The Power of Guru Yoga - with Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche and Do Tulku Rinpoche

and key e e time to start yes R thank you so much thank you so so much for joining this session we're so privileged and honored to have you as our special guest and um this is a very special day for us because it's the anniversary of jaming Kino and it's a rare treat to have an imination of jaming Kino here with us today to give us the transmission of this special gor yoga that we published today in our reading room so R welcome um it's lovely to see you and I'm going to hand over

to you straight away uh to do the to give the long of the text okay so um I suppose good morning or good afternoon good day to uh wherever you may be and uh I would like to thank you all for giving me this opportunity to uh read k um gur yoga um I think it's called yes in English the bestow of supreme wisdom so I'll just go straight into it so we start here um just giving us the name um gur yoga is something that many of us may have heard heard of and I'm

sure many of us have our own uh understanding of it our own take on it um but the S yoga of Jin and of course it is um and means that jitin has very kindly um offered us sensient beings um means and way of how to become like himself fully awakened um from that point of view like all buas buis satas they have offered their um entire being activity as a way of uh making us sensient beings free from suffering and cause of suffering like themselves as many of you might have read in the bodh

in the aspiration uh chapter where the buddhis was make aspirations where Shanta uh offers us the the idea of how to make ourselves useful for sensient beings where it says if if a sension being needs a bridge may I be a bridge if a sension being needs a breeze may I be a breeze so here this Guru yoga is really using the guru as a means as a path to become exactly the same as g l and so here Lama of course means Guru in in Sanskrit so using the guru activities uh appearance um using

how the guru's activities appearances affects us as a way of um as a way of rousing in US Sublime wisdom of course all of us are very uh eager to know as we can see whether it is on the news or all the social media all of us are so eager to know what is happening to everyone whether our neighbor is um sleeping well walking around why are they walking around in this way why are they banging around why is this neighbor doing this or that why is the president of this country doing this or

not we are so eager to know but we are not very um able to choose what to know we're simply happy to know I suppose that is why these social medias are so popular because knowing is something we all want to do basically we can't mind our own business and want to know what absolutely everyone is doing so that kind of knowing wisdom is not what we're seeking here that is why I think this one is called yeso the Supreme wisdom wisdom that actually can Deliver Us from uh the cause of suffering and through that

suffering self basically something that can deliver ourselves from our own uh imprisoning um conceptual World emotional World physical world to be free from that I think this is what we can say that this G yoga is called so that is why in the text it says um with the wish to to become free or with a wish to extract oneself of course here meaning suffering and truth of cause of suffering and with the wish to become awakened then um by understanding our connection our wish who to know what the guru is really with respect and

with um appreciation to the guru or use using that understanding that to be the very base the very life of the path then to get accustomed to using this P getting accustomed to or to meditating on and he says here this is the uh Swift path of V and so they Le so to do it in brief there is three parts to it the preparation the actual path practice actual thing that we need to get accustomed to to to to practice and then the conclusion so the second one the next part the sorry the the

preparation is the the taking refuge and uh the bud um then the text says here to repeat that three times of course it says here three times it does it isn't limited to three times it doesn't have to be three times it can be once if that if that is enough to connect us uh to the the very um reason for taking refuge and but he said is present then we don't need to repeat it three times if not um we might have to repeat it many more than three times just so that we our

mindstream is slightly affected touched moved that's why he says here three times Etc as much as one is capable of and through that to train one's mind training it to do what training it to understanding um what this path is about it is about becoming free it is about becoming free from our own um points of view our own narrow-mindedness our own fear our own um craving our own um uh grasping to our own sense of uh ey that binds us from becoming able to allow this wisdom to to manifest so that is the idea

of training one's mind so training one's mind in understanding the budha as a guide the DH as a path and the sa as a support and to really wishing that to really making it so that that is our mind wants for many of us while we're taking Refuge while one is actually taking Refuge we might be wondering why is my neighbor making Such Noise why is my friend not answering to me etc etc if those thoughts are there then um there and that they can pull us away then we definitely need to train our mind

somehow we are very much like a a very a lively curious dog that we are walking with and it's sniffing everything on the path and then it gets run away over by by a bigger dog or by a cat or whatever it is oh that means that we need training so that's why he mentions here saying that repeat this three times or as many times as necessary so that our mind has that discipline has that discipline into discipline into actually wanting to go there without the fear of thinking oh three times is too much 21

times is far too much 100 times what am I you know what am I don't I have anything else to do this is too much that practice is demanding too much all of these things are really what we're needing to um to work with to tame our minds especially the BH so for for refuge in BH we need to remind ourselves that um we want to be free from certain things and that is why we're taking Refuge um it's not just some kind of optional things that we are ticking so that we can buy something

and it is also not some kind of um obligation that somebody is putting on me sometimes when we're doing our practices we think oh this is the Refuge we have to do it and we we are happy to do it in a certain sense but deep down with we have some kind of reticence and some kind of resentment of having to do this this is really the idea of training one's mind and then in order to use the guru as a as a path the guru's activities that even our devotion to the guru thinking of

that Guru even our appreciation of Guru the whether it is the form or the the feeling that we have all of these are part of Guru yoga using the guru as a part so then the next part as it is said in English um is uh recite this read main part practice a second has four sections first visualize the basis for the accumulation so that was um the visualization of the support of our accumulation of Merit it is of course um important to remember that um the entire path to Awakening can be summarized into accumulation

of Merit and cleansing of obscurations so here in in order to accumulate Merit then we need uh a support for it for us sent beings who need U references we need a location we need geop positioning of things then we need this if we are completely free from that without any then we probably don't need this we are free from dualistic uh insecurities then we don't need this but as we do we all like to know who is in front who is in the back where where one is with our relation to someone um with

relation to someplace we all need something that need that we have suggests that we actually um somehow are stuck to it we can't be without it we can't live without it so therefore we have that vulnerability and using that as a support then we visualize in front of us or rather we place in the Forefront of our mind the uh support for us to accumulate Merit so that's why we visualize um here Guru in the form of inseparable from all the Buddhas in front of us as the text says within the state of emptiness there

is no world no being subject or object perceive Etc so in order to to do this then lost in order to do this then it starts with that words in Sanskrit shata so this the reason why this is done is that we have at this moment a a very strong um affiliation very strong uh need for need or want for things that we experience to feel real and that is what we all use all the time but it's what we call the grasping and as long as that is present then as long as that strong

grasping to our perceptions our experiences of our body our emotions and the way we think as long as that is really there then again using the gur yoga is only going to take us just further and deeper into our own um habits experiences so we first need to acknowledge our uh learn vulnerability to this perception to which we are so attached and so the word here is suggesting that all of this is one's own perception and that that that perception that we're experiencing is nothing but that that it is not um so real and important

as we think it is right now we are looking at each of us are looking at our screen and then this screen looks and feels so real to us but if an ant would be walking them on the screen what would the ant be experiencing how real is it how solid is it is the ant's perception of it less real than ours if somebody with x-ray vision could see this screen what would that be so basically it's important to understand that this is just another perception that those exp animals are experiencing and ours just another

perception if I'm looking at my screen the way I see my screen and somebody else sees my screen is again different so that which I am actually grasping at and the solidity that I gifted that grasping is just my own perception and beyond that it doesn't have any other ex existence that is what this text is suggesting that's why it says within the state of emptiness there's no world or being no subject or object to be perceived beyond the simple experiences that we are going through which is of course undeniable we're experiencing it but beyond

that experience that perception there is nothing more than that but we definitely project something more than that so here the key word is our grasping to that appearance is actually nothing but our grasping just like somebody wearing a lion's mask or Tiger's MK and feeling that they are like a tiger but it is nothing but a paper tiger and so in this part um where it says from the arising the various experience of Sam in this Palace this place the secret Palace of Arista in front of us that we are making um here we are

really making this place into something so vast beautiful that's why in the sky before me amidst clouds of enchanting offering offerings there a jeweled line thrown etc etc and then in there is the F who upholds the three vows and Universal Sovereign of the Enlighten families and here even though in the text it doesn't spe specify that one should see oneself as anything specific but it is nonetheless evident to us that we are grasping to ourselves as something that which we are grasping to us to to ourselves as does that have um an impact or

not if it has then if we're using the guru as a path why shouldn't we use ourselves as a path within that seeing within the path what is there to remove and what is there to to to to make parent to make manifest so that we can engage in that so um when all our perception appearances that we experience when we dissolve the grasping to that then instead of continuing grasping to ourselves as ordinary Joe or I don't know the feminine version p as part of that but whatever that is instead of grasping to ourselves

at that then we're using we can see ourselves as rajini and then um in front of this ourselves as Rini then we make uh this Palace beautiful so this is actually part of the accumulation of Merit putting that effort seeing this place as beautiful just like we would if we invited K into our own home how would we arrange it we would at least remove the empty bottles uh the shoes and underwear we have thrown around everywhere at least clean up that that is already part of accumulation of Mer and here it's doing that in

our mind so you can imagine flowers banners table plots sheets covering um every surface that part of that part is really the offering of our devotion Joy enthusiasm diligence Etc and then seeing the guru on on text say on mattresses and um cushions and usually this is a um it is customary to use that uh for for gurus when they're alive and then if they have passed away then to visualize them on Lotus sun and moon disc Etc but here another part of the G yoga is really to do whatever is uh easier for us

to to have a Devotion to and as this text was written by kin for for the for his disciple who knew who who knew him while he was alive so then the idea of having him just as he is used to seeing him and also um um sometimes we see the guru in the form of V gur umra ET but that is in order that we can transcend send our grasping to the guru as ordinary but at the same time if for us if we are able to connect with the guru in whatever form we

met them met with or whatever form brings us an ease of developing devotion then that form is also fine so that is why here Jin is in the form that the recipient knew of so um in that form and um to understand to know that um [Music] is the essence of the three draws and Lord of the ocean of the three roots and um when we say he's the essence of the three Roots three jewels he's Inseparable from the three kayes just a thought of him dispels all all fear of samsara and NADA and he

vividly appears as the embodiment of all refugees every h of that we should think that in every single part of his body there is the there's all the Buddhas and bodh satas all the mandalos of the Buddhas and bodis satas are present in every poor of this Jin world and that his speech also is the essence of all the teachs and that his mind this nonconceptual wisdom mind is again the same as all the Buddhas and Buddhists to really think of that that is also part of the guru yoga and to really feel that just

this mere sight of jam Kino's face could completely sever all our conceptual grasping and just feeling his Gaze on us can completely change our all our entire atmosphere and that just simply thinking of us will force wisdom toise in us and just by thinking of the guru of Jin that the compassionate power effortlessly flows or powerlessly flows he has no choice but to let his compassion flow if we think of him when we think of him so that is what we need to think of when we once we have visualized there the appearance you can

see it in many of the pH images often consumable and visualizing the guru in this way thinking of the guru in this way is actually part of mingling one's mind with the guru in introducing the guru's appearance qualities in our mind so that is already an aspect of mingling one's mind inseparably with a guru and then now in front of that what do we do we could just sit there you could just think of D in front check your uh Instagram account and see whether somebody is liking us or not if somebody is threatening us

if somebody is um what is it um making any uh comments about how we look that's also you could do that and uh that that would definitely ensure that our our stay in the cycle of existence is secured so these are I suppose the opposite of this uh seven Branch offerings or if there is a slight wish or slight hint that we might want to we might possibly want to want to be free from samsar then there is the seven Branch ofs paying homage where we are ready to pay homage with our entire be body

speech mind not just making our place beautiful with our imagination but like even now we might maybe we have made our room clean to make the uh to do this practice but our mind visual visualizing the place visualizing offerings visualizing in ourselves as we are or as V that already costs us so much like when we finish we might think oh pH I finished my practice these are um these are things that happen but this is what we have to do in training not only that not only thinking of ourselves making these offerings but making

more of ourselves visualizing another I suppose you could call it clone of ourselves and then a clone of a clone and a clone of a clone and all of them making offerings to the guru paying homage without speech and and with our mind feeling training and having this devotion appreciation respect that is the paying homage part like in general in our usual world when you see [Music] someone unless you want to to fight them or break up with them you see them with smile you say something nice and then hopefully you're also thinking something nice

this is how we usually relate so this is actually how to use our ordinary way as path turning it into the path and then making offerings of whatever we have and then visualizing and then visualizing multiple ourselves making offerings that can fill the universe in our mind and then again each of them making as many of them that is the idea of samantra offerings and the next part and MH also um another part of the um accumulation of marit is usually it's called um confession but this can also be seen as an offering where we

are completely open not hiding anything completely opening ourselves and especially open to changing the way we look at our actions of the body speech mind feeling fully totally exposing ourselves to ourselves and of course here and then even more than that being open to changing that because other than outside of that again G yoga is not possible a is not possible so please don't think of confession as something um uncomfortable something lonely something that we shouldn't do fashion is really about being open being Fearless about ourselves and especially being Fearless to changing that especially to

the idea of never re-engaging in deluded views diluted conduct of engaging in negative actions and then after that rejoicing in the activities of course of all the Buddhas and Buddhist atas especially here of Jin giving teachings and benefiting sensient beings rejoicing in all of that and requesting teachings requesting for those batas and our teachers to not um cease their activities as it is now continue manifesting and then dedicating all our Merit but these you know all of this and you can of course receive these um instructions by reading or from other teachers um so then

in front of that then what do we do per um so before that so during the seven Branch you can do prostrations make Mand offerings so and then now the third part which is um praying one pointedly into Baton the word putuk um is it refers TOA it's like a a peg that you uh you you you drive in very deep so that it doesn't move so so of so making this aspiration supplication so that our devotion can Peg us deep into the activities of the guru I suppose that is something that we can use

we can say so in order to do that why by driving the uh the peg of um our thinking of the guru a one pointedness of thinking of the guru through the devotion through the yearning so that it can it can break open the passion the aspiration of our Guru basically this is I think what pruk um means without that kind of deep yearning or rather being touched by the guru instead of thinking yearning devotion but without being deep be touched by the guru whatever kind of prayers that we make and accumulations we do um

it is really it is said that it is like um suppose it's like dying a cloth without putting the ingredients that actually makes the cloth hold the dye so this feeling this being touched this openness this vulnerability that we deep we have deep down need to be exposed and that is really the idea of devotion if we can do that then even if the effort isn't as much even if you don't recite as much or do so much effort the result will be there so it's really whether we are able to have this open this

this um this ability to not insulate ourselves from the devotion from being touched by the guru um again I'm I'm quoting um wroom where he says the way to um to be or to follow a teacher is through um through being through devotion or through um through being open through being touched it is not just through um what is it called through um being well maned again the way to accomplish the guru is again devotion being touched not just praying if we have that devotion that respect that being touched by the guru then whatever we

do the blessings will enter us without this devotion being touched by the gur and whatever we do it won't have that effect in general you know we have the fortune of having um being inspired by our gurus for example when we see images of and for example all our teachers we have some kind of inspiration and also we might feel certain gratitude towards them but if this cannot be something that is sustained and that it actually hasn't pervaded beyond the surface of our mind then also the blessings will be that if it's like if we

are sewing some seeds if you've only put it on the surface then you will get the result of the surface if you put it deep enough then it will take root it won't be taken by birds or taken uh dug in by other animals so it needs to withstand this devotion appreciation of the guru feeling this gratitude needs to withstand the what is it called the frost Birds Etc of distraction um of U the eight worldly concerns to the point that um where most of our thoughts are hovering around the the activities of the gurus

that is why you know reading the biographies are something that we are encouraged to and therefore also our main activity is Devotion to the point that we're not so distracted by the other eight worldly concerns to the point that the thoughts of the guru can dispel our fears insecurities like jingling said at the time of even if we are about to die even if the entire world is about to fall apart if this devotion is there then this is the sublime method amongst all tools or methods this is the most powerful thing so developing this

openness this appreciation to the guru being able to allow ourselves to be touched so even just thinking oh my teacher is quite good very kind on its own is not enough from many aspects we need to be able to uh make our mind be touched become tender to the activities of the guru so in here uh the text J to the Glorious lamb Lord of Scholars and SS the sole embodiment of the wisdom of knowledge love and power of all the victors along with their a mosa and others the depth of my heart I pray

Grant your blessings so thinking of the guru as the sole embodiment of wisdom knowledge love power of mug and all the other Buddhas and butas To the victor along with their to this the Glorious llama Lord of both Scholars and SAS Lord of all Scholars that's to mean that this Guru has knowledge wisdom not only does he have wisdom the knowhow but he has also got the experience that is why the scholar and sidas is put in here without the knowhow if like if we needed to go to some place if we don't know those

that place don't know how to get there what it might be then um we will get lost and if we have a have a a guide that knows how to get there that's already half the thing done and if we have a guide that has been there that is the idea of the sidos then that can be a guide that is infallible that can get to that place so that's why he says here the Glorious Lord of Scholars and sidas so this is about knowing their qualities knowing the qualities of the guru and the qualities

of the guru here why is there the the notion of um what is it muga and the others even if m the Buddhas Buddhist atas were here right now what would they actually be able to tell us nothing more than what kinum has shown here on the path in this this G yoga so that's why the Lord of all Scholars and SAS the victors of all the victors and with the mosa and others you have you are the sole embodiment of the wisdom the knowledge love and power even if muga in person was here teaching

us apart from what has just explained in this Guru yoga there's nothing more that we can learn from there more we can do even if the Buddha of compassion generous it was here what more how much more compassionate would generic be how much more more The Compassion of gender would be more potent than here the guru explaining to us through the compassion how to become one with the guru even if um the Buddhist for vajan were here the more the most powerful of the buddhis even if he were here what more could do to free

us from our delusions to free us from our own ego grasping self-centeredness Pride jealousy what more could he do apart from what we are learning from the guru yoga of Jin and his activities therefore it is the embodiment of all the Buddhas buhis satas to that Guru the Glorious Lord of Scholars then we are praying we are supplicating to that Guru why is this not why do we call this Guru glorious Guru because this glorious Guru is able to bring f fulfill our deepest desire the desire of this this being that we are that would

like to become a R I think the sound sorry to interrupt I think the sound might have gone your sound is gone for some reason the sound is off is that better yes that's better thank you so much okay let it go off just night now just about probably a couple of sentences ago not very long ago one minute okay so glorious Guru why do we call him this Guru glorious Guru because this Guru has the ability to fulfill our deepest aspirations to fulfill the deepest aspirations deepest de tion that we have towards the guru

openness through which we can become just like the guru so that we can experience everything that is the most glorious which is to become free from Del illusion free from Fear just like the buddhis satas and the Buddhas so that Guru is the one that we are supplicating to we are turning our minds to training our minds to think of and so um in order to to know of these qualities it would be so helpful if you could read the biography of J at least it is available in in English where you can learn from

how he from the moment he was a young hler all the way to know until he passed away how his entire life was about benefit sent beings learning how to benefit sent beings showing the path how to benefit sent beats how he studied how he practiced and then how he benefited sension beings and um just going to read a small anecdote they said that um when um when when was with kiny wo he stayed at Thell for some time and then towards the end of the year um when was going uh to his own place

K heard that and then he was um saying would be great if he could stay a bit longer because we still have more to do but I suppose um he had to go back because um they had to do the end of the year on obstacle removing ceremonies and then it said that was said um somebody like him does not need any of those things um obstacle [Music] removing things somebody like doesn't need and then he said he said have said this he said us our body our speech and mind at the surface of sension

B we dedicate it to all sens and beings apart from that we do not have any single um desire or activity to engage in not even the side size of a of a one finger do we actually uh dedicated to ourselves like giving Ransom ransoming life ransoming Etc and then it said that at one point there was going to be a tremendous um fight in the in the neighboring place I suppose Warfare and there was there was some nonhuman or spirits that were trying to u to trigger that kind of fights that kind of uh

war between people so dedicated his own life for them he gave them eight years of his life to that to those um life expand to that those Spirits so that the spirits wouldn't uh create um become become the the condition for this termo for this kind of War battle amongst human beings so every part of his life was given to that and then I think many of these you can read in T's life story and then when somebody asked um when some people uh asked him about giving them in in introduction um to their nature

of mind then he said something like if if you need to hear it through examples and through words you you know you can uh hear it during the empowerments the fourth empowerment more than that there's not much more to say but he said pray supplicate I can bless this is what he has said there is blessings I have blessings if you can supplicate it but he says again he said but I don't think that you're able to supplicate it said again further saying this is I think very helpful for us he says even if I

am dead my blessings will not diminish it will become more powerful so this is what has directly said so we can really take conf solace in this and that if we can supplicate there is no doubt blessings in store for us so it's very easy just this is a very short gur yoga and this prayer is even shorter from the depths of my heart my heart I pray Grant your blessings so and then there is the short name manra and then also other prayers you can do um you can read also uh as I said

the biography but there's also the very short biographical prayer you can read well shorter than the the long biography [Music] for [Music] for so then after that receiving the for conclusion receiving the empowerment from the three centers of the guru light emanating gradually and simultaneously letter from the white letter red letter a and blue letter dissolving in our three centers cleansing our observations of the body speech and mind especially our um ordinary impure perception of our own body speech and mind cleansing that so receiving this uh empowerment is something you can do again many many

times from somebody who has received the blessings empowerments from our gurus then the the these vows are still present in us and when we receive these empowerments the blessings increase so this is why it's called the path empowerment so if we receive this empowerment many many times then of course it cleanses our obscurations it restores our Somaya breach this is also one of the most um powerful ways of receiving blessings this receiving of the empowerment if we can concentrate on that the more we can be present taking time not being in a hurry is really

helpful more important if we are able to do that then it will contribute to um to increasing to multiplying the blessings the realizations so the receiving of the empowerment is also something we we can really benefit from something that we shouldn't neglect even though it may not be said to to do that um many times there's really no limit and it's something that we can take our time doing it and then at the end Guru dissolves into ball of light five colored light whatever size large small can be as large as the entire universe or

as small as a mustard seed enters through the top of our head and dissolves into our heart center inseparably and then just for a few moments not being caught in past present and future Concepts or thoughts just resing and then dedicate I think that's all I can squeeze today so so thank you very much to everyone dedication um please continue I think U uh some of the people they were late to the teaching and be like would like to request you to give the or transmission again I'll do that BL [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music]

[Music] for [Music] forign [Music] [Music] fore fore [Music] [Music] thank you thank you so much for coming to the session and for that wonderful wonderful teaching and for all of your kindness and blessings on this day thank you so much byebye um Okay Christian give give the best [Laughter] questions okay just just a few just a few okay re thank you very much for offering this time so there are two questions related to uh can you hear me well first of all yes okay uh two question relating to um finding a teacher and relating to

them so the first one would be if you could give us any advice on how to find a teacher and once we have found one that we think is trustworthy and reliable uh what methods apart from from Guru yoga would you recommend to deepen our relationship and our devotion Instagram Tik Tok Google Facebook I don't know where could we find um I think e I think to find a teacher it really depends on developing the uh some kind of U maturity in oneself I think first why are we looking for a teacher first sometimes the

first thing seems to be that I at this I have a feeling if I were that sometimes I feel like a what is it called a you know those people who go to the racehorse to B and then wanting the wanting to wanting the what is it called get the news from the horse's mouth so that we can bet um I have had the Fortune of spending some time with my teachers like and also with and more recently lately with his so his psych machine when I was mainly spending time with Je most of the

people who used to come to see him wanted actually um sort of U um to know whether they could get a visa for the us or not the majority of the people seeking him out were that and some of the qualities that I would hear of him was oh you know if you take get some of his blessings and then you go through the Border you don't get those are the qual so mainly it looks like you know we're looking for suit sale somebody who can give us advice on um whether getting together with this

person is going to work out or not or whether um if I invest in this is it going to be good or not I think first we have to find out whether we are that so what kind of student we are if we are are really really uh suffering from suffering of suffering suffering of change ready to hear about suffering of change ready to hear about suffering of compounded nature then I think we might look for a different kind of teacher we will be the the kind of student that could look for this kind of

teacher so really first of all I think I have to see what kind of student I am I even though I have spent so much time with these teachers you know sometimes these ones like wanting to hear from the horse's mouth sometimes I feel like going to get a lottery will I get this should I ask my teacher which one should I get I'm going to go and buy the lottery will I you know should I get today or not can you please think of me these things come out so at that time I'm not

so sure what kind of student I am there are other moments when I'm really caught in my the turmoil of my own delusions at that time I might be asking for a teacher like T kin so I think first we need to really see this which means that actually we need to learn um what is it that we actually want even there we have to have the aspiration a genuine aspiration to find a soothsayer to find a teacher who can take me Beyond samsara teacher who can advise me with my uh what do you call

it real estate or friends or etc etc think getting out of that is the biggest thing so for that I think we first need to make aspirations that I will want an authentic teacher that will take me Beyond this cycle of existence beyond the eight worldly concerns if not then it's different so I think first we have to make this prayer an aspiration pray to all the Buddhist and budhas that even though at this moment all I want is the eight worldly concerns may I actually wish to find a teacher that is beyond that because

otherwise even when we find such authentic teachers we end up using them like a what is it called like a book is it a bookmaker is it called a bookie or something like that what bie bookie end up using them like a bookie and that is so devastating but what can we do that is what we are so I think that is first make aspirations that I want that I really want to be to to understand what the Buddha taught and that I actually want that and that in order to get that may I recognize

may I not only recognize see a teacher find a teacher that can guide me beyond that and that when I see one may I use them as one I think that is really where I I think what I can say about it and other than that of course if you want to see the qualities of the teacher you can read in any um text of L that explains what they should and shouldn't have and whether they do or don't have we have no idea whether they have or don't have them but at least if I

have the wish to seek and see within me what is it that I want then with that aspiration as jimy kinan was saying in the as I quoted him saying that if we can pray in that way then in this life or another life I am sure teacher Alik J will never abandon us like the Buddha will never abandon us that I have a trust now only thing is I don't trust myself that's the most difficult thing thank you was that it there are a few more questions if you have a little bit of time

still okay I I'm I have one more question one more okay uh so R you talked about being touched by the blessing of the guru could you talk a little bit about what that means what what is it about devotion that is so effective in changing our mind what what is why is devotion doing the trick devotion well actually I think one thing most of us have in common is that we all um fall in love whether it's with people or products we fall in love you know um why do we fall in love I

think that's what I mean by being touched we allow ourselves to be come vulnerable for a pizza for pasta for spring rolls for cars people for whatever it is if I allow myself to be vulnerable to that to a spring roll then my mouth naturally opens and the Spring Row just magically enters that is what I mean by being t tou not being resistant being open I just didn't want to use the word devotion because everyone has an idea of devotion and some of us even have some kind of reticence to use the word devotion

but it just means being from my point of view I'm not I can't say of others from my point of view is being desperate enough to want to be free from my own Neurosis from my own delusions from my own stupidities from my own Pride jealousy desperate enough to be open especially open to my teachers like know his son is t a teacher just simple thought of them gives me some kind of um relief that is what I mean by being touched just simply thinking of the face of my teachers thinking of smile of or

even just the name of j w I have the fortune of being touched by them being vulnerable to their activities just that when I have that then I don't have this carcass of self-preservation of Pride or anything like that because you know my own desperation shows me that that none of these can protect me against anything it actually imprisons me so then thinking of my Guru in that way I don't know whether that's devotion or not what everybody calls devotional not but that makes me open to them that reduces my um Pride arrogance it makes

me able to soak in or put myself in an atmosphere where I can soak in whatever is um their activity right now just thinking that my some of my teachers are still on this Earth gives me some kind of relief and I feel gratitude towards them just thinking of them makes me less um harsh makes the whole world World feel [Music] more hopeful that is I think that in my opinion the benefit of devotion basically I'm not what is it called I'm not um protecting myself against K's blessings my gur's blessings okay thank you very

much to all and thank you everyone for allowing me this and thank you Dr G for continuing okay byebye thank you R thank you so much good didn't okay so now you have no choice to you have to continue I think i' be or the Limit Oh yeah the time we We Are Over time however R um if there's perhaps we could do one more one last question that's for Dr G oh I'm so dazed right now um I just saw myself on the screen H how uh silly I look with like the big grin

all the time I just not sure if I can even uh understand questions right now but if you have shall we try um all right so I'm going through the list I have a few questions here maybe a two very simple one straightforward uh one is that R mentioned that we should we can visualize ourselves as vaj yogini when we practice this uh Guru yoga uh do you know what form of vajra yogini we should visualize ourselves in um I think I have seen um you know Nini very similar to that just um I don't

think it really matters so much which form to be honest it's more for the tendril to to symbolize inseparability and also I think it's more like what says when you have water in your ear you put more water to take it out so sort of drawing out um the blessing the wisdom of the guru you then arise as vaj yogini from the depth of your sort of Buddha nature you know so maybe I think that's more important than yeah okay thank you then um another question really uh relating to having many teachers so if we

if we follow many teachers how do we recognize our root teacher oh you should have that the the concept of root Guru strictly speaking is someone who gives you I think according to J you know not only a great Yogi one of the greatest Yogi of Tibet but also a great scholar so basically anyone who gives you the teaching you know not just initiation but actual uh could be a teaching instructions towards whom you have devotion and you received it as such so that person becomes actually a root Guru root Guru is to differentiate between

V the teacher and other kinds of teacher like Sutra Vaya uh you know for ordinary fields of knowledge so I think that is that but over the course of time now the idea of root of root Guru have changed I believe in people's mind and it's like my main Guru you know the main Guru I supplicate to so I think that's what they're really asking then the question is that really I think it's who to whoever you have most Devotion to you feel most closest to and you see is most Flawless in your own uh

in our own limited perception suppose that is then our root Guru and then everyone else is emanation of this Guru just a reflection and just as all the Buddhas and bodh satas shaki Buddha is a reflection of my root Guru right for so similarly I think that that's how then we should be practicing or else it will be very strange you will have many root gurus and you're practicing some teachings from some root Guru but not the other ones and you feel guilty and that's that's just um a lot of extra dualistic um traps that

we actually do not need and something to be abandoned okay then we have um one question relating to the text that R gave us the transmission for um the question is basically how often we should practice it if daily or on special occasions or do you have any advice on this oh oh first of all really um I would like to congratulate the translator sonla for having done I mean not just him then editors and whoever were involved for really producing such a magnificent work uh it's it's really so good um in terms of translation

I mean in terms of practice it's really up to you I think uh however uh would be good if you could practice it once every day how many Guru Yoga practices did we do how many sadas we do but how many have you received it from Jim amination of um Can Wango on anniversary on his anniversary his Guru yoga from his yeah young Incarnation and I really think uh if if this is something you're just going to let it vanish into time is such a big loss definitely once then on like during full moon you

know you must it's really I think yeah and if you could do do it every day three times a day that's so good please um if you do such southerness let me know I would like to buy you lunch or dinner and maybe one last one or should should we have one last one one last one that's it yeah thanks chrisan that's quite a an interesting one quite um yeah um so apparently ruch I guess it is relating to jimin R but I'm not sure it's not specified ruche advised someone on their dying bed to

view the painkiller as the guru do you have any thoughts on that I think that might work very well painkiller removes pain Guru removes suffering that ordinarily we are supposed to view everything as a guru amunition of Guru one of my teacher said that um actually we should be able to receive teachings and initiations and blessings and instructions from a dry Leaf you know but we are so stuck up in our own very limited perception we just cannot do that and so we have such a due to our Merit and due to blessings and compassion

of Buddhas and Buddha satas we have such a perception in front of us you know like our root Guru our teacher someone who is so extremely kind and we know that also we also know that they're you know equal to the Buddhas or or they are the Buddha they are completely awakened and so I think yeah it's it's really good anything should be seen as the amination of the guru to have a even as you bump into a stranger and think was that was that amination of my teacher very strange like that I think that

kind of as was saying one being receptive you know being open I think that's that's what you need a painkiller for sure yeah that's so thank you very much thank you so much for answering those questions and for being here for this session and what an incredible privilege to have Jimmy Teach as long as he did it was so wonderful so thank you everybody for coming thanks so much for participating and especially thank you to doto gum of course vley and Christian for helping and especially to our interpreters who have been working the whole time

through this session um to Maria Ina Lana and Steph and ha and who have I forgotten um somebody else I've forgotten in there anyway to all of the interpreters thank you so so much we really appreciate your help thank you to all um the people who helped from my team to get this event happening and um please everybody don't forget to visit our reading room where you can see texts like this beautiful goroga that we published today um and please stay tuned to our social media for future events like this and thank you all for

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