Request to Receive the Higher Empowerments

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In order to practice the Kalachakra Completion stage, you must first receive the Four Higher Empowerments. For that, you must demonstrate that you are qualified to receive the instructions for this next phase of practice. This involves filling out a detailed report of your personal experience practicing the Outer, Inner and Unique preliminaries of the Vajra Yoga Path.

Once you have submitted your application, Rinpoché will evaluate your answers and indicate whether you are ready or not for receiving these teachings. After being approved, you can then register for the empowerments at the next available opportunity.

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1. Faith in the Kalachakra Path as Your Primary Path

The Higher Empowerments are only given to those disciples who have a sincere desire to achieve enlightenment in this life or the next through the practice of the Kalachakra Path. This level of commitment must arise from a clear understanding of what the path entails and why it is capable of producing the result of enlightenment. You can develop this faith through studying the path as presented in Khentrul Rinpoché’s books. At the Completion Stage level, you will need to make the Kalachakra Path your primary focus and make all other practices secondary.

2. Faith in Khentrul Rinpoché as Your Primary Vajra Master

Unlike the Generation Stage empowerments, Khentrul Rinpoché will only give the Higher Empowerments to students who have the intention of practicing the Six Vajra Yogas under his direct guidance. This level of practice requires a strong devotion towards the Vajra Master in order to really be effective; therefore, you should strengthen your faith in Rinpoché by listening to his teachings and reading his books as much as possible before requesting the Higher Empowerments. While Rinpoché does not need to be your only teacher, you will need to follow his advice above all oth

3. Understand the Nature of Tantric Samaya

While tantric samaya are important at any stage of the Vajrayana, they are particularly powerful as a support for the Completion Stage practices. In order to ensure that you are able to keep your samaya as purely as possible, it is important that you are familiar with Rinpoché’s teachings on how to work with a Vajra Master. Failure to follow his guidelines, could result in a breach of samaya which would generate enormously negative karma for you and would dramatically reduce Rinpoché’s capacity to benefit sentient beings in this life. Therefore, please read the following chapters from Rinpoché’s book Unveiling Your Sacred Truth:
Book Two: Chapter 3 — How to Follow an Authentic Dharma Teacher
Book Three: Chapter 2 — Cultivating Devotion Towards a Vajra Master

4. Strong Foundations in the Kalachakra Preliminaries

In order to authentically practice the Six Vajra Yogas, it is necessary to have established at least a basic level of realisation in both the common and uncommon preliminaries. How much time should be spent on the preliminaries will depend on each individual and the current stage of their development. To learn more about where to focus your energy, you should refer to the guidelines presented in “How to Practice the Kalachakra Path”. The more integrated the preliminaries are in your mind, the more effective you will be able to practice the Kalachakra Completion Stage.

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