Seven Branch Offering Prayer Teaching, Open Secret 2007 mp3

© 2007 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche; © 2023 by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation & Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Format: mp3 audio download (link will be sent automatically upon checkout) Running Time: 1 hr 31 min Stream for free on SoundCloud (your purchase helps support our work - thank you) Recorded at Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California; December 3, 2007 Language: Rinpoche teaches in English Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the Seven Branch Offering Prayer by Chatral Rinpoche, found in the Khandro Tuk-Tik Ngondro.  Why do we make the seven branch offerings? As sentient beings, our buddha nature has been temporarily obscured by the two defilements (gross and subtle levels). How, then, can we manifest our buddha nature? We do this by removing the two obscurations by practicing the two accumulations of merit and wisdom. In this way, we become perfect buddhas. It is for this purpose that we recite the Seven Branch Offering Prayer. The seven branches: 1) pr