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We Take Responsibility On Ourselves

The most common analogy for buddha nature is that it is like the innate potential a seed has to grow into or produce its particular fruit. In the same way as a particular seed has […]

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The Medium of Intimacy

A key point to understand […] is that your root guru and Guru Rinpoche are responsive to prayer. Do not think that you are praying as a mental exercise with the sole purpose of cultivating […]

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Buddhahood is Not Distant

The process of moving from a deluded mind to the state of dharmakaya is not a process of replacing the one with the other. It is not exchanging one thing for another. It is simply […]

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We Are Worthy of It

…through the nature of the times we live in, and through the aspirations of Guru Rinpoche, even though we live in a time which by some standards is degenerate, the teachings of secret mantra, by […]

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Samaya

The vajrayana vow, samaya, is even more difficult to keep than the bodhisattva vow. Because the vajrayana vow of samaya is so stringent, someone who undertakes it can only achieve one of two fates. Once […]

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Eight-Inch Nails

Jetsun Milarepa, in one of his songs, sang: “There are three nails to meditation. If I explain them: the first is that thoughts are the dharmakaya. The second is that awareness is lucidity. The third […]

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Unreserved Entrustment

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 blazed. So, he [Terchen […]