Kalu Rinpoche | Mahakala wangs – when it comes to practice for yourself

But here is a thing that I need to tell you and that is, when I say “samaya” please don’t be afraid because many of us we get a wrong interpretation of the samaya. Wrong interpretation of samaya because people interpret it in a way so that they could utilise and create fear and so on. That is incorrect.

Samaya is something that all individual can obtain if they have a Bodhicitta state of mind. If you have a Bodhicitta state of mind and then there is definitively a samaya then. And then if you cannot have the Bodhicitta and the refuge to Buddhadharma and so on and then, whatever the great importance you think of the samaya as a rule, will be not really beneficial. So therefore that kind of an understanding is very important.

Then of course all of you are here today saying that you are receiving the empowerment of the Six-Armed Mahakala and so on and so forth. You should keep your mind very open and then receive many empowerments, many teachings of all the different traditions. But then when it comes to practice for yourself, choose one, stick to it, maintain it, and then focus on to the improvement of the details and so on over the time.

So therefore don’t block yourself from receiving more teachings or receiving more empowerments. It is good that you receive all of it but always keep that kind of perception of your spiritual journey, keep that open, receive all the different teachings, empowerments and so on.