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info on: Listen, son. My dharma system, Mahamudra Chd, is much
--Machig Labdron better than other teachings. Its meaning of crucial significance
--Chod Videos is very profound. It is an uncommon, distinctive dharma
--Chod Implements doctrine, a teaching of esoteric instruction unlike the others.
--Shijay This teaching is the marrow of all religions, the pinnacle of all
--Phadampa Sangye vehicles, the most sublime essence of all sutra and tantra rolled
--Lama Wangdu into one. The teaching that liberates the four devils in their own
Rinpoche ground is the supreme method to forcefully eliminate the five
--Lama KTD poisons. It is the axe that cuts the roots of the green tree of
ego-fixation. It is the army that decisively averts the battle of

cyclic existence. It is the force that conquers the eighty

thousand kinds of obstructing forces. It is the good medicine
that overcomes 404 kinds of disease. It does not come to
fruition at a much later time; rather it is an instruction for complete awakening in one life and in one body. Unlike
any other dharma system, this Sacred Dharma Chd is this yoginis special teaching. - Machig Labdron

Chod is the skillful method to sever the devil of ego-fixation. The Tibetan word chod means to cut or to sever
and in this practice, the yogi, by giving his body as a feast offering to gods and spirits, pacifies the suffering of

the beings in the lower realms and cuts through the four devils (material or sensory, immaterial or arising from
the mind, devil of exaltation and inflation) and the five poisons that bind one to samsara. By accepting what is

undesirable and by embracing unfavorable conditions, the yogi is set free from the bondage of ego clinging. The
practitioner comes to understand that gods and demons are creations of ones own mind, learning to rest in
equanimity, free of dualistic concepts and clinging.

Chod consists of sutra, tantra, and a combination of the two. Its instructions are variously classified as The Four
Rivers of Indian Chod, Male Chod, and Female Chod. The four great Indian tributaries are Aryadevas Tsik-chad
(meaning 'Of the Words'), Naropas ro-nyom (Fair ttaste), Padma Sambahavas trin-chod (purifying the
obstacles) and Phadampa Sangyes Shijay (Pacification of Suffering), but whatever the divisions they all form
part of The Six Lineages of Machigs Instructions.

Chd is based on the Perfection of Wisdom and, as The Mother says, dawns as the sun of Mahayana Dharma
 and clears away the gloomy darkness of cyclic existence. It is the only Dharma practice that was born in Tibet
and later flourished in India, when three great Indian Acharyas (learned ones), hearing of Machig Labdrons
fame, came to test her. Having received confirmed that she is the emanation of the Great Mother, they adopted
her Chod practice and brought it to India.

Machig Labdrons has left a set of instructions that every Chod practitioner (Chodpa) should abide by. These are:

always remember that everything is the nature of death and impermanence; continually contemplate the
sufferings borne by the beings in the lower realms; never beat down, drive out or torture hostile nonhuman
beings, but offer them ones body without hesitation; stay in haunted areas; always have love, compassion and
the resolve for enlightenment.

As the Mother spoke:

"With a loving mind, cherish more than a child
The hostile gods and demons of apparent existence,
And tenderly surround yourself with them.
Nourish them always with warm flesh and blood.
With the hook of love and compassion,
Befriend them and never dismiss them.
If, with pure noble thought and enlightened resolve,
You connect them to the sacred Dharma
And they are freed and established in happiness,
Then you, child, whoever you are,
Will be my inseparable friend.
Alas, awareness-holding disciples."

This self-sacrifice for the benefit of others has always been a part of the Buddhist tradition. In one of his previous
lives Sakyamuni Buddha himself readily offered his body to revive a weak and dying tigress and her newborn
cubs. The site of this great generosity can still be visited in Nepal.

Chod is, therefore, a profound practice that can heal 424 kinds of diseases and subdue 80,000 kinds of demonic
forces, but a new practitioner should first receive initiations and oral transmissions from a genuine teacher with
an unbroken lineage.

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