water - you cannot separate them again because they
were always the same substance. The teacher and the student's deepest nature arrive at the
same recognition from different directions.
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05/28/2026

Since This Path Is the Essence of All Pith Instructions
"Since this path is the essence of all pith instructions and is the highest of all wisdoms, it is the
Guru. Since the perception of primordial wisdom free from all attachment and hindrance is without
stain, it is Padma. Since it is the actualization of the final accomplishment, it is Siddhi. And finally,
the realization of the inseparability of the ground and fruit is indicated by the seed-syllable of the
mind of all the Buddhas, namely, Hung."
Source: White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava,
Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, 2007)
Throughout White Lotus, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche has returned to the mantra again and again,
each time revealing something new in it.
Here at the close of the text, he reads it one final time - and what he sees is the whole path
distilled into four syllables. The wisdom that holds everything together. The purity that nothing can
stain. The accomplishment that is already present. The recognition that the beginning and the end
are the same nature.
The mantra has not changed. What has changed is how deeply it can be heard.
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White Jewel Mountain | Crestone, Colorado Rooted in the Adzom Drukpa Lineage

05/28/2026

6 signs you might be ready for Dzogchen teachings.
1. You feel like ordinary life is a dream but you cannot quite wake up.
2. Meditation techniques have stopped satisfying you.
3. You have a genuine, burning question about the nature of your own mind.
4. You feel drawn to a lineage, not just a practice.
5. You are willing to receive, not just accumulate.
6. You have some sense, however faint, that what you are looking for might already be present.
If any of these land for you: welcome.
The Adzom Drukpa lineage has been working with exactly these recognitions for over a century.
Our Spiritual Director Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche carries the transmission.
White Jewel Mountain holds the space.
Crestone, Colorado. Every Wednesday. In person and on Zoom.
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05/28/2026

Our founder described White Jewel Mountain in a way that has stayed with us.
We are fully rooted in this Tibetan lineage.
We engage it directly through Tibetan liturgy, ritual, thangkas, deity practice, and teachings in both Tibetan
and English.
These forms are alive for us.
And at the same time we are Western practitioners.
Our task is not to imitate Tibetan culture, nor to step away from it.
But to let the essence of these teachings gradually find their own expression here.
This is a slow, organic process.
Guided by care, humility, and wisdom.
We are fortunate to be doing this in Crestone.
A place many understand as part of the mandala of Guru Rinpoche.
That larger blessing has shaped this sacred valley for decades.
White Jewel Mountain is one expression within that blissful mandala.
We study the Adzom Drukpa lineage weekly at
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05/28/2026

In the path of skillful means, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche points at the indestructible essence-drop and names what it is. The word he uses is wonderful.

"This self-arisen primordial wisdom,
undefiled great bliss, or bodhichitta,
is the naturally luminous essence-drop,
spotless and unchanging. This essence-drop is exceedingly wondrous,
for it is the indivisible union of immutable great bliss and great emptiness endowed with all supreme aspects.
It is the ultimate nature,
inconceivable and ineffable, marvelous and unbounded."

Source: White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer of Padmasambhava, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, 2007)

Exceedingly wondrous.
Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche is describing what dwells within this body right now.
Spotless. Unchanging. Inconceivable. Ineffable.
The indivisible union of immutable great bliss and great emptiness.
This is not a future attainment.
This is the nature of the essence-drop already dwelling at the heart.
The practices of the path of skillful means do not create this. They bring it to expression.

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05/28/2026

Ordinary Stones Cannot Be Found in a Land of Gold
"For those who understand that, within the expanse of the ultimate nature, the whole of
phenomenal existence possesses, from the very beginning, the utterly pure nature of the four
vajras, and for those who never lose this understanding but settle at their ease in the fresh,
uncontrived natural state - for those who are thus wise, ordinary impure appearances and
thoughts no longer occur. They cannot occur, just as it is impossible for ordinary stones to be
found in a land of gold."
Source: White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava,
Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, 2007)
The image Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche uses here is one of the most striking in the whole text.
In a land made entirely of gold, you will not find ordinary stones. Not because someone removed
them. Because the nature of the place itself makes them impossible.
He is describing what happens when someone fully settles into the recognition of their own
nature. Confusion and reactive patterns do not need to be fought. They simply cannot take hold -
the way a stone cannot exist where there is only gold.
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White Jewel Mountain | Crestone, Colorado Rooted in the Adzom Drukpa Lineage

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