As soon as you have met a spiritual
teacher and have received the teacher’s instructions, you are ready to set out
on the path of awakening.
No student … can do without the guidance
of an authentic spiritual master.
Try to maintain perfectly pure thoughts
in all circumstances, so that even the most insignificant of your acts will
preserve their positive energy until you attain enlightenment. A drop of water
that falls into the ocean will last as long as the ocean
itself.
Love and nonattachment are the basis of
true generosity.
Generosity should always be exercised
impartially toward all – the poor, the sick, the aged, and the traveller from
afar – without discrimination between friend and stranger
…
And those of you who are capable of
renouncing a family lifestyle for the monastic life should pray that, once you
attain enlightenment, your friends and those close to you will be the first
disciples whom you lead on the road to liberation.
Like nomads moving camp every season, we
change our native land with every rebirth.
Quick! Let us practice before old age
ravages our physical and intellectual faculties.
It is crucial to understand and to gain
the conviction that the laws of cause and effect govern the universe and all
beings. … There are only two way to erase the trace left by a harmful act:
either by going through the experience of suffering that is its natural
consequence, or by purifying it with the appropriate antidotes before the
appearance of its dire effects.
We have a long journey to make through
the six realms of samsara. We should approach the Dharma like a sailor making
his meticulous preparations for a voyage around the world, and prepare ourselves
properly for our far longer journey
...
Keep in mind the many beings who are
suffering in the same way as you are, and pray that your suffering may absorb theirs, and that they may be
liberated from all suffering. In this way, illness can teach us
compassion.
The only position from which you can
never fall is the awakened state.
Be the master of your destiny.
Your body, too, is actually on loan to
you for the time being … Had you better not use it to practice the Dharma while
you can?
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will
need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these
two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to
come.
If you recognize the emptiness of your
thoughts instead of solidifying them, the arising and subsiding of each thought
will clarify and strengthen your realization of emptiness.
Just devote yourself to recognizing the
empty nature of the mind.
Simply allow your thoughts and
experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at
them.
The towns and countryside that the
traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the
train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the
thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.
Compassion is the effortless radiance of
emptiness, free of concepts and beyond description. That is how a buddha’s activity for beings can be limitless. If you
understand this, you will know that even when a cool breeze blows upon a sick
person burning with fever, that itself is the blessings and compassion of the
buddhas.
… you will
discover that it (the Buddha nature) has always been near you and will always be
with you. This is the truest friendship you can ever cultivate.
In essence, the mind is insubstantial and
omnipresent. … (It) is without beginning or end, in both space and time.
It is not corrupted at the beginning of
the practice; it is not improved at the end.
You have to discover that the qualities
of Buddhahood have always been inherently present within yourself.
Banishing all hope and all fear, rest in
the diamond-like certainty that the primordial simplicity of awareness is itself
Buddhahood. That is the way of perfect bliss, in which all the qualities of
enlightenment will flourish without effort.
Those (practitioners) capable of reacting
immediately with the correct antidote will have no problem overcoming obstacles.
… When you trace all thoughts and concepts back to their very source, you will
recognize that they all have the same true nature – emptiness inseparable from
transcendent wisdom.
It is … vital to distinguish what you
should adopt from what you should reject, without any error or
ambiguity.
Throughout the day, put the teachings
into practice. In the evening examine what you have done, said, and thought
during the day. Whatever was positive, dedicate the merit to all beings and vow
to improve on it the next day. Whatever was negative, confess and promise to
repair it. In this way, the best practitioners progress from day to day, the
middling practitioners from month to month, and the least capable from year to
year.
Brandish the sword of transcendent
knowledge and annihilate the demon of attachment to “I” and to the reality of
phenomena.
Just pruning a few branches (of a tree)
is not enough. In the same way, unless you uproot the emotions, they will just
grow again, more vigorous than ever.
Put on the armour of diligence without
delay, and do battle with indolence.
A spiritual teacher and his teachings are
as rare and precious as the blue lotus known as Udumvara, whose buds form when a
Buddha appears in the world, opens when he attains enlightenment, and wither
when he leaves his body.
Real progress on the path comes from the
blessings of the guru, and these blessing are sparked by your
devotion.
Truly, to meditate on the benevolent
teacher is a spiritual practice more profound than any
other.
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