Green Tara Practice w Mantra guided by H.E. Zasep Rinpoche

Green Tara is almost certainly the most popular Enlightened Buddha form in Vajrayana Buddhism. Tara's mantra is chanted daily by countless Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhists. Tara - the Liberator, the savior, the healer - is the "Mother of all Buddhas. Please enjoy and benefit from this guided meditation video on Green Tara practice for both uninitiated and initiated practitioners, with animated visualizations of the Tam syllable, green light, and Green Tara. The video ends with beautiful Tara mantras sung by the amazing Yoko Dharma.
Captioned for those who prefer it in English (Canada) with auto-translate on multiple languages. Please feel free to suggest edits to subtitles.
Relax, sit straight, half-close your eyes, and listen to H.E. Venerable Zasep Rinpoche guide you through visualizing Tara and chanting her mantra. Then, chant along with Yoko Dharma's amazing voice at the end of the meditation - with yet more beautiful meditational images.
For a full transcript, please see buddhaweekly.com
H.E. Zasep Rinpoche, spiritual director of Gaden for the West centers in Canada, U.S., and Australia, covers why foundations are important and how to practice: prostrations, offerings, meditation (including meditation on precious human rebirth), purification practices, and Guru yoga. Rinpoche is popularly known for his approachable teaching style, strong humor, and teachings based on a long lineage of great lamas. His own gurus included the most celebrated of Gelug teachers: His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, His Holiness Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, Venerable Geshe Thupten Wanggyel, His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, Venerable Lati Rinpoche, Venerable Tara Tulku Rinpoche, and Venerable Khalkha Jetsun Dampa Rinpoche. He is the author of Buddhist teaching books, including"Tara in the Palm of Your Hand" www.amazon.com/Tara-palm-your... Rinpoche is the spiritual director of many temples, meditation centers and retreat centers in Australia, the United States, and Canada. He was first invited to teach in Australia by Lama Thubten Yeshe in 1976.
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[@warrenedm]

It was Tara's mantra that drew me towards Buddhism. It has and still changing my life. Neat video by the way!

[@robrider2423]

Much love and appreciation to H.E. Zasep Rinpoche for teaching in the way that is right for me. The videos on this channel are excellent every time, thank you!

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Much appreciated, so glad to hear! Thank you for watching!

[@sylightfr]

Initiations used to be rather secret, but nowadays it seems that some practices must be popularized... because in these dark times we really need true love and compassion, and teachings about who we really are. Teachings that can help us actualizing the wisdom hidden within us. May you live long Zasep Rinpoche Infinte gratitude to all the bodhisattvas of all time May all sentient beings find peace and equanimity OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI OM

[@wishtheyunderstoodme]

i recently watched a video of an x criminal whonl was talking about how he found buddhism in prison and that helped him get clean. now 2 days later i walked into a thrift shop and there infront of me was a green tara hanging rug. it almost felt like she was presenting her self to me, calling me in. so i bought it, not even knowing what green tara was about, i didnt know anything about her. later that day i looked it up to find that shes a Buddhist deitie. i felt like she came to find me and welcome me into her world. it was honestly mysteriously beautiful

[@bravehawk5640]

in most cases, the deities/bodhisatvas tend to choose us instead of the other way around.

[@kimt4512]

I watch this every night for my Tara prayer

[@BuddhaWeekly]

That's wonderful. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha.

[@RinchenSherab66]

Excellent. Only real Master can give such simple but quality explanation that everybody could understand and use. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha

[@IAmWord]

This Beings humility, love and service are profound just themselves. I could listen to him give instruction on anything and feel uplifted I think. Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Thank you.

[@mrmoon3361]

WOW! Such detailed explanation. Thank you so much. Namaste 🙏🏽🌻

[@BuddhaWeekly]

🙏🙏🙏❤

[@manojdangol6159]

OM Tare tuttare soha 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@philippe2628]

Thank you Rinpoche, please continue to teach us and provide us with such important details of Buddhism practices.

[@MegaThoiba]

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha

[@yapirene6583]

Om Tare tutare ture Soha🙏🙏🙏

[@taralee6872]

💚Goddess GreenTara in Me👍💚♌️💕

[@jerry-mind-sky]

Also great master from Sakya Chogye Trichen Rinpoche gave wonderful teachings about Green Tara which can be found on net.

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thanks

[@kidneystonermusic]

I learned so much in the last half an hour. I will have to watch a few more times and take notes but this was an awesome starting point. Thank you very much!

[@ugyendema2775]

OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA! 🙏🙏🙏😇🙇‍♀️

[@anncallaway5479]

Magnificent and helpful teaching on Green Tara practice and meaning. Many thanks for this auspicious blessing.

[@karensealy9782]

Thankyou Rinpoche 💎💎💎🌈🌈🌈🙏🙏🙏💥💖🇦🇺

[@petermcgee2162]

Wonderful commentary. Thanks Rinpoche.

[@AaiRasoiChannel]

Beautiful green Tara meditation explained ... thank you thank you thank you😇

[@dianem9655]

Thank you master. My mother is recovering open heart surgery. This is very calming and educational.

[@melibukos6892]

Such a valuable teaching. Many, many thanks! 💕

[@gelekrapten5820]

Such a valuable information . Thank u so much to entire team. Om taray tu taray tu Ray soha.

[@BuddhaWeekly]

So nice of you. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha

[@midnightaura1504]

This is so beautifull and precious on yputube

[@retaparasram5439]

Thank you Sir for this teaching I do mediation of Maa Tara but by explaining the meaning of everything in this mantra it is so much deeper. I am learning to visualize Tara now I am taking his to the next level, Thank you guru for your teaching.

[@TanCai]

Excellent Guide. TQVM H.E. Zasep Rinpoche

[@mariannebaan6159]

Beautiful explanation Namaste

[@BuddhaWeekly]

🙏🙏🙏

[@amanyahaubrae2564]

Thank you very much for sharing 🙏💜😁

[@BuddhaWeekly]

You are so welcome, May all beings benefit.

[@smaychua]

Thank you very much! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thank you for watching!

[@yuyalay7183]

I love u green tara hoddess from depth of my heart

[@padmalama8693]

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA

[@brycesattler2301]

Thank You ☯️

[@mindblowing2065]

wonderfull teaching

[@krishanuchattopadhyay7006]

Jai Maa Tara 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@BimalKumar-if3sr]

🚩om tare tu tare ture soha 🚩

[@Mangold108]

Jai Ma!

[@anukapoor2726]

Feeling myself peaceful

[@01chaun1]

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏.

[@robertbaldwin2281]

Thank you very clear concise very helpful

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@daisyraina1097]

Thanks for explaining

[@sheilasaunders5520]

Thank you so much master

[@basahru]

Namo buddhay....

[@bradbryant332]

What a wonderful Lama!

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Zasep Rinpoche is an immeasurably kind and giving teacher. He does live teachings on Sunday on the Gaden for the West KZbin Channel, with a new series on Lojong meditations. kzbin.info

[@kbgirel6965]

So nicely explained Thank you

[@NABINRAII]

ༀ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ། 🙏🙏🙏☸️

[@lazitazen6882]

Muito obrigada 🌷💗

[@kumargutam7943]

great sadhna sephu

[@zt6309]

Thanks❤

[@asamvav]

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[@bluemoon9889]

ॐ तारे तुत्तारे तुरे स्वाहा O Drolma, come unto my assistance; O Tārā, make haste to help me! ॐ तारे तुत्तारे तुरे स्वाहा Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā! Oṃ: Dharmakāya/Śūnyatā/Buddha Tāre: O Tārā Tuttāre: I pray O Tārā Ture: O Swift One Svāhā: It is offered

[@tsheringdema4849]

Kadinchey la. 🙏🙏🙏

[@milestones777]

Thank you 🙏🏻 this is amazing.

[@mariannebaan6159]

I just did full green tara practice in Yeunten Ling Huy België tibetaans boeddhistisch klooster

[@PavaniGanga]

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[@ananda4505]

very Nice. Yhank U 🙏🙏

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thank you for watching!🙏

[@vansuzanne]

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[@khuyagaanavaantseren8036]

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[@empresszoe9351]

I had dreams of green Tara a few times. Today I received her via mail from a friend. Feeling blessed. We'll definitely practice.

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha 🙏🙏🙏

[@djgriffin66]

Tashi Delek

[@scarlettfreedom3629]

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚🙏✨🙏 please help heal me.... liberate my fears and grant me peace and freedom and love... To find my twin flame and be married and have a family. 💚 Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha 💚🙏✨

[@charlottek2032]

May green Tara watch over me

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha

[@sirugudikavitha1888]

Nice one

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thank you!

[@nimadomasherpa915]

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[@saraswathigurung6710]

Please upload this song mantra vedio .....of this long version ❤️.jai green tara maa

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Dear Saraswathi Gurung, thank you for watching. We do have a beautiful video version of the mantra only here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKDFgXido5mcaa8

[@rushikesh9155]

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[@BuddhaWeekly]

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[@shreyayonjan4405]

I love you

[@ondrejmuron]

Please can I ask? What does it mean if Green Tara showed to myself spontaneously in crystal clear vision? It was twenty years ago and I was on the psychedelic trip with my friends. Then I sit in front of the notebook and looked how picture of graphic vortex like picture slightly moving (on desktop background of that notebook). Then it appears to me suddenly. I never heard about her before that time and not studying Buddhism or Hinduism. Vision of Tara was from the sunny forest, trees had a big light green leaves and I was looking from above slightly down to Tara. She was on big massive branch of the tree and looked directly to my eyes, she was smiling on me, her skin was green and on her head she wear golden headband with some color stones on it. She was almost naked and sent me telepathicaly very positive vibes and when she waved by her hand at me with smile on her face, it sent me instantly back to reality. But I remember it as it happened yesterday. Very strong experience of love... Does it mean any stronger connection? I am living in Czech Republic. Thank you

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Certainly you have a connection, there's no doubt. Tara doesn't connect only with people who are Buddhists. When I was in the hospital, I had a very vivid dream of the nurse who was attending my surgery as Green Tara. I fully understand it was the sedatives and (maybe) the pain killers, but that doesn't lessen the connection that my mind made in that moment. Tara comes to those who need Her, not just those who ask for Her. It sounds like an amazing dream. Her mantra is Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha.

[@ondrejmuron]

@@BuddhaWeekly Thank you very much for quick response. I fully understood your experience. Very nice. Thanks for sharing. I hope we will meet her again one day...

[@LuNa-zw9wu]

What is the song in the begining of video please? :)

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thank you for asking, that is the beginning of the mantra track from Yoko Dharma who sings the Green Tara mantra at the end of the video. You can learn more about her wonderful mantra music here: www.yokodharma.com/music

[@stn0505]

if i am not good at visualizing initially can i just look at the image of green tara and recite the mantra?

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thankyou for asking. Yes certainly. Guru Rinpoche taught the method to visualize is to continually stare at a good image for as long as needed. Some of us can’t visualize well which is why sadhanas recite verbally the visualization description. 🙏🙏🙏

[@gregooify]

[@reverie.garden]

Is initiation the same as empowerment?

[@BuddhaWeekly]

They tend to be used interchangeably. There are some nuances, though. Lung, for instance is empowerment to practice the mantra. Full initiation is actually usually a collection of Four Empowerments: Vase, Secret, Wisdom and Word Empowerment. If we just casually use the word "empowerment" to mean mantra lung, we might receive only "lung" for Yellow Tara to practice, while we might receive the full four initiations (or empowerments) for our main Yidam practice. We also take the vows, usually Bodhisattva Vows (common to all Mahayana practices, and possibly the Vajrayana vows if we're taking higher initaitions. Then, there are differences by lineages, although the common pattern is: we first receive the Vase (or Body) initiation -- which also purifies our body -- after which we are authorized to visualize our Yidam (Tara in this case -- visualize ourselves as Tara, called Self Generate). So, if we didn't receive Vase, but we did receive lung empowerment, we are only authorized for the mantra (we can visualize Tara in FRONT of us, but not ourselves as Tara. Full Speech Initiation (often called Secret Initiation) is more than mantra lung, but is also the transmission of the Sadhana of practice (the step by step practice) which is transmitted directly from teacher to student, and then we are authorized to practice the SADHANA (that full Sadhana) (often with a mantra visualization of the letters as well). This purifies our speech. Next is the wisdom empowerment, which is related to the mind, and this purifies the obscurations and illusions of mind. One is empowered to do the practice of bliss and emptiness. The fourth empowerment is that of the word or mahamudra. It's like talking or pointing out instructions with the words. But the meaning is mahamudra. So then one practises with the essence of one's mind. This is the complete removal of all of the mental illusions. So there are these four types of empowerments. If you want to reduce all the empowerments into just one, it will be the last one, which is the word or mahamudra empowerment. So, depends on context. If a teacher is offering "lung" or empowerment of only a mantra, just bear in mind it's only the mantra transmission. If it's a full "initation" it will normally be 3 or 4 empowerments (usually, at least Vase, Secret and Wisdom). Hope that helps. In kindness, BW

[@reverie.garden]

@@BuddhaWeekly Thank you for your detailed explanation.

[@Quick.Flicks92]

Is it true to worship tara before having Non-veg foods?

[@learningtolearn4190]

Hope somebody give you right answer

[@BuddhaWeekly]

This advice likely was from a commentary on a retreat. During Kriya Tantra retreat (and especially Tara or Avalokiteshvara) it is recommended to not eat meat. As for Tara's mantra, of course it would be helpful if you chant it with the intention of thanking and blessing the animal. Tara, in particular, is a unique practice, because there are Higher and Lower Tantra practices (for the lower tantra, during retreat, you generally don't eat meat.") For daily pracitce (i.e. versus retreat situations) you have to be guided by your own health concerns, and karma and your teacher's advice, and so on - but for those who feel guilt or feel they are accumulating negative karma or feel compassion and sympathy for the animals - and more importantly, for the benefit of the animals (since we are all aspiring Bodhisattvas) there is a "meat blessing mantra." (and of course, Tara's mantra is beneficial as well, as is Vajrasattva's mantra to purify our own karma.) Some teachers are hesitant to transmit the "meat blessing mantra" it because it can be deemed to encourage the consumption of meat - again, I'm not trying to bring up that topic, only qualifying this mantra teaching. So, I'll quote instead: "Meat Blessing Mantra by Choekyi Gonpo IX Before consuming any meats, chant the Akshobhya Buddha long mantra for 3 times, follow by 7 times of the Mani mantra and lastly the meat blessing mantra for 7 times. Then, blow onto the meat dishes and visualize the animals received all the blessings; and through the power of the mantra be reborn in a higher migration."... "Initially, Rinpoche is quite reluctant to transmit this mantra, as Rinpoche said it's not appropriate to teach a mantra that may indirectly encourage meat-consumptions … However, at the repetitive entreaties of his disciples, out of deep compassion for all, Rinpoche has kindly transmitted the below mantra to be chanted by those who are not observing vegetarian diets. This mantra can also be chanted by non-meat eaters who are joining meal with others that serve meat." Source: drukpachoegon.org/meat-blessing-mantra/

[@donaldd-tracc8701]

Can we do this practice anytime of the day? Is there any more dos and don'ts when we do this practice. I have been doing this before my dinner at night. Is this okay?

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thank you for watching. Tara welcomes practice 24/7 . No worries. Morning and evening is traditional but Tara is for everyone and anytime. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha

[@donaldd-tracc8701]

@@BuddhaWeekly okay. Thank you.

[@chemy972]

Mala always skip right hand,,no left hand,,you use one word utapala that is our language,,tara we are also worship a t eastern part of india ...u se my dp they are two sisters face one is tara and other is tarini a Buddhism godess

[@mariusbaltazarrozenberg-ho4942]

No. Hindus have their malas in their right hands, Buddhists usually have their malas in their left hands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Mahavidya) Hindu Goddess. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Hindu_goddess) another Hindu Goddess, and then we have the BUDDHIST deity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism)

[@NABINRAII]

The one you talking tara is of sati devi of shiva . The one in Buddhist is different 21 Tara (sgrol ma ) . In this video explaining about the 9th Tara Noble Lady Tara Sengdeng Nagch. Buddhist use left hand for mala the heart side .