Text of the Month: Teaching on Droplets of Nectar with Lama Tsering

For our October Text of the Month teaching, we were honored to welcome back Lama Tsering Everest, resident lama and director of Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling, to offer a teaching on Droplets of Nectar: A Vajra Song Summarizing the Vital Points of the Stages of the Profound Path, by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.

At its heart, this vajra song is a calling-out to Guru Rinpoche to hold us with his compassion without ever parting from us. It presents the essential stages of the path—from the initial moment of inspiration to enter the Dharma, to the ultimate realization of union with the Lake-Born Guru, where the outer teacher and the inner nature of mind are not separate. To read and practice this text is to cultivate, again and again, the trust and openness that allows the guru’s blessings to blossom directly in our hearts.

Lama Tsering Everest, a close disciple and translator of H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, upholds the compassionate and direct approach of her own teacher through emphasizing devotion, mind training, and the application of the Dharma in daily life.