[From a teaching on The Song of the Young Bee by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche in Evansville, Indiana in 2012. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] The next four lines of this song make a point that is of incredibly great importance for any vajrayana practitioner. In the first line he says: Unbearably intense longing and devotion […]
]]>From 1971: The First Kopan Meditation Course by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: “Q: What is your definition of a guru? Lama Yeshe: A guru is a person who can really show you the true nature of your mind and who knows the perfect remedies for your psychological problems. Someone who doesn’t know his own mind [...]
Wild flowers extend everywhere
On mountain meadows filled with the sweet smell of
fragrant herbs.
Seeing the gentle deer frolicking from place to place,
I constantly remember the compassion and gentleness
Of the only father guru and the Great Eastern S...
A guru is a person who can really show you the true nature of your mind and who knows the perfect remedies for your psychological problems. Someone who doesn’t know his own mind can never know others’ minds and therefore cannot be a guru.
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The purpose of studying buddhism is not to study buddhism but to study ourselves. It is impossible to study ourselves without some teaching… We need some teaching, but just by studying the teaching alone, it is impossible to know what ‘I’ in myself am. Through the teaching we may understand our human nature. But the [...]
To find a buddha, all you have to do is see your nature. your nature is the buddha. and the buddha is the person who’s free, free of plans, free of cares. if you don’t see your nature and run around all day looking somewhere else, you’ll never find a buddha. the truth is, there’s [...]
The mind, deluded by the appearance of samsara, Sees the faults of others with the senses. It is darkened by the prison of samsara; It is made intolerable by the fire of samsara; It is caught in the spider web of samsara; It is stuck in samsara as the bee is in nectar; It is [...]
Now, with the help of your spiritual teacher, you can at last identify the true enemy. Brandish the sword of transcendent knowledge and annihilate the demon of attachment to ‘I’ and to the reality of phenomena.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Look at your authentic mind; this is the true view. If you seek a view other than mind, it is like a rich person searching for wealth, O physician monk. Do not clear away the faults of drowsiness and discursiveness; this is the true meditation. If you clear away the faults of drowsiness and discursiveness [...]
The ultimate teacher, the absolute, is never separate from us,
Yet immature beings, not recognizing this,
look outside and seek him far away,
Sole father, with your immense love
you have shown me my own wealth;
I, who was a pauper,
constantly feel your...